Death
In 1872 he caught a cold while on a train journey and died on 9 June 1872. Mrs Sarah Ellis died seven days later on 16 June. After thirty-five years of marriage, they died within a week of each other.
Ellis is buried in a venerated spot in the Congregationalists' non-denominational Abney Park Cemetery in London where Isaac Watts once lived. His intricately carved hip tomb is perfectly aligned with its chapel. His independently minded wife preferred to be buried near their country home. A biography written by his son John and Henry Allon was published soon after his death.
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