Ellis Spirit Award · Arthur Mansfield King Fellowship Award
The Ellis Spirit Award Recipients
Presented for outstanding service to the Kansas Society Sons of the American Revolution. It is the highest Kansas State Society Award:
- 2024 – Rev. (Dr.) John Vernon Welkner
- 2023 – Steve Hamlin
- 2022 – David Comer
- 2021 – Dewey Fry and Bryan Wampler
- 2020 – Justin Engleman and Timothy Peterman
- 2019 – Brooks Lyles
- 2018 – Peter Grassl
- 2017 – John Schatzel
- 2016 – Bobbie Hulse
- 2015 – None Presented
- 2014 – Barney Ellis
Arthur Mansfield King Fellowship Award
Arthur Mansfield King Fellowship Award was established August 5, 2006 in memory of Past President General Arthur Mansfield King (1902-2005). The award recognizes Kansas Society members who have ten or more registered Revolutionary War ancestors. Individuals shall receive a Kansas Society Certificate, have their name added to the Kansas Society Plaque, and the chapter of membership shall receive a Kansas Society Streamer.
- Daniel Ferrel Rex – Washington – Jan. 28, 1941
- William Alton York – Benjamin Franklin – Oct. 28, 1974
- Arthur Mansfield King – Delaware Crossing – Apr. 15, 1975
- Frank Narcissus Kruske, Jr. – Washington – Jun. 18, 1979
- Gregg Edward Amos – Delaware Crossing – Jan. 10, 1980
- Eugene Paul Amos – Delaware Crossing – Aug. 26, 1980
- Charles Wyman Hill – Thomas Jefferson – Feb. 10, 1981
- Augustus di Zerega, V – Washington – Jan. 21, 1982
- Albert Boaz Padon – Delaware Crossing – Jan. 25, 1982
- Howard Wayne Harpster – Member at Large – Nov. 24, 1986
- Rex Bird Finley – Washington – Oct. 13, 1989
- David James Bernstorf – Washington – Sep. 19, 1991
- David Ray Ewing – Thomas Jefferson – Mar. 24, 1995
- Robert Dean Stewart – Sons of the Plains – May 26, 1998
- Isaac Barnett Ellis – Delaware Crossing – May 13, 1999
- Robert Hamblett Crowther – Delaware Crossing – Apr. 8, 2002
- Timothy Edward Peterman – Delaware Crossing – May 21, 2002
- Philip Clarke Barbour – Delaware Crossing – Apr. 17, 2006
- Robert Neil Capps, Jr. – Delaware Crossing – Mar. 27, 2007
- Philip David Bernstorf – Washington – Aug. 24, 2007
- Charles Ralston Bannister – Delaware Crossing – Aug. 12, 2009
- Charles Edward Goslin – Monticello – Sep. 11, 2009
- Robert Neil Capps, III – Delaware Crossing – Dec. 22, 2009
- James David Riddell – Delaware Crossing – Aug. 19, 2011
- Worthy Ray Hellstrom – Delaware Crossing – Mar. 15, 2012
- John Arthur Schatzel – Henry Leavenworth – Jan. 24, 2013
- Galen Earl Graham – Monticello – Jul. 10, 2014
- Dennis Dean Nelson – Delaware Crossing – Sep. 4, 2014
- Scott Michael Nelson – Delaware Crossing – Sep. 4, 2014
- Thomas Brooks Lyles, Jr. – Henry Leavenworth – Sep. 28, 2018
- Robert Layne Bowman – Monticello – Apr. 19, 2019
- Bradley William Forbes – Delaware Crossing – Dec. 20, 2019
- James Jefferson Long – Washington – Feb. 14, 2020
- Joe Lynn Warne – Washington – Jul. 3, 2020
- Craig Dillavou – Monticello – 2022