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Sgt Abram B Ellit
1825 – 6 Dec 1906
| Birth | 1825 |
| Death | 6 Dec 1906 |
| Cemetery | Topeka Cemetery Topeka , Shawnee County , Kansas , USA |
| Added by | Bill Stephens on 14 Aug 2010 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57060667 |
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http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/nemaha/nemaha-co-p21.html "A. B. ELLIT, farmer, Section 20, P. O. Wetmore, was born in 1825, in La Rue County, Ky., and raised in that State as a farmer. On the outbreak of the Mexican War in 1846, he enlisted under Col. McKee in the Second Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and under Gen. Zach. Taylor fought at Monterey and Buena Vista; returned home in July, 1847, and farmed until the spring of 1849. Was married that year to Elizabeth Edwards. In the fall of 1849, moved to Missouri and engaged in farming until 1855, when he made and settled upon a claim near Mt. Pleasant, Atchison Co., Kan. In 1856, he brought out his family, and his father and brother settled near him. During 1856, a band of 600 Southerners destroyed all their fences and fed all their corn, and were about to appropriate the only remaining yoke of cattle left them, but were prevented by a Missouri captain, who drew a six-shooter and swore he would kill the first man who attempted to yoke them up. A rumor that Jim Lane and his Kansans were close at hand scattered the Southern banditti with ludicrous haste, some even leaving saddles and guns, telling Mr. Ellit to 'give Lane thunder' if he came that way. In 1858, Mr. Ellit moved to near Huron, and there lived until his enlistment in 1861 in the Second Kansas Cavalry, with which he served until the spring of 1863. In 1862 was one of a company of forty that killed and routed Quantrell and his band on Blue River, in Missouri; out of thirty-three all were killed but seven. Mr. Ellit was Duty-sergeant, and managed one part of the fight. In the fall of 1863, he was with Gen. Blunt when Price drove him from Blue River bridge; remained with him till Price was whipped and driven out. In 1864, he freighted to Denver, Col., and in the fall of 1866, moved to Pettis County, Mo., and a few years later to his present farm in Granada Township. His first wife, Elizabeth Edwards, died in Pettis County, Mo. But three of her ten children survive her. The present Mrs. Ellit was Mrs. Watson. Her maiden name was Porter. William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
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