Ellis
Rosa Isabel “Rose”
1871 – 1944
Rosa Isabel “Rose” Ellis, daughter of Joseph and Cynthia Ann (Nicholson) Ellis, was born in 1871 in Ripley County, Indiana. As a tiny child, she moved with her family to Illinois. The family later moved west to Kansas.
Marriage
In 1892, she married Andrew McCracken. In 1920, Andrew died. Rosa remained in the Farlington, Crawford County, Kansas area with her nine children: Lemuel Lewis, Joseph Andrew, Elmer Thomas, Cynthia Alice, Ernest Franklin, Dewey Cortis “Doc”, Oella Louisiana, Almeda (Belle), and Ray Eugene.
Marriage to Bill Apt
In 1924, Rose remarried to William Apt, who had roomed with her sister Mattie’s family for many years. William (called Bill by most and Will by Rose) was the only grandpa that most of Rosa’s grandchildren ever knew. According to multiple of them, he was a wonderful grandpa. Bill was on crutches as he had lost one leg as a teenager following a long illness that he wasn’t suppose to survive.
Rosa wrote in a diary from 1929 until 1931. Click here to see original entries from the diary.
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