Person:Tamasine Ellis (1)

an Excerpt from Carrie Manning's Family Essay dated 5 March 1940

" My grandmother Phillips was a young widow. She was left with these four little girls and a farm in the Flower Hill district of Warwick and there was a mortgage of $500 on the farm. I remember her very well, there is a picture of her knitting and sitting in the quaint old rocker with woven rushbottom seat which I still own. [NOTE: This rocker still exists in the living family 2013] She was a very lovely grandmother, and I visited there in my childhood as Warwick is only about 11 miles from Orange my home. My mother told me how grandmother cared for her children and with the help of "hired men" carried on her farm, made it pay, paid off the mortgage and left money to her daughters at her death. When my mother was possibly sixteen or eighteen years of age, grandmother married Mezlar Williams who had three sons."

1. ↑ Royalston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Royalston, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1906)
   p. 30.

   ELLIS, Tamison, d. Ezekiel and Lydia, [born] Dec. 9, 180-.
   [1805 based on age listed in marriage and death record.]

2. ↑ Massachusetts, United States. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910. (New England Historic and Genealogical Society)
   Vol. 355, p. 345.

   No.: 3
   Date of Death: May 9th 1884
   Date of Record: Jan 1st 1885
   Name: Thommason Williams
   Sex: Femal[e]
   Condition: Married
   Age: 78 y 5 m. [born about Jan 1806]
   Cause: Tumor
   Place of Death: Warwick
   Occupation: At Home
   Place of Birth: Royalston
   Parents: Ezekiel Ellis/Lydia Ellis

3.   Photos of Timothy and Thammason's gravestone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=21736280&PIpi=11133614
4.   The name Tamasine and Thommason appear in the official records but it was written by the family as Thammason as seen on the headstone. I have personal family documents to this effect as well.