He served as member of the board of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute.

He was elected captain of Company F. He attained the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Southward, Independents James M. Gregory, and Martin Meredith Lipscomb, and Progressive George M.

[6][7] He had two daughters and one son, Josephine, Heningham (Mrs. Pringle Smith) and Tazewell.

[2][7] His son Tazewell married the daughter of his law partner Francis Howe McGuire.

[5] Ellett died on May 19, 1914, at the home of his daughter in Summerville, South Carolina.