George was born in Texas and baptized by the Rev. Pleasant M. Tacket who was the founding minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in Goshen, Texas. He was named after an uncle, the half-brother of his father. When he was two years old, his family left Texas for California, traveling in the summer through Texas, Mexico and Arizona. The family first lived in El Monte, Los Angeles County.[1] The family later moved to Visalia.[2]

George was noted to be unwell, and not walking yet without assistance after the move from Visalia to San Luis Obispo in 1863. His father reported his death and burial in a letter to W.H. Davis & family a few weeks later. George was buried in land recently set aside for an “American graveyard” to contrast with the Catholic graveyard of the nearby California mission.[3]
Sources
↑ "A Genealogical Record of the Ellis Family, a portion of which is from a memorandum of the family prepared by Col. Thomas Harding Ellis of Richmond, VA in 1849, with additional notes pertaining to the Ellis-Gilliam and Ellis-Long families" 34 pages, 1912, photocopy held in 1996 by Davis-50681.
↑ “Thomas Ellis household, 1860 U.S. census,” Tulare County, CA, Township No. 2, pages 6 & 7, Visalia Post Office, enumerated 27 Jun 1860, microfilm M653 roll 71
↑ "The Country is Healthy, and Religion Desirable: The Letters of Rev. Thomas Oliver Ellis, MD, 1863-1867" transcribed and annotated by Connie LaVon Davis, Dec, 1999. Available from Davis-50681.
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