Dr John Elliot

• BIRTH 1760 New York, USA
• DEATH 26 Feb 1807 (aged 46–47) Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
• BURIAL Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
• PLOT Section: 77 MEMORIAL ID 126789671 Bio information found at the Dayton Metro Library.

John Elliot was born in New York, probably around 1760, perhaps earlier. During the American Revolution, John served as a surgeon's mate in a New York regiment. After the Revolutionary War ended, John Elliot was commissioned, in a document signed by George Washington, as a surgeon in the United States Army. He served in the west under Arthur St. Clair and Anthony Wayne. He was stationed for a time at Fort Washington, near Cincinnati, and he served with Wayne in the campaigns of 1794-1795, which resulted in the Treaty of Greenville. John was mustered out with the rest of his regiment, being honorably discharged on June 1, 1802. He then became the first doctor in Dayton, Ohio.

About 1789, John Elliot married Anna Dorett. Anna was born about 1774 and died about 1794. John and Anna had two children, Julia Ann Elliot and Henrietta Eliza Elliot, both of whom were born at the military post in Vincennes, Indiana. After the death of their mother, the girls went to live with Mrs. Jeremiah Hunt, of Cincinnati, who raised the girls with her own family. The Hunts were family friends of the Elliots.

By 1805 the girls seem to be living with the family of Jesse Hunt, Jeremiah's brother when Jeremiah moved to Natchez Mississippi. The girls were still residing in Cincinnati when their father died rather suddenly, having been ill only one day and two nights. Dr. Elliot was buried with military honors on Feb. 28 1809, including a military procession from his home on Water Street(Monument Ave.) to the old burial ground on Sixth Street. His remains were later moved to Woodland Cemetery.

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Children

Julia Ann Elliot Crane
1790–1861

Henrietta Eliza Elliot Peirce
1792–1864

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