"Ezekiel Parke Ellis lived in Pike County on Magees Creek and taught school also in the early history of the county. He was twelve years younger than his brother Stephen, and therefore figured later on. He married the youngest daughter of Col. Thomas Cargill Warner, who served under Gen. Andrew Jackson at New Orleans in 1814 and 1815, and was judge of the probate court of Washington Parish, Louisiana, for many years.
"Ezekiel Ellis became a lawyer and was judge of his district for many years, dying at Amite City in 1884 at the age of seventy-nine years. He, like his illustrious brother, was a man of splendid intellect, moral influence and force of character and transmitted his splendid virtues to his sons and daughters. His son, E. John Ellis, was a lawyer and brilliant orator, a man of great personal magnetism, a member of Congress from the Second Louisiana District from 1875 to 1885, dying in Washington City, D. C. in 1889. Stephen D. Ellis, a practicing lawyer at Amite City and Surveyor of the Customs of the Port of New Orleans under President Cleveland, and Thomas Cargill Warner Ellis, senior judge of the civil district court of New Orleans, are living. The latter was closely associated with Gov. John McEnery during the celebrated dual government in Louisiana, of Wm. Pitt Kellogg and John McEnery, and took an active part in the overthrow of the disgraceful carpet-bag regime in that State in the reconstruction period. He has always been a man of fine intellect, clear views, legal acumen, an elegant and forceful writer, a true, noble-hearted, lasting friend, and while filling the ardent and responsible position of senior judge of the civil district court of New Orleans has also filled the chair of law lecturer at the Tulane Institute in that city.
"One daughter of Ezekiel Ellis is the widow of Rev. John A. Ellis, of the Mississippi Conference, who was chaplain of the 29th Tennessee Regiment of the Confederate States Army. The above named sons all served honorably through the Civil War, in the Army of Tennessee. It is the splendid qualities possessed by such men as Stephen and Ezekiel Ellis and transmitted by them to their descendants that has thrown around the early history of Pike County a halo of romance, and gives to the writer of this epoch an inspiration and a labor of love."
