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info on Eliza's first husband George Wheeler, who didn't return from civil war (private, 23rd infantry co. K) and she had to wait 7 years to marry Cornelius. Daughter Molly/Mariet Wheeler married his brother Richard.

1850 census has George in Huron Co, OH with father Thomas D. Wheeler, his wife Elizabeth and others. By 1860 Thomas is in county poorhouse, wife and one daughter are in Cincinnati where wife cooks in a hospital, and George is in Lewis Co., KY married to Eliza/Louisa with baby. His older brother Joseph and other siblings were also there. He spent about a year in the army and is listed as a deserter 8-1862. He had a brother David and a David Wheeler joined and deserted just before he did. Interesting that 1870 census has a GW age 30 in Mecosta Co., MI with Elizabeth W. No other records found that seem likely to be him but in 1880 in same place Elizabeth lives with Joseph. In 1860 Lewis Co. and 1900 Mecosta Co. census Joseph's middle initial is A. Ages of George, Joseph and Elizabeth and places of birth are about right too. At any rate, looking at names and ages in 1850 and 1860 seems to confirm that this family is the right one. Thomas W. and his family had lived aro! und Mason Co. Ky in the early 1800s and he and brother Edward went to Huron Co. around 1820. Lots of info on these Wheelers on boards/trees.

Sarah Sallie Ann Elliott/Elliot

She was born in
1854 in Arkansas and died in Alabama. She had a sister, Martha M. Elliott, b.
1849 in Mississippi. I found her living with a Samuel and Annie Moore in the
1860 Randolph Co, AL census and the 1870 Clay Co, AL census. She married a John
W. Smith in AL. In the 1880 Calhoun Co, AL census, Sarah is married to John
and they have three sons, John, William and Marion.

I wanted to find out who her parents were, and what happened to them. And how
she and her sisiter came to be living with Sam and Annie Moore.

Gladys M Hamilton ( nee Elliott )

wife of Stanley Hamilton (who was a professional driver). Their children were possibly called Alec Hamilton and his sister Margaux. There may be family heirlooms in their homes consisting of Tudor furniture that was handed down in the will of Capt Robert Elliott ( died 1918 ) a vet. surgeon who was based in Putney. Also are there any relatives who desended from Capt Robert Elliott's second marriage to Minnie Elliott ( m. 1916 ). Are there any relatives decended from Robert's other daughter's marriage, Lucy M. Bowles ( nee Elliott ) who married Christopher Bowles in 1913 East Sheen.
Capt Robert Elliott disinherited his son Thomas Conyers Elliott ( which we are decendants of ). I am looking for any relatives alive today that could fill in gaps of our history. Apparently Capt Robert had a family tree that went back generations.There may some truth in the fact that there is a connection with the Conyers family as this is a surname used in our family. There is also talk of Judge Jeffers ring being in the posession of Capt Robert Elliott ( 1857-1918), and connections with Sir Rowland Hill.
Are there any decendants around from Elizabeth Margaret Annie Outhwaite ( nee Elliott b.1860's )and had a daughter called Gwendoline Conyers Outhwaite- Walter J Outhwaite died in 1890's who was the father. Elizabeth was the daughter of Thomas Elliott vet based in Stockton on Tees. Finally I'm looking for desendants of Robert Elliott ( b. 1799-1856 durham ) of Middleton One Row (Teeside) He was a carpenter and married Margaret Hull who died in the 1880's. In particular desendants of Robert Elliott Junior ( Carpenter/joiner ) born abt 1839 who also married a Margaret There are graves of Elliotts at St George church Middleton One Row , Durham St.Oswalds, and Putney Vale cem Wandsworth, Holy Trinity Stockton on Tees and Oxbridge cem in Stockton. Is there anyone out there who can help or think they are related? If there is then you would know Robert Conyers Elliott ( 1931-2002 )who was organist/ harpichordist and teacher at the Royal Northern College of Music for many years. Gladys M Hamilton used to put Robert up when he was studying in London 1950's.

Richard Thomas Elliott

He was born abt. 1765 in Wake Co., NC and died 29 Jan 1863 in Carter Co., Tn. He married Elizabeth Bollinger on 23 Jan 1805 in Carter Co., Tn. She was born 1784 in Yancy Co., NC and died abt. 1862 in Carter Co., Tn. There childern are Barbara, Sarah Jane, Nancy Maryann, Catherine, John, David J., Peter Bollinger, Lucinda, William, Joseph Moses Dulaney. I have all the informantion on the children expcet Sarah Jane.

Pension application file for George W Wheeler

says he became ill in the winter of 1862 and was in several army hospitals for lung problems until that August, when he got sick furlough and expected to receive a disability pension. GWW stated that he went home to Clarksburg, Lewis Co., KY, lived in Cincinnati 1863-64, then went west to MI, AR and MO, residing in Arrow Rock, Saline Co., MO 1872-1886. A June 1889 note to the pension bureau gives his new address as St. Joseph, MO; he is on the 1890 veteran's list there. GWW said he had been too ill to work regularly since war and needed assistance from family and friends to get by. He was 5'11", 145 lbs., with fair skin, light brown hair and blue eyes. Pension was rejected.

George D. Elliott

manufacturer and dealer in harness and saddlery, Kewanee, Ill., was born at the United States Arsenal, Pittsburg, Pa., July 8, 1823. His parents, James, a Sergeant in the United States Army, and Mary (Mayhew) Elliott, natives of Durham, Eng., and Kennebec, Maine, respectively, were married at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and of the 11 children (nine sons and two
daughters) born to them, the subject of this sketch was the eldest but two. James came to America in 1818, and three years afterward entered the United States Army as a private soldier and served for a period of five years. He was an only child, and his father, who was a saddler to Lord Durham, gave him an academic education. The then Lord Durham was an extensive coal operator, and saddler Elliott, who had accumulated some money, invested it in the stocks of a rival mining company, which act so enraged his lordship that he withdrew his patronage from Elliott. The new coal company failed, and in 1826, the old gentleman followed his son to the United States. He located at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and died before the then current year.

After leaving the army, Sergeant Elliott returned to his trade of a saddler at Mt. Pleasant, and there remained up to 1854, at which time he came to Kewanee. A part of the farm upon which he settled here is now known as Elliott's Addition, and the rest of it was laid out by the parties to who he sold it, and is now known as "Morse's Addition to Kewanee."

The old gentleman removed to Chicago in 1870; was there during the great fire, and returned to Kewanee, where he died in July of the following year, aged about 76 years. His wife had died at Kewanee in 1868, aged 72 years.

George D. Elliott learned the trade of his father and of his grandfather, and, with the exception of a few years devoted to teaching in the public schools, has devoted his time to it. He was educated at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and was about 22 years of age when he began teaching. At the outbreak of the Mexican War, he entered the service of the United States as an artisan, and left Pittsburg in October, 1846, in the Quartermaster's Department for Mexico. At the end of about six months he returned to Pittsburg, where he was employed in the Government Arsenal until the close of the war, when he made his way back to Mt. Pleasant. In 1854 he made a trip of discovery in the West, and the following year brought his family to Kewanee. Three of his brothers were in the Union Army during the Rebellion, and one of them lost his life at the battle of Mission Ridge. Since coming to Kewanee, Mr. Elliott has held various offices, and at this writing (August, 1885) is serving his tenth year as a member of the School Board.

In politics he is a Republican, coming from the old Whig party; in religious view he is liberal, though identified more or less prominently with the Episcopal Church. He is a member of Kewanee Lodge, No. 159, F. & A. M., and holds the office of Scribe in Kewanee Chapter, No. 47.

At Cadiz, Ohio, April 4, 1849, he was married to Miss Adaline McCormick, a native of that town, and daughter of the Hon. Samuel McCormick, now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott have had born to them eight children as
follows: Frank, now in business with his father; Kate, in the millinery business at Kewanee; Eric, dealer in carriage goods at Peoria, Ill.; Maude (Mrs. A. M. Hewlett, Kewanee); Ward B., carriage trimmer, Kewanee; Harry and Addie, at home; and Dick S., agent of the American Express Company, at Pacific Junction, Iowa.



1885 Portrait & Biographical Album of Henry Co., Illinois page 634

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