1  Wilhelm (William) Elrod b: 10 Oct 1706 to 1708 Palatinate, Germany d: Abt. 1768 aft 1744 
Lancaster Co PA
..	+Anna Bischoff/ Beschel	b: Abt. 1722 Warwick PA-Lancaster Co m: 14 Jun 1736 Warwick 
PA-Lancaster Co	
.....	2  	William Col. Elrod b: 1737-1743	d: Mar 1782
.....	2  	Samuel Elrod b: 16 Jun 1737 Monocacy MD-Frederick Co		
.....	2  	Elizabeth Elrod	b: 06 Jan 1739 prob Monocasy MD-Frederick Co		
.....	2  	Susanna Elrod b: 06 Jun 1741		
.....	2  	Catherine Elrod	b: 1743-1748		
.........		+James King		m: 12 May 1767 NC	
.....	2  	Conrad Elrod b: 03 Oct 1749 prob Monocacy MD Frederick Co d: 05 Apr 1817 
Blowing Rock NC-Watauga Co
.........		+Mary Hoffman			
.....	2  	Peter Elrod b: 1755 d: Bef. 20 Jan 1815 Anderson Co SC
.........		+Eve Waggoner

Wilhelm Elrod and his sister, Ann Elizabeth Elrod, were both married 14 Jun 1736, by the same 
Preacher in the same place.   Wilhelm to Anna Bischel, Ann Elizabeth to Heinrick Bischoff.
Descendants of Heinrick Bischoff were later called BISHOP.  
The marriage of these four by the same man on the same date in the same place suggests that 
there was a double wedding.  It also suggests that brother and sister were marrying sister 
and brother.
Their names are spelled so nearly the same that they actually were the same, but misrecorded.
This Anna was still alive when her (presumably) son Col William Elrod was killed in March 1782.

This man was PDE's unproven candidate for the Elrod child accompanying his parents to the 
New World.
On July 23 1742 a William Elrod leased 200 acres from the Estate of his Lordship's Manor: 
"Maryland Records-Frederick Co-Monocacy" p. 53.

William Elrod and William Elrod Jr had 180 acres in Deep River in Orange Co NC.  They sold 
out and went to Surry Co NC.  William Elrod, Jr. was the right age to have been the chainman 
for a reported surveying, and would have been about 17 years old in 1754.  Thus he would also 
have been of the right age to be the Tory Colonel Elrod.

Also, note that Wilhelm Elrod died before 1768, thus making plausible the fact that Col. 
William Elrod was living in the forks of the Yadkin with his mother.

Charlotte Curlee Ramsey
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cramsey/index.html