Silas Ellis was the son of Isaac Spencer Ellis and Susan Frances Howard Ellis. He married Lucy Conrad December 4, 1879 in Cooper county, Missouri. He always went by his middle name of Silas.
Silas Ellis was a very successful farmer owning many acres near Newland, Pettis county, Missouri. He raised eight children, seven of which were sons. He made his children all work on the farm while they lived at home. Their farm was located on Lookout Road off JJ Highway about 1/2 to a mile, in Heath Creek township, Pettis county, Missouri. Nearby was the Green School house.
"W. S. Ellis is listed as one of six directors of the Lamine School in 1898, three from each county the school served. The teacher was R. O. Harris who was also a Baptist minister. At the turn of the century when Mr. Harris was teacher, the first fire in the stove was started on a cool day, and it had been a very dry fall. The next thing they knew the upper part of the building was on fire. The school was on a hill, no water on the grounds, and the nearest was from a good spring in a nearby pasture. He ordered the students to the southeast corner of the yard where they were to take their books and stand there. He ran to the W. S. Ellis home near the north corner of the yard and in a few minutes came back with a ladder on one arm and a large bucket in the other hand. There was no water at the Ellis home either but Mrs. Ellis gave him her bucket of slop water. He quickly got the ladder in place, climbed to the roof with the bucket and put out the fire.
Mrs. Ellis's home was also their first-aid station. There were no band-aids in those days and no medication was kept at the school, but Miss Lucy, as Mrs. Ellis was called, always had the time, the makings for a bandage and comforting words for a hurt child." (SOURCE: "Life in Pettis County, 1815-1973" by Hazel N. Lang, n.p. 1975).
Silas Ellis was a very successful farmer owning many acres near Newland, Pettis county, Missouri. He raised eight children, seven of which were sons. He made his children all work on the farm while they lived at home. Their farm was located on Lookout Road off JJ Highway about 1/2 to a mile, in Heath Creek township, Pettis county, Missouri. Nearby was the Green School house.
"W. S. Ellis is listed as one of six directors of the Lamine School in 1898, three from each county the school served. The teacher was R. O. Harris who was also a Baptist minister. At the turn of the century when Mr. Harris was teacher, the first fire in the stove was started on a cool day, and it had been a very dry fall. The next thing they knew the upper part of the building was on fire. The school was on a hill, no water on the grounds, and the nearest was from a good spring in a nearby pasture. He ordered the students to the southeast corner of the yard where they were to take their books and stand there. He ran to the W. S. Ellis home near the north corner of the yard and in a few minutes came back with a ladder on one arm and a large bucket in the other hand. There was no water at the Ellis home either but Mrs. Ellis gave him her bucket of slop water. He quickly got the ladder in place, climbed to the roof with the bucket and put out the fire.
Mrs. Ellis's home was also their first-aid station. There were no band-aids in those days and no medication was kept at the school, but Miss Lucy, as Mrs. Ellis was called, always had the time, the makings for a bandage and comforting words for a hurt child." (SOURCE: "Life in Pettis County, 1815-1973" by Hazel N. Lang, n.p. 1975).
Silas Ellis was the son of Isaac Spencer Ellis and Susan Frances Howard Ellis. He married Lucy Conrad December 4, 1879 in Cooper county, Missouri. He always went by his middle name of Silas.
Silas Ellis was a very successful farmer owning many acres near Newland, Pettis county, Missouri. He raised eight children, seven of which were sons. He made his children all work on the farm while they lived at home. Their farm was located on Lookout Road off JJ Highway about 1/2 to a mile, in Heath Creek township, Pettis county, Missouri. Nearby was the Green School house.
"W. S. Ellis is listed as one of six directors of the Lamine School in 1898, three from each county the school served. The teacher was R. O. Harris who was also a Baptist minister. At the turn of the century when Mr. Harris was teacher, the first fire in the stove was started on a cool day, and it had been a very dry fall. The next thing they knew the upper part of the building was on fire. The school was on a hill, no water on the grounds, and the nearest was from a good spring in a nearby pasture. He ordered the students to the southeast corner of the yard where they were to take their books and stand there. He ran to the W. S. Ellis home near the north corner of the yard and in a few minutes came back with a ladder on one arm and a large bucket in the other hand. There was no water at the Ellis home either but Mrs. Ellis gave him her bucket of slop water. He quickly got the ladder in place, climbed to the roof with the bucket and put out the fire.
Mrs. Ellis's home was also their first-aid station. There were no band-aids in those days and no medication was kept at the school, but Miss Lucy, as Mrs. Ellis was called, always had the time, the makings for a bandage and comforting words for a hurt child." (SOURCE: "Life in Pettis County, 1815-1973" by Hazel N. Lang, n.p. 1975).
Silas Ellis was a very successful farmer owning many acres near Newland, Pettis county, Missouri. He raised eight children, seven of which were sons. He made his children all work on the farm while they lived at home. Their farm was located on Lookout Road off JJ Highway about 1/2 to a mile, in Heath Creek township, Pettis county, Missouri. Nearby was the Green School house.
"W. S. Ellis is listed as one of six directors of the Lamine School in 1898, three from each county the school served. The teacher was R. O. Harris who was also a Baptist minister. At the turn of the century when Mr. Harris was teacher, the first fire in the stove was started on a cool day, and it had been a very dry fall. The next thing they knew the upper part of the building was on fire. The school was on a hill, no water on the grounds, and the nearest was from a good spring in a nearby pasture. He ordered the students to the southeast corner of the yard where they were to take their books and stand there. He ran to the W. S. Ellis home near the north corner of the yard and in a few minutes came back with a ladder on one arm and a large bucket in the other hand. There was no water at the Ellis home either but Mrs. Ellis gave him her bucket of slop water. He quickly got the ladder in place, climbed to the roof with the bucket and put out the fire.
Mrs. Ellis's home was also their first-aid station. There were no band-aids in those days and no medication was kept at the school, but Miss Lucy, as Mrs. Ellis was called, always had the time, the makings for a bandage and comforting words for a hurt child." (SOURCE: "Life in Pettis County, 1815-1973" by Hazel N. Lang, n.p. 1975).
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