When Christopher Columbus Ellis Jr. was born on 17 October 1913, in Laurel, Sussex, Delaware, United States, his father, Christopher Columbus Ellis Sr., was 27 and his mother, Alice Ellen Bennett, was 30. He married Virginia Faye Lawson on 1 January 1937, in Elkton, Cecil, Maryland, United States. He lived in Representative District 5, Sussex, Delaware, United States in 1940. He died on 19 December 1979, in Seaford, Sussex, Delaware, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Milton, Sussex, Delaware, United States.