ELLIS, Ralph V., Beeville Bee, Friday, 9 Mar 1906:

Death of Ralph V. Ellis. 
News of the death of Ralph V. ELLIS, at Nacogdoches, Texas reached here by telephone 
Tuesday morning shortly after it occurred, and was a source of much regret to the friends 
and acquaintances of his family, who have known him from childhood. He had been in 
Nacogdoches for four or five months and was in the employ of a lumber mill at that joint 
when stricken with pneumonia about a week or ten days before his death. His mother 
reached his bedside last Sunday night and was with him at the time of death. The remains 
arrived here Wednesday morning at 6:30 and were taken to the Nations Hotel parlor, where 
at 10 o'clock an anti-burial services was held by Rev. J. F. Webb, the interment taking place 
in the New Cemetery.

The deceased was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Ellis, old residents of the county, and 
was 28 years, 6 months and 3 days old at the time of his death, and with the exception of the 
short time of his residence of Nacogdoches, had spent all his life in this county. Besides his 
parents, he leaves a wife and three children, and four brothers to survive him.