Wallace
The meaning of the name Ellis is:
In different parts of Britain this term was used to denote varously Scotsmen,
Welshmen, and Bretons, as well as the small pocket of
Strathclyde Britons who persisted into the Middle Ages.
The surname has also been adopted in the
19th and 20th centuries as an Anglicized form of various Ashkenazic Jewish surnames.
Henry Wallace b. 1833 marries Sarah J. Unknown.
They had issue of:
Arthur
Minnie Caroline
In 1870 the Wallace family was living in Walker County, Georgia,
in a town called Ericks Gap or Subdivision 128. They were living
about ten homes away from their future in-laws, the Ellis'.
Henry Wallace worked as a farm laborer, while Sarah,
like most wives at the time, stayed at home with their children.
In 1920 Sarah Wallace was living with her daughter
and son-in-law, Minnie C and Lee A Ellis, in Dry Valley.