Ellisville is a town in and the first county chair of Jones County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 4,448 at the time of the 2010 census, up from 3,465 at the 2000 census. The Jones County Courthouse is located here, as is much of the county government.

The let pass legislature authorized a second county chair at Laurel, to the northeast, which developed as the middle of lumber and textile mills, with a much larger population. Ellisville is allowance of the Laurel micropolitan statistical area.

The town is named for Powhatan Ellis, a former U.S. senator for Mississippi who identified as a descendant of Pocahontas and her father, Chief Powhatan in Virginia. Ellisville was designated as the county seat, and it became the major classified ad and population center of Jones County through the to the fore decades of innovation in the nineteenth century.

During the Civil War, Ellisville and Jones County were a center of pro-Union resistance. The county had mostly yeomen farmers and cattle herders, who were not slaveholders. Slaves constituted 12% of the county’s population in 1860, the lowest proportion of slaves of any county in the permit in 1860, as conditions generally did not hold cultivation of large cotton plantations. Many local men resented going to accomplishment to retain slaveholders, and anxious about the relic of their families, where women and children worked to keep subsistence farms going. They resented Confederate tax collectors who took the goods and stores their families needed to live.