Sarah (Sally) J. Fulton was born in Philadelphia, PA. She was the first child of Samuel and Eliza Howard Fulton. We don't know much about her childhood. At the age of 19 Sarah had a son named Ellis David Fulton (b: 1862 in Alleghany County, NC) through a marriage to a man named Mr. Mains or Maynes. The marriage to Mains/Maynes must have been of short duration. Her son Ellis came along with his mother on the Fulton family's travels from NC to Eastern PA to Western PA. He or his mother apparently decided that he would use his mother's maiden name of Fulton as his surname. In Titusville Ellis would marry Nancy Lyman, and have three sons, Howard E. (worked for the Cleveland News), Frank E. (was the Titusville city electrician), and Lawrence who died early at age 3. There are living descendents of Ellis D. Fulton still in Titusville.