Jesse is the son of William Elam and Catherine Green Elam, husband to Rosa Evans Elam.Jesse was in the war of 1812. He came to Texas with his family in 1845.
Jesse is my paternal 4th great grandfather.
According to records at Pleasant Mound Cemetery, Jesse Elam is not buried in the cemetery. The Evans family placed the special marker in the Evans Family plot (Section 2, Lot 152) in honor of Jesse Elam. Mary Effie Pratt Evans, Memorial 105278947, is the granddaughter of Jesse Elam.
Contributor:
Cheryl Moore Hewitt
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Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
neglected and alone
The name and date are chiseled out
on polished, marbled stone
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn
You did not know that I'd exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
one hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
and come to visit you.
-Author Unknown
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Special Note: There are no markers at the Elam cemetery. Rumor has it someone bought the land the cemetery was on and took up all the stones and piled them up. They all disappeared after that. Believe he may have been transfered to the Pleasant Mound Public Cemetery when they widened Hwy 175 which borders this location.
ELAM, TEXAS. Elam was on the Elam grant eight miles southeast of Dallas in southeastern Dallas County. It was established by Jesse Elam in the early 1880s on the Texas Trunk line, which was constructed through the area in 1881. In 1884 the settlement secured a post office and became known as Elam Station. By 1890 it had a general store and a population of twenty-five. In 1899 the name was changed to Elam, and in 1904 the post office was discontinued. In 1933 Elam had six businesses and a population of fifty. From 1939 to 1963 the population was 150. After 1963 the community was no longer listed.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Fred Tarpley, Place Names of Northeast Texas (Commerce: East Texas State University, 1969).
Jesse is my paternal 4th great grandfather.
According to records at Pleasant Mound Cemetery, Jesse Elam is not buried in the cemetery. The Evans family placed the special marker in the Evans Family plot (Section 2, Lot 152) in honor of Jesse Elam. Mary Effie Pratt Evans, Memorial 105278947, is the granddaughter of Jesse Elam.
Contributor:
Cheryl Moore Hewitt
*************************************
Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
neglected and alone
The name and date are chiseled out
on polished, marbled stone
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn
You did not know that I'd exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
one hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
and come to visit you.
-Author Unknown
**********************************
Special Note: There are no markers at the Elam cemetery. Rumor has it someone bought the land the cemetery was on and took up all the stones and piled them up. They all disappeared after that. Believe he may have been transfered to the Pleasant Mound Public Cemetery when they widened Hwy 175 which borders this location.
ELAM, TEXAS. Elam was on the Elam grant eight miles southeast of Dallas in southeastern Dallas County. It was established by Jesse Elam in the early 1880s on the Texas Trunk line, which was constructed through the area in 1881. In 1884 the settlement secured a post office and became known as Elam Station. By 1890 it had a general store and a population of twenty-five. In 1899 the name was changed to Elam, and in 1904 the post office was discontinued. In 1933 Elam had six businesses and a population of fifty. From 1939 to 1963 the population was 150. After 1963 the community was no longer listed.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Fred Tarpley, Place Names of Northeast Texas (Commerce: East Texas State University, 1969).
Jesse is the son of William Elam and Catherine Green Elam, husband to Rosa Evans Elam.Jesse was in the war of 1812. He came to Texas with his family in 1845.
Jesse is my paternal 4th great grandfather.
According to records at Pleasant Mound Cemetery, Jesse Elam is not buried in the cemetery. The Evans family placed the special marker in the Evans Family plot (Section 2, Lot 152) in honor of Jesse Elam. Mary Effie Pratt Evans, Memorial 105278947, is the granddaughter of Jesse Elam.
Contributor:
Cheryl Moore Hewitt
*************************************
Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
neglected and alone
The name and date are chiseled out
on polished, marbled stone
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn
You did not know that I'd exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
one hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
and come to visit you.
-Author Unknown
**********************************
Special Note: There are no markers at the Elam cemetery. Rumor has it someone bought the land the cemetery was on and took up all the stones and piled them up. They all disappeared after that. Believe he may have been transfered to the Pleasant Mound Public Cemetery when they widened Hwy 175 which borders this location.
ELAM, TEXAS. Elam was on the Elam grant eight miles southeast of Dallas in southeastern Dallas County. It was established by Jesse Elam in the early 1880s on the Texas Trunk line, which was constructed through the area in 1881. In 1884 the settlement secured a post office and became known as Elam Station. By 1890 it had a general store and a population of twenty-five. In 1899 the name was changed to Elam, and in 1904 the post office was discontinued. In 1933 Elam had six businesses and a population of fifty. From 1939 to 1963 the population was 150. After 1963 the community was no longer listed.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Fred Tarpley, Place Names of Northeast Texas (Commerce: East Texas State University, 1969).
Jesse is my paternal 4th great grandfather.
According to records at Pleasant Mound Cemetery, Jesse Elam is not buried in the cemetery. The Evans family placed the special marker in the Evans Family plot (Section 2, Lot 152) in honor of Jesse Elam. Mary Effie Pratt Evans, Memorial 105278947, is the granddaughter of Jesse Elam.
Contributor:
Cheryl Moore Hewitt
*************************************
Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
neglected and alone
The name and date are chiseled out
on polished, marbled stone
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn
You did not know that I'd exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
one hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
and come to visit you.
-Author Unknown
**********************************
Special Note: There are no markers at the Elam cemetery. Rumor has it someone bought the land the cemetery was on and took up all the stones and piled them up. They all disappeared after that. Believe he may have been transfered to the Pleasant Mound Public Cemetery when they widened Hwy 175 which borders this location.
ELAM, TEXAS. Elam was on the Elam grant eight miles southeast of Dallas in southeastern Dallas County. It was established by Jesse Elam in the early 1880s on the Texas Trunk line, which was constructed through the area in 1881. In 1884 the settlement secured a post office and became known as Elam Station. By 1890 it had a general store and a population of twenty-five. In 1899 the name was changed to Elam, and in 1904 the post office was discontinued. In 1933 Elam had six businesses and a population of fifty. From 1939 to 1963 the population was 150. After 1963 the community was no longer listed.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Fred Tarpley, Place Names of Northeast Texas (Commerce: East Texas State University, 1969).
