Mark Elliott (b. December 28, 1813, d. April 06, 1858)
West Grove Cemetery, Center Twp., Wayne County, Indiana
Mark Elliott (son of Exum Elliott and Catherine Lamb) was born December 28, 1813 in Deep Creek, Surry County, North Carolina, and died April 06, 1858 in Centre Township, Wayne County, Indiana. He married Mary S. Haworth on August 27, 1835 in New Hope, Salem Monthly Meeting, Union County, Indiana, daughter of Joel Haworth and Elizabeth Maxwell.
Notes for Mark Elliott: Mark Elliott is my great great great grandfather. He was only two years old when his father, Exum, left Surry County, North Carolina for the new lands in the free Territory of Indiana in 1815. Mark lived his entire life in Wayne County, Indiana and is buried in West Grove Cemetery, both his parents at rest on one side and his youngest son, Lewis Cassius on the other. The cemetery is located northwest of Centerville, Indiana in Center Township and a stone's throw from where Mark Elliott had lived and farmed.
"Mark Elliott, father of William Q., was born in North Carolina December 28, 1813, and was two years of age when his parents came north. On August 27, 1835, in Union County, Indiana, he married Mary Haworth. Both were members of the Society of Friends and they were married by the Quaker ceremony. Her birthplace was her father's farm of 200 acres, comprising an island in the Holsten River in the State of Tennessee. Her father, Joel Haworth, moved from Tennessee to Union County, Indiana, and bought a large tract of government land at $1.25 per acre in gold. His daughter, Mary, was the oldest in a large family of children. Mark Elliott lived on a farm in Wayne County, Indiana, where he died in 1858 and was laid to rest in the same cemetery where his father's and mother's remains repose. He left his widow with seven children, four sons and three daughters. Mrs. Mark Elliott afterwards came to Kansas and died at Sterling February 23, 1902, at the age of eighty-eight years, two months and twenty-one days. Of the children of Mark Elliott and wife, William Q. was the oldest. Hannah, the second, married Isaiah Sleeper and both died at Baldwin, Kansas, where Mr. Sleeper owned a farm. The son, Joel H., was, curiously enough, a “fighting Quaker,” and made a brilliant record as a soldier. He served throughout the Civil war, being captain of Company M of the Seventh Indiana Cavalry. Through the influence of Governor Morton, the Indiana war governor, he was raised to the rank of major in the Seventh United States Cavalry. That was perhaps the only case up to that time where a volunteer officer was promoted to a higher position in the regular service than he had held in the volunteer forces. In the regular army he served under the command of the brilliant General Custer, and took part in that memorable fight against the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians on the Washita River in what is now the State of Oklahoma in 1868. He and sixteen men were ambushed in that engagement and all of them were butchered by the savage Indians under the Chief Black Kettle. His body was left uncared for on the battleground for two weeks, but was finally laid to rest in a national cemetery in Oklahoma. The fourth child of Mark Elliott and wife was Permelia, who lived at Richmond in Wayne County, Indiana, widow of Oliver Miller, who died on his farm in that county. She died in September, 1917. Elton B. is a lumber merchant at Indianapolis, Indiana. Sarah Elizabeth, who died at Sterling, Kansas, in 1916, married M. J. Barr, a retired resident of Sterling, Kansas. The seventh and youngest child, Lewis C., died of diphtheria in Indiana at the age of seven years. " ["A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans",Vol. 5, written & compiled by William E. Connelley, 1918.]
"Mark Elliott came from North Carolina, with his father, Exum Elliott, and settled in the north-west part of the township, near where he died in 1858, aged 44, on the place where his widow lives. His son William, who married Rebecca, daughter of Joseph Jackson, now lives near his mother. Sarah E., daughter of Mark Elliott, married Marion J. Barr." [History of Wayne County Indiana]
From the Marriage Records of Silver Creek now Salem Monthly Meeting of Friends, Union County, Indiana - "Whereas Mark Elliott of Wayne County and State of Indiana, son of Exum Elliott and Catherine his wife of the same place and Mary Haworth daughter of Joel Haworth and Elizabeth his wife of Union County and State aforesaid; having declared their intentions of marriage with each other before a Monthly Meeting of the religious sociey of friends held at Salem, and they having the consent of their parents their said proposals of Marriage were allowed of by said Meeting. These are to testify to whom it may concern, that for the full accomplishment of their said intentions of this twenty-seventh day of the Eighth month in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five they the said Mark Elliott and Mary Haworth appeared in a public Meeting of the people aforesaid, held at New Hope and the said Mark Elliott taking this Mary Haworth by the hand, declared that he took her the said Mary Haworth to be his wife, promising with Divine assistance to be unto her a loving and faithful Husband until death should separate them, then the said Mary Haworth did in like manner declare, that she took him the said Mark Elliott to be her husband, promising with Divine assistance to be unto him a loving and faithful wife until death should separate them. "And moreover they the said Mark Elliott and Mary Haworth (she according to the custom of marriage adopting the name of her husband) did as a further confirmation thereof then and there to these presents set their hands. Mark Elliott Mary H. Elliott
"And we whose names are hereunto subscribed being present at the solemnization of the said marriage have as witness thereunto set our hands the day and year above written.
Joel Haworth Absalom Elliott Margaret Maxwell Lydia M. Johnson Jacob Maxwell Sarah Elliott William Macy Elizabeth J. Haworth Shubel Barnard Hannah Haworth Jethro Barnard Sarah Ikenbury David Swain Celia Kelly Tristram Barnard Hugh W. Maxwell Elihu Swain Richard Haworth John Beard Richard G. Haworth James Gorden Hannah D. Maxwell Polly Maxwell Laban Haworth" Mana Maxwell
[Record of Marriage Certificates from 1817 - First Book: 8th mo, 14th, 1817 to 5th mo, 23rd, 1849] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Mark Elliott To Axiom Elliott Obligational - Recorded October 26, 1841 and duly Entered among the deed Records of Wayne County Indiana. Book No. 3, page 182
"Whereas Axiom Elliott of Wayne County Indiana by his last will and Testament heretofore duly executed has given devised and bequeathed to his son Mark Elliott in consideration of his natual love and affection for his said son and in consideration of the stipulations and agreements hereinafter mentioned to be done and observed by said Mark Elliott all the following described real estate to wit. Ninety-two acres of land be the same more or less, the same being the plantation of farm whereon the said Axiom now lives together with all the improvements and appurtenances to the same in any way belonging. Therefore this Indenture made this 22. day of January Eighteen and thirty nine Between the said Axiom of the first part and said Mark of the second part Witnesseth that the said Axiom for the consideration aforesaid hath given and granted and by these presents doth give and grant to said Mark the right to use, possess and enjoy for his own benefit from this time forward forever all the said real estate and all the appurtenances to the same belonging. And the said Mark on his part in consideration of the said use occupation and enjoyment of said farm and the reversion (?) interest at the death of his father by will as aforesaid hereby obligates himself and agrees as follows, to wit, to keep on said farm or cause the same to be kept for the use of said Axiom Two head of horses, Sheep not exceeding tweleve head, one cow, one pig or hog in the pen, all which stock is to be for the benefit and at the absolute control and disposal of said Axiom during his natural life. And the said Mark further agrees to find and provide for said Axiom and Catherine Elliott, his mother and Sarah Elliott his sister all necessary provisions and firewood at their dwelling house on said farm and allow them the privilege of houseroom stabling etc. and of ingress and egress to and from the same, during the natural lives of his said father and mother, and until his said sister shall marry, or otherwise choose to leave said premises and it is further agreed that if the said Axiom shall die before said Catherine or Sarah that the said real estate shall be charged and incumbered with the support and maintenance of the said Catherine and Sarah until the death of said Catherine, and until the said Sarah shall otherwise elect in the manner above specified and provided. Provided however that at the death of said Axiom that all the horses sheep and stock of all kinds and all the household and kitchen furniture on said premises belonging to said Axiom at the time of his death, except the beds and bedding, and except the property willed to said Sarah as enumerated and named in said last will of said Axiom, shall enure to, and belong to said Mark together with all the monies and all debts and demands due to said Axiom at his death, to the only proper use and benefit of said Mark his heirs and assigns foreever. And the said Axiom and Mark hereby agree and obligate themselves this heirs (?) executors administrators and assigns to abide by, and perform the stipulations conditions and agreements above enumerated and each and every part and parcel thereof. "In addition to the articles named in such will it is agreed by said party that Sarah shall have one cow a check (?) reel and stew kettle. "In Witness whereof the said parties have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written." Ecxum Elliott Mark Elliott ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will of Mark Elliott, Wayne Co., IN Court House "Record of the last Will and Testament of Mark Elliott deceased filed in the Clerk's office of the Wayne County Court of Common Pleas April 28, 1858. "Third Month 11th 1858. Know all men by these Presents that I Mark Elliott of the county of Wayne and State of Indiana do make and ordain this to be my last will and testament in form and manner as follows. First I give and bequeth to my beloved wife Mary all my personal property and real estate except the land bought of Nathan Elliott which will be described hereafter so that she may raise and educate my minor children and finish the requisitions of my father's will. Second, To my son William I have given property and money to the amount of Six hundred dollars. Third, to my daughter Hannah I have given money and property Four hundred dollars. Fourth, I direct Alfred Underhill to sell that tract of land and convey the same to the purchaser known as the Nathan Elliott tract being Section Seven, Two Sixteen, Range Fourteen East beginning at the Creek at the established corner running thence West One hundred and ninety eight poles and thirteen ...... to an established corner thence South 80 poles thence East One hundred and seventy nine poles thence meandering along the Creek to the place of beginning containing Ninety one acres etc, for the purpose of giving my other children viz. Joel H. Permelia, Elton B. Sarah Elizabeth Louis Cassius, Six hundred dollars apiece each. Also Hannah Sleeper above named Two hundred dollars more, so that each may have an equal sum. But first of all my just debtss shall be paid, then the money loaned or laid out for land as may be best so that each child as he or she becomes of the age of Twenty one years may have his Six hundred dollars (except those who have beenfitted out as above noted) unless my Executor may think it best to give it sooner to them. And moreover if the proceeds of the sale of the said land will give each of my children more than Six hundred dollars, It shall be divided among them equally so that they shall have the whole sum it brings after my debts are paid. And lastly I appoint Alfred Underhill (Mark's brother-in-law) Executor of this Will. Mark Elliott "Signed and Sealed in the presence of Alfred Underhill John (Joel) H. Elliott "Record of Wills No. 3 in this office Witness my Name and the Seal of the said Court at Centreville this 28th day of April A.D. 1858 Andrew F. Scott, Clk"
In the Elliott family genealogical work entitled "Ancestry and Stories of an Elliott Family" complied by Saretta Elliott Warren, Wilmington, Ohio 1972-74, it was written that Mark Elliott "was an Elder and Minister" among Friends, died 4-6-1858."
Mark Elliott's eldest son, William Quincy Elliott, revealed in his writing in 1903 that his parents had belonged to the Whig party in the days of John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, later becoming members of the Republican party after the demise of the Whig party.
More About Mark Elliott: Burial: 1858, West Grove Cemetery/Lot #935, Centre Township, Wayne Co., IN.
More About Mark Elliott and Mary S. Haworth: Marriage: August 27, 1835, New Hope, Salem Monthly Meeting, Union County, Indiana.
Children of Mark Elliott and Mary S. Haworth are:
+William Quincy Elliott, b. February 18, 1837, Centre Township, Wayne County, Indiana, d. August 20, 1929, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas.
+Hannah Elliott, b. August 14, 1838, Centre Township, Wayne County, Indiana, d. January 05, 1903, Baldwin City, Douglas County, Kansas.
Joel Haworth Elliott, b. October 27, 1840, Centre Township, Wayne County, Indiana, d. November 27, 1868, Washita River, near Cheyenne, Indian Territory.
+Permelia Elliott, b. October 12, 1842, Centre Township, Wayne County, Indiana, d. September 29, 1917, Centre Township, Wayne County, Indiana.
+Elton B. Elliott, b. April 13, 1845, Centre Township, Wayne County, Indiana, d. Aft. 1930, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana.
Joseph Elliott, b. April 28, 1850, Centre Township, Wayne County, Indiana, d. Bef. 1858, Wayne County, Indiana.
+Sarah Elizabeth Elliott, b. April 28, 1850, Centre Township, Wayne County, Indiana, d. March 1916, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas.
Lewis Cassius Elliott, b. May 02, 1855, Centre Township, Wayne County, Indiana, d. May 24, 1860, Centre Township, Wayne County, Indiana.
Mark Elliott (b. December 28, 1813, d. April 06, 1858)
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