Mary Virginia Wash

Mary Virginia Wash

• Mary Virginia Wash was born circa 1861 in Missouri.
• She married Christopher Pegues Ellerbe, son of Alexander William Ellerbe and Catherine Bedgegood Pegues, on 17 June 1873 in St. Louis, Missouri.
• Christopher Pegues Ellerbe and Mary Virginia Wash appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in St. Ferdinand Township, St. Louis County, Missouri. Other members of the household included Alexander W. Ellerbe and Christopher Pegues Ellerbe Jr. Also in the household were one female domestic servant, and one female boarder.
• Mary Virginia Wash died circa 1884.
• Her husband Christopher Pegues Ellerbe became a widower at her death.
• The following appeared in the Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University (deceased during the Year Ending July 1, 1918):
       Christopher Pegues Ellerbe, the son of Colonel Christopher Pegues Ellerbe and Mary Virginia (Wash) Ellerbe, was born December 15, 1878, in St. Louis, Mo. His father, who was a graduate of the University of Virginia in the Class of 1868, was a lawyer practicing as the senior member of the firm of Ellerbe & Ellerbe. His mother died when he was five years old. He was prepared for college at the Smith Academy in St. Louis.
       After graduation from Yale he studied law in Washington University, St. Louis, and in 1901 was admitted to the bar; in 1902 he received the degree of LL.B. from Washington University. He then became associated with the firm of Ellerbe, Waddell & Hereford. In 1903 the firm name was changed to Ellerbe & Ellerbe, and, after the death of Colonel Ellerbe in 1908, was changed again to Ellerbe & Brokaw, the junior member being Linn R. Brokaw (B.A. Princeton 1901, LL.B. Washington University 1903). In May, 1903, he purchased the Ferris Wheel in Chicago, and promoted a company which brought the wheel to the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. In November, 1904, his health being undermined, he went to the Southwest. From November, 1904, until January, 1906, he worked as a cowhand in Arizona. From January, 1906, until November, 1906, he was special attorney for the banking house of Adams-Phillips Company, of Los Angeles, living in Pasadena, Calif. In November, 1906, he returned to Arizona, and was elected secretary of the Arizona Cattle Growers Association, at the same time having a law office in Tombstone, Ariz., where he spent one month out of every six. He was also deputy sheriff of Cochise County, Ariz. In 1908 he returned to St. Louis and in 1916 became a member of the firm of Jones, Hocker, Sullivan & Angert. From 1913 to 1917 he held an appointment as professor of medical jurisprudence at St. Louis University.
       Mr. Ellerbe died in Santa Monica, Calif., August 5, 1917, after an illness of seven months due to tuberculosis. Interment was in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Loouis.
  [:TAB;] He was unmarried and left no near relatives.

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