I came across a website this evening that contains some of the early Elams as well as a number of other early Southern families. Charlotte Rowden has a database of some 21,000 names at http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/trees/crowden/fowsndx.htm You might want to have a look. One note -- she has one branch of the family wrong. She has Gilbert Elam IV married to Sarah and Lucy. James Elam, son of Gilbert III, was actually married to Sarah and Lucy. Happy hunting! Cassie

Happened to run across this during some legislative research I was doing (yes, I do actually work for a living). This is off the Florida State Legislature website. H 9493 RESOLUTION by Byrd Elam, B. Lee/Key Citizen Award; commends B. Lee Elam for his outstanding service to citizens of City of Brandon, & joins in honoring him as recipient of 1997 Key Citizen Award. 04/16/98 HOUSE Adopted -HJ 00679

Thanks, Peggy pegpowel@netins.net Bahr, Bartz, Lechelt, and Thiel (Posen Prussian) Campbell and Curel from Hawick Scotland before 1819 Craig, Boone, Van Bibber Kearnes/Kerns, Lee, Daniels Leedom, Dimond, Morgan, Thorn Mayberry, Chambers, Crockford, Hesser, Peasley, Winter(s) Bolte, Kahler and Ranniger Powell, Elam, Black, Sheppard, Schweissberger/Sweisberger

Hi Cassie, So what list software are you using? We have the same problem with spam going to our lists here on art.net and I am trying to find a solution as well. thanks, -lile (a webmaster@art.net)

Just to clarify, those of you who are already subscribed to Elam-Roots (or any other list sponsored by Rootsweb) don't need to do anything. Nothing will change as far as you are concerned. The closure will only impact on non-subscribers who want to post to the list. Cassie

Cassie, please explain what I have to do, if anything, to remain on the Root-L-Elam circuit. I don't really understand what you mean by "closing." I assume that I am a subscriber. Please advise. Earl Elam

I'm only going to quote a portion of the e-mail I received, but I want everyone to know what's going on. "Hi, listowners -- This announcement is to let you know that we've just finished "closing" all of the RootsWeb lists. This means that the list server will only let you post to a mailing list if you subscribe to it. I'm sorry that this had to be done so hastily, but we didn't really have any choice. The volume of spam that was being sent through our lists had reached a phenomenal level, and I was spending most of my time on that problem rather than improving the systems. Worse, some users had begun to send spam complaints to sites that were completely unrelated to RootsWeb, but could kill our network connection if they received too many complaints. Closing the lists to subscribers became a matter of self-preservation." Just to let you know, non-subscribers can still send a post to the list, but it will now have to be routed through the listowner. Cassie

ELAM, Essex, colored [sic] male, died October 1889 in Chesterfield county Virginia of blindness [sic] at the age of 60. Parents were George W. and Mary ELAM. Born in Chesterfield county. Occupation laborer. Married to Louisa Elam, now deceased. Reported by Ned Elam, father [sic--could that mean "whose father he was"?] This is not my line, but I thought someone might be looking for a record. This is in Bureau of Vital Statistics records for Chesterfield county, reel # 8. Laura

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From: "Register of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Who Died in Federal Prisons and Military Hospitals in the North," Compiled by the Office of the Commissioner for Marking Graves of Confederate Dead, War Department, Washington, D.C., 1912. Died at Camp Butler, Alton, Illinois Elam, M. L., Private, Co. B, 24th Texas Cavalry. Died 3/19/1863. Grave #774 Elam, R., Private, Co. A, 24th Texas Cavalry. Died 3/13/1863. Grave #766 Elam, Robt. H., Private, Co. F, 30th Tennessee Infantry. Died 4/5/1862. Grave #437 Died at Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio Elam, Wm., Private, Co. G, 13th Virginia Reserves. Died 2/4/1865. Grave #1040 Died at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Indiana Elam, P.C., Private, Co. H, 4th Mississippi Infantry. DIed 3/8/1862. Buried in the Confederate Section, Green Lawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN. Removed to Lot #285, Section #32, Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN; reinterred 10/27/1931 ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

My brother found a newspaper clipping among some old pictures that had been in my mother's possession. The article announced the marriage of W.D. ELAM of Montrose, Montrose County, CO to Miss Aileen L. IMES of Placerville, CO. This wedding was announced by the mother, Ruth A. IMES. The wedding took place in Montrose on Thursday, 08/13/1931. There was a handwritten notation at the bottom of the clipping that said Arleen Lucille IMES. My brother was copying this clipping at work and a fellow employee, Ted JOHNSON, asked what he was copying. Mr. Johnson said his grandfather's name was W. D. ELAM. He said his grandmother's maiden name was ENGLAND. He said his family came west from the eastern seaboard, possibly the Carolinas. They were in Whitesboro, Cooke County, TX for awhile and then migrated to northeastern OK near Tulsa. Some of the family went to CO and some went on to UT since they were Mormons. My brother related to Ted that our Grandmother, Mary Adeline ELAM Forkner had always said Jack ELAM, the actor, was her cousin. Mr. Johnson said Jack ELAM was his Grandfather's second cousin. Can anyone tell me in what county I would find Placerville, CO? Mr. Johnson has a sister, Dixie Lee Wolfe in Granbury, TX. I am hoping to get in touch with her to find more info on this family. ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

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Does anyone know who this could be? He appears in the 1830 Dallas Co AL Census as 20-30. Femariah Elam is supposed to have m Lemuel Vasser ca 1880 in Amelia Co. Could this be her son? Lemuel Vasser d 1828 in Dallas Co AL Thanks RUTHIEM

Does anyone know who this is? 1870 Census Butler Co KY, Rochester P.O., pg 365 Tameer Elam Patricia

Patricia, I believe if you check you will see that Tamar/Tameer Elam is black. She was the slave girl left to Obedience Elam Moore, in her father Richard Elam of Campbell County, Virginia's estate settlement. Gregory McReynolds

To: "Earl H. Elam", EHElam From: INTERNET:kyblue@micron.net, INTERNET:kyblue@micron.net Date: 12/6/98, 4:19 PM Re: RE: Elam Descendant Page Sender: kyblue@micron.net Received: from mailmx.micron.net (mailmx.micron.net [198.60.253.39]) by dub-img-6.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/2.16) with ESMTP id RAA24797 for <EHElam@compuserve.com>; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 17:19:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from kyblue.micron.net (cboi13p91.boi.micron.net [204.229.100.196]) by mailmx.micron.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA03972 for <EHElam@compuserve.com>; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:19:34 -0700 (MST) Reply-To: <kyblue@micron.net> From: "Janet E Crowley" <kyblue@micron.net> To: "Earl H. Elam" <EHElam@compuserve.com> Subject: RE: Elam Descendant Page Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:28:24 -0700 Message-ID: <001301be2167$bca60ea0$c464e5cc@kyblue.micron.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <199811300730_MC2-61EE-6358@compuserve.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2120.0 Thanks for this. I'll try to update my Elam website soon to reflect your new info. Do you participate in the Elam mailing list? Others on the list would probably like to see this. Janet kyblue@micron.net -----Original Message----- From: Earl H. Elam [mailto:EHElam@compuserve.com] Sent: Monday, November 30, 1998 5:30 AM To: kyblue@micron.net Subject: Elam Descendant Page Janet, this is an update. Norma Neill of Doncaster, England, informed me by letter on 9 June 1997 that she had found the record of the marriage of a James Elam and an Alice Shirecliffe in Brodsworth Parish on 9 May 1597, and the record of the baptism of a son named Thomas at St. Helen's Church in Thurnscoe on 24 February 1597/98. Norma also found the will of a James Elam, dated 1616, referring to six children, but not named. If the two James were the same, then one of the children was Thomas. Also, Norma has found records of the baptisms of three other sons of James and Alice Shirecliffe Elam: Christopher Elam, James Elam, and Gervase Elam. In addition, Norma found the record of the burial of James Elam, husband of Alice Shirecliffe, at Thurnscoe on 21 March 1619. It is now my speculation that the Thomas who was the son of James Elam and Alice Shirecliffe, was the Thomas Elam of Thurnscoe who was married to a lady named Mary and whose children Gilbert and Martin were baptized as previously reported in the St. Helen's church in Thurscoe in 1630 and 1635, respectively. Contrary to information I had received earlier from various sources, Thomas's wife ,Mary, probably was not a Shireclifffe. Norma Neill also found where a Ralph Elam and wife Margaret had a son named Robert who was baptized at Thurnscoe on 18 September 1604. There is no documentation thus far of which I am aware that connects this Robert to the Robert Elam who was listed on Christopher Branch's land grant in Henrico Co. VA dated 28 Feb. 1638. However, in 1619 Christopher Branch married a lady who lived at Darton, a community not far from Thurnscoe. It can be reasonably concluded that when he recruited colonists for Henrico Co. that he would have done so in areas in England with which he was familiar, including the area of Yorkshire where Thurnscoe and Darton are located. Thus, it appears that Robert Elam of Henrico Co. (and daughter Ann) may very well have originated in Yorkshire. Finally, please note that I have moved, and my new address is 5408 Corto Drive, DeCordova Bend Estates, Granbury, TX 76049. My new telephone no. is 817-910-2820. My e-mail remail address remains the same. Thanks. Earl Elam

>From "Tennessee Divorces 1797-1858," Abstracted by Gale W. Bamman and Debbie W. Spero, c. 1985 by Gale W. Bamman, published by Van Volumes, Ltd., Thorndike, MA, 1990. page 5: "Batte, America R. Eliam 28 August 1833 Williamson County America is the daughter of Edward Eliam, dec'd, of Williamson County. She was married to William P. Batte of Bedford County. They lived together 14 months. He abused and beat her. Statements by Kinchen Pate and Polly Pate on 2 October 1833. Statement by Jane Elaim on 2 October 1833 that she (Jane) told Batte to come get America at her house, and he would not. Statement by William Covington on 4 October 1833, and also by Michael Pitman. William P. Batte also makes a statement and says that the bad reports against him are false and that he does not want a divorce." "Batte, William P. 8 October 1833 Bedford County William is the husband of America R. Batte. He asks that America's petition for a divorce from him be rejected. Petition is accompanied by the signatures of 28 persons, including those of Frederick Batte, Sr. and Robert Batte. Statement by Edward Gregory that he and Batte were gone to the 'western' district. They started 5 February 1823 and returned 24 February 1823. They went to sell a horse, and Batte's wife left him while he was gone. Statement by Edward C. Harrison that he and Batte went to the western district to sell horses on 5 February 1823 and returned 24 th of said month. Batte's wife had left him." Submitters notes: The printed book DOES read "1823" and not "1833" This MAY be the Edward Elam who married Jenny Pamplin, marriage bond May 12, 1791 in Lunenburg Co., VA. Kinchen Pate married Polly Elam Jan 13, 1812 in Williamson Co., TN America R. Elam married William Batte Nov 23, 1831 in Williamson Co., TN ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

That got my interest too. What an huge undertaking. You have my admiration and appeciation, Brenda Gardner

In a message dated 12/4/98 8:53:07 PM Central Standard Time, celam@worldnet.att.net writes: > 've finally gotten the on-line database at > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/9156/elammain.htm updated. > The reason it has taken so long is a long story. The short version > is... software malfunction. I had a major crash a while back and have > been working hard to get everyone sorted out and back in their proper > places. The good news is I think most people are OK. The bad news is, > there were some problems and some data may have been corrupted. > Job well done, Cassie. Would you be so kind as to tell me who submitted the information on Reuben ELAM. It is the first time I've seen a surname attached to his mother and it got my interest in a hurry. Regards, Bob Walker