, Hello, My name is Samuel Edward Ellis,I was born in 1873, at south Melbourne,My parents were Thomas and Annie Ellis,They conducted the post office at Ellis Hill, in Greeta,My siblings were Sarah, Stanley, and Ada,I went to school at Greeta, and then Scotch College, in Melbourne,Initially, I was a schoolteacher, but later a farmer,I married Louisa French in 1900, in Christ Church, in Greeta,We had three sons, and two daughters,Edgar, and Ken, who became farmers at Greeta, and Cuthbert, who became a teacher,Ivy married John Coish, a farmer, at Warrenbayne,Gerda died as a young child,I had a community role of Deputy Registrar for Marriages in the Greeta District,For a time, I kept a general store at Chiltern Valley, before settling on a farm,It was previously owned by Louisa’s Uncle, John Dennett,I took an active role in the Greeta Church of England,And also served as a director of the Hanson Cooperative Dairy Company,I was secretary of the Greeta Hall committee, and for many years a member of the Greeta cemetery trust,In order to preserve the local history I orthored a book titled, a history of Greeta, Perhaps some day it will be published,