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James Elliott

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James Elliott

Birth
Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA
Death
7 Feb 1839 (aged 62)
Hayden, Blount County, Alabama, USA
Burial
Hayden, Blount County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 18, T13S, R2W
Memorial ID
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James was born in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia to Jonathan Elliott & Mary Drane (Drain). He later moved to Alabama and became very wealthy and owned a large plantation. Both he and his son Hezekiah served in Alabama in the Creek War. He married Sarah Shumate on February 6, 1794. She was believed to have been a French Huguenot from Fauquier County, Virginia. Extensive records of the probate of James Elliott's estate can still be reviewed and studied at the Blount Co. Courthouse in Oneonta, AL.
They had 9 girls and 1 boy, listed below.


Margaret Elliott
1800-1840

Mary Elliott
1800 – 1840

Hezekiah Hamilton Elliott
1801 – 1882

Eliza Elliott
1802 – 1850

Jane Elliott
1805 – 1839

Mary Polly Elliott
1805 – 1839

Nancy Elliott
1809 – 1870

Levicia Elliott
1810 – 1880

Unknown Elliott
1815 –

Susannah Elliott
1820 – 1900

Their son, Hezekiah Hamilton Elliott, married Mary "Polly" Parham in Blount Co. on Mar. 16, 1824. In 1842-43, they moved to AR, just north of Fordyce, where they proceded to have 16 children, with Mary dying on Jun. 28, 1848 in childbirth, after delivering healthy twins.
Hezekiah then remarried Manerva C. Horton Naylor in Mabelvale, AR. They had 2 daughters, Pleasant H. & Buenavista Manerva Elliott.
James was born in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia to Jonathan Elliott & Mary Drane (Drain). He later moved to Alabama and became very wealthy and owned a large plantation. Both he and his son Hezekiah served in Alabama in the Creek War. He married Sarah Shumate on February 6, 1794. She was believed to have been a French Huguenot from Fauquier County, Virginia. Extensive records of the probate of James Elliott's estate can still be reviewed and studied at the Blount Co. Courthouse in Oneonta, AL.
They had 9 girls and 1 boy, listed below.


Margaret Elliott
1800-1840

Mary Elliott
1800 – 1840

Hezekiah Hamilton Elliott
1801 – 1882

Eliza Elliott
1802 – 1850

Jane Elliott
1805 – 1839

Mary Polly Elliott
1805 – 1839

Nancy Elliott
1809 – 1870

Levicia Elliott
1810 – 1880

Unknown Elliott
1815 –

Susannah Elliott
1820 – 1900

Their son, Hezekiah Hamilton Elliott, married Mary "Polly" Parham in Blount Co. on Mar. 16, 1824. In 1842-43, they moved to AR, just north of Fordyce, where they proceded to have 16 children, with Mary dying on Jun. 28, 1848 in childbirth, after delivering healthy twins.
Hezekiah then remarried Manerva C. Horton Naylor in Mabelvale, AR. They had 2 daughters, Pleasant H. & Buenavista Manerva Elliott.


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