1884 - 1961

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• Birth	28 Jun 1884	Watertown, Sanilac, Michigan, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Buried	1961	Old Section, Block 29, Lot 2/Washington Memorial Gardens, 701 Ridge Road, Homewood, Cook County, Illinois 60430
  Died	29 Aug 1961	Chicago Heights, Cook, Illinois, USA
  Person ID	I1122	Ellis-Pagoria Family Tree
  Last Modified	23 Dec 2012
  Father	John Bell,   b. Jan 1850, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Bef 1910, Cook, Illinois, USA
  Mother	Lillian Inez Beal,   b. 26 Aug 1858, Middleton, Wood, Ohio, USA ,   d. 14 Dec 1934, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
  Married	14 Apr 1878	Ohio, USA
  Family ID	F483	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Leroy Ellis,   b. 16 Jan 1881, Thornton, Cook, Illinois, USA ,   d. 09 Oct 1948, Thornton, Cook, Illinois, USA
  Married	1904	Harvey, Cook, Illinois, USA
  Children	1. Virgil Irene Ellis,   b. 08 Apr 1905, Harvey, Cook, Illinois, USA ,   d. 1968   2. Cecil Lyman Oliver Ellis,   b. 03 Mar 1907, Harvey, Cook, Illinois, USA ,   d. Oct 1975, Myrtle Beach, Horry, South Carolina, USA   3. Audrey Maxine Ellis,   b. 05 Aug 1908, Harvey, Cook, Illinois, USA ,   d. 07 Aug 1990, Chicago Heights, Cook, Illinois, USA   4. Russel Leroy Ellis,   b. 03 Apr 1912, Harvey, Cook, Illinois, USA ,   d. 30 Apr 1917, Harvey, Cook, Illinois, USA   5. Bessie Rae Ellis,   b. 08 Aug 1915, Harvey, Cook, Illinois, USA ,   d. 26 Jun 2000, Coleman, Midland, Michigan, USA   6. Russel Ray Ellis,   b. 08 Dec 1917, Harvey, Cook, Illinois, USA ,   d. 24 Mar 1982, Thornton, Cook, Illinois, USA   7. Geraldine F. Ellis,   b. Oct 1919, Harvey, Cook, Illinois, USA ,   d. 1927, Harvey, Cook, Illinois, USA   8. Paul Gordon Ellis,   b. 16 Jun 1921, Harvey, Cook, Illinois, USA ,   d. 26 Feb 2009, Thornton, Cook, Illinois, USA
  Family ID	F394	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Unknown Greenleaf,   b. 1882
  Married	1935
  Family ID	F18271	Group Sheet
  Family 3	Unknown Gleason
  Family ID	F18272	Group Sheet

• Photos	PA178819.JPG
  	Carrie Genevieve Bell.jpg
  	1949 Sam and Audrey 25th Anniversary with their mothers.jpg
  	1930 Census - Carrie Bell & Family & Uncle Jacob Spencer.jpg

• Notes

  Audery Maxine Ellis' Mother Carrie Genevieve Bell was born on June 28, 1884 in Watertown, Sanilac, Michigan. Sometime between 1884 and 1894 the family moved to Illinois as a younger sister, Rachel was born in Illinois in 1894. In 1900, the family consisted of the parents, John (1850-1910) and Lillian Inez Beal (1858-1934) Bell and their four children, Guy age 21, Mary age 18, Genevieve age 16 and Rachel age 6. They lived at 155 W. 59th St. in Lake township, in the City of Chicago. John's occupation was listed as a carpenter as was his son Guy's. Carrie and Leroy Ellis were married in 1904 in Harvey, Cook, Illinois. Carrie's father, John, died sometime before 1910 as evidenced by the fact that his wife in 1910 was living with her father, William Howell Beal, whose wife Maria Elizabeth Yount had died in March of 1910 and Maria Soule, the daughter of Frederick (1865-1900) and Maria Gwendolen Beal (1867-1894) Soule. The latter was Lillian Inez Beal's sister and Carrie's aunt. They were living at 106 Yenter(?) Avenue in Burnham. Carrie and Leroy were living with their family at 15227 Turlington Avenue in Harvey, Cook, Illinois which included Vergil age 5, Cedil age 3 and Audrey almost 2 years old. Leroy's occupation was a craneman operating a steam shovel at the Thornton Quarry. Living next door at 15223 Turlington Avenue was Leroy's father George and his family. By 1920, the family had moved into a rented house on Thornton Homewood Road inThornton Township. Several more children had joined the family. Russell Ray was born in 1912, Bessie Rae was born in 1915, Russell Leroy was born in 1917 and Gerladine F. was born in 1919. Unfortunately, Russell Ray died in 1917 while Carrie was pregnant and when the child turned out to be a boy, was named Russell Leroy after the recently deceased sibling. Leroy Ellis continued working at the Thornton Quarry as a Steam Shovel operator. According to Constance, Leroy had a drinking problem. Carrie and Leroy had separated probably in 1927 or 1928 with Leroy moving in with Sam & Audrey Pagoria at 139 16th St. in Chicago Heights, Cook, Illinois. Carrie had taken the three youngest children Bessie, Russell and Paul and moved to Elkland township in Michigan where she rented and lived on a farm with an uncle, Jacob W. Spencer whose wife was Carrie's aunt (her mother's sister), who had died in 1927 . Leroy and Carrie subsequently divorced and she remarried a man named Greenleaf in1935, whom she subsequently divorced. Finally, she married a man named Gleason and they moved to Michigan, where he subsequently hung himself. After her children were all grown, Carrie moved back to Chicago Heights and lived there until her death on August 29, 1961.

• Sources

  [S25] 1940 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627;), Year: 1940; Census Place: Bloom, Cook, Illinois; Roll: T627_774; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 16-67.. Birth date: abt 1885 Birth place: Michigan Residence date: 1 Apr 1940 Residence place: Bloom, Cook, Illinois, United States [S5] 1910 U.S. Census, Illinois, Cook, Thornton Township, 13th Census Schedule; Online Images, Harvey Ward 2, Cook County, Illinois, Roll T624-241, page 16B Enumeration District 119, Image 213. Enumerated May 11, 1910 by Frederick W. Drogula. Dwelling number 240, Family number 345. 15227 Tarlington Avenue, Harvey, Illinois.. [S4] 1920 U.S. Census, Illinois, Cook, Bloom; Online Images, Cook County, Illinois, Roll 31109_4300527, page 1A Enumeration District 211, Image 357. Enumerated January 2, 1920 by . Dwelling number 2, Family number 2. Thornton-Homewood Road, Thornton Township, Cook County, Illinois.. [S12] 1900 U.S. Census, Illinois, Cook, Bloom , 12th Census Schedule; Online Images, 30th Ward, Chicago, Lake Township, Cook County, Illinois, Roll T623_283, page 14B, Enumeration District 953. Dwelling Number 149, Family Number 255, 155 W. 59th Street.