Eliza J Gash was born in August 1844, in Illinois to William L. and Nancy A. (Cameron) Gash. She married Josiah Cyrus Station about 1864, probably in Illinois. They were the parents of Nancy (1865-1947), Nora B. (1867-1922), William W. (1868-1870), Sidney Breeze (1871-1945), Mary Elizabeth (1873-1943), Charles Franklin (1876-1964), Frank (1880-1967), Fred (1880-1881), and Oddie Wade (1883-1965). She married Samuel Marion Ellis on May 3, 1908 in Denver, Colorado. She died in 1926, in Sims, Illinois at the age of 82.
Fact: Residence (1850) Wayne county, part of, Wayne, Illinois
Fact: Residence (1860) Township 2 S Range 8 E, Wayne, Illinois, United States
Fact: Residence (1870) Arrington Township, Wayne, Illinois, United States
Fact: Residence (1880) Arrington, Wayne, Illinois, United States
Fact: Residence (1900) Battlement, Garfield, Colorado, United States
Sources
1850 Census: "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M85W-H73 : 29 February 2020), E J Gash in household of W L Gash, Wayne county, part of, Wayne, Illinois, United States; citing family 724, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
1860 Census: "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXHB-75J : 13 December 2017), Eliza J Gash in entry for Wm L Gash, 1860. Township 2 S Range 8 E, Wayne, Illinois, United States
1870 Census: "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6W5-NNJ : 6 March 2020), Eliza J Staton in entry for Josiah Staton, 1870.
1880 Census: "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXKT-523 : 14 August 2017), Eliza J Staton in household of Josiah Staton, Arrington, Wayne, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district ED 138, sheet 54B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,257.
1900 Census: "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQMH-7F6 : accessed 14 March 2020), Eliza Staton in household of Sidney B Staton, Precincts 1, 11-12, 14 Carbondale, Battlement, Divide Creek, Austin Carbondale town, Garfield, Colorado, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 37, sheet 12B, family 203, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,123.
1910 Census: "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKF7-H9H : accessed 5 June 2023), Eliza J Ellis in household of Samuel M Ellis, Berry, Wayne, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 114, sheet 5A, family 37, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 332; FHL microfilm 1,374,345.
Marriage to Samuel M. Ellis: "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KNQ3-SRZ : 19 February 2021), Samuel M Ellis and Eliza J Staton, 03 May 1908, Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States; citing no. 43184, State Archives, Denver; FHL microfilm 1,690,073.
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