I am interested in Mary Foster who married David McElwee in 1823 and then married Elijah slocum in 1842. I am a descendent of Mary and Elijah's daughter Mary Slocum Laird. Barbara Silva >From: Hdanw@aol.com >Date: 2007/04/04 Wed PM 03:36:30 CDT >To: mswilkin@rootsweb.com >Subject: [MSWILKIN] McElwee Family of Later Date >Someone recently posted a remark about a McElwee family. I have gathered a >few notes on a later McElwee family, which may provide some clues for a >diligent researcher, who picks up on small (this may be useful later) clues. > >This McElwee male married the daughter of a former Wilkinson Co., MS >resident. There may be a connection to the unknown McElwee family > >Rev Feb 2006 > > WESLEY MCELWEE Husband of Mary Ann Keller, daughter of George W. >Keller [deceased, married to Eleanor Waddell] of Wilkinson Co., MS and >granddaughter of early settler George Keller, formerly of Sumter Co., SC and later of >Wilkinson Co., MS. > >McElwee and his wife, the former Mary Jane Keller, daughter of G. W. Keller >and Eleanor Waddell, are found in the 1860 census of Amite Co., MS. > >Dwelling 424, Family 424 [handwritten page 80] >Wesley G. McElwee, age 42?, planter, $8,000 R.E., 30,000 personal property, >b. LA >Mary Jane, age 30, F, b Miss >Catherine, age 12, F, b. Miss attended school within year >McKliff, age 9, M, ditto >Robin, age 4 or 6?, M ditto >John, age 5, M >Albert, age 15, M, b. Miss >Margaret, age 2, F, b. Miss >....? Rogers, 21, M overseer, b. SC > > >Wesley may have been the son of James McElwee, whose name appears in the >1830 census of East Feliciana Par., LA, the same parish where the bride's >stepfather had lived--James McDonald [James McDonald was the second husband of >Eleanor Waddell]. > >This is the enumeration of West Feliciana Parish, 1850 census, listing >Wesley E. McElwee and family: > >Dwelling 309, family 314 >Wesley E. McElwee, 28, W, Planter, 1400-b. Miss >Mary [A or J]. McElwee, 20, F, Miss >Catherine E. McElwee, 3, F, b. LA >Robert W. McElwee, 3/12?, b. LA >Cornelia McDonald, 14, F, b. MS > >We believe Cornelia McDonald is either a step-sister or a half-sister of >Mary A. (Keller) McElwee. Her widowed mother, the former Eleanor Waddell who >married 1) George W. Keller, later married 2) James McDonald of Feliciana >Parish, LA. > >A couple of male white McElwees are in the 1870 census index for Amite Co. >We have to remember this was after the Civil War. Persons may have died, or >else moved elsewhere. > >A published census index for 1870 Mississippi census lists one W. G. >McElwee, age 52, male, white, b. LA in Amite Co., MS. Is this the same person? > >M McElwee - 48 - m - w - b. MS - Liberty PO - Reel 721 pg. 485 > >T. A. McElwee - 16 - m - w - b MS - Liberty PO - reel 721 pg. 476 > >W. G. McElwee - 52 - m - w - b. LA - Liberty PO reel 721 pg. 474 > >There is a child McElwee, Robert, age 7, b. KY. p. 487 > >In Copiah Co., MS: > >John McElwee - 60 - m - w - b. Ms - Hazlehurst PO reel 727 - pg 293 > >In Marshall co., there is an adult male S. J. McElwee, age 51, b. TN > >Comment: I do not study the McElwee family, but as deaths of males, in >particular, were rather frequent in this area of Wilkinson Co.-the Feliciana >Parishes, I try to study some of the children and pick up more clues about some >of their ancestors--particularly their widowed grandmothers, whose records are >few and far between. Some genealogists call this studying clusters of >families. Probate and guardianship records have been very helpful. > >E.W.Wallace > > > > > > >************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MSWILKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message