Samuel Calvin Ezell

The 1880 census shows Samuel and Mary in Albany, Shackelford County, Texas. We find he is still listed as a carpenter and minister. In addition to being a minister in Albany, he preached in Throckmorton, as needed. The First Presbyterian Church of Throckmorton was organized in 1884 in the home of Dr. A. B. King. The organizing minister was the reverend Ezell, an Emissary of the Home Mission Board of the Northern Assembly.

Samuel and Mary and their children and grandchildren, along with the Moores and other families, moved to Arizona in 1885 and settled in the Tonto Basin area close to the Verde River. The homestead was on Bonita Creek. In 1888 they moved into Payson and cleaned up a small building in which to hold church services.

Samuel and Mary returned to Texas in 1890, where Samuel could receive medical treatment for a sore on his ear which would not heal.

The rest of the Ezell, Moore, and Ellison families moved back to Texas in 1893.

(fr. "History of Our Ezell Families in Arizona," by Nellie Colbert Ezell, 1996)