HENRY ELLIS, was born November 17, 1786, near Lexington, Kentucky. His father, John Ellis, was born January 29, 1749, and married October 2, 1770, to Sarah Parrish, who was born April 20, 1757. They moved from Virginia to Kentucky. The family is of Welsh extraction. The father of John Ellis is said to have been with the second supply of emigrants from England to America. Martha Marshall Yates was born (after the death of her father) in Woodford county, Kentucky, September 13, 1791, and was a sister of Henry Yates, Sr. Henry Ellis and Martha Yates were married January 29, 1807, in Warsaw, Kentucky, and had ten children, two of whom died in infancy. The family moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in September 1825, in Island Grove, two miles northeast of Berlin.