Does anyone on this list descend from these Elliots as mentioned in about the sixth line below? My Catherine Elliott was born in North Carolina in 1795. I do not know where she was from in North Carolina, but I believe her family to have been Scotch-Irish and Quaker. She was married in 1816 in Warren County Ohio and later moved to Clinton County Indiana. I believe that her father's name was Abraham and that her mother's name was Rachel. I have no real reason to believe that Catherine was from a Quaker family except that they were living in an area that was settled very heavily by Quakers in Ohio when she married Nehemiah McKinsey. Nehemiah was not Quaker. Marsha in WV [email protected] wrote: > > COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY Of Henry County Indiana  > B.F. Bowen  > 1920 > Page 362, 363,364, 365 > > NIMROD RICHARD ELLIOTT This highly respected and eminent resident of > Mechanicsburg and president of the Farmers Bank at Middletown, Henry County, > Indiana, was born in Perquimans County, North Carolina, May 4, 1827, and is a > son of Ephraim B. and Eliza (Hardee) Elliott, the former also a native of > Perquimans county, born in 1782, and the latter a native of Georgia. Both > were of Scotch-Irish descent, of the Quaker faith and were married in North > Carolina in 1820. Of five brothers of the Elliott family who had resided in > England and who came to America from that country in the Colonial days one > settled in North Carolina; one in Virginia and one in Kentucky; the others in > all probability returned to England. Ephraim B. Elliott was a true American > patriot and a lover of liberty and enlisted for the war of 1812 in defense of > the rights of the Union against the encroachments of the British king and > parliament, but as he had met with an accident in which one of his legs was > broken, he was not placed upon active service. His financial circumstances > were not very satisfactory in their character and to remedy the paucity of > his purse he resorted to school teaching and at the same time read law. In > 1829 he came to Indiana and first located in Wayne County in the fall of > 1833, a year remarkable for a meteoric shower of unusual brilliancy. ......