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Ellis A. Wyatt Sr.

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Ellis A. Wyatt Sr.

Birth
Dryfork, Randolph County, West Virginia, USA
Death
Apr 1900 (aged 75–76)
Dryfork, Randolph County, West Virginia, USA
Burial
Randolph County, West Virginia, USA
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Ellis A. Wyatt, born 1824 on Dry Fork, son of John and Elizabeth (Rains) Wyatt; German Ancestry. In 1849 he married Mary, daughter of John and Winnie Pennington. Children, Jacob Flanagan, Samuel Crane, John Imboden, Seymour, Solomon, Jasper T., Ellis A., Washington, Phoebe Jane, Mary Ellen, Lenora E. In 1848 he built the first house in the neighborhood where he resides. After the Civil War he was the first and only Democrat to vote at Dry Fork. No Democratic ticket had been printed, and one had to be written to accommodate him. His father, John Wyatt, was the first settler between Dry Fork and Shaver's Fork. He settled on Middle Mountain in 1827. The grandfather of this sketch was Edmund Wyatt, a native of Virginia.

Source: Hu Maxwell's History of Randolph County, Page 516
Ellis Wyatt sat down with John J. Ferguson and gave the interview for this book about 3 years before his death.
Ellis A. Wyatt, born 1824 on Dry Fork, son of John and Elizabeth (Rains) Wyatt; German Ancestry. In 1849 he married Mary, daughter of John and Winnie Pennington. Children, Jacob Flanagan, Samuel Crane, John Imboden, Seymour, Solomon, Jasper T., Ellis A., Washington, Phoebe Jane, Mary Ellen, Lenora E. In 1848 he built the first house in the neighborhood where he resides. After the Civil War he was the first and only Democrat to vote at Dry Fork. No Democratic ticket had been printed, and one had to be written to accommodate him. His father, John Wyatt, was the first settler between Dry Fork and Shaver's Fork. He settled on Middle Mountain in 1827. The grandfather of this sketch was Edmund Wyatt, a native of Virginia.

Source: Hu Maxwell's History of Randolph County, Page 516
Ellis Wyatt sat down with John J. Ferguson and gave the interview for this book about 3 years before his death.

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Transcription of Ellis Wyatt stone is as follows
"Ellis A Wyatt
1825 April 1900
Ferst Post Master at Alpena June 13 1879"
this is the way first is spelled on the stone. it is etched in with a nail or something like that. It is fairly readable considering its age. the area is well protected from the weather. His stone is located near the middle of the cemetery behind the tree and slightly to the right if you are looking up the hill It Appears to be river rock.
- K. Stone

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