Mary B. Francis
b. December 1852
- Mary B. Francis was born in December 1852 in Kentucky.
- She married Christopher Pegues Ellerbe, son of Alexander William Ellerbe and Catherine Bedgegood Pegues, on 29 April 1891 in St. Louis, Missouri.
- The following appeared on 5 May 1891 in The Sedalia Weekly Bazoo: (St. Louis, April 27) Yesterday, Colonel Christopher P. Ellerbe, State Superintendent of Insurance, went out to Clayton, accompanied by his partner, Frank Hicks, and procured a license to marry Miss Mary B. Francis, a sister of Governor Francis. The wedding will take place to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, at the residence of the lady's father, near Normandy. The attendants will be Misses Mamie and Nettie Boyd, nieces of the bride, and David and Chass Francis, sons of Governor Francis. The wedding is to be quiet, no persons having been invited but the family of Colonel Ellerbe and the relatives of Miss Francis. After the ceremony, which is to be performed by Bishop Tuttle of the Episcopal church, the bride and groom will take a trip to Virginia to visit Colonel Ellerbe's relatives. After a two weeks' sojourn they will return to Ferguson, their future home.
- Christopher Pegues Ellerbe and Mary B. Francis appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Ferguson, St. Louis County, Missouri. Other members of the household included Christopher Pegues Ellerbe Jr. Also in the household was one female domestic servant.
- The following appeared on 19 September 1918 in The Daily Picayune: (Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 18) Colonel Christopher Pegues Ellerbe was born near Selma, Ala., March 1, 1846, and was in the service of the Confederacy as Sergeant Major of the Eighth Alabama Cavalry. He attended the University of Alabama, but left to enter the army in 1863, without graduating. Later he took the degree of bachelor of laws at the University of Virginia. He went to Missouri in 1868, where he was a teacher and a lawyer. In 1891 he married Mary Francis, a sister of former Governor Francis.
- Last Edited: 11 Sep 2015