Marilynn, Would you mind to post the names for this family at ELAM-ROOTS. My Elams are from Mecklenburg county VA and I have been trying to collect as much on them as possible. Thanks, Kent Elam At 03:43 PM 2/11/99 -0500, you wrote: >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 >> > >