Born Iredell County, North Carolina
Died Towns County, Georgia
It's not sourced, but here is a forum post that makes him the son of John and Eleanor Hooper - https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/ellis/1642/
Here is the same from an unsourced family tree from ancestry.com (with Eleanor named as Eleanor Parker):
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/71081931/person/110073708004/facts