U. S. AND INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE RECORDS 1556-1900
Name: Isaac Ellis
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Virginia
Birth Year: 1760
Spouse Name: Elizabeth McCord Spencer
Spouse Birth Place: Virginia
Spouse Birth Year: 1763
Marriage State: North Carolina
Number Pages: 1
Researcher: Richard Parker
Source Citation: Source number: 1242.033; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1 --- Source Information: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. --- Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, querie. --- Description: This database contains marriage record information for approximately 1,400,000 individuals from across all 50 United States and 32 different countries around the world between 1560 and 1900. These records, which include information on over 500 years of marriages, were extracted from family group sheets, electronic databases, biographies, wills, and other sources.

1854 --- U.S. FEDERAL LAND OFFICE RECORDS 1776-2015
Name: Isaac Ellis
Issue Date: 15 Dec 1854
Place: Cooper, Missouri, USA
Land Office: Fayette
Meridian: 5th PM
Township: 47-N
Range: 19-W
Section: 4
Accession Number: MO3100__.259
Document Number: 31604
Original URL: https://glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.asp
Researcher: Richard Parker
Source Citation: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records; Washington D.C., USA; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes --- Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., General Land Office Records, 1776-2015 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. --- Original data: United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records. Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/. Springfield, Virginia: Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States, 2007. --- Description: This database contains land patents from 1796-1907 for 13 U.S. states. Information recorded in land patents includes: name of patentee, issue date, state of patent, acres of land, legal land description, authority under which the land was acquired, and other details relating to the land given

1830 --- THE GENEANET COMMUNITY TREES INDEX
Name: Isaac Ellis
Gender: M (Male)
Birth Date: 1760
Birth Place: Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania (Spotsylvania), Virginia, USA
Death Date: 1830
Death Place: Gates, Gates (Gates), North Carolina, USA
Father: Benjamin Ellis
Mother: Rachel Presnell
View on Geneanet: https://gw.geneanet.org/danalynn?n=ellis&oc=&p=isaac
Researcher: Richard Parker
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Geneanet Community Trees Index [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2022. --- Original data: Geneanet Community Trees Index. Paris, France: Geneanet. --- Description: This collection contains an index of more than 1.5 million family trees accumulated into a single database. The information in this collection was compiled through Geneanet, a collaborative genealogy website. Each record in the index includes a link to the originating family tree on Geneanet. Records from the original site can be viewed in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

1840 --- COOPER COUNTY, MISSOURI CEMETERY INDEX 1841-1981
Name: Isaac Spencer Ellis Sr
Birth Date: 1760
Death Date: 1840
Death Age: 80
Cemetery: Old Ellis Family Burial Ground
Burial Place: Cooper, Missouri, USA
Military Description: Number 2 Location: Clear Creek Township, west of Pilot Grove, Missouri
Researcher: Richard Parker
Source Citation: Cemetery Records of Cooper County, Missouri, Volume X --- Source Information: Ancestry.com. Cooper County, Missouri, Cemetery Index, 1841-1981 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2001. --- Original data: Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather, comp. Cemetery Records of Cooper County, Missouri Volume I-X, XII. Chillicothe, MO: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, circa 1965. --- Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather, comp. Cooper County, Missouri Cemetery Records Volume XI Addendum to the Volumes I to X of the records Part I-III. Chillicothe, MO: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, circa 1965. --- Description: Collection of cemetery records from Cooper County, Missouri.

FAMILY HISTORY:
Isaac Ellis. sR. was born July 16, 1780 in Warren County, North Carolina son of Isaac Spencer Ellis and Eizabeth McCord. He died in Cooper County, Missouri in December 1859.

He married Martha Shipley, February 6, 1806 in Barren County, Kentucky. They had ten children.

The marriage record of Isaac Ellis and Martha Shipley is recorded in Barren County, Kentucky in the court's marriage record books and in THE REGISTER OF KENTUCKY STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOL. 11 #65, May 1924, application signed by Isaac Ellis (mark) and Robert Shipley (mark).

Isaac and Martha (Shipley) Ellis, along with nephew, Willis Ellis, son of Isaac's brother, Abraham and a nephew of Martha's, Robert Shipley, came to Missouri about 1818 after living in Kentucky about 10 years.

The book, PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF JOHNSON AND PETTIES COUNTIES, MISSOURI, Chapman Publishing Company, published in 1895 states: "Isaac and Patsy (Shipley) Ellis were natives of Kentucky and lived there until 1818". It also states that Isaac was one of the earliest settlers in Missouri and was well and favorably known. It states that Isaac and Patsy (Shipley) Ellis had ten children.

Clear Creek Township, Cooper County, Missouri was settled about 1816 by Isaac Ellis, Alex Brown and Mr. Scott. SOURCE: MEMORABILIA OF COOPER COUNTY, MISSOURI, by Mary Wiemholt, Project Coordinator, published in 1990, page: 84.

Isaac Spencer Ellis died at the age of 79.

INFORMATION PROVIDED BY CONTRIBUTOR D&PNUTT, December 2011

Isaac Spencer Ellis, SR. was the son of Isaac Ellis (no middle name) and Elizabeth McCord Spencer.
INFORMATION PROVIDED BY CONTRIBUTOR JOYCE ELLEN.

CEMETERY RECORDS

Clear Creek Township, west of Pilot Grove, Cooper County, Missouri

Ellis: Isaac Spencer, Born 1783; died December 1859 or January 1860; born North Carolina; died in Cooper County, Missouri. (Not old enough for the Revolutionary War); son of Isaac, born 1760 and Elisabeth (McCord) Spencer Ellis (?); husband of Martha Patsey Shipley Ellis.
Researcher: Richard Parker
COOPER COUNTY, MISSOURI CEMETERY RECORD VOL. X, compiled by the Cooper County, Missouri Historical Society, Boonville, Missouri, published by Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, Chillicothe, Missouri, 1982, page: 60, researched by Richard Parker