My Elliot is Mary Malisia (or Melissa or any number of spellings) Elliot. I have no information as to who her parents were, but she had a brother named Joe. Mary Elliot was born on May 2, 1859 in Ohio. She married Henry Puterbaugh on Dec. 23 1873 in Michigan they had four children in Michigan; Osborn (b. 1875), Almyra Oralice (b. 1878), Jennie (b. 1880) and Jake Abraham (b. 1882). According to family legend, Mary Elliot Puterbaugh left Michigan in the company of her parents and brother and children. The went to Arkansas where her parents bought and sold many pieces of property. Henry Puterbaugh promised to join her there as soon as he sold their property in Michigan. He never showed up and we discovered that he married twice more in Michigan, fathering another family. Her daughter Almyra Oralice married Lewis Thomas McCoy in Arkansas. Mary Elliot Puterbaugh is buried in Camp Springs Cemetery in Kingsland, Arkansas. There is a headstone for her brother, but it has no dates. Anybody with information on this family? Didi didikins@aol.com