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• Residence: Graysburg, Greene, Tennessee, USA
• Birth: 1840, North Carolina, USA
• Residence: 1850, Burke, North Carolina, USA
• Residence: 1870, Greene, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1880, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1900, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1910, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1910, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA
• Death: 30 Mar 1928, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA

John married Fincher, Sarah Catherine on 10 Apr 1862 in Greene, Tennessee, USA. Sarah (daughter of Fincher, Joseph and Stonecipher, Susannah) was born on 14 Feb 1845 in Greene, Tennessee, USA; died on 9 May 1918 in Piney Flats, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA; was buried after 9 May 1918 in New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Blountville, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Phillips, Sarah Ellen was born on 20 May 1872 in Greene, Tennessee, USA; died on 6 Jun 1947 in Bluff City, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA; was buried on 8 Jun 1947 in New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Blountville, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA.

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• FSID: GM74-JD5
• Residence: 1840, Wilkes, North Carolina, USA; Bomgarners District
• Military: 26 Jul 1861, Alexander, North Carolina, USA
• Military: 1 Feb 1862, Burke, North Carolina, USA

Elijah married Bumgarner, Michel on 24 Aug 1836 in Wilkes, North Carolina, USA. Michel (daughter of Bumgarner, Amon Davidson Sr and Miller, Sarah C) was born on 20 May 1816 in Taylorsville, Alexander, North Carolina, USA; died on 28 Jan 1891 in Greene, Tennessee, USA; was buried after 28 Jan 1891 in New Lebanon Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Baileyton, Greene, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: K2JJ-PJB
• Residence: 1850, Burke, North Carolina, USA
• Residence: 1870, Greene, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1880, Greene, Tennessee, USA

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• FSID: LCXT-9K1
• Military: Between 1812 and 1815, Kentucky, USA; Pvt. Phillips was a member of the 17th Regiment, Kentucky Militia, known as Francesco's Militia He was discharged as a private
• Residence: 1850, Pike, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Nathan Phillips was the son of Thomas and Mary Phillips. Thomas who was born in 1755 in Dorchester, Maryland, the son of Philemon Phillips.

Nathan and Nancy Elledge were married by Joseph Harper in Bath County, Kentucky, 12 Dec 1818. He was a physician. On 22 October 1828, their small family became the third family of their settlement group to arrive in Griggsville, Pike County, Illinois. The Elledges, Scholls, and Boones were a family unit, descendants of Squire and Rebecca Morgan Boone. They were on the road as soon as the Western Lands were open for settlement.

Military records show, and in September 1861 Nancy, as a widow, swore that her husband entered service in Fayette County. She stated the discharge papers had been destroyed by fire when their home burned about 15 Feb 1829. Pvt. Phillips was a member of the 17th Regiment, Kentucky Militia, known as Francesco's Militia He was discharged as a private.
**Source: Gene Clark in Genealogy Trails, Pike County Illinois

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Dr. Philips died in 1852 and was buried in the old, now defunct Phillips-Davis Cemetery, located on a river bluff near the Illinois River. Nature has reclaimed the area. The stone marker that was placed on his grave in the old cemetery has been repaired. It now stands in Bethel Cemetery. It is not known if his remains were reinterred; but that was a common practice in the mid 1800s.

Comtributed by Anna Jaech

Nathan married Elledge, Nancy on 12 Dec 1818 in Bath, Kentucky, USA. Nancy (daughter of Elledge, Francis and Boone, Charity Ann) was born on 4 Oct 1788 in Wilkes, North Carolina, USA; died in 1861 in Graysville, Sullivan, Indiana, USA; was buried in 1861 in Mann-Turman Prairie Cemetery, Graysville, Sullivan, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: LKZ8-QPH
• Residence: 1850, Pike, Illinois, USA

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Daughter of Francis Elledge (1749-1844) and Charity Boone Elledge (1758-1853), who were of the durable pioneer group that left Pennsylvania seeking the freedom of the wilderness of North Carolina where they paused for a time before claiming the wilds of Kentucky. Her parents were born in North Carolina and died in a lovely settlement overlooking the Mississippi River in western Illinois.

Charity Boone Elledge was the daughter of Edward Boone (#8319109) and Martha Bryan Elledge (#42701142). Edward was six years younger than his brother, Daniel Boone. Martha Bryan was only one year younger than her sister, Rebecca Bryan Boone, wife of Daniel.

And so the mother of Nancy Elledge Phillips was the grand niece niece of both Daniel Boone & his wife, Rebecca.

Contributed by Anna Jaech

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• FSID: L286-T26
• Will: 1879, Alexander, North Carolina, USA

Amon married Miller, Sarah C. Sarah was born in 1795 in Lincoln, North Carolina, USA; died in 1852 in Alexander, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: LBVV-1JZ
• Residence: 1850, Alexander, North Carolina, USA

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• FSID: M7T8-R11

Thomas married Powell, Mary. Mary was born on 15 Apr 1744 in Knighton, Radnorshire, Wales; was christened on 15 Apr 1744 in Knighton, Radnorshire, Wales; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: LHXP-4DB
• Baptism: 15 Apr 1744, Knighton, Radnorshire, Wales

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• FSID: LT7H-5KF

Notes:

"Here, too, (meaning the Benjamin Elledge Burying Grounds-kr) undoubtedly is the dust of Charity Elledge, mother of Benjamin Elledge and an own daughter of the Boones. While there is no conclusive proof, it is probable that Benjamin's father, Francis Elledge, is also buried here. No fragment of stone found at this place bears any lettering that could be connected with Francis Elledge, but the writings of Edward Boone Scholl indicate that Francis and Charity were buried together near Griggsville, while the late Samuel Peake of Winchester remembered distinctly having been told that old Jesse Elledge's mother was buried across the river in Pike county. A small fragment of stone found on the cemetery site bears the last three letters of the name "Charity," doubtless being a fragment of a stone erected at the grave of "Charity, wife of Francis Elledge."

Francis and Charity both lived to a great old age. Francis Elledge was born in North Carolina in March, 1749. Both he and Charity, according to Boone Scholl, "lived past 95." Francis must, therefore, have died about the year 1844. Records left by descendants of his daughter, Mary Elledge Alcorn, indicate that he was a son of William Elledge and Sarah Kindred, pioneers in the Shenandoah Valley, in the county of Augusta, Virginia, where the William Scholls, parents of Pike county Abraham, challenged the ancient wilderness. It is probable that the early Scholls and the early Elledges came together out of the Shenandoah Valley into North Carolina.

Charity Boone, eldest daughter of Edward (Neddie) Boone and Martha Bryan, was born in October, 1758. She died about the year 1853. Mrs. Spraker in "The Boone Family" says: "Charity Boone married Francis Elledge or Ellege or Willege. They followed their children into Illinois, settling near Winchester, where they both died— he first, and she later, about 1853." It is likely that Francis and Charity lived for a time with some of their children in Old Morgan, now Scott county, coming later in their old age to the home of the son near Griggsville. There is no mention, however, of either of them in records of Old Morgan or in Scott county, erected therefrom in 1839.

Francis Elledge and Charity Boone were married in North Carolina in 1778, in the time of the Revolution. They came out to Kentucky with her father, Edward Boone and his family, in a pack train headed by Daniel Boone, in 1779, reaching famous Fort Boonesborough on the Kentucky river on Christmas Day, 1779.

During that first winter in Kentucky, they suffered the hardships common to all the settlers in that new land. That winter was the bitterest in 18th century Kentucky history. While the patriots of the Revolution were suffering awful agonies in the huts of Morristown, the settlers of Kentucky faced famine in an inhospitable land. The cold had set in early. Deep snows, crusted on top, filled the wilderness. Game was gaunt with hunger. There was only one consolation, the bitter cold kept the Indians at home. Boone hunted, going far afield, seeking to relieve the suffering. The wolf was at the door of nearly every cabin in Kentucky.

Boone divided his corn, to the last few grains, with the newcomers. When spring came, and the sap began to flow, the lean buffaloes came into the sugar camps and could with difficulty be driven away, so starved were they. Amid such privations, Francis and Charity established a home in the Kentucky land.

In 1781, Francis and Charity appear to have been at Squire Boone's Station on Brashear Creek; at least there is record of Francis Elledge being wounded in an Indian ambuscade during the retreat of the whites from this station in September that year. Two or three of Francis and Charity's children had then been born.

In an early chapter the writer suggested that Francis Elledge and Charity Boone had other children than the eight who were then definitely known. There was considerable evidence that three others associated with the history of the Illinois country derived from the same parentage. A recent discovery of an old record at Maysville in the home of William Riley Willsey, 83-year-old descendant of the Boones, proves that Francis and Charity had in fact 11 children.

This record of Charity Boone's children was handed down to Mr. Willsey by a grandson of Mary Elledge Alcorn, daughter of Francis Elledge and Charity Boone and a sister of Benjamin, Boone, James and Jesse Elledge of early Griggsville. This record was written down by Mr. Willsey in an old account book and is as follows:

"Francis Elledge born 1749 - Charity Elledge born 1758 - father and mother of Mary Elledge, James Elledge, Benjamin Elledge, Boone Elledge, Patsy Elledge, Nancy Elledge, Edward Elledge, Charity Elledge, William Elledge, Jesse Elledge, Jemima Elledge. Record given me by Cousin Willie Alcorn, son of Uncle Jesse." (Note: Charity, named above, was also known as Sarah, and Jemima, who married William Scholl, was known also as Martha.)

Mr. Willsey's mother, Malinda Rogers, was a daughter of David Redmon and Fanny Alcorn Rogers, she being a daughter of Robert (Robin) Alcorn and Mary Elledge. Three of Mary Elledge's sons, William, Benjamin and Jesse Alcorn, were prominent in early Pike county.

Much confusion exists among descendants of Charity Boone as to whose daughter she was. Numerous of them were brought up in the belief that she was a daughter of old Daniel, whereas she was the eldest daughter of Daniel's younger brother, Edward. Mr. Willsey is one of Charity Boone's descendants who long believed that he descended directly from the famous Indian fighter. In his old account book, the writer found this entry:

"My Grandmother, Fanny Rogers (nee) Alcorn, said to me that her mother was a daughter of Daniel Boone.
-W. R. Willsey." Also this entry:

"Benjamin Alcorn said Charity (Charity Boone Elledge) was a daughter of old Daniel Boone, the great hunter."

Benjamin Alcorn, born in Kentucky in 1814, is buried in the old Shinn cemetery near Summer Hill, which contains also the dust of Pioneer Daniel Shinn. Jesse Alcorn is buried at Griggsville. William's burial place is unknown.

In W. R. Willsey's library is a copy of W. H. Bogart's "Daniel Boone and the Hunters of Kentucky." In this book is a picture of Daniel Boone, clad in hunting costume and coonskin cap. Underneath this picture, Mr. Willsey has written: "My Great Great Grandfather."

Mr. Willsey states that at a later time he was informed by Jesse Alcorn, who was a younger son of Charity Boone's daughter, Mary, that Charity was a daughter of Edward Boone and a niece of Daniel.

Among the Alcorn records is an old woodcut representing the artist's conception of the killing of Edward Boone by the Indians in Kentucky on October 5, 1780. This picture is from an original drawing from the "Life of Daniel Boone," by William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), published in 1888. It is entitled "The Killing and Scalping of Boone's Brother." It shows six Indians, bedecked with war paint and feathers, three mounted, three on foot, one of them lifting the hair of the fallen Elledge ancestor with his left hand while in the other gleams the scalping knife at the victim's scalp. The scene is a bit of grassy meadow in a Kentucky valley, where Edward and his brother Daniel had paused to graze their horses, Edward falling under the fire of hidden Indians as he sat against a tree cracking hickory nuts on a stone in his lap. Daniel on this occasion escaped the redskins after killing their pursuing dog, described by Edward's Pike county grandson, Edward Boone Scholl, as a "smell hound.""

Francis married Boone, Charity Ann. Charity (daughter of Boone, Edward and Bryan, Martha) was born on 11 Oct 1758 in Rowan, North Carolina, USA; died on 7 Apr 1843 in Pike, Illinois, USA; was buried after 7 Apr 1843 in Benjamin Elledge Cemetery, Griggsville, Pike, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: LHFD-ND8

Notes:

In the deed given by Reynolds Elledge (son of Benjamin) to the Sleights in 1865, the grantors (Reynolds M. Elledge and his wife Zerilda) reserved one-eighth of an acre, a plot 4 ½ rods square, for "a burying ground for the heirs of the late Benjamin Elledge deceased," the plot being described with great particularity. This burial plot was 60 rods north and 32 rods east of the southwest corner of the old Elledge 80. It lay about 100 yards from the early Elledge log house; it is today traversed by a farm driveway, along which are strewn a few fragments of stones that once marked the burials of numerous descendants of the Boone line."
… >The cemetery is located in Griggsville Township.

Sometime in the past, tombstones found in the Benjamin Elledge cemetery were moved to a shed/garage/barn to be protected. They have since been moved (by persons unknown) to the Uriah Elledge Cemetery. It is unknown if there are remaining stones buried underground in the old Benjamin Elledge cemetery location.

The following was given to me by Alice Huitt Preston (thank you!):

Father: *Edward (Neddie) BOONE b: 19 NOV 1740 in Exeter Township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania
Mother: Martha BRYAN b: 19 MAR 1740 in Winchester, Frederick Co., N.C. Colony, British Empire

Married: Francis ELLEDGE III b: 18 FEB 1750 in Yadkin District, Rowan Co., North Carolina Married: 25 DEC 1776 in Rowan Co., North Carolina

Children:
Mary Polly ELLEDGE b: 19 OCT 1777 in North Carolina
Jesse Bryan ELLEDGE b: 12 AUG 1779 in 20 miles from Squire Boone Station,Clark Co., Kentucky
James ELLEDGE b: 12 OCT 1779 in Clark, Kentucky
Charity Sarah ELLEDGE b: 5 OCT 1780 in Boone's Fort, Clark, Kentucky
Benjamin ELLEDGE b: 19 AUG 1782 in Bryans Station, Clark Co., Kentucky
Leonard Boone ELLEDGE b: 24 DEC 1783 in Boone's Fort, Clark Co., Kentucky or Georgia
Martha Jane ELLEDGE b: 24 JUL 1786 in Adair, Kentucky or North Carolina
Nancy ELLEDGE b: 4 OCT 1788 in Boone's Fort, Clark, Kentucky
*Edward Boone ELLEDGE b: 30 SEP 1791 in Clark Co., Kentucky
Charity Sarah ELLEDGE b: 4 MAY 1794 in Kentucky
William ELLEDGE b: 12 JUN 1797 in Boone's Creek, Clark, Kentucky
Jemima ELLEDGE b: 29 SEP 1803 in Kentucky
The following was given to me by Alice Huitt Preston (thank you!):

Father: *Edward (Neddie) BOONE b: 19 NOV 1740 in Exeter Township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania
Mother: Martha BRYAN b: 19 MAR 1740 in Winchester, Frederick Co., N.C. Colony, British Empire

Married: Francis ELLEDGE III b: 18 FEB 1750 in Yadkin District, Rowan Co., North Carolina Married: 25 DEC 1776 in Rowan Co., North Carolina

Children:
Mary Polly ELLEDGE b: 19 OCT 1777 in North Carolina
Jesse Bryan ELLEDGE b: 12 AUG 1779 in 20 miles from Squire Boone Station,Clark Co., Kentucky
James ELLEDGE b: 12 OCT 1779 in Clark, Kentucky
Charity Sarah ELLEDGE b: 5 OCT 1780 in Boone's Fort, Clark, Kentucky
Benjamin ELLEDGE b: 19 AUG 1782 in Bryans Station, Clark Co., Kentucky
Leonard Boone ELLEDGE b: 24 DEC 1783 in Boone's Fort, Clark Co., Kentucky or Georgia
Martha Jane ELLEDGE b: 24 JUL 1786 in Adair, Kentucky or North Carolina
Nancy ELLEDGE b: 4 OCT 1788 in Boone's Fort, Clark, Kentucky
*Edward Boone ELLEDGE b: 30 SEP 1791 in Clark Co., Kentucky
Charity Sarah ELLEDGE b: 4 MAY 1794 in Kentucky
William ELLEDGE b: 12 JUN 1797 in Boone's Creek, Clark, Kentucky
Jemima ELLEDGE b: 29 SEP 1803 in Kentucky