Martin Slaughter Elliott

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https://www.occgs.com/projects/rescue/family_files/files/ELLIOTT_EL...

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Sent by: Paula Dedmon

The following information was provided by P. Cleveland Gardner, Cleveland County Historian. Quoting from the 1939 WPA Cemetery Census Records: "Martin Elliott was a soldier in the Revolutionary War; moved from Mecklenburg County, Virginia to Rutherford County, NC. In 1802, settled between First Broad River and Brushy Creek, south of Dover Mill, and now known as Cleveland County. He was buried there, and a Government Marker is erected at his grave in a few yards of his old home site. Martin Elliott was the progenitor of the Elliott family in Cleveland County, N.C."

Martin Elliott married Sarah Anne Finch. They had the following four children, possibly others:

Nancy Elliott

Adam Elliott

James Finch Elliott

John Crenshaw Elliott (Elliott Cemetery west of Polkville, NC is named for him.)

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Below sent by: Vonnie Cantrell

DAR designated Martin Elliott DAR Ancestor #:A037536.

Sarah Elliott married Thomas Goode

Robert Elliott married Lucinda Maness

Virginia "Jenny" Jincy Elliot married George Cabiness

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Martin Elliott married Elizabeth (Betsey) McCombs (1806 - 1860) on September 15, 1826 in Rutherford County. The marriage was performed by John Harrill.