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Elisha married Polly at a very young age. Polly bore him 5 children before her death in 1845.
Elisha came to Tippah County, Miss. from Middle Tennesse, settling on a farm five miles northwest of Ripley. The farm bordered on the Noth Tippah Channel with an active spring of water, making a creek to the channel. It was at this spring of water that he put his tanner for curing hides for the people of the area as well as for himself. When the old site was visited in march 1968, about six depressions were visible where the vats had been. Buttercups were alson in bloom. Native rock form the chimneys lay in a pile, marking where the house had stood.
Working for and living with Elisha was Joe Luke, an Indian who had remained here after all other Indians were gone. He was in charge of the wood and bark and could find dry wood when no one else could. Joe Luke was friendly with and helped the neighbors. He is buried in Antioch Cemetery, Tippah County, Mississippi. As long as his friends Willian "Billy" and Murry Franklin "Coot" Shelton lived they kept a wooden marker at his grave.
At Elisha's death he owned 114 acres of land which was divided among his heirs. His living daughters were to have all the binds (quilts) and bedding and all belongings to the beds to be equally divided between them.
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1818 - 1891 (72 years)
