This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RS.2ADI/585.587 Message Board Post: The information I have is that Hiram Elam married Ruth Parker who was born in 1820 NC She died in 1871 buried in Kenard Cem. in West Blocton AL. One of their sons John Monroe Elam married an Elizabeth Little. One of their children Fannie Bell Elam Fikes is my great grandmother.