I've got all their families. I'll send it out today. Remember, Molly and Polly are the same name as Mary. Marilynn ---------- > From: Barbara Dooley <dooley@wcu.campuscwix.net> > To: ELAM-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ELAM-ROOTS-L] Elam Roll Call > Date: Thursday, February 11, 1999 12:38 AM > > I can't really list an ELAM pedigree here, because so far I know of only one > ancestor named ELAM. But I have not posted this query since July of 1998, > so I'll try it again. I would hope that someone new to the list might know > something about the parents of my gt.gt.gt.grandmother. > > Mary ELAM b. in VA m. Henry LONDON 13 Dec 1803 in Mecklenburg Co., VA (One > book of marriage bonds gives the year as 1802. Another gives it as 1803. > In a Bounty Land Warrant, Mary gave the year as 1802.) > > My gt.gt.gt.grandparents were Henry and Mary ELAM LONDON. I don't know > the parents of either one. According to censuses, they were born in VA. > According to the 1840 census, Mary was 60 to 70, which would mean that she > was born between 1770 and 1780. Then in 1850 (after Henry died), there was > a 62 yr. old Mary LONDON. That may have been she. In that case she would > have been born in 1788. > > I found a Polly mentioned in the will of Joel ELAM (Mecklenburg Co., VA, > Will Book 4, P. 49, dated 21 Apr 1797 and recorded 10 Sep 1798) and have > wondered if that might be my Mary. But on Gary Corlew's webpage I read that > Joel's Polly married a GRAVES. By 1805 Henry and Mary lived in Rutherford > Co., NC (later became Cleveland Co.). Later an Anderson S. ELAM moved > there, also, and I have wondered if he might have been related to Mary. > Marilyn Masten told me that Anderson did not have a sister named Mary and > that his Aunt Mary married an ELMORE. Maybe a cousin? > > Lallie Wetzig once sent me some information from a lady in AR who thought my > Mary might have been the daughter of John ELAM, the third son of Edward ELAM I. > Does anyone have a complete list of the children of this Edward and of his > son John? I would be grateful for any help in finding Mary's parents. > > Barbara Dooley > Cullowhee, NC >