MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS
Marion Co AR Newspaper Abstract
Marion County, Arkansas - Mountain Echo Newspaper
November 1888
Mtn. Echo, November 9, 1888
BIG BET
Uncle John W. Peel, aged 82 years, is an ardent Democrat, and James
Elam, aged 79, a strong Republican, made an agreement as follows:
That in case Cleveland is elected President, James Elam is to wheel John
W. Peel on a wheel borrow(sic) from the northwest corner of the public
square
to Mr. Peel's home. In case Harrison is elected, Mr. Peel wheels
Mr. Elam from the same starting point to Mr. Elam's home.
Referees are to be M. D. Hoard, age 88 years, and Richard Bennett, age 107.
Uncle James Elam is to furnish the wheel borrow(sic). The procession is to be headed by a band of music and will start at one o'clock, Saturday, November 10. Everybody invited to come out and see the fun.
We prophesy the election of Cleveland, and we expect to see our old neighbor, Elam, working in the shaft while Uncle John does the riding and driving. Bentonville Journal.
Mtn. Echo, November 23, 1888
True to his contract, Uncle Johnnie Peel was on hand last Saturday with
his wheel barrow to give Uncle Jim Elam the promised ride. Uncle
Jim took his seat amid much merriment by the bystanders, and Uncle Johnnie
bravely started out with him, nor did he falter until Uncle Jimmy's gate
was
reached, when he set the barrow down and Mr. Elam, with his usual smile,
got out and took him by the hand and escorted him into the house - what
happened in there is left for the outsiders to guess at. The band
was to have been in attendance, but owing to a misunderstanding on the
part of
some of the members, they did not get together in time. Bentonville
Democrat.
1875 City of Dallas, TX Directory
Elam, Mrs. L. (widow), boarding house, 721 Live Oak
1878-79 City of Dallas, TX Directory
Elam, Miss Annie, home William McKee.
1884-85 City of Dallas, TX Directory
Elam, Andrew, stockdealer, r. 1623 Main bt Lloyd, Crowdus.
Elam, Mary (wid), h. William C. McKee.
1886-87 City of Dallas, TX Directory
Elam, Isaac N. groceries, liquors, 1_19 Elm, bt. S. Pearl, Preston,
res 1714 Main, bt Crowdus, Duncan.
Biography - Joseph Barton Elam
Joseph B. Elam bears the name of his honored father, the late Joseph
B. Elam, distinguished lawyers and congressman and man of affairs, and
Las on his own part gained a notable place in his home state of Louisiana
in the oil industry, being secretary of the Louisiana-Arkansas division
of the
Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, with headquarters at Shreveport.
His father, Joseph B. Elam, Sr., was born in Arkansas, June 12, 1821,
and was five years of age when his parents moved to Louisiana. His
father was James C. Elam, an educator of Virginia ancestry who taught schools
at various points in the West and Southwest in pioneer times. On
coming to Louisiana he became tutor for the officer's children at Fort
Jessup in Sabine Parish. There the Joseph B. Elam acquired his early
education, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1843, and for a number
of years practiced at Alexandria, representing Sabine Parish two years
in the Legislature, during 1851 he removed to De Soto Parish, was elected
delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1861 and signed the
ordinance of secession. He served two terms
in the Legislature during the Civil war, and subsequently was elected
to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses. After leaving Congress
he practiced law until his death on July 4, 1885, congressman Elam married
Mary Stewart, who was a member of the first graduating class of Mansfield
female College.
Joseph B. Elam, their son, was born at Mansfield in De Soto Parish,
in 1878, and was educated in public schools there and in the University
of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee. He was seven years of age when
his father died. On leaving college he engaged in the newspaper business,
becoming editor of the De Soto News at Mansfield and subsequently for a
time followed the business of
buying newspaper plants and after rehabilitating them, selling out.
This business took him to Oklahoma, and he was in that state when the citizens
of Mansfield, seeing the need of a progressive business man for mayor,
requested that he return and accept the office of mayor. In the meantime,
in
preparation for this, they had secured a special act of the Legislature
increasing the salary of the mayor. Mr. Elam accepted the office,
and under his administration Mansfield built its first electric light plant,
water works, paving and other improvements of a modern city.
In the early days of oil development in North Louisiana, beginning about 1908, Mr. Elam was attracted into the industry, drilling several wildcat wells. Early in 1922 he was appointed assistant secretary of the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, Louisiana-Arkansas division, and at that time took up his duties at the association's headquarters in Shreveport. In the latter part of 1922 he was promoted secretary of this division. He still keeps his home at Mansfield, though his business duties require his presence at Shreveport.
Mr. Elam married Miss Margaret Taylor, of the well known Kentucky family of that name. Their four children are: Joseph B., Johnetta, Mary Stewart and Margaret.
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 196-197, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.
This is part of Tehama Co., CA taken from the 1885 county directory. Sorry but I have no additional information on these. Only thing is says for sure is if your Ancestor was here in 1885. If there is no occupation it is because none was listed.
Elam, David M. - farmer 160 acres
Elam, John N. - farmer
Elam, W. B. - farmer
"History of Sumter County, Georgia" (book found in the Library at Americus, GA)
The T. W. Ansley Family
One of several Ansley families in Americus and Sumter County was established in Americus in the 1870's by Thomas Wesley Ansley (5 Feb. 1815 - 29 Dec. 1898), formerly of Cuthbert. A native of Abbeville District, S.C., he was a son of Thomas and Mary Baty (McKinley) Ansley.
Accompanying Mr. Ansley when he moved to Americus were his third wife, the former Mary Jane Elam (16 Jan. 1833 - 27 Nov. 1893), and their children. Mrs. Ansley, a native of Whitehall, Georgia, was a daughter of Hodijah Elam (27 Dec. 1804 - 27 April 1883), and Mary (Davenport) Elam, the former of whom had moved to Americus prior to the Civil War.
When the Thomas Wesley Ansley family moved to Americus, they first lived in the former French residence on the site of the present Citizens Bank Building. Later they moved to a commodious house which occupied one-quarter of the block at the northeast corner of Jackson and Church streets.
Thomas W. and Mary (Elam) Ansley were the parents of:
1. Annie Louise Ansley (see the W. D. Bailey
Family sketch),
2. Mary Virginia Ansley (1857-1945), who married
H.W..Trippett of Texas.
3. Oscar Elam Ansley (14 Nov.1862 - 27 Jan.
1946), who married (1) Alice Noble and (2)
Annie Scales, and
lived elsewhere.
4. Edgar Davenport Ansley (14 Nov. 1862 -
19 Jan.1911), twin of foregoing. He and his wife,
nee Cora Prince, were
the parents of, among others, Prince, Mary Lou, and Ed. Ansley.
5. Charles Lee Ansley (1860- Feb. 1950), who
married May Speer. Their children were
Eustace, Laura (Mrs.
C.. M. Hale) and Charles Speer Ansley.
Mr. Ansley was active in the city's business, civic and religious life,
and he was for nearly half a
century a trustee of the Americus (later Carnegie) Library Association.
(signed, William B. Williford.)
A Reminiscent History of The Ozark Region; Goodspeed Brothers, Publishers;
Chicago; 1894
"Reuben moved from Tennessee to Taney County, Missouri about 1844,
and there died before the war. He was a farmer. They were the parents of
thirteen children, six sons and seven daughters. Four sons, Elisha and
Elijah, twins, Tillman and George, served in the Federal Army. This family
was of Irish origin."
Excerpt from Cavaliers and Pioneers
Thomas Blanton, 200 acs., Rappa. Co., on the maine Pocoson & brs.
of Jelson's Cr., 20 Apr. 1682. p. 163. Beg. at the mouth of Beech Sw; to
Major Robert Beverley; to Francis Graves; &c. Imp. of 4 pers: Ann Edwards,
Grace Davies, John Elam, Richard Leather.
History of Benton County Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
ELECTIONS.
Treasurer–H. C. Smith, 3,243; James Elam, 1,159.
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RELIGION.
The following list of appointments for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Washington County was obtainable:
1883–S. H. Babcock, P. E.; W. Penn, Fayetteville Station; W. H. Corley, Springdale Circuit; T. J. Reynolds, Viney Grove Circuit; S. S. Key, Boonsboro Circuit; L. W. Harrison, White River Circuit; A. M. Elam, Brentwood Circuit; R. R. Moore, Goshen Circuit; W. A. Derrick, Weddington Circuit.
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Hiram A. Elamis the son of James and Marinda (Sharp) Elam, and grandson
of Louallen and Polly (Eans) Elam, and great-grandson of Richard Elam.
The latter emigrated from Scotland to the United States with his
two brothers, John A. and Samuel, and is supposed to have settled in Virginia.
Louallen Elam was born in Campbell County, Va., in 1780, and in 1817 immigrated
to Butler County, Ky., thence to Clark County, Ill., in 1825. Here Louallen
Elam died in 1835. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. His wife was born
in Amelia County, Va., in 1783 and died in 1850. The following are
their children who are living: James, Susan, Elizabeth, Alfred, Nancy and
William. James Elam was eight years old when his parents moved to Kentucky,
and sixteen years of age when they located in Illinois. He was born in
Campbell County, Va., February 25, 1809, and in 1832 was married to Miss
Sharp, a daughter of Levi and Margaret (Coffee) Sharp, who were natives
of North Carolina. Mrs. Elam was born in that State in 1811, and at the
age of three years was taken by her parents to Clark County, Ill., where
she afterward met and married Mr. Elam. Seven of their children lived to
be grown: Mary J., wife of J. Y. Black; John, Alfred M., Louisa, wife of
H. T. Cork; Hiram A. and Margaret, widow of John F. Owen. Henry died in
1887 at the age of fifty years. Mr. Elam resided in the State of Illinois
until 1866, when he located in Benton County, Ark., where he has since
resided. He is one of the oldest citizens of the county, and he and wife
have celebrated their golden wedding. He is a Republican in politics, and
was a Whig previous to the war. He has been successful in all his business
transactions. and has accumulated a comfortable competency. He is highly
esteemed and commands the respect of all. Hiram A. Elam was married, April
6, 1879, to Miss Palestine M. Baxley, a native of Benton County, born in
1860. She is the
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mother of six children' Era Earl, James E., Myrtie, Marinda. Etta and Lou Allen. Mr. Elam cast his first presidential vote for Grant, and is a Republican in politics. He was born in Clark County. Ill., October 1. 1848, and was educated in the common schools of his native State, and also received two years' instruction at a college located in Marshall. Ill. From 1868 to 1870 he was deputy sheriff of his county, and was at one time United States Marshal. In 1870 he was clerk of the board of registration. He owns an excellent farm of eighty acres. on which is a spring which affords the clearest and coldest of water. It bursts forth from the ground a convenient distance from his residence and supplies water to a number of neighboring farms.
Elam information excerpted from:
Minute Book of the Meherrin Baptist Church 1771-1837, 1842-1844
Submitted by Annette E. Wetzel (awetzel@juno.com)
Virginia State Library and Archives, Richmond, VA. Accession No. 24896
Joel Elam - name listed as "present at Williams Meeting House, Lunenburg, 27 & 28 November, 1771, constituting Church."
Joel Elam - name listed among "members on Bluestone dismissed for constitution, October 6, 1772." (Note: church boundary line change)
Joel Elam "appeared from Bluestone Church requesting loan of a preaching breathren last Saturday or Sunday in September, 1773."
pages 48-49
Letty Elam baptized; dismissed by letter September, 1816
Susanna Elam, July, 1810 baptized; dismissed by letter June, 1812
Martha Gregory now Elam baptized October, 1817; dismissed by letter March, 1821
Anderson S. Elam baptized December, 1817; dismissed by letter August, 1819
Letty Elam received by letter April, 1818; dismissed by letter August, 1819
Edney Elam, received by letter; dismissed by letter
page 116 - Susanna Elam received at June meeting, baptized July 1, 1810 by Richard Dabbs, minister.
September 2, 1810, Sunday "Lord's Supper administered to Elam"
page 122 - First Sunday, June, 1812 "Sister Susan Elam moved into bounds of Bluestone Church and requests letter of dissunion be issued"
page 138 - "Union meeting Friday before the 4th Sunday in September, 1816...letter of disunion for Sister Letty Elam"
page 143 - Meeting Meherrin Church 1st Saturday, April 1818 -" letter of disunion from Sandy Creek Church produced by sister Letty Elam for the purpose of joining this church"
page 149 - [1819] "Our August meeting was attend by Elder Petty when brother A. S. Ealam and Letty his wife obtained letters of dismission, being about to remove to broad river."
Index created of Greenville City & Precinct, Bond County, IL from "History of Bond and Montgomery Counties IL 1882"
ELAM
Charles Edward 14
ELAM
Daisey
13
ELAM
Edward
13
ELAM
Ellen
14
ELAM
Joel
13
ELAM
Joel
14
ELAM
John
14
ELAM
John
14
ELAM
Miriam
14
ELAM
Moses
13
ELAM
Moses W.
13
ELAM
Phebe
19
ELAM
Rose
13
ELAM
Sarah
14
ELAM
Thomas
13
ELAM
Thomas
14
ELAM
Thomas
14
ELAM
Wilbur
13
ELAM
William
14