Ancestry of
Jon Meacham

Author and Historian

Samuel Cowdell Ellis

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Jon Meacham — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 18 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Ellis 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Marie Cowdell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 May 1858 
  • Birth Location:
  • Berwick, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Oct 1907 
  • Death Location:
  • Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Ida McLeod
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Aug 1885 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Berwick, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada 
  • Child:

  Eunice Jean Ellis (Ahnentafel No:9 )

• Sources for Samuel Cowdell Ellis

  • ¹ Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929, Death record for Dr Samuel Cowdell Ellis.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/24/2025).
  • ³ Tennessee, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1965, Death certificate for daughter Jean Alice Meacham.
  • ⁴ The Daily Review (Wilmington, North Carolina), 01 SEP 1885, p. 1, Wedding of Dr S C Ellis and Ida McLeod.
  • ⁵ Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Waterman Family: Vol. II, Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts, New Haven, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman (1942), 123.

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