ANDREW LEWIS ELLETT.
Andrew Lewis, son of James B. Ellett, of King William county, Virginia,
was born in that county, July 19, 1822. His father, born in
King William county, died in August, 1856, aged sixty-eight years, was
a son of Pleasant D. Ellett, of King William county. His mother, now
deceased, was Sallie, daughter of George Drewry, Esq. At St. Paul's
church, Richmond, November 25, 1851, Andrew L. Ellett married Nannie
T. Tazewell, and their children are: Ida, now the wife of Frank D.
Stegar, of Richmond, Nannie T., now the wife of Cannon H. Fleming,
of Goochland county, Virginia, Tazewell and Andrew L., jr. Mrs. Ellett
was born in Richmond, and is a daughter of Dr. William Tazewell, now
deceased, and his wife, Mary P. who was a Bolling, descendant of the
Virginia Bolling family founded by Robert Bolling, who married first
a descendant of Pocahontas, and secondly Mary Steeth.
Mr. Ellett attended school in his native county until nineteen years of
age. On January 1, 1842, he began business as clerk for J. M. & W.
Willis, grocers, with whom he remained eighteen months, was next with
John N. Gordon, grocer, fifteen months, then, until 1848, with London,
Willingham & Drewry, wholesale dry goods. He then went into
the same business for himself, a member of the firm of Willingham &
Ellett, in which he continued until 1865. From 1865 to 1871 he was
conducting a general commission business, then until 1884 in the dry
goods business again. In 1885 he was appointed to the office he is now
filling, collector of internal revenue in Richmond.
