Sarah Ann Riston

...I was permitted to see the original records in a small book in the same library (of the Maryland Historical Society). They were married in St. Johns Episcopal Church in Prince George's County on February 6, 1790. The original ink was faded and spidery, but legible. This church is still standing and Ed Parkison located it near Fort Washington and just across the Potomac from Mt. Vernon.

Sarah Ann Mayo was believed to be a niece of George Washington. I have tried to find this in research. In a diary of George Washington, it mentioned, "....Mayo and daughter Miss Ann had spent the night." None of the family searches have found the records of Elisha's or Sarah Ann's parents. However, Ed Parkison did find her death certificate in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, which listed her father as Joseph Mayo.

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/8248/library/johnclifford.html

A cousin Maurine Clifford, also has searched and this is her quote. "Elisha's son, John was born in Prince George county, Maryland the 25th of November 1790. We do not know when the family began the trek, which many of the Easterners did, to the west for new land. We find that Henrietta was born in 1793 in the District of Columbia; Rachel in 1796; Thomas 1800 in Virginia; Elizabeth about 1802 Kentucky; Nancy, 1804 Kentucky; Elijah in Virginia; Reuben about 1810; Mary or Polly about 1813 Kentucky; and Naomi in 1816. We find these stated in the family census records. In copying many of the deeds, Elisha and later Sarah Ann and son John held, we think Elisha died in about 1816, possibly on the Pond River in Christian County, Kentucky where the family lived and owned property."

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/8248/library/johnclifford.html https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/8243437

7. 1850 Census Index/Microfilm (online at GenealogyLibrary.com): District No. 2, Christian Co., KY, p. 403A, 629/672, enumerated 3 Oct 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/FGS/D/DavisClement-LydiaElizabethTeague...

http://www.preservationhowardcounty.org/Blandair/Past.htm

Submitter for b. & d. dates:

Jerald L HEMPHILL

2626 Alamosa Place Lake Mary, FL 32746-2371

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mdpgeorg/pg-data/surb.html