Descendants of EDMUND LOVELL ELLSWORTH
and his fourth wife, MARY ANN JONES


This excerpt from Our Ellsworth Ancestors (1956) is reproduced here as part of an effort to prepare for a 2006 edition documenting the histories and descendants of Edmund Lovell Ellsworth.  If you are a descendant of Edmund Lovell Ellsworth and Mary Ann Jones or have any additional information regarding them, please fill out this form and ensure that you and your family are properly represented in the upcoming volume.  You may also e-mail me with any questions or information.  If you are descended from Edmund through another wife or are interested in general information, visit the Descendants of Edmund Lovell Ellsworth Home Page.
Thank you, Kevin Ellsworth

While developing the project at Queen Creek LEO served for thirteen years on the loan board of the Federal Farm Loan Association, and for three years on the governor's Under Ground Water Commission. LEO gave a farm of four hundred acres of irrigated land to the Maricopa Stake Welfare. He gave a farm of one hundred and sixty acres to the Arizona Boys Ranch, as a home to orphan youth. He gave the land and development of the "Ellsworth Park" in Mesa. The project includes fifteen acres and a large fieldhouse suitable for all types of public gatherings. The offices of the Stake Presidency were housed there. The project is an outstanding accomplishment. Seven Queen Creek farms were leased to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, rent free for a ten year period. Income to the Church from these farms has been one hundred thousand dollars a year.
LEO and his wife were assigned in 1954 by the Church to reorganize the Orlando Livestock Ranch at Deer Park, Florida. The property consists of 210,000 acres. The program consists of clearing, draining, diking, and planting crops and grass to support about fifty thousand head of beef cattle.
LEO has been assigned the reorganization of several extensive holdings of the Church Welfare System. He has found himself devoting full time, without salary, to the service of his fellow men.
The generosity of LEO accounts for the ultimate financial underwriting of this book. To him we are all grateful. Children: (of LEO and MARY HANSEN).
In the summer of 1951 LARENCE suffered a nervous collapse and was forced to relinquish the strenuous life he had followed. Gradually he has transferred the heavier duties to his children and has found contentment in Church service and sport diversions for which he previously found no time. He became active in the Church Welfare program. He served as president of the elders quorum at Queen Creek and found joy in Temple activities in Mesa. Children: