Portrait and biographical record of Shelby and Moultrie counties Illinois, containing ..sketches of prominent ..citizens ..the governors of the state ..the presidents of the United States . tled in 1855. Our suhject was horn in AndersonCounty. November 23, 1K2.~>. He is a son ofJohn and Melville (Berry) Elliott, natives respec-tively of Virginia and Kentucky, in which latterState they were married and where they began theserious consideration of life together on a subjects father died in 1846. His mother sub-sequently came to Illinois and passed her decliningyears with her son
Portrait and biographical record of Shelby and Moultrie counties Illinois, containing ..sketches of prominent ..citizens ..the governors of the state ..the presidents of the United States . tled in 1855. Our suhject was horn in AndersonCounty. November 23, 1K2.~>. He is a son ofJohn and Melville (Berry) Elliott, natives respec-tively of Virginia and Kentucky, in which latterState they were married and where they began theserious consideration of life together on a subjects father died in 1846. His mother sub-sequently came to Illinois and passed her decliningyears with her son. passing away from this life athe advanced age of seventy-eight years. The original of our sketch was one of elevenchildren and the youngest of these was twelveyears of age before there was a death in the subject was the sixth in the family in order ofbirth, having five older and five younger brothersand sisters. During boyhood his school advantageswere limited, hut since reaching manhood he hasapplied himself diligently to study, and is a vora-cious reader of good literature. While yet a youth, he learned the trade of car-pentry in Indiana, to which State he had removed. J> :x^*
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