Did John have a son Samuel born about 1800? Samuel had a son named John (maybe after father or uncle??) born 1830. I do not know where they originally lived. I had this family bible passed down thru my Step-grandfather, his family in the 1900-1930 lived in Pittsburgh, PA area. This Samuel McElroy married Ann Beamish in 1822 and had 8 children. Maybe this could be a link? or at least give you names to search. Linda Gorby

My John Mackelroy b. abt 1690 was out of Maryland a little after 1732. I don't know of any Johns who stayed in Maryland during the time period you mention. Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: <peggymcelroy@hotmail.com> To: <MCELROY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 8:49 PM Subject: [MCELROY-L] Re: John McELROY Sr. b. 1690, d. 1763 & Frances (?) > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: McErloy > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hF0.2ACIB/601.2 > > Message Board Post: > > I am trying to locate the father of John McElroy who was born in Maryland on Dec. 27, 1784, he died on 4-13-1869 in Ohio. > > > > > ==== MCELROY Mailing List ==== > Have you considered becoming a Census Translator or Proofreader? USGenWeb will accept offers of assistance. See: > http://www.usgenweb.org/projects/projects.html > for more information on offering your help. > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McErloy Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hF0.2ACIB/601.2 Message Board Post: I am trying to locate the father of John McElroy who was born in Maryland on Dec. 27, 1784, he died on 4-13-1869 in Ohio.

Hello all my fellow genealogy researchers! I was recently reading through my magazine "Preserving Your Family Memories" which is most about genealogy info and found this article on Grave Impressions .I thought it was worth sharing with you all! Materials needed: rubbing wax or jumbo crayons scissors masking tape or a partner to hold the material in place nonfusible,medium to heavyweight interfacing (Pellon is one brand name) Here are the step by step instructions for making a rubbing of a headstone: 1)Cut off a piece of interfacing a bit larger than the stone you want to rub.Either masking-tape the interfacing to the back of the stone or have a companion hold the fabric tightly around the stone. 2)Rub the side of the crayon(not the tip)or special rubbing wax over the fabric and watch the image appear. 3)You can use jumbo crayons with the paper peeled off. 4)If the fabric shifts the image will be distorted,so it's important to keep the material taut. 5)Your tombstone rubbing will be an exact replica of the stone.At home iron (with a towel on top) to set the crayon or wax into the fabric.Your family artifact is now suitable for framing!(well,suitable for anything you would like to do with it). The picture looks amazing!Hope someone finds this useful as well! Sincerely, Isabel Luff __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

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/hF0.2ACIB/188.2 Message Board Post: Nita, have you considered that William Void could be William Vaughn? Unless you have proof that in is Void use only the V. I really would like to see the information that you have, for it is not what Mother told me. She told me her mother was Emma Blackley. Maybe he was married 3 times.

That's great. It is good to hear from descendants. It make the person more "real." Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marie Beckman" <rmbeck@bellsouth.net> To: <MCELROY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 10:31 PM Subject: Re: [MCELROY-L]Mackelroy > At 10:22 PM 9/30/02 -0500, you wrote: > > >I found one that might fit, Andrew Jackson Mackelroy born 1820, except he > >was in Tennessee instead of Georgia. He had wives, Jane Webb and Martha > >Doyle. He had a son named Polk. One named Andrew and one named William. > >Rather prominent man. A State Senator in Tennessee among other things. > > > >His parents were Andrew and Polly (or Patty (Martha?) Shropshire. Andrew was > >born 1782 probably Wilkes or Oglethorpe Co., GA. They married in 1811 in > >Oglethorpe Co., GA. I only have Andrew as a son for them. > > > Andrew Jackson McElroy & Jane Webb were my gr gr gr grandparents. > > His bio is online on my page > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rmbeckman/ajmbio.html > > --MarieB-) > > > > ==== MCELROY Mailing List ==== > Have you considered becoming a Census Translator or Proofreader? USGenWeb will accept offers of assistance. See: > http://www.usgenweb.org/projects/projects.html > for more information on offering your help. > >

found my Mack McLeroy--McElroy--McIlroy all in Tx. after 1900 Hill Co., Tx--1918 Red River Co., Tx--1920 Little River Co. Ark. Martha diedin 1927 Cass Co., Tx.. Annette

At 10:22 PM 9/30/02 -0500, you wrote: >I found one that might fit, Andrew Jackson Mackelroy born 1820, except he >was in Tennessee instead of Georgia. He had wives, Jane Webb and Martha >Doyle. He had a son named Polk. One named Andrew and one named William. >Rather prominent man. A State Senator in Tennessee among other things. > >His parents were Andrew and Polly (or Patty (Martha?) Shropshire. Andrew was >born 1782 probably Wilkes or Oglethorpe Co., GA. They married in 1811 in >Oglethorpe Co., GA. I only have Andrew as a son for them. Andrew Jackson McElroy & Jane Webb were my gr gr gr grandparents. His bio is online on my page http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rmbeckman/ajmbio.html --MarieB-)

I found one that might fit, Andrew Jackson Mackelroy born 1820, except he was in Tennessee instead of Georgia. He had wives, Jane Webb and Martha Doyle. He had a son named Polk. One named Andrew and one named William. Rather prominent man. A State Senator in Tennessee among other things. His parents were Andrew and Polly (or Patty (Martha?) Shropshire. Andrew was born 1782 probably Wilkes or Oglethorpe Co., GA. They married in 1811 in Oglethorpe Co., GA. I only have Andrew as a son for them. Close only counts in horseshoes. I use Mackelroy as a generic instead of McElroy as very seldom do I find one of my ancestor's name being spelling McElroy. Very rarely. 10 other ways, but seldom McElroy. I first found John with his named spelled Mackelroy or Mackleroy or Mackelduroy. Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: <WSearcy816@aol.com> To: <MCELROY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 4:29 PM Subject: Re: [MCELROY-L]Mackelroy > There is an Andrew J. McElroy( other spellings also) in Stewart Co. Ga from > 1850 thru 1880 and he had a Posia living with him in the 1870 census. There > were Johnson's, Meadows and Walkers living all around him. I feel there is a > connection but can't find a male with the initals the right age any where and > not > kowing any thing else that s all I have to go on. > Annette > > > ==== MCELROY Mailing List ==== > Have you considered becoming a Census Translator or Proofreader? USGenWeb will accept offers of assistance. See: > http://www.usgenweb.org/projects/projects.html > for more information on offering your help. > >

There is an Andrew J. McElroy( other spellings also) in Stewart Co. Ga from 1850 thru 1880 and he had a Posia living with him in the 1870 census. There were Johnson's, Meadows and Walkers living all around him. I feel there is a connection but can't find a male with the initals the right age any where and not kowing any thing else that s all I have to go on. Annette

Some of your McElroys wouldn't have connections with Johnson, Meadows, Wallker's ,would they? I'm not sure if I have a given name for my Mc. or not. He was called Mack of course and I have found him with initals M. C. and M. L. He was born ca. 1850 in Ga. married Martha E. Johnson b. 1861 Ala. They were in Tex in the 1900 census. Had a daughter named Ziposa and other children . was enumerated with John Walker in the census as nephew. He went back to Ga. after Martha died in 1927 to be near his first family and died there in 1930 or early 1930's. Thats all the information I have on him other than he was a Baptist traveling preacher.licensed in 1918.

I don't have them on my database. I think it is pretty well up to date although I may be missing some connections. One of Avington Muckleroy's sons, William "Billy," born 1773 married a Johnson, but that was earlier than you are researching. I did find 2 Martha Johnsons, but they are too early and didn't marry Mackelroys. A Phoebe Meadows married Andrew, brother of Avington. I think your branch "branched" off from mine and I don't have the connection. If you find it, please let me know. Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: <WSearcy816@aol.com> To: <MCELROY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [MCELROY-L] Re: McElroys in Weakley Co., TN > Some of your McElroys wouldn't have connections with Johnson, Meadows, > Wallker's ,would they? > I'm not sure if I have a given name for my Mc. or not. He was called Mack of > course and I have found him with initals M. C. and M. L. He was born ca. > 1850 in Ga. married Martha E. Johnson b. 1861 Ala. They were in Tex in the > 1900 census. Had a daughter named Ziposa and other children . was enumerated > with John Walker in the census as nephew. He went back to Ga. after Martha > died in 1927 to be near his first family and died there in 1930 or early > 1930's. > Thats all the information I have on him other than he was a Baptist traveling > preacher.licensed in 1918. > > > ==== MCELROY Mailing List ==== > PLEASE NOTE: This list is for queries and replies, comments, > requests for help, and other genealogical related information > that is of interest to researchers having a connection or a > possible connection to any McElroys. If you have questions or comments please contact the list administrator. > Maryann Dixon Moseby, mdmgen@aol.com > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hF0.2ACIB/592.2.1 Message Board Post: I'm sorry, but they are not on my database. My folks came down from NC to GA to TN to Benton Co., AL to Texas.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McElroy 1862-1944 Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hF0.2ACIB/592.2 Message Board Post: Hi Betty, I see you are quite knowledgeable about the McElroy name. Have you heard of a Cenie McElroy, or a John Stallings, or a Virginia Honeycutt Savage, these people are somehow connected to the McElroy's from sumter County, Alabama.Virginia Honeycutt Savage has a neice in Tennesee where she died, the neice was named McElroy, this was in her Obit.My mother worked for Virginia Honeycutt Savage in the late '30's and early 40's.So there is a connection, No one seems to want to answer or is hiding something. I am trying to find out what they are hiding.My g-father's name was Brown McElroy, born in Lauderdale, Mississippi, his wife was Eliza Camaok McElroy, My father's name was Willie McElroy and my mother 's name was Ella Nixon McElroy.Thanks! I never knew grands or my parents.thank you very much!

Marc, How exciting to find that someone from this bible has had such an illustrious life. Are you related to George Beamish? I have had the family bible in my possession since 1957. It belonged to my grandfather's family. The handwriting is beautiful! I will share what portions are still legible. I do not believe I can scan it without hurting an already fragile binding. The Birth Death Page states: Samuel McElroy & Ann Beamish was married on Sept 26, 1822 Our son Will.m.. was born.. June 19th 1823 died 4th July, age 15 days Our son George ..was born .. June 5th 1824 Mary Ann.. was born..Feb.7th 1826 John ..was born.. Jany 12th - 1828 Jane was born Feby 8th -- 1830 Will.m Was born on Saturday August 11th 1832 Sam,l Was born Sept 28 (21?) 1834 Robert Was born Dec 10th ----1836 do died July 15-1841 aged 4years 5 months 15days Children's Marriages George B. was married (written in pencil very lightly) July 22 1851? Mary Ann was married March 25th 1847 John H (or W) McElroy was married Nov 6 1856 underneath ??? 5th 1867 Jane was married Dec 24 1856 William was married Aprll 13, 1853 ??????? July 4th 1859 Samuel was married July 9 1860 (very light and very difficult to read...my best guess) The Bible has the first pages missing but throughout it indicates printed and sold in 1816. I have typed a page in the rear indicating the date and the printer: [Stereotype Edition.] A BRIEF CONCORDANCE to the HOLY SCRIPTURES of the OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS: by which ALL, OR MOST, OF THE PRINCIPAL TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE MAY BE EASILY FOUND OUT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BY JOHN BROWN Late Minister of the Gospel at Haddington, in Scotland ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ REVISED AND CORRECTED. STEREOTYPED BY B. AND J. COLLINS. BRATTLEBOROOUGH, (Vt.) PRINTED AND SOLD BY JOHN HOLBROOK ........... 1816 I hope this helps you confirm his family information and that it has helped you. Now, if you ever run across my Whitehead's, Hancock, Young or Crowl family please let me know! Enjoy! Linda Whitehead-Gorby Buffalo Junction, VA USA Surnames: WHITEHEAD, HANCOCK - Cheshire & Lancashire, UK FREDERICK, KNOCHE, BERGE - Eikel, Germany (West Falen,Deu) YOUNG, CROWL, VANKIRK, FORD, COX, MUSSER - OH, PA.

I'd really appreciate having the info from the McElroy Bible. The following two articles regard their son George Beamish McElroy, a Methodist minister and educator. Marc **************** Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume VII M. McELROY, George Beamish, educator, was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., June 5, 1824; son of Samuel and Anne (Beamish) McElroy, who came from Ireland in 1821 and settled in Pittsburgh, Pa., and were among the founders of the First Methodist Protestant church in that city. In 1840 he began to study for the ministry under the Rev. George Brown. He was licensed to preach, June 5, 1842, and was ordained deacon and elder in 1845. He was married, July 22, 1851, to Mary Good of Johnstown, Pa., where he was then stationed. In 1852 he was elected instructor in the preparatory department, Madison college, Uniontown, Pa., where he pursued a full classical course and was graduated A.B. and A.M. in 1853. In 1853 he was elected to the chair of natural science and mathematics, resigning the next year, but resuming the chair under the presidency of the Rev. George Brown. He was principal of the North Illinois Institute, Henry, Ill., 1857-62; county superintendent and principal of city schools, Henry, Ill., 1862-64; principal of Allegheny Seminary, Sharpsburg, Pa., 1864-66; professor of mathematics and astronomy at Adrian College, Mich., 1866-98; vice-president of the college, I867-71; president, 1873-79; Amos professor of systematic theology, 1877-98; president pro tempore, 1879-81, and dean of the school of theology, 1882-98. He was elected secretary of the board of trustees of Adrian College in 1867 and a trustee in 1870, and was made professor emeritus of mathematics in 1898. He attended the ecumenical conference of Methodism, London, England, in 1881. *************** American Biographical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men with Portrait Illustrations on Steel, Volumes I-II George Beamish McElroy, D. D. Adrian, Michigan, was born in the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1824. His parents were both Irish, and came to this country but a few years previous to their marriage, in 1822. Doctor McElroy, during the first decade of his life, was frail and sickly; so much so, indeed, that it was only through the unintermitted care and tenderness of his parents that he was brought safely to his teens. Since then, however, he has been peculiarly free from illness,--never having been sick a whole day, or unable to perform his daily duties, for the last forty years. In consequence of his feeble health, he was unusually slow in acquiring the power of speech, being fully four years of age before he made any attempt at articulating words. As a last resort, he was sent to a school kept by an elderly maiden lady, with the hope that constant and familiar contact with those of his own age would develop his latent power of expression, if, indeed, he had any,--a thought that had begun to trouble his parents not a little. The experiment was happily successful. His opportunities for education, though as good as those generally enjoyed at that day by the children of parents not abundantly favored with the wealth of this world, were not very extended. When about twelve years of age, he was put at a nail-machine in one of the iron manufactories of his native city,--his father being a nail-cutter. At this employment, he remained until his eighteenth year. On the 23d of August, 1840, he became a member of the Methodist Protestant Church; and, a few months afterwards, placed himself under the instruction of Rev. George Brown, then pastor of the church, in view of preparing himself for the Christian ministry. His license to exhort bears date May 30, 1842. Previous, however, to his having received this license, he made his first attempt to address an audience from a pulpit at Bakerstown, Pennsylvania, May 1, 1842. On the eighteenth anniversary of his birth, he was formally licensed to preach. The following September, he was received into the Pittsburg Annual Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, and was sent to labor in a district lying in what is now known as the State of West Virginia. During the delivery of his first discourse to his charge, he was seized with embarrassment,--the result was a complete failure. So chagrined and mortified was he at his ill success, that if he could have reached his mother's house that night, in all probability he would never again have left it on a similar errand. In August, 1845, he was regularly ordained, and vested with all the privileges of a Christian minister. On the 22d day of July, 1851, he was married to his present wife, whose maiden name was Mary Good. This event occurred at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where he was in charge of a congregation. By the Annual Conference of that year, he was appointed to a charge at Brownsville, Pennsylvania. He had barely become comfortably settled in the parsonage, however, when he received and accepted a call to teach in Madison College, located at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, the church, by commissioners named by the General Conference of that year, having assumed the control of the institution. At first, it was designed to conduct the school simply as an academy. After a few months, however, the principal, Rev. R. H. Ball, persuaded the trustees to consummate a regular collegiate organization. As a result of this change in the character of the school, Doctor McElroy became principal in the preparatory department. At the same time, he entered upon and prosecuted, in connection with his six hours of daily labor in the school-room, a full and regular system of classical, scientific, and mathematical readings; the last, however, received the greater share of his time and attention. A few years having passed, he was appointed to the chair of Mathematics and Natural Science, which had been made vacant by the resignation of Professor Newel. The duties, many and laborious, of this position, he discharged for about one year. At this time, he was the only Northern man in the facully. Having determined among themselves to have a corps of teachers sympathizing with, and devoted exclusively to, Southern interests, as these were then understood and interpreted, the rest of the faculty and the Southern students, the latter constituting by far the greater number in attendance, made his stay in the institution any thing but comfortable and desirable. He accordingly resigned his position, and received from the trustees, who fully understood the case, a very complimentary testimonial. The faculty was then enlarged, and consisted of men, able in their several departments, but intensely Southern in their views and feelings. Before many months had passed, however, the entire body of teachers, with one exception, and nearly all the students from the South, abandoned Madison College and went to Lynchburg, Virginia. This led to a reorganization of the institution; Doctor McElroy was induced to return, and, for the sake of the interests involved, he consented to again assume the charge of the preparatory department. While in this position, he completed his course of readings, and, in June, 1857, was regularly graduated Bachelor of Arts; on the day following, he was honored with the degree of Master of Arts, as a token of special favor. Previous to this, however, he had been elected to the chair of Mathematics. In the fall of the same year, he removed to Henry, Illinois, and took charge of the North Illinois Institute. He remained there five years, and then accepted the principalship of the public schools of the city. Towards the close of the year 1862, he was nominated and elected, by the friends of the National Union, County Superintendent of Common Schools. This was the first and the only time he was ever before the public as a candidate for office. In July, 1864, he returned to Pennsylvania to take charge of Alleghany Seminary, near Pittsburg. Here he remained until he removed to his present residence, Adrian, Michigan, to take the chair of Mathematics and Astronomy in Adrian College, to which he had been elected March 8, 1866. In June,--1871, he received from the faculty and trustees of Waynesburg College, Pennsylvania, the degree of D. D. On the 28th of February, 1867, at the organization of the college under the exclusive control of the Methodist Church, he was elected Secretary of the Board of Trustees,--a place he has held by successive annual re-elections ever since. On the 1st of March of the same year, he was chosen Vice-President of the college. June 19, 1873, he was called to be President of the college, and this position he still holds. In August, 1874, he was elected, by the Michigan Annual Conference, a representative to the General Conference of the Methodist Church. This body he served as Secretary during its entire session. As an alternate, he was also a member of the General Conference of 1871. He was elected a representative of the same Annual Conference to the General Convention of the Church, held at Baltimore, Maryland, in May, 1877. Doctor McElroy is a gentleman of fine presence and dignified appearance. He is eminent for his scholarly attainments; and his social qualities and kindly manners endear him to all who know him. He is distinguished by simplicity of character, purity, frankness, and earnestness of purpose, and all the characteristics of a Christian gentleman. ----- Original Message ----- From: <RiverShack1@aol.com> To: <MCELROY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: September 25, 2002 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [MCELROY-L] McLeroy, etc | Samuel McElroy and Ann Beamish family, I believe they or their descendants | were from the Pittsburgh PA. area and then continued to move west into | eastern Ohio. Mahoning and Columbiana Co. in the early 1920-40's. | | Linda | --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 09/19/2002

Samuel McElroy and Ann Beamish family, I believe they or their descendants were from the Pittsburgh PA. area and then continued to move west into eastern Ohio. Mahoning and Columbiana Co. in the early 1920-40's. Linda

Is anyone working on the McElroy line that were from Ligonier Pennsylvania, then later moved and settled near Portage Ohio? Rebecca -----Original Message----- From: RiverShack1@aol.com [mailto:RiverShack1@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:20 PM To: MCELROY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MCELROY-L] McLeroy, etc <PRE>Sorry, the McElroy's I have are from PA & eastern Ohio. ==== MCELROY Mailing List ==== PLEASE NOTE: This list is for queries and replies, comments, requests for help, and other genealogical related information that is of interest to researchers having a connection or a possible connection to any McElroys. If you have questions or comments please contact the list administrator. Maryann Dixon Moseby, mdmgen@aol.com

<PRE>Sorry, the McElroy's I have are from PA & eastern Ohio.

Thanks. Sure hope you find him -I haven't been able to. Annette