Kittie May Ellis

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Their mother had died in 1908, from stomach cancer,<sup>[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_Miss_Kitty_May_Ellis/3.17.1957.html#Page_56]</sup> but not before arranging that Kitty was to receive the land and house provided she care for her father and brother until they died.
 
Their mother had died in 1908, from stomach cancer,<sup>[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_Miss_Kitty_May_Ellis/3.17.1957.html#Page_56]</sup> but not before arranging that Kitty was to receive the land and house provided she care for her father and brother until they died.
  
In 1909, Perry married and he and his new wife and children lived with Kitty and their father. Without the mediation of their mother, this caused conflict which eventually resulted in Andrew permanently leaving the house.  Kitty variously describes her father as treacherous, a fiend, a robber, and cruel and she states this is why she never married:<blockquote> "... for I didn't want to run the risk of bringing Children into the world to maybe be fiends like my Father."<sup>[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_Miss_Kitty_May_Ellis/6.16.1958.html#Page_22]</sup></blockquote>
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In 1909, Perry married and he and his new wife and children lived with Kitty and their father. Without the mediation of their mother, this caused conflict which eventually resulted in Andrew permanently leaving the house.  Kitty variously describes her father as treacherous, a fiend, a robber, and cruel and she states this is why she never married: "... for I didn't want to run the risk of bringing Children into the world to maybe be fiends like my Father."<sup>[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_Miss_Kitty_May_Ellis/6.16.1958.html#Page_22]</sup>
  
  

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