Elmore Brake was born on 22 February 1815. He was the son of
John B. Brake and
Rachel Hyre. Elmore Brake married
Mary M. Loomis, daughter of
John Loomis and
Sophia Sexton, on 1 October 1837 at
Lewis Co., Virginia; Elmore married his step-sister, Mary Loomis, daughter of his father's second wife through her first husband. Elmore Brake married
Harriet Bryan, daughter of
James Bryan, on 15 February 1849 at
Lewis Co., Virginia. Elmore was listed as the head of a family on the 1870 Census at
Buckhannon, Upshur Co., West Virginia. He married
Charlotte Bryan, daughter of
James Bryan, on 12 September 1886 at
Upshur Co., West Virginia. Elmore Brake died on 8 February 1893 at age 77.