Transcribed from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. [Revised ed.] Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1919, c1918. 5 v. (xlviii, 2530 p., [155] leaves of plates): ill., maps (some fold.), ports.; 27 cm.
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JAMES MADISON FALLIS, M. D. . . . . . . . . His paternal ancestors came from Wales and were colonial settlers in Virginia. His father, Stuart White Fallis, was born in Kentucky in 1812. He was reared and married in his native state and in 1847 moved to Northern Missouri, becoming a pioneer settler in Harrison County. He took public lands and developed a farm, and in the early days furnished a varied service to his community, being an export mechanic, a house carpenter and joiner, a furniture and cabinet maker. In 1886, when advanced in years, he moved out to Kansas and bought a place in Osborne County, where he died in 1903, at ninety-one years of age.

Mr. Fallis, Sr., married Emerine Stratton, born in Kentucky in 1814 and died in Osborne County, Kansas, in 1898. Their family consisted of the following children: Ellen, who died at Des Moines, Iowa, wife of Edwin Winburn, a farmer also deceased; W. R., who was a mechanic and died in Virginia; Sarah, who married William T. Farthing, and both are deceased, her death occurring in Russell County, Kansas; E. C., who went to New Mexico in 1916 and no word has come from him since; Dr. James M. the fifth in age; Nancy, who died in Osborne County, Kansas, wife of Elliott Bernard, a laundryman who died in Kansas City, Missouri; Julia, wife of John Guess, a retired cattleman at Osborne; Joseph, who also went to New Mexico in 1916 and has been lost sight of; Amanda, who died in Osborne County, wife of George Elliott, who is now vice president of the First National Bank of Luray; and Addie, who married Jeptha Christy and resides at Portland, Oregon.