The Ellis surname

In the chronology 13 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Ellis, Allan A. 1 entry, 1946
  • November 11, 1946: Allan A. Ellis, retired Cedar Grove postmaster and merchant, dies
• Ellis, Allen A. 1 entry, 1923
  • 1923: Ellis Store and post office opens
• Ellis, C. P. 2 entries, 1980–1984
  • January 31, 1980: A teach-in at the Carolina Union marks the 20th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins
  • November 14, 1984: Former Klan leader C. P. Ellis tells about 700 people at UNC why he left the Klan
• Ellis, Eddie 1 entry, 1979
  • November 27, 1979: About 60 children compete in the fall Special Olympics at Grey Culbreth Junior High
• Ellis, Fred 2 entries, 1957–1962
  • November 1957: Four families hold the first study meeting toward a new Baptist church in Chapel Hill
  • February 8, 1962: A citywide PTA meeting takes up the Chapel Hill schools' budget shortfall
• Ellis, Fred W. 3 entries, 1957
  • November 1957: Four families hold the first study meeting toward a new Baptist church in Chapel Hill
  • September 29, 1957: The Yates Association approves buying three acres on the 15-501 Bypass for the new church
  • March 1957: The Yates Baptist Association picks the Glen Lennox area for a new Baptist church
• Ellis, Gordon 1 entry, 1951
  • 1951: Gordon Ellis of the UNC education department builds a brick Cape Cod house on Pine Lane
• Ellis, Howard 1 entry, 1955
  • July 6, 1955: About 100 tobacco growers see an irrigation demonstration at Cedar Grove
• Ellis, Ira 4 entries, 1835–1850
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  • 1835–2017: Hall's Mill on the Eno, 1835–2017
  • about 1835: The Rev. Ira Ellis builds Little Ayr Mount, a two-story brick house west of Hillsborough
  • 1835: The Rev. Ira Ellis buys 300 acres on the Eno near Hall's Mill Road
  • mid-1800s: Ira Ellis's mill, later Hall's Mill, is working on the Eno west of Hillsborough
• Ellis, J. K. 1 entry, 1957
  • September 20, 1957: J. K. Ellis reopens his East Franklin Street grill as the Village Cafeteria
• Ellis, T. C. 4 entries, 1880–1951
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  • May 8, 1880: The Orange County Sunday School Convention meets at Little River Church
  • late August 1883: The Hillsboro Telephone Company puts up a line from the depot to Hooker's drug store
  • May 1890: B. C. Patton becomes postmaster at Cedar Grove
  • February 26, 1951: Orange Fire Protective Association elects T. C. Ellis its first president
• Ellis, Thomas Cox 1 entry, 1996
  • 1996: A hurricane destroys the old Thomas Cox Ellis wing of the Dr. C. M. Hughes House
• Ellis, William H. 1 entry, 1859
  • by December 21, 1859: West Orange post office closes as new offices open at Hughes's Academy and Bain's Mills

In books and archives 1 heading

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Ellis, Richard, active 1765-1790 3 works

In the historical records 118 records

40 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 46 marriages, 24 court minutes, 1 tax list entries and 6 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Ellis marriages in full · Search the name in every collection