JOSEPH ADDISON ELLEDGE and Marica Williams were married September 28, 1843 at the John A. Williams home south of
Detroit. They went to housekeeping on the Walk place nearby, in Section 32, Detroit, which John A Williams, father
of Marica, had bought from the heirs of Jonathan Walk, deceased, in 1847. Joseph Elledge purchased this 80-acre
tract from his father-in-law in 1858.
Joseph A. Elledge and Marica Williams had seven children, Elizabeth Camilia, Sarah, Mary L., Martha, Margaret Maria,
Ira Alfred and Otis Emery.
Elizabeth Camilia, first born of the children, born November 6, 1844, died August 28, 1865, a victim of typhoid
fever which took three of the Elledge family, the father and two daughters, in the closing year of the Civil War.
Camilia was aged 20 years, nine months and 22 days. She is buried in Blue River cemetery, south of the village
of Detroit, on the Milton road. Near her sleep her parents and the sister who died a month earlier than she.
Sarah Elledge, who was born August 14, 1846, married James Thomas Jones, in Pike county on March 28, 1866, he a
son of Allen Jones. They located in Crawford county, Kansas, where their children were reared. They moved later
to Mounds, Oklahoma, and both died and are buried there. He died February 21, 1913; she on October 12, 1914. They
had five children, namely, Nellie Elledge, Ira Edwin, Jessie Pearl, Florida Belle, and Robert Allen Jones.
Nellie Elledge Jones married Roy Bennett in Denver, Colorado. She died at Denver in 1906, leaving one son, Harold
Bennett, whose whereabouts are unknown.
Ira Edwin Jones married Flo Widdoes and their address is Box 257, Sebastopol, California. They have two children,
Mae Frances and Waunema Belle. Mae Frances married Brinley Williams, a Welshman, and Waunema Belle married Roy
Holman, both of Sebastopol, California. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have one child, Constance Louise Williams.
***NOTE***[I wanted to make a correction, to the above info.
You have Ira marring Flo Widdoes with two
children, Frances and Waunema. Correct. But, Waunema (my grandmother)
married Herbert Warren, not Roy Holman. I'm not sure who Roy Holman is.]
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Jessie Pearl Jones married John H. Pickett in Farlington, Kansas, in 1900, and their children are Clarence, Ina
Flo, Orville and George Pickett, all of whom are in Oklahoma. Clarence Pickett married Thelma Long and they have
two daughters, Faye and Eileen.
Florida Belle (known as Flo) married James Olin Dikis of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1929. They live at Sand Springs, Oklahoma,
Mrs. Dikis being postmistress there. They have no children.
Robert Allen Jones married Lulu Biffle Thomas of Harrison, Arkansas, in 1925. They live at Harrison and have no
children.
Mary L. Elledge, third child of Joseph and Marica Elledge, born March 10, 1849, married William H. Carter in Pike
county December 12, 1867. They located in Des Moines, Iowa, where William H. Carter, a doctor of medicine, practiced
his profession. Mary Carter died in Des Moines in 1927, her husband, Dr. Carter, having preceded her in death.
A daughter, Irma Belle Carter, married Emery English and they reside in Des Moines.
Martha Elledge, fourth child of the Joseph Elledges, born October 5, 1851, died July 28, 1865 of typhoid fever,
her death preceding that of her sister Camilia by one month. She was 13 years, nine months and 23 days old. She
is buried at Blue River.
Margret Maria Elledge, fifth child of Joseph and Marica, born October 29, 1854, married Lawrence Henry Allen of
Milton, May 2, 1875, he a son of Judge John W. Allen who afterward married Margret Maria's mother. They were married
by Justice R. C. Allen.
Judge John Woodson Allen was born in Virginia, October 21, 1814, and acquired his elementary education in the little
school house at Seven Pines, subsequently pursuing a classical course in Cold Harbor, gaining a practical understanding
of Latin, mathematics and surveying. At 19 he began teaching school in his native state and a year later went to
Kentucky where he continued in the teaching profession. He remained in Kentucky until 1841, when he married Louisa
Baker and removed to Saline county, Missouri, locating on a tract of land which he cultivated until 1847, meantime
continuing his work as a teacher. In 1847 he came to Pike county, Illinois, locating at Milton, where he taught
school for a number of years, at the same time carrying on farming operations in Detroit and Montezuma townships.
He figured prominently in public affairs and from 1861 until 1865 served as county judge. He was supervisor of
Detroit township for several years and was also justice of the peace, and in 1865 he made a canvass for the U.
S. Census Bureau. His wife, who was Louisa Baker, was born in Kentucky March 22, 1824.
John W. Allen's father was Littlebury Allen, a native of Henrico county, Virginia, where he spent his entire life,
being born there in 1767. He married Jane Austin, also a native of Henrico. He was an official in the United States
Bank, a branch of which was established at Richmond, Virginia, under a charter by President Washington in 1796.
He was afterward doorkeeper of the state senate of Virginia for 28 years and had a wide acquaintance among the
distinguished men of the Old Dominion. He died in 1832, his wife having preceded him in 1821.
Children of John W. Allen and Louisa Baker included Dr. Charles Isham Allen of Milton, Louisa Jane (Mrs. Turner
B. Morton) of St. Louis, Missouri, L. H. Allen who married Maria Elledge, Judith Frances (Mrs. Thomas Brooks Ellis)
of Detroit and Pittsfield, and Dr. Austin R. Allen who located in Bradshaw, Nebraska. The latter began his medical
studies at Milton with his brother, Dr. C. I. Allen, who began practicing in 1866. Dr. Austin also established
himself in practice at Milton, prior to removing to Nebraska. He was born in Detroit township in 1857. Judge John
W. Allen, the father, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. T. B. Ellis, in Detroit on December 13, 1901. He is
buried in Douglas cemetery, northeast of Milton. Dr. C. I. Allen, who was born in 1843 and died in 1930, is also
buried at Douglas, and beside him his wife, Louisa Grimes, born in 1847, who died in 1920.
Lawrence Henry Allen and his wife, Margret Maria Elledge, located near Larned, Kansas, and both died and are buried
there. A daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Beeth, lives at Bisbee, Arizona, and a son, Edgar Allen, at La Junta, Colorado.
Ira Alfred Elledge, sixth child and first son of Joseph Addison Elledge and Marica Williams, was born in Detroit
township March 8, 1857. On August 29, 1878, at Milton, he married Mary Catherine Brown, a daughter of pioneer Wesley
Brown and a sister of Al R. Brown of Montezuma township and a half-sister of Wesley Brown of Pearl.
Ira Elledge and Mary Brown had five children, all born in Pike county, namely, Ernest Edward, Joseph Ervin, Albert
G., Ira Loyd and Jesse Dutton Elledge.
Ernest Edward Elledge, born August 3, 1879, lives on an 80-acre farm four miles south of Cherryvale, Kansas. He
has no family. His mother, now widowed, resides with him.
Joseph Ervin Elledge, born February 21, 1881, married Ethel Power and they live at 1523 West Colorado Avenue, Colorado
Springs, Colorado. They have one daughter.
Albert G. Elledge, born December 8, 1884, married Olive Dillon and they live at Del Norte, Colorado, in the heart
of the irrigated potato region. They have two daughters.
Ira Loyd Elledge, born February 25, 1887, married Mabel Coover and they reside in Chickasha, Oklahoma where Mr.
Elledge is in the monument business. They have two sons and one daughter.
Jesse Dutton Elledge, named for a pioneer citizen of Pittsfield, was born July 12, 1891, being the latest born
of the children of Ira Elledge. He married, first, Anna Wampler, and by this marriage had one daughter and one
son. Following his first wife's death, he married Grace Lyness, and they reside on a 160-acre farm near Cherryvale,
Kansas.
Ira A. Elledge and his family left Milton September 26, 1894 and located near Lamar, Missouri. They lived there
nine years and then removed to Walnut, Kansas, locating on a farm four miles north of that place. Ira Elledge died
there on November 20, 1907 and is buried in the cemetery three miles north of Walnut. Otis Emery Elledge, seventh
and last of Joseph A. Elledge's children, was born in Detroit township October 10, 1860. He was named in part for
the Emery family, who were neighbors of the Elledges and many of whose descendants still live in Pike county. The
Emery name is perpetuated among descendants of Otis Elledge.
Otis Elledge married Betty Johnson in 1884 and soon after the birth of their first child in 1885 he moved to Bowling
Green, Missouri, and later to Vandalia, Missouri, where he pursued his profession of blacksmithing. By his first
wife, Betty Johnson, he had three children, namely, LeRoy, Elbert and Ina Mae.
LeRoy Elledge, born June 25, 1885 in Pike county, married Stella Neal of Vandalia, Missouri, and they had two children,
Jack Neal and Billy Elledge, both of whom, single, reside in St. Louis. The parents live in Slater, Missouri.
Elbert J. Elledge, born in Vandalia, Missouri, January 9, 1887, married Eddie McDaniel and they have one child,
Jennie Lee, one year old. They Live in Vandalia.
Ina Mae Elledge, born in Vandalia, Missouri, July 14, 1889, married Kenneth Meredith and they reside in Toledo,
Ohio. They have no children.
Betty Johnson, first wife of Otis Elledge, died, and on December 20, 1894 at Vandalia, Mr. Elledge again married,
his second wife being Hester Cowley. Of this marriage there were four children, Betty Marie, William Thomas, Jo
Genelle and Emery Maxine Elledge.
Betty Marie, born at Vandalia November 9, 1897, died there in 1916, and is buried in Vandalia cemetery. She was
unmarried.
William Thomas Elledge, born at Vandalia July 13, 1900, married Pearl Sandige of Marshall, Missouri, and they reside
in Winslow, Arizona. They have no children of their own but are adopting a niece, Patricia Jo Morehead, who has
been with them since birth.
Jo Genelle Elledge, born at Vandalia August 20, 1905, married Turner Morehead May 6, 1924. Mr. Morehead died October
5, 1935 and on the following March 17th his posthumous daughter, Patricia Jo Morehead, was born, the baby who is
being adopted by her uncle, William Thomas Elledge of Winslow, Arizona, who took the little one following her father's
death. Other children of Jo Genelle Elledge and Turner Morehead are Bobby Joyce Morehead, born May 8, 1925, now
attending school from 3636 Cook Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri; Fred Elledge Morehead, born June 30, 1927 and now
attending school from the Cook Avenue address in St. Louis; and Alta Lee Morehead, born February 2, 1930, also
with her grandmother, Mrs. Hester Wandell, at 3636 Cook Avenue, St. Louis.
Jo Genelle, following the death of Mr. Morehead, who is buried at Centralia, Missouri, again married, her second
and present husband being C. W. Jeter of St. Louis, an interior decorator. He and his wife are residing with her
mother at the Cook Avenue address.
Emery Maxine Elledge, fourth and last child of Otis Emery Elledge and Hester Cowley, was born at Vandalia, Missouri,
May 10, 1913. She is unmarried and holds a stenographic position with the St. Louis Medical Society and the St.
Louis Clinic. She lives with her mother at the Cook Avenue address. Her sister, Jo Genelle Jeter, is also a stenographer,
in the private office of T. J. Hargadon, St. Louis public accountant.
Otis Emery Elledge died at Vandalia November 21, 1925 and is buried in Vandalia cemetery, as is also his first
wife, Betty Johnson. Otis Elledge was prominent in the I. O. O. F. Lodge at Vandalia.
Some years after Mr. Elledge's death his widow, Hester Cowley, on February 8, 1931 married Harry Brazee Wandell
of St. Louis and since that time she has resided in St. Louis. Mr. Wandell died April 23, 1937 and is buried in
Belle Fontaine cemetery in St. Louis. He was prominent in Masonic circles and was a great lover and student of
Abraham Lincoln. On February 10 before his death in April he was called on to make an address on Lincoln before
the Magnolia Lodge of Masons in St. Louis.
In the great house of the Wandells on Cook Avenue, just west of Grand Avenue in St. Louis, live numerous of the
descendants of the Boones and of pioneer Jesse Elledge, the adventuring Baptist who first raised his voice in this
then wilderness country in 1820. The children of Otis Emery Elledge are great grandchildren of Jesse Elledge, great
great grandchildren of Francis Elledge and charity Boone, and great great great grandchildren of Edward (Neddie)
Boone who was killed and scalped by the Indians in Kentucky on October 5, 1780, when Edward and his famous brother,
Daniel, were ambushed by the Shawnees when returning home from a hunt at the Blue Licks.
Joseph Addison Elledge died on the Detroit township homestead July 14, 1865. Just two weeks later his daughter
Martha died, followed a month later by her sister, Elizabeth Camilia. All three were buried in Blue River cemetery,
nearby. Joseph A. Elledge was only forty years old.
Five years after Joseph Elledge's death, the widow, Marica (Williams) Elledge, married Frederick Lewis Nicolay,
a son of the early German immigrant, Jacob Nicolay, and a brother of John George Nicolay, editor, author and historian,
private secretary and confidential adviser to President Abraham Lincoln, United States Consul to Paris and for
fifteen years Marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States. Lewis Nicolay's son, John H. Nicolay, was also
on the staff of President Lincoln and served in the United States Treasury Department during Lincoln's term.
Frederick Lewis Nicolay's first wife, Mary Battershell, a daughter of John Battershell, early settler on Green
Pond, had died July 4, 1863, at the age of 38. They were parents of the following children: John H., Mary Catherine,
Charles J., Caroline, Conway, Lewis P., George W., Lena, Adolphus and Laura J. Nicolay.
Marica Elledge and Lewis Nicolay were married in Pittsfield September 5, 1870, with the Reverend William W. Rose,
then pastor of the Pittsfield Congregational church, officiating. They resided on Buckhorn Creek in the southern
part of Montezuma township, adjacent to the site of old Nicolay's mill, long a noted place on the Buckhorn. Here
on Buckhorn, the then unmarried Nicolay girls, Caroline and Laura, and the unmarried Elledge children, Ira, Otis
and Margret Maria, were together for a period of about 15 months intervening between the marriage of their parents
and the death of Lewis Nicolay.
Frederick Lewis Nicolay died on the Buckhorn January 9, 1872, and on March 2, 1876, his widow, Marica Williams,
married again, her third husband being Judge John W. Allen of Milton whose son, Lawrence Henry Allen, later married
Margret Maria Elledge, daughter of his stepmother by her first husband, Joseph Elledge. Henry Allen was a son of
Judge Allen by his first wife, Louisa Baker, who died September 13, 1862.
Seven of Lewis Nicolay's ten children died before their father, those surviving him being Mary Catherine (wife
of Oliver Sowers), and the two then unmarried daughters, Caroline and Laura.
Marica Williams Allen, born in North Carolina September 11, 1825, died at Milton September 18, 1892 and was buried
beside her first husband, Joseph A. Elledge, in Blue River cemetery south of Detroit. Judge Allen survived until
December 13, 1901, when he died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Judith Frances (Fannie) Ellis at Detroit. Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Brooks Ellis, at whose home he died, later moved to Pittsfield and spent their declining years
in the county seat; he died in the home on East Adams Street March 11, 1920, at the age of 87, and she on October
3, 1927, at the age of 80. Both are buried in Blue River, south of Detroit. Their children were Thomas H., who
married Mary Alberta Yelliott; John Alfred, who married Maud Yelliott; Charles I., who married Lenna Scarborough;
Elizabeth; Louise; Arthur C., who married Edna Harris; and Richard Mortimer, who married Jeanette Haskins. The
father served in Company C, 99th Illinois Infantry, in the Civil War.
Fourth and last child of the pioneering Baptist, Jesse Elledge, and his wife, Elizabeth Philips, was the girl,
Anna Maria Elledge, born in Pike county in 1827. On February 2, 1843, she married Anderson Kinman in a double wedding
ceremony, the other couple being Anderson's brother, Nathan Kinman, and Miss Eliza Cadwell. Anna Maria's father,
the Reverend Jesse Elledge, performed both ceremonies.
Anderson Kinman was a son of the Reverend Levi Kinman, pioneer settler at Highland, four miles south of Pittsfield,
where he entered 80 acres in the west half of the northwest quarter of Section 12, Martinsburg township, on October
11, 1830. He and Joseph Hardin Goodin and Fisher Petty in 1834 joined in donating the ground upon which was erected
the first log school house at Highland. Kinman in 1840 deeded this tract to John U. Grimshaw, Pittsfield's earliest
druggist, and Grimshaw later deeded it to Samuel Whitley, kinsman of Sarah Whitley who married Samuel Lewis, whose
grandson, John Lewis, married Sarah Jane Elledge, an older daughter of Jesse Elledge. Whitley later deeded the
ground to Jacob Moomaw.
The Kinmans settled Highland along with the Goodins and Pettys. Rebecca Kinman, who married Hardin Goodin, son
of pioneer Robert Goodin and Susan B. McClintock, was a daughter of the Reverend Levi Kinman and a sister of Anderson
Kinman who married Anna Maria Elledge.
Hardin Goodin and Rebecca Kinman were married March 15, 1835, with his uncle, Justice Joseph Hardin Goodin, officiating.
Their pioneer settlement was where the Goodin cemetery now is, on the bluffs above Honey Creek. Here Hardin Goodin,
with his oxen, Buck and Bright, and a huge bar-shear plow, broke up the hazelbrush thickets that stood high as
the oxen's backs.
Robert and Joseph Hardin Goodin, brothers who pioneered at Highland, were sons of Alexander Goodin (born 1762,
died 1844) who in 1784 married Jane Hardin (born 1764, died 1832), daughter of the noted Colonel Joseph Hardin
of the Indian wars in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee, who lost three sons in those wars and who was a contemporary
and friend of the father of Samuel Hardin Lewis, the Pleasant Hill pioneer, whose middle name perpetuated the bond
of friendship that existed between the families of Lewis and Hardin in early Virginia.
Hardin Goodin and Rebecca Kinman had seven children, namely: James T. who married Eliza Jane Cannon; Margaret Almira,
who married John Lee Cannon; Martha Eleanor, who married Thomas Coley; William Alexander, who married Mary Frances
Coley; David Barton, whose first wife was Margaret Jeans; Robert Nelson, who died in 1862; and Susan Emma, who
married William N. Lee. Two of these children, yet living, are exceedingly old. Mrs. Martha Coley, mother of Myrtle
Coley who married Edgar Dale Glandon of Pittsfield, is now in her 99th year, having been born March 4, 1839. Mrs.
Emma Lee, the other surviving child, lives at Roswell, New Mexico, and was 82 years old October 28, 1937. Almira
Cannon was the mother of William H. Cannon, once pastor of the Christian church in Pittsfield. William Goodin was
the father of Mrs. Ella Stone of Pittsfield, widow of the late Napoleon Bonaparte Stone. David B. Goodin was the
father of Benjamin Franklin Goodin, who resides near Pittsfield.
Other children of Levi Kinman (brothers and sisters of Anderson Kinman who married Anna Maria Elledge) were Thomas
Jefferson Kinman; Lewis Perry Kinman, who married Frances P. Brown October 17, 1861; Rachel Kinman, who married
Larkin Bagby in Pike county April 19, 1834, with the Reverend Lewis Allen (a Boone grandson) officiating; William
Kinman; Franklin Kinman, who married Malinda Cadwell (sister of Nathan's wife), October 13, 1842, with Jesse Elledge
officiating; Ezekiel Kinman, who married Margaret Mahannah, March 4, 1847, with Jesse Elledge officiating; and
Sally Mariah, who married John L. Hay May 3, 1857, with the Reverend Charles Harrington officiating. Nathan Kinman
married as his second wife Mrs. Eliza J. Conkright March 23, 1868.
Levi Kinman abided in his latter years between Pittsfield and Griggsville. He died August 7, 1849, leaving a will
whose provisions were executed by his sons, William and Nathan. His estate was appraised by John Garrett, Isaac
Conkright and John Duran.
Anna Elledge Kinman, who was married when 16, died three years later at the age of 19, her untimely death occurring
on September 18, 1846. Her body was carried to Hinman cemetery and there laid to rest among many of her Boone kindred.
Anna's husband, Anderson Kinman, on June 30, 1847 again married, his second wife being Sarah Hinman, a daughter
of pioneer George W. Hinman who gave his name to Hinman Prairie.
Anderson Kinman and Sarah Hinman were twice married, their second marriage occurring September 30, 1853, with Justice
J. k. Cleveland of Perry officiating. The Reverend William H Taylor performed the first ceremony. Following their
second marriage, Anderson and his wife moved to Knox county, Missouri, and settled there.
In Hinman cemetery, adjoining the site of early Hinman Chapel, stands a stone at the grave of the youngest child
of the first Baptist preacher in the valley, which bears the following inscription:
"In Memory of Mrs. A. m. Kinman, Consort of A. Kinman and daughter of Rev. J. Elledge, who died Sept. 18,
1846, aged 19 years.
What became of pioneer Jesse Elledge is unknown.
The archives of the Elledge and Philips families contain no record of his ending. It is believed that he died in
Kentucky and that he is buried in the land in which he was cradled. The last record of him in Pike county is September
8, 1872 when he officiated at the wedding of his granddaughter, Emily Elledge, who that day married William Watson.
She was a daughter of Jesse Elledge's son, Alfred Andrew Elledge, and his wife, Amanda French.
Jesse Elledge had returned to Kentucky in the latter 1850s and had remained there for more than a dozen years,
returning again to Pike county on a visit in 1872. It is probable that the hardships of pioneer days had aged him
prematurely and that he appeared much older than he really was. The late Samuel William Peak of Winchester, who
knew him well, related that Old Jesse Elledge returned to Kentucky in 1856 or 1857 and that he must then have been
nearly ninety years of age. Jesse Elledge at that time could hardly have been more than 78. When he performed his
72nd wedding ceremony in Pike county in 1872, he must have been past 92 years of age. He was a toddling child in
Kentucky in 1780, when his grandfather, Edward Boone, was killed and mangled by the Indians.