Here's my info (of a miscellaneous nature) on the Ellard family. I put this together when I was tracking the John Dover in Carroll County in 1840. ELLER/ELLARD Washington County, NC Page 198 - Amos Ellord...170 ac...Treasury Warrant assigned to him by William Bowin, assigned to him by Martin Dunkin...on the waters of Copper Creek, branch of Clinch River...Beginning on a spur of the Creek knobs...Warrant #1244...May 8, 1782 The Ellers were German, one other family closely allied with the Ellers in Rowan County, NC were the Büffel or Biffle family. Christian Eller from Rotterdam m. 2d Mary Eliz. Biffle Amos Ellard, Beverly Allen, Joel Bennet, Mark Castleberry, William Evans, John Jolly, Amon Yarborough, and J.W. Yarborough appear on the 1834 census of Forsyth County, Ga. James Ellerd appears on the 1820 Pendleton County, S.C. census, p. 203. Eller - Jacob and Joseph (2) - 1830 Rabun James Ellerd appears on the 1850 Rabun County Census, 597th District, p. 323. Jacob Eller 1850 Rabun James Ellard, Jr. 1800-1885 lived most of his life in Rabun. He was first married to Patsy Starrett, then Charity Boatright. James Monroe Ellerd was born 1/14/1843 in Murray County, Ga. Thomas James Ellerd was married in Talladega in 1816. Habersham County Deeds: Solomon Taylor to James Ellard deed 8 Apr 1825 to lot 167 of 13th dist. Wit: Amos Ellard, William Smith, Probated Rabun County, GA before John S. Miller, J.P. Forsyth County Deeds March 24, 1833, Deed Book A, p. 53, James Ellard, Forsyth County, sells to John R. Chastain (Union County), $500, 40 a, 77/3rd/1st in Forsyth. November 5, 1833, Sheriff's sale (John Jolly) to Elbridge G. Harris (Forsyth) $1.00, 40 a, 77/3rd/1st, Suit of F.A. Brown (for use of Simpson Dover) against Amos Ellard and James Ellard (Rabun). November 6, 1833, Elbridge G. Harris (Habersham) to Oliver Strickland (Forsyth), $100, 40 a, 77/3rd/1st. June 6, 1834, Oliver Strickland (Forsyth) to Benjamin F. Patton (Habersham), $1,000, 40A, 77/3rd/1st - 3 undivided eights. Ellard, Jeptha married Pack, Alsa on 14 Mar 1840 in Murray County, Georgia Jeptha and Amos Ellard appear in 1850 Talladega close to David Dover and Elizabeth Allen Dover. Jeptha's father is Wm. Ellard, whose father was James Ellard of Rabun County. Jeptha was in Benton County, AL in 1840, p. 042.