Otis Wilborn Ellis was the son of James Benton Ellis and Margaret Myrtle Reneau Ellis.
Otis and Bernice were neighbors and married when Bernice was 16 and Otis was twenty. They lived in Gadsden but as told by their son Alvis they went to Rising Fawn, Georgia to get married. As the story goes they ran into some bad weather and stopped at a house along the way asking to spend the night. The lady of the house did not believe they were married and had them to spend the night in separate rooms. Good Start for a honeymoon. God blessed them with three sons, Alvis, Pascal and Gerald.
One day Otis was working on the roof of a house and became ill. Alvis remembered seeing him setting on the roof and thought he was just resting. Later that day he was taken to the hospital, where they diagnosed him with appendicitis. He died as results of this.
They had just built their home, not even made a payment, so with Otis gone Bernice ended up losing it. Times were hard, the boys were ages, 9,4, and 3 months. For a short time after Otis' death Bernice lived with her dad and mom but later Alvis went to live with his Uncle Evan Ellis in Chattanooga. He didn't remember how long but did go to school for one year there. Pat and Gerald went to the Church orphanage in Cleveland, TN.
Sometime during these years the neighbors along with her dad pitched in and built her a house just down the road from the Jackson home place. Bernice got her boys back together, later they moved to Gadsden and lived for a while with Uncle Waitus and Aunt Jesse Ellis.
God took a loving father and husband but his love lives on.
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I just located his Obit in the Anniston Star, Anniston, AL.
Funeral rites for O. W. Ellis to be Tuesday.
Funeral services for O. W. Ellis, 31, who died in a local hospital Sunday night following an illness of about a week will be held from the residence at 3002 Noble Street at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning. Rev. Z. C. Tharp will officiate and interment will be in Edgemont Cemetery, Usrey in charge.
Pallbearers will be C. B. Till, J. Till, J. Elder, Carl Bryant, W. D. Fordham, J. W. Gaines and G. F. Argo.
Surviving Mr. Ellis are the widow and three sons, Alvis, Paschal and Gerald, of Anniston, his parents, Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Ellis of Wimauma, FL. and seven sisters, Mrs. J. H. Hullett, of Oneonta; Mrs. G. L. Wilson and Mrs. Lloyd Hunt of Greenville, , S. C. Rogers and Misses Owell Corene & Myrtle Ellis of Wimauma.
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NOTE: According to the obit he was buried at Edgemont. He is in Forrest, so the family must have had his body moved. Gadsden is where Bernice lived and where the boys grew up.
Otis and Bernice were neighbors and married when Bernice was 16 and Otis was twenty. They lived in Gadsden but as told by their son Alvis they went to Rising Fawn, Georgia to get married. As the story goes they ran into some bad weather and stopped at a house along the way asking to spend the night. The lady of the house did not believe they were married and had them to spend the night in separate rooms. Good Start for a honeymoon. God blessed them with three sons, Alvis, Pascal and Gerald.
One day Otis was working on the roof of a house and became ill. Alvis remembered seeing him setting on the roof and thought he was just resting. Later that day he was taken to the hospital, where they diagnosed him with appendicitis. He died as results of this.
They had just built their home, not even made a payment, so with Otis gone Bernice ended up losing it. Times were hard, the boys were ages, 9,4, and 3 months. For a short time after Otis' death Bernice lived with her dad and mom but later Alvis went to live with his Uncle Evan Ellis in Chattanooga. He didn't remember how long but did go to school for one year there. Pat and Gerald went to the Church orphanage in Cleveland, TN.
Sometime during these years the neighbors along with her dad pitched in and built her a house just down the road from the Jackson home place. Bernice got her boys back together, later they moved to Gadsden and lived for a while with Uncle Waitus and Aunt Jesse Ellis.
God took a loving father and husband but his love lives on.
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I just located his Obit in the Anniston Star, Anniston, AL.
Funeral rites for O. W. Ellis to be Tuesday.
Funeral services for O. W. Ellis, 31, who died in a local hospital Sunday night following an illness of about a week will be held from the residence at 3002 Noble Street at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning. Rev. Z. C. Tharp will officiate and interment will be in Edgemont Cemetery, Usrey in charge.
Pallbearers will be C. B. Till, J. Till, J. Elder, Carl Bryant, W. D. Fordham, J. W. Gaines and G. F. Argo.
Surviving Mr. Ellis are the widow and three sons, Alvis, Paschal and Gerald, of Anniston, his parents, Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Ellis of Wimauma, FL. and seven sisters, Mrs. J. H. Hullett, of Oneonta; Mrs. G. L. Wilson and Mrs. Lloyd Hunt of Greenville, , S. C. Rogers and Misses Owell Corene & Myrtle Ellis of Wimauma.
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NOTE: According to the obit he was buried at Edgemont. He is in Forrest, so the family must have had his body moved. Gadsden is where Bernice lived and where the boys grew up.
Otis Wilborn Ellis was the son of James Benton Ellis and Margaret Myrtle Reneau Ellis.
Otis and Bernice were neighbors and married when Bernice was 16 and Otis was twenty. They lived in Gadsden but as told by their son Alvis they went to Rising Fawn, Georgia to get married. As the story goes they ran into some bad weather and stopped at a house along the way asking to spend the night. The lady of the house did not believe they were married and had them to spend the night in separate rooms. Good Start for a honeymoon. God blessed them with three sons, Alvis, Pascal and Gerald.
One day Otis was working on the roof of a house and became ill. Alvis remembered seeing him setting on the roof and thought he was just resting. Later that day he was taken to the hospital, where they diagnosed him with appendicitis. He died as results of this.
They had just built their home, not even made a payment, so with Otis gone Bernice ended up losing it. Times were hard, the boys were ages, 9,4, and 3 months. For a short time after Otis' death Bernice lived with her dad and mom but later Alvis went to live with his Uncle Evan Ellis in Chattanooga. He didn't remember how long but did go to school for one year there. Pat and Gerald went to the Church orphanage in Cleveland, TN.
Sometime during these years the neighbors along with her dad pitched in and built her a house just down the road from the Jackson home place. Bernice got her boys back together, later they moved to Gadsden and lived for a while with Uncle Waitus and Aunt Jesse Ellis.
God took a loving father and husband but his love lives on.
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I just located his Obit in the Anniston Star, Anniston, AL.
Funeral rites for O. W. Ellis to be Tuesday.
Funeral services for O. W. Ellis, 31, who died in a local hospital Sunday night following an illness of about a week will be held from the residence at 3002 Noble Street at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning. Rev. Z. C. Tharp will officiate and interment will be in Edgemont Cemetery, Usrey in charge.
Pallbearers will be C. B. Till, J. Till, J. Elder, Carl Bryant, W. D. Fordham, J. W. Gaines and G. F. Argo.
Surviving Mr. Ellis are the widow and three sons, Alvis, Paschal and Gerald, of Anniston, his parents, Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Ellis of Wimauma, FL. and seven sisters, Mrs. J. H. Hullett, of Oneonta; Mrs. G. L. Wilson and Mrs. Lloyd Hunt of Greenville, , S. C. Rogers and Misses Owell Corene & Myrtle Ellis of Wimauma.
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NOTE: According to the obit he was buried at Edgemont. He is in Forrest, so the family must have had his body moved. Gadsden is where Bernice lived and where the boys grew up.
Otis and Bernice were neighbors and married when Bernice was 16 and Otis was twenty. They lived in Gadsden but as told by their son Alvis they went to Rising Fawn, Georgia to get married. As the story goes they ran into some bad weather and stopped at a house along the way asking to spend the night. The lady of the house did not believe they were married and had them to spend the night in separate rooms. Good Start for a honeymoon. God blessed them with three sons, Alvis, Pascal and Gerald.
One day Otis was working on the roof of a house and became ill. Alvis remembered seeing him setting on the roof and thought he was just resting. Later that day he was taken to the hospital, where they diagnosed him with appendicitis. He died as results of this.
They had just built their home, not even made a payment, so with Otis gone Bernice ended up losing it. Times were hard, the boys were ages, 9,4, and 3 months. For a short time after Otis' death Bernice lived with her dad and mom but later Alvis went to live with his Uncle Evan Ellis in Chattanooga. He didn't remember how long but did go to school for one year there. Pat and Gerald went to the Church orphanage in Cleveland, TN.
Sometime during these years the neighbors along with her dad pitched in and built her a house just down the road from the Jackson home place. Bernice got her boys back together, later they moved to Gadsden and lived for a while with Uncle Waitus and Aunt Jesse Ellis.
God took a loving father and husband but his love lives on.
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I just located his Obit in the Anniston Star, Anniston, AL.
Funeral rites for O. W. Ellis to be Tuesday.
Funeral services for O. W. Ellis, 31, who died in a local hospital Sunday night following an illness of about a week will be held from the residence at 3002 Noble Street at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning. Rev. Z. C. Tharp will officiate and interment will be in Edgemont Cemetery, Usrey in charge.
Pallbearers will be C. B. Till, J. Till, J. Elder, Carl Bryant, W. D. Fordham, J. W. Gaines and G. F. Argo.
Surviving Mr. Ellis are the widow and three sons, Alvis, Paschal and Gerald, of Anniston, his parents, Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Ellis of Wimauma, FL. and seven sisters, Mrs. J. H. Hullett, of Oneonta; Mrs. G. L. Wilson and Mrs. Lloyd Hunt of Greenville, , S. C. Rogers and Misses Owell Corene & Myrtle Ellis of Wimauma.
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NOTE: According to the obit he was buried at Edgemont. He is in Forrest, so the family must have had his body moved. Gadsden is where Bernice lived and where the boys grew up.
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