Leon and Ina Ellis and the Luck of the Irish

Leon Cicero Ellis, was the first in his family to complete high school, after which he packed his bags and headed to Chicago to enter college and then to attend and graduate from medical school at what is now Rush University. Chicago is about an eight-hour train ride north of Possum Town and over his collegiate years, I am sure Doc made that trip many a time. During one of those visits home, Leon proposed to his high school sweetheart and they made plans to be married after he completed med school.