The Life and Early Years of Walter Ellison Walter Ellison was born in 1899 in Eatonton, Georgia. In those early years, his life was shaped by the physical labor of the South. Census and draft records show him working as a farm hand, a role that grounded his early existence in the soil and the seasonal rhythms of rural life. He was eighteen when the world changed with the onset of the First World War, a time when the movement of people…