Sources & Information:
Item 1.<Ancestry.com> 1860 U.S. Census, St. Clair, St. Clair, Mi.
Name on Census as Israel ELSWORTH.
Item 2.IGI - Individual Record <familysearch.com>
Israel Carlton ELLSWORTH, male, birth, 25 June 1860, St Clair, Michigan.
Father: Gideon Bowerman AYLSWORTH-ELLSWORTH.
Mother: Sara Belle CRAWFORD
Item 3.Israel Carlton Ellsworth, came to Alpena, Michigan with his parents at age 9 in about 1869.
After his marriage, he and wife lived in Maple Ridge Twp., Alpena Co., Michigan until 1932
when he retired from farming and moved to Alpena, Michigan.
Item 4.Israel Carlton Ellsworth, died March 23, 1937, Alpena County death register No. 44, in Alpena,
Michigan of cardiac failure. There is another date of March 24, 1939 given in other records.
We are accepting the March 23, 1937 as date of record.
Item 5.Pilgrims Rest Cemetery, is located on Bolton Highway, South of Bolton, Michigan.
Item 6.The name Ellsworth is mentioned in the 1903 Maple Ridge Business Directory as follows:
Ellsworth, Israel, farmer, township treasurer, Orchard Hill. Ellsworth, George, farmer,
Orchard Hill.
Item 7.The last known residence of Israel Carlton Ellsworth was: RFD #1, Orchard Hill, Michigan
(Cathro, Michigan).