LARGE, TALL, RAW-BONED MEN - Physically and Mentally Strong

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JOHN B. ELROD
4th Great Grand Uncle

John Elrode (Elrod) married Sarah Riddle on 
January 11, 1786 in North Carolina
County of Surry - Record #01 070 - Bondsman John Winscott


John B Elrod (1762 - 1855)
is your 4th great grand uncle
father of John B Elrod
son of Christopher Elrod Sr
son of Christopher Elrod
daughter of James Elrod
son of Parzetta E Elrod
daughter of Alexander Martin
son of Dovie Mary Martin
Anna Faye Allison - Burgess

The Story of this family can best be told, in part, 
in the following document...

PIONEER PICKINGS 
No. 85
The Salem Democrat
January 24, 1877
Pages 107 & 108

What an amazing find!
Some of my favorite quotes...

"Samuel Elrod was the fourth son, and while yet a young man met with an accident that cost him his life.  He was riding a feisty, untamed horse, and it becoming probably frightened at something, in its jumping and plunging, finally threw Samuel off and killed him.  We believe his neck was broken."

"While they (the sons) were large, rawboned men, capable of great privation and endurance, and Dempsey was always on the puny order, in looks strange that the weaker vessel should 
outlast the strong ones.  But so it often occurs.  
We see it almost continuously in every day life, and on 
every hand and side of us." 

"If the whole people of the United States were as quiet and peaceable as the Elrods, very little trouble would come."

"It seem strange that all of the old Rowan County, North Carolina emigrants were all Democrats, and that all of their descendants are of the same faith.  There is only now and then an exception."

(Guess I would be considered and 'exception' - 
RED TO THE BONE!)



    The Salem Democrat newspaper is still in operation in Salem, Indiana.  The newspaper is published once a week on Thursday.The Salem Democrat began publication in 1827.

 John B. Elrod was born on May 29, 1762 in Yadkin, 
Rowan County, North Carolina. 
He was the son of Christopher Elrod SR and Aaltje Soelle.
Husband of Sarah Ann Riddle (daughter of Stephen Riddle and Elizabeth Douthit). John and Sarah were the parents of Mary, Anna, William, Stephen, Samuel, Susanna, John A.,
Martin, Sarah, Kesiah, Eli, and Dempsey. (The information in PIONEER PICKINGS does not include/mentions a few of these children; however, I am fairly certain that I have the correct list above.) John died in 1855 and Sarah in 1840 - I am unable to find John and Sarah's burial site(s).
Research leads to the facts/information that 
John and Sarah both died in Orange, Indiana.








Comments

  1. HollyJoyMay 1, 2018 at 6:01 AM

    Good grief; I guess I wasn't paying attention until I read this post. My first cousins probably knew Ernest Haywood; will ask them this week. This family was my Aunt Margaret Arizona Allison and Dow Maddux. 2 of their children Elsie and Leonard are still living.

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