Elizabeth Ann <I>Spikes</I> Ellis

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Elizabeth Ann Spikes Ellis

Birth
Death
29 Jan 1963 (aged 88)
Burial
Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, USA Add to Map
Plot
Mausoleum
Memorial ID
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Elizabeth Ann Spikes Ellis b. in Kaufman County, Texas to John Wesley & Julia Ann (Fox) Spikes.

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"Elizabeth Ann (Lizzie) Spikes was born in Spikes Prairie, Kaufman County, Texas and married Temple Harding Ellis, a pioneer who had located near the Quaker colony of Estacado (approximate 4 miles northeast of Lorenzo, Texas) in 1887, and later moved to Lubbock, Texas. She and Temple had two daughters, Ruby Katherine (born in a dugout) and Leslye Opal. Temple died in 1939.

Lizzie graduated from Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas and wrote a book, Road to Destiny, the life of a pioneer family on the great plains of Texas, under the pen name Temple Ann Ellis. She later co-authored a book with her sister-in law, Nellie Witt Spikes, Through the Years, A History of Crosby County using the same pen name."

Elizabeth Ann Spikes Ellis b. in Kaufman County, Texas to John Wesley & Julia Ann (Fox) Spikes.

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"Elizabeth Ann (Lizzie) Spikes was born in Spikes Prairie, Kaufman County, Texas and married Temple Harding Ellis, a pioneer who had located near the Quaker colony of Estacado (approximate 4 miles northeast of Lorenzo, Texas) in 1887, and later moved to Lubbock, Texas. She and Temple had two daughters, Ruby Katherine (born in a dugout) and Leslye Opal. Temple died in 1939.

Lizzie graduated from Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas and wrote a book, Road to Destiny, the life of a pioneer family on the great plains of Texas, under the pen name Temple Ann Ellis. She later co-authored a book with her sister-in law, Nellie Witt Spikes, Through the Years, A History of Crosby County using the same pen name."



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