Army Enlistment for Carroll H Ellis

Carroll Ellis was born in Trenton Georgia, he survived the Great depression. As a young boy he stayed with his grandparents, Henry and Ethel Oliver. He was a young boy when his mother passed away. Then his father moved them to Miami Dade, Florida where his father would remarry. By 1940 he had moved back with his aunt in Tennessee where he enlisted in the Army, and served from 1940-1948-49. Between 1950-1960 he was driving a truck long haul, 1960 he married and had a daughter and by 1963 had a son. He was divorced by 1966, studied and became a crane operator. He remarried in 1968 adopted another daughter, and worked as crane operator in West Palm Beach. Later he moved to Sebring Florida, became what they called the peanut man, he grew grapes, made wine, they returned to West Palm Beach until he moved to South Carolina. 1991 he lost his son in Georgia, then later in 2005 lost his wife. He's 90 years old today, and still living in South Carolina, going strong.