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 1790 - 1872

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• Birth	22 Jul 1790	, Culpeper, Virginia, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	21 Mar 1872	, Callaway, Missouri, USA
  Buried	Middle River Cemetery, Callaway, Missouri, USA
  Person ID	I1338	Herring Family of Callaway County, Missouri
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2010
  Family	Mary A James,   b. 1793, , Stafford, Virginia, USA ,   d. 17 Sep 1845, , Callaway, Missouri, USA
  Married	1817
  Children	> 1. Catherine (Kitty) Ann Elley,   b. 17 Dec 1821, , Culpeper, Virginia, USA ,   d. Aft 1900, , Callaway, Missouri, USA   2. James Henry Elley,   b. 23 Feb 1839, , Callaway, Missouri, USA ,   d. 12 Feb 1920, Mokane, Callaway, Missouri, USA
  Last Modified	02 Aug 2008
  Family ID	F379	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Census Year: 1850 State: Missouri County: Callaway Page No: 249A Reel no: M432-393 Division: 12th District 761 761 Henry Elly 59 M Farmer 2400 VA 761 761 Syntha Elly 52 F KY 761 761 Harriet Elly 18 F VA 761 761 James H Elly 11 M MO 1860 Missouri, Callaway Co., Cote San Dessein Twp. Page 1025, 23 June 1860 327 312 Henry Elly 70 M Farmer 12000/12000 Va Siytha 63 F Ky Sallie Simone 18 F Mo From the History of Callaway County Missouri, 1884, page 587-589 The Elley family is one of the oldest in the history of the country, and indeed in the history of the Anglo-Saxon race. All of its branches in this country and in England, Scotland, and Ireland? for representatives of the family are found n all of them, as well as in Australia and the other British colonies? may trace their ancestry directly back, it is believed, to Ella (as the name is spelled in early English history), the Saxon chief who made a descent upon Britain in A. D. 491, and became king of Sussex. From him was descended Ella, king of Deira, in Northumberland, in 1559. And on down through English history the family may be traced, the name changing in conformity with the changes in English orthography to "Ellys," n the time of Chaucer, and, finally, to Elley at a later period. Every well informed person is familiar with the history of the changes in the spelling of names that been effected in common with the changes made in the orthography of the language. Accordingly, in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries we find mention made of Rev. Anthony Ellys, an eminent divine, and Sir R. Ellys, a profound biblical scholar. So in the nineteenth century there is Sir John Elley, lieutenant-general and a distinguished soldier; and there are many others whom space does not permit to be mentioned here. A branch of the family settled in America? in Virginia? prior to Governor Spotswood's time, and from this branch Rev. Edward G. Elley is descended. First in the list of his ancestors he has kept was Henry Elley, who it is believed established the first iron foundry ever built in the United States? at Spottsylvania, Virginia, while Spotswood was Governor. Then came his son, Edward Elley, a distinguished soldier in the Revolutionary War; then the latter's son, Henry, the father of our subject, and who immigrated to Callaway county in 1835. A remarkable characteristic of the family is the singular longevity of its members. Henry Elley, of Spotswood's time, lived to the advanced age of 110 years; Edward lived to be ninety-nine years old, and Henry, the younger, was eighty-two when he died. Henry Elley, the younger (the father of the Rev. Edward W.), was born in Culpepper county, Virginia, July 22, 1790, and was married in 1817 to Miss Mary A. James, who was born in Stafford county, Virginia, in 1793. They came to Callaway county, Missouri, as stated above, in 1835. Here they followed farming and lived until their deaths. They first bought 160 acres of land, and by industry so prospered that they became the. owners of nearly two sections of land. However, the wife died in September, 1845. He was afterwards married to Mrs. Cynthia Simms, widow of Elias Simms, of Boone county. She also dying he was subsequently married to Miss Sallie Fitzhugh, of this county. He died on the 21st of March, 1872. His last wife followed him to the grave three years afterwards. He was a constituent member of the Middle River Baptist church, and was one of the most highly esteemed citizens the county ever had. By his first wife he raised a family of seven children, as follows: Mary A., wife of James M. Davis, died in 1850; Kitty A., wife of Thomas H. Caldwell; Benjamin F., Erwin G., Sallie A., wife of L. H. Gibbs, of Boone county; Harriet T., who died the wife of J. W. Elley, of St. Louis, in 1877, and James H. Picture of headstone on Find a Grave website.

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  Event Birth - 22 Jul 1790 - , Culpeper, Virginia, USA Died - 21 Mar 1872 - , Callaway, Missouri, USA Buried - - Middle River Cemetery, Callaway, Missouri, USA  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth