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Re: James Elmer Ellsworth Ruddell b.1861
Posted by: Phil Ellsworth	Date: January 06, 1999 at 16:37:02
In Reply to: James Elmer Ellsworth Ruddell b.1861 by Mark J. Ruddell	of 1923

Col. Elmer Ellsworth was the first Union officer killed in the east during the Civil War. This resulted in the use of Ellsworth as a middle and given name during and after the war. If you can trace the name back to that period and no further, that is probably its origin.

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