Re: Henry Prentis Ely b about 1830 TN
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Henry Prentis Ely b about 1830 TN
1/16/99
Henry Prentice Ely was the brother of my Great Grandfather Green Clay Ely. Their parents Thomas and Isabel Shackleford Ely migrated with their large family to Carrol Co., Arkansas in 1838 from Lee Co., VA. You will find them in the Carrol Co. Census of 1840 on page 44, with H. P. Ely and his family listed on page 45. Thomas was the son of John and Barbara Fry Ely, and John was the son of the immigrants Thomas and Jane Smith Ely. You will find this family on the many screens found ou the following recently published website. Thomas and Isabel Ely are on screen #5. Here is the website:
http://members.tripod.com/~Bow1/ely/ely-gen.htm I do not have my files at hand but I believe that Henry married Susan Jones, (info from Mormon microfilm) who was probably a sister of David Jones who is the third family down from Thomas Ely in the mentioned Census report. David's wife, as I recall was Henry's sister Lavina Ely. (I have access to much of this line also; one descendent is a PHD instructor at the University of Texas.) About 20 years ago, I visited descendents of Henry Prentice Ely in Raines County Texas and explained to them their origins. By guess and by golly, I found Henry and Susan Ely's graves in the Mount Vernon cemetary, tho the stones were cracked and on the ground when I was last there. The Thomas Ely stone adjacent was their son, who was a Civil War veteran. I have much more info on this family in my rather disorganized files, as I have contacted many of the Ely families in that area of East Texas who descended from Henry and Susan Ely. By the way, I have the story of the Green Clay and Henry P. Ely migration to Texas, as published in the Pioneer Press many years ago. I had not known that Henry was a preacher, tho I found that one of his sons Thomas E. Ely wrote many Baptist Hymnals that are still in use today. Green Clay Ely's son George B. Ely (my grandfather) was also a Baptist minister.
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Silas Ely in California
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