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Surnames: Ennis, Innes, Bell
Classification: Query
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Am looking for the family of Dr. Louie Ennis. He was born in Ottawa, Canada and had a
medical practice in Lafayette Indiana. We have a picture of him and some information from
sources long since forgotten. He is my 3rd great- grandfather. He married my 3rd
Great-Grandmother Mary Eliza Bell. Mary Eliza's mother's family was from
Ogdensburg, New York and we believe he may have met her there. My great-uncle believes he
travelled back and forth between Lafayette, Indiana and Sevier County, Arkansas where Mary
Eliza lived. They had a daughter (possibly 2). My 2nd great-grandmother is Mary Bell Ennis
who married Louis Hal Norwood. In the newspaper her wedding is written up with her last
name spelled "Innes". Mary Eliza's son from her first marriage, Edward
Byington, also spelled her name Innes in a autograph book we have. Mary Eliza was born
about 1845 and she married Louis about 1870. By the 1900 census she is widowed. Louie
(Louis) does not live with the family in the 1880 censu!
s, but she lists herself as married and the birthplace of Mary Bell's father as
"Kanady". We have not other information about him. Maybe he even had another
family on the side! We don't know. Would love to make a connection.