When Christopher Columbus Ellis Sr. was born on 2 May 1886, in Laurel, Sussex, Delaware, United States, his father, James E Ellis, was 75 and his mother, Eliza E Workman, was 36. He married Alice Ellen Bennett on 29 December 1912, in Mardela Springs, Wicomico, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Representative District 5, Sussex, Delaware, United States in 1940. He died on 2 November 1946, in Laurel, Sussex, Delaware, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Laurel Creek, Sussex, Delaware, United States.