Exum Elliott (b. April 10, 1765, d. October 08, 1841)
GGGGrt Grandfather Exum Elliott was a long time Elder at West Grove Monthly Meeting in Wayne Co., Indiana
Exum Elliott (son of Jacob Elliott and Zilpha Davenport) was born April 10, 1765 in Perquimans County, North Carolina, and died October 08, 1841 in Centre Township, Wayne County, Indiana. He married (1) Sarah Pearson on March 19, 1788 in Back Creek Preparative Meeting, Randolph County, North Carolina, daughter of Jonathan Pearson. He married (2) Catherine Lamb on March 24, 1790 in Back Creek Preparative Meeting, Randolph County, North Carolina.
Notes for Exum Elliott: Exum Elliott, my great great great great grandfather, was born in Perquimans County, North Carolina in 1765. It is believed that his mother, Zilpha Davenport, died at his birth or within the same year. Exum left Perquimans County, NC with his father, Jacob Elliott, and migrated to Randolph County, NC sometime before 1782 based on a certificate of removal from Perquimans Monthly Meeting to Centre Monthly Meeting, located in Guilford Co., North Carolina dated the 1st day of the 5th month, 1782.
From Randolph County, North Carolina, Land Warrants 1778-1948: "Axum Elliott 100 ac; warrant #219 issued Sept. 25, 1793 by John Arnold to Jacob Elliott for 100 ac, begins at Jesse Henley's E "corner line" on water of Taylors Cr, runs S, joins his own line, & entered Oct 3 [May 18--lined out], 1793 [on back of warrant] sold jul. 15, 1796 to an order dated Jun. 15, 1796 to Axum Elliott (signed) Wm lowe [no witness]; Feb 3, 1802 [Quaker style date] Jacob Elliott is "fully satisfied" Exum "Elliott" should have "the grant (signed) Jacob Elliott's mark [a flattened 'O"] (witness) Wm. Hastings; 100 ac surveyed Jul 15, 1796 by William Lowe; Richard Ratliff & John Bailey, chain carriers; grant #1727 issued feb. 5, 1802."
The Birth, Death & Marriage records of Centre Monthly Meeting, Guildford County, North Carolina confirm that Exum Elliott married his first wife, Sarah Pearson, in the manner of Friends "at their Publick Meetinghouse on Back Creek & County of Randolph " on the 19th of the 3rd month 1788. As there were no Pearsons recorded as witesses to this marriage we must assume that both her parents were deceased by this time. The witnesses to this marriage were: Jacob Elliott Miriam Winslow Elizabeth Newby Elizabeth Harvey Rachel Overman Michael Harvey Richard Ratliff Benjamin Hall Phineas Hunt John Winslow Caroline Winslow Ann Newby Thomas Winslow Samuel Newby Ephraim Overman Jesse Henley William Newby John Bailey Joshua Albertson
Sadly, this marriage was cut short by the premature death of Sarah. She died five months later and was laid to rest in the Friends Burying Ground at Back Creek, Randolph County, North Carolina.
Exum Elliott married his second wife Catherine Lamb in the manner of Friends on the 24th of the 3rd month 1790. Witnesses at their wedding, which took place at the Meetinghouse on Back Creek, Randolph County, NC, as recorded on page 71 of the Marriage, Birth & Death records of Centre Monthly Meeting were: Jacob Elliott . Sarah Lamb Jacob Lamb . Mary Chambers Sarah Lamb . Ann Brown John Lamb . Elizabeth Wilson Isaac Beeson . Margaret Chamness William Beeson . Isabel Beeson Jeremiah Reynolds . Sarah Crawford Abraham Elliott (PA clan) . James Brown Jesse Wilson . Elizabeth Brown Benjamin Beeson . Richard Ratliff Anthony Reynolds . Bette Ratliff Miriam Lamb . Elizabeth Beeson Elizabeth Beeson . John Lewis
Exum wore a black beaver hat at their wedding. The hat was described as having a crown 5.5 inches high and 7.5 inches in diameter. The brim was 3.5 inches wide and at the front side it had a strip of velvet to lift the hat by. This hat was kept in the family, first by his daughter Rebecca. Later she gave the hat to her granddaughter Stella Maudlin, who later placed her grandfather's beaver hat in the care of the Wayne County Historical Musem in Richmond, Indiana.
Exum Elliott was listed in the first U.S. census (1790) of the Hillsborough district of Randolph County, North Carolina.
Exum Elliott, along with his father, Jacob Elliott, were recorded as original members of Back Creek Monthly Meeting, Randolph Co., NC, which was set up on the 29th of the 12th month, 1792. Previously Back Creek Preparative Meeting had been attached to Centre Monthly Meeting, Guilford Co., NC. [Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. I, page 695 by William Wade Hinshaw]
Exum Elliott purchased 170 acres of land in Randolph County, NC from his father, Jacob Elliott in 1797. Later on he sold 100 acres of land in the same county to John Hinshaw in 1800. Before moving away from Randolph County Exum Elliott sold another 170 acres of land to John Hinshaw in 1806. [Randolph County Deed Book 7/page 167; Deed Book 11/pages 136-137]
BACK CREEK Monthly Meeting (Randolph County) minute with reference to Exum Elliott & family - > 1807 The 31st of the 1st month: "Exum Elliott requests a Certificate for himself & sons to Deep Creek Monthly Meeting. Cornelius Ratliff & John Henley are appointed to Inquire & if no objection produce one to next meeting." This was the year in which Exum Elliott with his wife, Catherine & children (Jacob, John, Elwood, Isaac, Zilpha, Rebecca, Ursula) moved from Randolph County to Surry County, North Carolina. There they became members of Deep Creek Monthly Meeting in Surry (now Yadkin) County.
From the Birth, Death & Marriage records of Back Creek Monthly Meeting we find on page 10 a record of Exum and Catherine's children: "The Birth of Axum Elliott's Children by Catherine his wife - "Zilpha was Born the 15 day of the 3 month 1792 "Jacob was Born the 22 day of the 8 month 1793 "Huldah was Born the 24 day of the 6 month 1795 "John was Born the 12 day of the 2 month 1797 "Ellwood was Born the 16 day of the 2 month 1799 "Isaac was Born the 16 day of the 3 month 1801 "Rebekah was born the 31 day of the 1 month 1803 "Usley was Born the 7 day of the 7 month 1805"
On the opposite page there is one entry: "Huldah Elliott daughter of Axum Elliott and Catherine his wife deceased on the 27 day of the 8 month 1796"
Tax lists for the years 1812 & 1813 reveal that Exum Elliott was the owner of 300 acres of land in Surry County, North Carolina. The 1815 tax list shows that this 300 acres of land was located near "Bn. Mountain" and that the land was valued at $500.
Exum Elliott entered 160 acres of land in Wayne County, Indiana on January 3, 1814. He probably came to Indiana for the purpose of selecting a new home, then returned to North Carolina for his family. Later he relocated on a farm northeast of Centreville, near West Grove Meeting. He was never a recorded minister but often accompanied ministers on visits. There are at least a dozen ministers among his grandchildren.
Exum was the first of our direct line in the Elliott family to move beyond the borders of North Carolina. Many North Carolina Quaker families left North Carolina in the early 1800's and migrated north to the free Territory of Indiana because of their Quakerly opposition to the institution of slavery on religious principles. Exum and family were granted a certificate by Deep Creek Monthly Meeting, Surry County, North Carolina to Whitewater Monthly Meeting, Wayne County, Indiana on the 2nd of the 9th month 1815. By the fall of 1815 Exum Elliott had left Surry County, North Carolina and settled Wayne County, Indiana. Exum and family were "received on certificate" from Deep Creek Monthly Meeting, Surry County, North Carolina to Whitewater Monthly Meeting, Wayne County, Indiana on the 25th of the 11th month 1815. The family settled about 3 miles northwest of Centreville in Centre Township, near the future site of the West Grove Friends Meetinghouse. [From: Heiss, Willard, Editor "Abstracts of the Society of Friends in Indiana"]
"Exum Elliott, came out of North Carolina in 1815 and was one of the pioneers whose physical strength cleared away the forests and established civilization in that then wilderness section of Eastern Indiana. The wife of Exum Elliott was Catherine Lamb, of Guilford County, North Carolina. They had eight children, six sons and two daughters, all of whom reached mature years, married and with the exception of one daughter had children of their own. Exum Elliott died at the age of eighty-six and was laid to rest in the Friends Cemetery at West Grove, Indiana." [A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written & compiled by William E. Connelley, 1918]
"The first Religious Society in the township was that of the Friends, who, in 1815, organized the West Grove Meeting, about 3 miles north-west of Centreville, and built a log meeting-house. The society, at its organization, was composed of the families of......Axum Elliott...." (This is our Exum.) [From "The History of Wayne County Indiana" page 170]
Exum Elliott purchased 92 acres land in Centre Township, Wayne co., Indiana on February 8, 1822 from Joseph Holeman. The purchase price was $276.00. This was part of the U.S. Government land sales of 160 acres at Cincinnati to Holeman on March 19,1812.
Exum Elliott was listed in the 1820 U.S. census records of Wayne County, Indiana. His name also appears in the 1830 and 1840 census records of Centre Township, Wayne County, Indiana.
According to records of Minutes of West Grove Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders Exum Elliott was an Elder at that Meeting from 1818 until his death in 1841.
From the Minute Book of West Grove Monthly Meeting: "Exum Elliott, an Elder and member of West Grove Monthly Meeting, died 10th month 8th, 1841; aged 76 years, 5 months and 29 days."
Exum Elliott lies next to wife, Catherine nee Lamb Elliott, in West Grove Cemetery on West Grove Road in Center Township, Wayne County, Indiana. On his other side lies his son, Mark Elliott, my great great great grandfather. The cemetery is located northwest of Centerville on the grounds where the West Grove Friends Meetinghouse once stood. The Quaker testimony of simplicity has been carried into eternity by Exum & his wife, Catherine, whose graves have no markers in this old Quaker burying ground.
[Will of Exum Elliott, Book B, P. 278, Wayne Co., IN Court House] "Be it remembered that I Exum Elliott of Wayne County and State of Indiana, being sound in mind do make and ordain this to be my last will and testament in form and manner following (to wit.) "I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Catherine Elliott all our feather beds, bedding and bedsteads, (except two feather beds, bedding & steads,) to dispose of as she may think most proper, and I further give her during her natural life, all the rest of my household and kitchen furniture, together with the house, yard and garden, where I now live, and a sufficient maintenance off my farm and orchard. "I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah Elliott, two feather beds, bedding and bedsteads, one bureau, six windsor chairs, one side saddle, one flax wheel, one brass kettle, one iron oven, a sett of knives and forks, one horse beast, a table and some shelfware and six sheep, all of which she shall have possession of at any time she wants it. I also give her my large bible after the decease of my wife. I give and bequeath to my son Mark Elliott all that tract of land whereon I now live, with the appurtenances thereto belonging, to him, his heirs and assigns forever, with the reserve made above for my wife during her life. "Now before I conclude I think right to state that all the rest of my children have had their share of my estate. Lastly, I appoint my son Jacob Elliott and Exum White Executors to this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made. "In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this fifth day of the ninth month, one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine. Exum Elliott Signed & sealed in presence of us - John Maxwell Nathan Elliott"
More About Exum Elliott: Burial: 1841, West Grove Cemetery/Lot #936, Centre Township, Wayne Co., IN.
More About Exum Elliott and Sarah Pearson: Marriage: March 19, 1788, Back Creek Preparative Meeting, Randolph County, North Carolina.
More About Exum Elliott and Catherine Lamb: Marriage: March 24, 1790, Back Creek Preparative Meeting, Randolph County, North Carolina.
Children of Exum Elliott and Catherine Lamb are:
+Zilpha Elliott, b. March 15, 1792, Back Creek, Randolph Co., NC, d. October 05, 1813, Surry (now Yadkin) Co., North Carolina.
+Jacob Elliott, b. August 22, 1793, Back Creek, Randolph Co., North Carolina, d. October 27, 1868, Dublin, Wayne Co., Indiana.
Huldah Elliott, b. June 24, 1795, Back Creek, Randolph Co., North Carolina, d. August 27, 1796, Back Creek, Randolph Co., North Carolina.
+John Elliott, b. February 12, 1797, Back Creek, Randolph County, North Carolina, d. August 23, 1839, Dublin, Wayne County, Indiana.
+Elwood Elliott, b. February 16, 1799, Back Creek, Randolph Co., North Carolina, d. August 26, 1864, Somerset, Wabash County, Indiana.
+Isaac Elliott, b. March 16, 1801, Back Creek, Randolph County, North Carolina, d. April 02, 1871, Grant County, Indiana.
+Rebecca Elliott, b. January 31, 1803, Back Creek, Randolph County, North Carolina, d. May 10, 1875, Centreville, Wayne Co., Iindiana.
+Ursula [Ursley] Elliott, b. July 07, 1805, Back Creek, Randolph County, North Carolina, d. 1825, Wayne County, Indiana.
+Axiom S. Elliott, b. January 07, 1808, Deep Creek, Surry County, North Carolina, d. December 08, 1887, Dublin, Wayne County, Indiana.
+Nathan Elliott, b. March 15, 1810, Deep Creek, Surry County, North Carolina, d. February 13, 1874, Vermilion County, Illinois.
Sarah Elizabeth Elliott, b. October 28, 1811, Deep Creek, Surry County, North Carolina, d. December 27, 1888, Hendricks County, Indiana.
+Mark Elliott, b. December 28, 1813, Deep Creek, Surry County, North Carolina, d. April 06, 1858, Centre Township, Wayne County, Indiana.
+Abel Elliott, b. July 26, 1818, Greens Fork, Wayne County, Indiana, d. January 28, 1894, Napoleon, La Fayette County, Missouri.
Exum Elliott (b. April 10, 1765, d. October 08, 1841)
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