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- [S94] Sevier County, Tennessee Census, 464A, 1880.
- [S118] History of early Sevier County Doctors , Beulah Linn, (www.sevierlibrary.org/genealogy/doc/doc.htm).
Dr. Thomas N. Ellis was born in Sevier County at Boyds Creek in 1861, the son of William Reece and Mary Jane Johnson Ellis. Dr. Ellis was married three times,1 stto Callie Cruze, by whom he had six children: Mae; Nora; Catherine; John R.; Wilbur J.; and Sam L. By the second wife, Ida Johnson, he had one daughter, Mary. There were no children by the third wife, Mabel (Mayme) Goddard.
Dr. Ellis attended Chilhowee Institute and graduated from the Kansas City Hospital College of Medicine in Missouri, in 1885. He practiced at Boyds Creek until 1900 when he opened a medical practice in Knoxville. Dr. Ellis died Jan. 2,1940, and is buried in the New Salem Cemetery.
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