Samuel Laird "Sammy" Ellis, II

1925 - 2010  (85 years)

• Name	Samuel Laird "Sammy" Ellis
  Suffix	II
  Born	1925	Tennessee
  Gender	Male
  Census	1930	Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee   [1]
  Died	3 Aug 2010  [2]
  Person ID	I282988	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2013

  
  

  Father	Dr. Samuel Laird Ellis,   b. 1 Dec 1900, Tennessee ,   d. 16 Jun 1935, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee  (Age 34 years)
  Mother	Leona Roberts,   b. Abt 1905, Tennessee ,   d. Bef 18 Dec 2011  (Age ~ 106 years)
  Family ID	F110395	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Mary Ruth
  Children	1. Samuel Laird Ellis, III   2. David Ross Ellis   3. Mary Ann Ellis
  Family ID	F110396	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1925 - Tennessee Census - 1930 - Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S112] Census, 1930. Name: Samuel L Ellis Event: Census Event Date: 1930 Event Place: Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee Gender: Male Age: 4 Marital Status: Single Race: White Birthplace: Tennessee Estimated Birth Year: 1926 Immigration Year: Relationship to Head of Household: Son Father's Birthplace: Tennessee Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee Enumeration District Number: 0040 Family Number: 299 Sheet Number and Letter: 13B Line Number: 88 NARA Publication: T626, roll 2258 Film Number: 2341992 Digital Folder Number: 4548172 Image Number: 00848 Household Gender Age Parent Samuel L Ellis M 29 Parent Leona Ellis F 25 Samuel L Ellis M 4 Joseph R Ellis M 2 [S4] Knoxville News-Sentinel (Tennessee), 11 Aug 2010. ELLIS II, SAMUEL LAIRD (1925-2010) - "Sammy" Ellis passed away August 3, 2010. The son of Dr. Samuel Laird Ellis of Knoxville and Leona Roberts Ellis of Gainesboro, he was a sixth generation East Tennessean who, after serving in the U. S. Navy in the Second World War, attended the University of Tennessee and the University of Miami (Florida) Law School. Upon leaving Knoxville in 1954 with his wife and children, he embarked on an extraordinary lifelong odyssey of entrepreneurial adventures that carried him to every continent but Antarctica. Having created a multitude of businesses in, among others, the finance, automobile dealership, resort hotel, Scotch whiskey manufacture, oceanic shipping, thoroughbred race horse, and telecom industries, the vicissitudes of his unstinting efforts ended in financial ruin and failing health in Tampa, Florida, where he died surrounded by devoted loved ones, a gentle, smiling pauper. He is survived by his brother, Dr. Joseph R. Ellis, his former wife, Mary Ruth Ellis, with whom he was reunited in 2008, his sons Samuel Laird Ellis III and David Ross Ellis, his daughter Mary Ann Ellis, six grandchildren, and numerous cousins.