This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JhU.2ACEB/3299.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Norma, Sorry for the late reply. I have not worked on the Elliotts in awhile so this is from memory. I hope to have all my notes organized and on the computer soon and will be happy to send you all the info I have. Yes, William is Martha's father. He married Mary Ann Rodgers, daughter of Shadrach Rodgers, Jr. & Mary Ann Gaskins. The 1850 Kershaw Co. Expanded Census has Mary Ann Elliott dying before 1864 but this is incorrect. William died in 1879 and his will and estate pkg. are at the SC Archives in Columbia. Only his three daughters are named in the will, but Mary Ann Elliott received much of the estate, household goods, etc. I believe it was David McLean & Margaret McLean who are named in the pkg. receiving goods. I'm sure this was William's daughter Margaret. I found David & Margaret McLean living in Chesterfield on the 1880 census....very close to a bunch of Polsons. Martha is not listed on the 1880 Kershaw Co. census with her mother, brother & other sister, Mary Jane, and I have not located her in any other household. I did find her on the 1900, 1920 & 1930 census. On the 1920 Kershaw census, Martha is living with her son James. There is also a Mary James in the hh listed as aunt to James and Martha Huckeby listed as niece to James. I can email you the images if you want them. William Elliott's brother, James A., married Sarah Hough (widow Blakeney). James also died in 1879. Several of the Elliotts married into the Hough family. William's parents were Thomas Elliott, b. 1803, & Jane Holland. I believe Thomas' mother was Nancy McClester, daughter of Hugh McClester & Sarah Drakeford. Nancy Elliott is named as daughter in Hugh's will. She is on the 1810 Kershaw census with a son the age of Thomas. The book, Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, lists a Thomas Elliott from Kershaw Co. receiving a passport in 1810. This may have been Nancy's husband, but I have not found any other info on him. I do remember seeing a Kershaw County land? transaction on an index in Columbia, that I believe listed all of William & Mary Ann's children....seems like it was about 1902. I have not had a chance to get back and check it. Bill Hughes passed away a few years ago and he had spent a great deal of time researching the Elliotts. His cousin, Wayne Huckabee, is keeping Bill's web site up, you might want to check it out. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bhughes/ I have Dixons from Chesterfield County and they have been quite a challenge. We have done Dixon & Elliott ydna testing but so far don't have a match. Donna