Details for Joseph William Ellender
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5201010656
Data
| Marker Number | 10656 |
| Atlas Number | 5201010656 |
| Marker Title | Joseph William Ellender |
| Index Entry | Ellender, Joseph William |
| Address | |
| City | Baytown |
| County | Harris |
| UTM Zone | 15 |
| UTM Easting | 313835 |
| UTM Northing | 3793139 |
| Subject Codes | fraternal organizations; pioneers |
| Marker Year | 1985 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | Cedar Bayou Masonic Cemetery behind lodge at 2850 Ferry Rd. |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | grave marker |
| Marker Text | (May 25, 1840 - February 24, 1917) British seaman Joseph William Ellender was shipwrecked off the coast of Iceland in 1866 and rescued by a schooner bound for Galveston. He settled in Cedar Bayou and married Nancy Lavenia Prather in 1868. They had ten children. A Master Mason, Ellender served as worshipful master of Cedar Bayou Lodge three times. He organized the Cedar Bayou chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star in 1884 and was Worthy Grand Patron of Texas in 1889. |