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ELIJAH ELLSWORTH, farmer; P. O. Saybrook; born in Clark Co., Ohio, Dec. 15, 1815, He lived, until he was 40 years of age, with his parents in that county. His mother died in the year 1846, at the age of 84, and his father at the age of 90. In the year 1856, Mr. Ellsworth came to Illinois, and settled in this county, at “Old Town Timber,” in the “Frankberger house,” living there for about eight months. In the year 1867, he purchased and improved the farm upon which he now resides, containing 200 acres, unencumbered. He married Miss Ellen Powell, June 18, 1836, daughter of Stephen and Lydia Powell, of Clark Co., Ohio, who came from Virginia at an early day. Her father died at Chillicothe, Ohio, and her mother in Indiana, Mrs. Ellsworth was born May 3, 1818; they had four children, three living — Walker, born Sept, 6, 1838; Hamilton, Aug. 8, 1842, and Duncan, Aug. 7, 1844, and one deceased — Charlotte, born Sept. 7, 1840, died Sept. 7, 1876. His two sons, Hamilton and Duncan, enlisted in Co. B, 107th regiment I. V. I., in our late civil war, and served until its close.