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THE 
 
 SCOTCH -IRISH MCELROYS 
 
 IN AMERICA 
 
 A. D. 1717 — A. D. 1900 
 
 By Rev. John M. McElroy, D.D. 
 
 Port Orange Press 
 
 BRANDOW PRINTING COMPANY, ALBANY, N. Y. 
 
 1901 
 

 • v'^ 
 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 Name McElroy, its origin and significance 
 
 The Scotch Covenanters, thei 
 
 migration to America . 
 Bucks County McElroys 
 Kentucky McElroys 
 Big Spring McElroys 
 Rich Hill McElroys 
 Albany McElroys . 
 Lancaster County McElroys 
 Delaware State McElroys 
 Braddock McElroys 
 Ligonier McElroys 
 Descendants of Adam 
 Meadeville McElroys 
 Virginia McElroys 
 Monroeville McElroys 
 Beaver County McElroys 
 Robert McElroy of Philadelphia 
 A Pittsburgh Family 
 Hon. John Scott, late U. S. Senator, 
 Sligo McElroys 
 Delaware (Ohio) McElroys 
 John McElroy of Washington City 
 North Carolina McElroys 
 George McElroy, a patriarch 
 New Brunswick McElroys 
 McElroy Pennings and Personals 
 Notes ..... 
 Index ..... 
 
 r sufferings, exi 
 
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 elphia 
 
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J 
 
 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 Charles Cooper McElroy 
 Alice McElroy Wright 
 Hon. Warren Scott Dungan 
 William T. Knott, Ph.D. 
 Hon. J. Proctor Knott 
 William Montgomery McElroy | 
 Charles M. McElroy ) 
 
 Rev. Joseph McElroy, D.D. ^ 
 Mrs. Marianne Fox McElroy 
 Mr. James Moir 
 Mrs. M^ry McElroy Moir 
 Thomas G. McElroy (Ohio) 
 James F. McElroy 
 John M. McElroy, D.D. 
 Abby McElroy ] 
 
 Mary McElroy ) 
 
 David W. McElroy 
 
 James McElroy (Washington Co., Pa.) 
 
 Joseph McElroy, M.D. 
 
 Capt. James McElroy . 
 
 Thomas McElroy (Albany) 
 
 William McElroy (Albany) 
 
 William H. McElroy, LL.D 
 
 William W. H. McElroy 
 
 Rev. James C. McElroy 
 
 Rev. W. N. McElroy, D.D. 
 
 John McElroy (Son of Adam McElroy) 
 Robert Fulton McElroy 
 Rev. George B. McElroy, D.D. . 
 John H. McElroy 
 
 opposite 
 
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SOME HELPFUL CORRESPONDENTS 
 
 John McElroy, Leitrim, Ireland 
 Richard McElroy, Kate's Bridge, 
 
 Ireland 
 Mrs. Alice McElroy Wright, 
 
 California 
 Hon. Warren Scott Dungan, Iowa 
 Dr. W. T. Knott, Kentucky, deceased 
 Mrs. Ellen McElroy Ridout, Annapolis 
 Col. John S. McElroy, North Carolina 
 Thomas A. McElroy, South Carolina 
 James Dickson McElroy, South 
 
 Carolina 
 J. M. Knott, Kentucky 
 Rev. Wm. Dickson, D.D., Ohio 
 David W. McElroy, Iowa 
 Joseph K. McElroy, Iowa 
 Mrs. Mary McElroy Moir, New York 
 Rev. Wm. Wilmerding Moir, New 
 
 York 
 Mrs. Martha McElroy Rider, Iowa 
 A. A. Cassil, Chicago 
 Prof. E. B. McElroy, Eugene, Oregon 
 J. B. Graham, Mt. Vernon, Ohio 
 Miss Serena Gladden, Denver, Colo. 
 R. H. Cotton, Wellsburg, W. Va. 
 Capt. James McElroy, Chicago 
 
 Joseph McElroy, M.D., Hickory, Pa. 
 Joseph M. McElroy, Oil City 
 Samuel McElroy, C. E. , Brooklyn 
 S. M. Shaw, Cooperstown, N. Y. 
 Rev. Irving McElroy, New York City 
 Wm. W. H. McElroy, Huntingdon, 
 
 Pa. 
 Clayton McElroy, Philadelphia 
 Rev. Jas. C. McElroy, Kansas 
 Frank McElroy, Cleveland, Ohio 
 Rev. W. N. McElroy, D.D., Illinois 
 Capt. J. C. McElroy, Washington, D.C. 
 John McElroy, Washington, D. C. 
 William F. McElroy, Pennsylvania 
 John J. McElroy, M.D., Illinois 
 Mrs. Isabella McElroy Patton, 
 
 Rochester 
 Hon. John Scott, Philadelphia 
 John H. McElroy, Pittsburgh 
 Judge Chas. H. McElroy, Ohio 
 Milo G. McElroy, Delaware, Ohio 
 John E. McElroy, Albany 
 David McElroy, North Carolina 
 Rev. Solomon C. McElroy, New York 
 James G. McElroy, Eldora, Iowa 
 Hon. Frank McElroy, Michigan 
 
PREFACE 
 
 In the Ohio home of my boyhood, I Hstened with interest to 
 accounts of Our People who hved beyond the mountains on 
 the Bhie Juniata, and also to Tales of Ancestors in County Down 
 and in Scotland. As I grew toward manhood, I found it easy 
 to lay up in memory or in written memoranda anything that 
 came to me in that line, and with continued interest and appre- 
 ciation. 
 
 About ten years since, correspondence was opened with Dr. 
 W. T. Knott of Lebanon, Ky., who wrote that he was giving 
 some attention to preparing a McElroy History, and that he 
 would be pleased if I could furnish him a sketch of my own 
 Tribe, and any other information that I might be able to secure. 
 During a few years following, records, more or less full, of about 
 twenty tribes were procured and forwarded. 
 
 Dr. Knott was hindered, by protracted sickness in his family, 
 from completing the history, until, at length, his own final illness 
 closed his earthly work. 
 
 After his death, which occurred in February, 1899, his son, 
 Mr. J. M. Knott, returned to me the material that had been for- 
 warded, together with his father's unfinished manuscript, with 
 liberty to use it as I might see fit. It seemed to me that the 
 accumulated genealogical data of the numerous McElroy fami- 
 lies ought not to be lost ; and to secure its preservation, in 
 permanent and accessible shape, the preparation of this work was 
 entered upon. The result is embodied in this account of "The 
 Scotch-Irish McElroys." 
 
It is not the genealogy of a single family, but sketches, more 
 or less full, of some twenty-four families, whose common head 
 is veiled from view amid the hills and heather, the mists and the 
 traditions of Scotland. 
 
 In arranging for the publication of this book the author has 
 had valuable assistance from James F. McElroy of Albany, who 
 also carried the work through the press. 
 
 The illustrations, which many will look upon with great inter- 
 est and pleasure, are the work of the Albany Engraving 
 
 Company. 
 
 THE AUTHOR. 
 
 Ottumwa, Iowa, 
 
 January i, IQOI. 
 
ORIGIN OF THE NAME McELROY 
 
 The name McElroy has been in use for many centuries. In 
 O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees it can be traced back a thousand 
 years, or probably even to the times of St. Patrick. One of the 
 proofs that it is a very old name is found in the fact that it 
 belongs to both Ireland and Scotland and is common to both 
 Catholics and Protestants. The Irish people are Celts, and also 
 probably one-half of the Scotch, specially those of Western 
 Scotland. The Irish language and the Gaelic of the Scotch High- 
 lands are substantially the same. The Emerald Isle was called, 
 in the times of the Picts and Scots, Scotia, or the land of the 
 Scots. In the ninth century these Scots from south of the 
 Irish Sea, moved in vast hordes upon the North land overcoming 
 the Southern Picts and contending with the Northern Picts for 
 supremacy with the ultimate result that the country became 
 Scott-land, with a race of Scottish kings on the throne. With this 
 division of the original Scots there seems to have been a division 
 of the McElroys. A part of them were doubtless among these 
 invaders of Scotland. They remained there for centuries and in 
 the Reformation times became Protestants, and at length per- 
 secuted exiles, coming back and settling in North Ireland. 
 
 Others of the McElroys remained in Ireland and their descend- 
 ants are the Catholic McElroys of South Ireland of to-day. Of 
 late many Catholic McElroys are found in America. In Phila- 
 delphia and Pittsburgh there are more Catholic McElroys than 
 Protestants. 
 
 The Form and Significance of the Name McElroy. 
 
 Its most ancient form, given in O'Hart's Pedigrees, is Gil- 
 lereagh. In a late Scottish work of some research by Frank 
 Adam, Edinburgh, 1896, it is claimed that McElroy is derived 
 from, or was originally McGillivray. 
 
10 
 
 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 The impression has prevailed pretty extensively among those 
 bearing the name that McElroy means Son-of-a-king. However 
 flattering to our pride we think this definition cannot be sustained. 
 Roy, the only part of the name that suggests kingship, is not 
 Latin, nor is it French. The whole name is Gaelic or Celtic, and 
 Roy in the Celtic language does not mean king. 
 
 Mac or ]\Ic means son. A thorough investigation will show 
 that El or II preceded by Mac is but an abbreviated form of 
 I^IacGill. The word Gill or Gilli means servant, disciple, out- 
 door attendant. Its least favorable equivalent is Gilly, as used 
 by Sir Walter Scott and others. It was often used in a religious 
 sense: Gilchrist, servant of Christ; Gilpatrick, servant of St. 
 Patrick ; Gillibrede, servant of St. Bridget. 
 
 The syllable or syllables following Gill or Gilli describe the 
 kind of servant, or set forth something in his personal appear- 
 ance or character. 
 
 According to O'Hart reagh means gray-haired, and McGil- 
 lereagh means "son of the gray-haired servant." The name 
 changed in form as generations passed, becoming McGilre, 
 Mcctllroy, McKilroy, Mcllroy, McCulroy, ISIcHilroy and 
 McElroy. It will be noticed that all these differing forms when 
 pronounced rapidly, with the accent on the last syllable, are the 
 
 same to the ear. 
 
 The form Mcllroy is widely used at the present time among 
 those who bear the name in Ireland and Scotland. 
 
 There are those who claim that "roy" in our name means red 
 and that Mac-El-roy means son of the red servant. 
 
 If the Scottish derivation from McGillivray be accepted, what 
 would the name mean? I took the liberty of referring the ques- 
 tion to Professor Robinson of Harvard University, one of the few 
 scholars in our country who are versed in the Celtic language and 
 
 literature. 
 
 In reply he says: 'T think it unlikely that the name (McElroy) 
 should be the same as McGillivray * * * *. This name in 
 Gaelic is McGillcbhrath, and means "Son of the servant of 
 judgment." 
 
Origin of the Name 
 
 1 1 
 
 We seem to have three definitions to choose from : "Son of the 
 gray-haired servant," "Son of the red servant" and "Son of 
 the servant of judgment." The first of these seems to the writer 
 to have the strongest support. 
 
 It seems plain that the McEIroys must give up their kingly 
 claims. We are servants. But the honor or dishonor in the case 
 depends altogether on who is our master. 
 
 Their Location in Scotland. 
 
 The locality in Scotland from which the McEIroys came to 
 North Ireland is not certainly known. Dr. W. T. Knott is of the 
 opinion that they lived in the counties of Argyle and Lanark. 
 There are traditions, referred to elsewhere, that they came from 
 the region of Glasgow, which is in the County of Lanark. 
 
 The McEIroys were not Highlanders in the strict sense of the 
 term. They were of Celtic origin, and their ancestors had no 
 doubt been identified with the Gaelic Highlanders. They never 
 constituted a distinct clan, but were connected with the McGil- 
 vrays, if not identical with them, and even the McGilvrays were 
 not a clan, but only a sept or dependency of the Clan McGilli- 
 vray, and entitled to wear their Tartan. 
 
 There was, as generations and centuries passed, a considerable 
 intermingling of Gaels with the Lowlanders. Glasgow was not 
 remote from the border and so it came to pass that our fore- 
 fathers had become in the times of John Knox dwellers in the 
 Lowlands and subject to those religious influences which trans- 
 formed them into Bible Christians and Covenanters. 
 
 The Highlanders in the mountains had scarcely felt the influ- 
 ence of Presbyterianism, or of the Reformation, and knew almost 
 nothing of the Bible. They were illiterate and fierce and brave 
 Six thousand of them responded to the call of the authorities 
 and descended upon the Lowlands to assist in exterminating the 
 Covenanters. The persecutions ceased with the Revolution of 
 1688. Untold miseries in one form or another had come upon 
 the people of Scotland. Violent death, imprisonment, banish- 
 ment, not to speak of impoverishment, had been the lot of many 
 
12 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 thousands. It was estimated that nine thousand persons had fled 
 the country — a majority of them to North Ireland. 
 
 There had been more or less of migration to Ireland in earlier 
 times. The Scottish regiments sent south at the time of the Irish 
 Rebellion in 1641 probably contained some McElroy soldiers. 
 And in the Plantation of Ulster under Cromwell at least one of 
 that name is enrolled among the new settlers. O'Hart refers to a 
 Mcllroy among Cromwell's colonists who settled in County 
 Down and there acquired considerable wealth. 
 
 This brings us to the traditionary accounts in the following 
 pages of our forefathers coming from Scotland "time o' the per- 
 secutions" and settling in different parts of Ulster, specially in 
 County Derry and County Down. 
 
 The Emigration from Ulster to America. 
 
 Less than forty years after the Revolution of 1688, when the 
 persecutions in Scotland ceased, the Scotch dwellers in North 
 Ireland began to migrate to America. There were reasons for 
 the movement. The Scotch colonists and refugees had been a 
 great blessing to Ulster. They had brought with them industry 
 and thrift which resulted in material prosperity. Land increased 
 in productiveness and value, and better dwellings were erected. 
 Landlordism greedily appropriated the gain and raised rents to 
 the highest notch, and the people became grievously discontented. 
 
 Another cause for the large migration from Ireland was the 
 repressive measures adopted by the English government toward 
 commerce and agriculture. At first these industries were fos- 
 tered, and the encouragement given, particularly to the culture 
 of flax, so increased the linen trade that there was danger of Ire- 
 land controlling the market. Then there was a change of policy, 
 and by indirect yet effectual means Ireland's trade was hindered 
 and repressed and that of England promoted. A similar course 
 ill regard to agriculture placed Ireland's products under embargo, 
 that English farmers might not suffer by the competition. 
 
 A third cause and a potent one was religious intolerance. 
 These Scotch people in Ireland were attached earnestly and per- 
 
Origin of the Name 13 
 
 haps obstinately to the doctrines and order of the Presbyterian 
 Church. They were treated however by the government and by 
 the authorities of the estabHshed church as dissenters and dan- 
 gerous to the state. Marriages solemnized by their ministers 
 were declared invalid and the legitimacy of the' children of such 
 marriages was called in question. And all Presbyterians were 
 excluded from civil and military offices of every kind. 
 
 It is not strange that our Scotch forefathers, almost en masse, 
 rose up and set their faces toward America. The historian 
 Froude tells us that "during the first half of the eighteenth cen- 
 tury, Down, Antrim, Tyrone, Armagh and Derry were emptied 
 of Protestant inhabitants who were of more value to Ireland 
 than California gold-mines." These emigrants entered our coun- 
 try mainly at the ports of Boston, Philadelphia and Charleston. 
 
 Dr. Robert Baird in his "History of Religion in America" states 
 that "from 1729 to 1750 about twelve thousand annually came 
 from Ulster to America." 
 
Chamles Cooper McElroy 
 
THE BUCKS COUNTY (PA.) McELROYS 
 
 William, of Nokamixon Township 
 
 The earliest migration of McElroys from North Ireland to 
 America occurred, according to our information, about the year 
 A. D. 1717. A large family came in that year to Philadelphia 
 and settled a few miles north of that city on the Delaware in 
 Bucks County. We do not know the Christian name of the head 
 of the family, nor precisely where in North Ireland they had 
 lived. It is probable that they came from the southern part of 
 County Down. They were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, but in 
 later years a number of them became identified with the Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 From "Pennsylvania Archives," Vol. II, third series, p. "j^, 
 we learn that William McElroy obtained warrant for certain 
 lands in Nokamixon Township, Bucks County, on the ninth day 
 of August, 1749. 
 
 The will of William McElroy, on record at Doylestown, was 
 probated October 31, 1765. His wife was Jean. His three 
 daughters, all married, were Agnes Scott, Sarah Jones and Jean 
 Jones. He had two sons, Alexander and George, who were only 
 eight to ten years old when their father died. At the opening 
 of the Revolutionary war these two young men were connected 
 with a military company in Nokamixon Township, but being 
 under age, were registered as "associators." 
 
 Agnes Scott became the mother of seven children, the first of 
 these, William, named for her father, was born September 8, 1747, 
 Her sixth child. Alexander, was bom in 1761, and one younger 
 probably in 1763. From these records I infer that Agnes was 
 married in 1746, and that her birth was about 1720, and that her 
 father, William McElroy, was born in Ireland prior to 1700, and 
 that he may have been 25 to 30 years of age when his father came 
 to Bucks County in 171 7. 
 
l6 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 Col. Archibald, of Bristol. 
 
 From "Pennsylvania Archives," V'ol. XIV, p. 204, we learn 
 that Archibald McElroy was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fourth 
 Battalion, Bucks County militia, commissioned May 10, 1780. 
 His will, on record at Doylestown, was probated INIarch 31, 1806, 
 his death having occurred February 14, 1806. His wife was 
 Sarah. His children were John, Sarah, Archibald, Schuyler, and 
 a daughter Ann, who married Little. His residence, Bristol 
 Borough. Archibald and Schuyler are supposed to have migrated 
 northward, settling at or near Rome, N. Y., but of their 
 history or descendants we have no knowledge. The daughter, 
 Sarah, a beautiful and popular young woman, was the occasion 
 of a fatal duel — in 1798 — between two army officers. In the 
 burial ground of St. James' Church, Bristol, a stone marks the 
 grave of Capt. John Sharp, of the Tenth United States Infantry, 
 the challenger, and near by is the grave of Sarah, who died 
 unmarried. 
 
 The oldest son, John, married a Miss Goodman of Philadelphia. 
 His second marriage occurred January 11, 1798, to Ann Cooper, 
 a wealthy Virginia widow, a half sister of Commodore Richard 
 Dale, of the United States navy. They lived for some years on the 
 old homestead three miles below Bristol, the present site of "The 
 Mary Drexel Home," in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia. 
 The descendants of John McElroy are numerous and widely scat- 
 tered. Some of them are in business in Philadelphia, but the 
 major part of them reside in the town of Beverly, N. J., just 
 across the Delaware from Bristol. The wife of Col. Archibald 
 McElroy, according to tradition, was Sarah ISlcClelland, and her 
 cousin is said to have been the wife of General Heister Clymer. 
 The maiden name of the Colonel's mother in Ireland is said to 
 have been Susanna Young. 
 
 What relationship existed between William of Nokamixon 
 Township and Archibald of Bristol borough — both of Bucks 
 County? Were they brothers? Probably not. Possibly the latter 
 was a nephew of the former. There was also a David McElroy 
 
Bucks County (Pa.) McElroys 17 
 
 who, according to the register of Christ Church, Philadelphia, 
 was married March 20, 1801, to Eliza Anderson. An examina- 
 tion of deeds and court records at Doylestown would probably 
 throw light upon the above questions and also give us the Chris- 
 tian name of the original head of the Bucks County McElroys. 
 
 John McElroy and his wife Ann Cooper were the parents of 
 eighteen children, including three sets of twins. Only nine of 
 them reached adult age and all of them have passed away. Two 
 or more grandsons bearing the McElroy name are in Beverly, 
 N. J., two or more are in business in Philadelphia, and one, John 
 McElroy, resides at Black Hills. S. D. 
 
 Agnes Scott. 
 
 A granddaughter, Mrs. Alice McElroy Wright, of California, 
 a sister to John, of South Dakota, has brought me under obliga- 
 tions by her intelligent and full letters relating to family history 
 and traditions. She and husband and entire family of Bucks 
 County McElroys are highly connected, and have a just pride in 
 their family history from Colonial times. They are connected 
 by blood or marriage with the Coopers of the south and with 
 Fenimore Cooper, the novelist ; with the Cutlers of New Eng- 
 land, and with the Penns of Pennsylvania. She was born at 
 Beverly, N. J., but has resided for ten years past in California, is 
 a great-granddaughter of Col. Archibald McElroy. Her grand- 
 father, John McElroy, who married a sister of Commodore 
 Richard Dale, was a man of wealth and influence and a member 
 of the State Legislature, residing on his estate in what is now 
 known as Eddington-on-the-Delaware. Her father, Charles 
 Cooper McElroy, was educated for the Episcopal ministry, but 
 was hindered by failure of health from taking orders. At the 
 tim^ of her marriage to Mr. Wright, she was the widov/ of the 
 distinguished civil engineer Andrew Ellison. Jr. 
 
 Gustavus W. T. Wright was the eldest son of the late Robert 
 Clinton Wright of Baltimore, and grandson of Governor and 
 United States Senator Robert M. Wright of Maryland. Born in 
 Rio Janeiro, Brazil, and brought up in Baltimore, he returned. 
 
1 8 Scotch-Irish M c Elroys 
 
 in his early manhood, to the former city, where, as coffee merchant 
 and banker, he spent twenty-three years. In 1880 he returned to 
 the United States, residing of late years in California. 
 
 Hon. Warren Scott Dungan traces his ancestry back to Rev. 
 Thomas Dungan, a native of England, who settled in Bucks 
 County, A. D. 1682, and who was the first Baptist minister in 
 Pennsylvania ; to Robert Scott of Edinburgh, a member of the 
 Scottish Parliament, whose son John came to Bucks County about 
 1720, and to William IMcElroy, whose daughter Agnes married 
 John Scott, Jr., in Bucks County. 
 
 W. S. Dungan,^ Isabella McFarren* (Dungan), Mary 
 
 Scott'' (McFarren), Agnes McElroy- (Scott), 
 
 WiLLL^M McElroy^. 
 
 Mr. Dungan was born in Beaver County, Pa., in 1822. 
 Attended the academy at Frankford Springs. Was a teacher in 
 Pennsylvania, Virginia and the remote south. Became a lawyer. 
 Settled in Iowa, at Chariton, 1856, where he continues to reside. 
 Was five times elected to the Iowa Legislature — three times as 
 senator and twice as member of the house, and in 1893 was chosen 
 Lieutenant-Governor. Was a soldier in the Thirty-fourth Iowa 
 Infantry ; enlisting as a private, elected captain, and returning 
 after three years' service as lieutenant-colonel of his regiment. 
 
 Governor Dungan married, in 1859, Aliss Abby Kingman 
 Procter, of A'lassachusetts, who died in 1882. Five daughters 
 are living; a son and a daughter are deceased. A member and 
 ruling elder in the Chariton Presbyterian Church, and a com- 
 missioner, three times, in the General Assembly from Des Moines 
 Presbytery. He is now President of the Scotch-Irish Society of 
 Iowa. 
 
 Agnes McElroy Scott. 
 
 Of the family of William McElroy the only one whose history 
 or descendants are known to us is Agnes, who married John 
 Scott. The father of John Scott came from Edinburgh about 
 1725 and settled on the Neshaminy, becoming a member of the 
 
Mrs. Alice McElroy- Wright 
 
Bucks County (Pa.) M c Elroys 19 
 
 Neshaminy Presbyterian Church, of which Rev. William Tennant 
 was pastor. His three sons, Moses, Matthew and John, were 
 officers in General Washington's army, the first a surgeon, the 
 second captain and the third commissary. Captain Matthew 
 Scott is honored as the ancestor of Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes, 
 wife of ex-President R. B. Hayes. 
 
 John Scott and his wife, Agnes, resided in Northampton 
 County, Pa., some miles north of Easton, and just across 
 the Delaware from Belvidere, N. J. They had seven chil- 
 dren, the first born in 1747, and the last in 1763. Their fourth 
 child, Mary or Polly, married (1784) William McFarren. The 
 late Rev. Samuel McFarren, D. D., of Congruity, Pa., was their 
 grandson. Another grandson, Hon. Warren Scott Dungan, of 
 Chariton, is widely and well known as a lawyer, Presbyterian 
 elder and late Lieutenant-Governor of Iowa. 
 
 The fifth child of John and Agnes Scott was Rev. George 
 McElroy Scott, a pioneer Presbyterian minister, who lived and 
 labored many years in Western Pennsylvania and who also did 
 missionary work in Ohio. Governor Dungan has vivid recollec- 
 tions of this venerable uncle and relates some interesting reminis- 
 cences. One of these is worthy to be put upon record. During 
 one of his trips through the Ohio wilderness he spent a night at a 
 settler's cabin, where he noticed a fine mastifif. He paid little 
 attention to him, did not fondle or try to make friends with him, 
 for he was not an admirer of dogs. Resuming his lone horseback 
 journey next morning he noticed the dog following him. He tried 
 to drive the animal back, but without success. After some hours' 
 travel, when passing through the dense v;oods, a highwayman 
 sprang to his bridle-bit and, seizing it, demanded his money. Then 
 the dog appeared on the scene and took right hold, biting and 
 shaking the villain until he was glad to get away with his wounds 
 and his life. Soon after this the dog turned homeward and could 
 not be coaxed to go further. This the minister regarded as a 
 "Special Providence." 
 
 John W. Scott, D. D., son of the foregoing, was born in Beaver 
 County, Pennsylvania, in 1800, and died in Washington, D. C, 
 
20 Scotch-Irish McEJroys 
 
 in 1892. He graduated at Washington College in 1823, and from 
 Yale College a year later, and then for fifty years was among the 
 most prominent and successful educators in the country. He was 
 ordained by the Presbytery of Oxford in 1830. His wife was 
 Mary P., daughter of John Neal. He held a professorship in 
 Washington College, Pennsylvania, four years ; in Miami Uni- 
 versity seventeen years, and in Farmer's College, Ohio, four years. 
 He was president of Oxford Female College ten years, and was 
 also on duty for a time in Hanover College, Indiana, and in 
 Monongahela College. 
 
 Dr. Scott's daughter, Carrie, married Benjamin Harrison, who 
 became President of the United States. Her venerable father 
 had his home with her during his declining years. There, amid 
 those unique surroundings where Death has seldom made his 
 appearance, father and daughter both met the last summons and 
 passed from earth. 
 
Hon. Warren Scott Dung a 
 
 CO AN 
 
THE KENTUCKY McELROYS 
 
 About the year A. D. 1729, James McElroy, with his young wife, 
 Sarah McCune (or McCue, or McHugh) left County Down, Ire- 
 land, for America on the ship "George and Ann," sailing from 
 Belfast. A number of other immigrants accompanied them, in- 
 cluding McCunes, McDowells, McCampbells, McKees, and the 
 IRev. John Irvine and wife. They landed at Philadelphia, and 
 stopped for a time in Bucks County. It is probable that the 
 McElroys already in Bucks County were kindred and friends, 
 and they would naturally turn aside to visit them and get desired 
 information. Possibly they may have remained there several 
 years. 
 
 Thence they went west to Cumberland County, toward which 
 the current of Scotch-Irish immigration was about that time 
 flowing very strongly. There, on the extreme frontier, amid 
 privations and perils, they lived some twenty-five years. The 
 Indians were numerous and troublesome, and becoming more 
 and more hostile. A daughter of Rev. John Irvine, Nancy, some 
 fifteen years of age, was captured by the savages but subsequently 
 rescued by a party of kinsmen and neighbors. The French and 
 Indian war was looming up in the distance, precluding the further 
 advance of migration westward, and as the emigrant ships con- 
 tinued to arrive at Philadelphia, the flow of immigrant travel was 
 deflected southward from Cumberland and Franklin counties 
 into and through the great valley of Virginia toward the south. 
 Thousands of home hunters about the year 1760 and later took 
 this route, as Providentially ordered, and found homes in South- 
 ern Virginia and the Carolinas. Such was the lot of the families 
 of James McElroy and Rev. John Irvine. They found home and 
 residence in Campbell County, Southern Virginia. It is probable 
 that the two older sons of James McElroy married in Pennsyl- 
 
22 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 vania. During the stormy years of the Revolution these famiHes 
 resided in Campbell County, and there the parents are supposed 
 to have reached the end of life's journey. 
 
 Some years after the war closed the three younger sons 
 removed with their families to the extreme frontier in Kentucky. 
 They and their numerous descendants have given name to the 
 entire tribe of which James McElroy was the head, "The Ken- 
 tucky McElroys." 
 
 Children of James^' and Sarah McElroy. 
 
 I. John- b. Ireland or Pennsylvania, m. 
 
 2. Archibald^ b. Pennsylvania, m. ist . 2d Thomp- 
 
 son. Died October 7, 1770. 
 
 3. Hugh- b. Pennsylvania, m. Esther Irvine, Virginia. 
 
 4. Samuel- m. Mary Irvine, Virginia. 
 
 5. James- m. Margaret Irvine, Virginia. 
 
 The five sons and their father were participants in the French 
 and Indian and Revolutionary wars. Archibald- was killed in the 
 battle of Kings Mountain. SamueF was present as a soldier at 
 the surrender of Cornwallis. The two older brothers may have 
 married in Pennsylvania. The family removed to Campbell 
 County, South Virginia, about 1760. The three younger sons 
 married, in Virginia, three sisters, daughters of Rev. John Irvine. 
 We have no positive information as to the wife of John.^ He is 
 said to have removed from Virginia to South Carolina. His 
 descendants are probably in the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee 
 and other Southern states. The three younger brothers removed 
 to Kentucky, 1787-89, settling in what is now Marion County, 
 at Lebanon and also at Springfield. 
 
 Archibald^ McElroy (James^) b. Pennsylvania, 1730-1740. 
 Date and place of marriage not known. His second wife, a 
 widow, her name (whether maiden or widow name not known) 
 M^as Thompson. Each wife was the mother of several children. 
 Was a Revolutionary soldier, killed in the battle of Kings Moun- 
 tain, 7 October, 1770. Resided near Kings Mountain. 
 
Kentucky McElroys 23 
 
 Children of Archibald.- 
 John.^ 
 William.^ 
 James.^ 
 
 A daughter, Ruth, who married Bowen or Bowman, Hved 
 at Spartansburg, S. C. 
 Archibald^ b. 6 September, 1779. m. 1799, Martha Craig. 
 
 JoHN^ McElroy (Archibald,- James^) was a Revohitionary 
 soldier under General Green and was killed at Guilford C. H., 
 March 15, 1781. Resided near Danville, Va. His widow, with 
 their one child, a son, removed to Pickens District, S. C, where 
 she m. Howard. Her son, 
 
 John* McElroy (John,^ Archibald," James^) m. and resided 
 in Yancey County, N. C. 
 
 Children of John* McElroy (John,^ Archibald,^ James^) 
 John Wesley.^ 
 James^ who married and removed from North Carolina to 
 
 Boone County, Ark. 
 And a number of daughters, names unknown. 
 
 John Wesley^ (John,* John,^ Archibald,- James^) of Yancey 
 County, N. C, was a prominent citizen and known as Gen. Wes- 
 ley McElroy. He died soon after the close of the Civil war. 
 
 Children of Gen. John Wesley^ McElroy. 
 
 A daughter who m. R. B. Vance, member of Congress six- 
 teen years. 
 Three other daughters — names not known. 
 
 John S.*^ b. 1835. m. 
 
 James.® 
 
 Nicholas.® 
 
 Robert.® 
 
24 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 Col. John S.*^ McElroy (John Wesley,^ John,* John,^ Archi- 
 bald,- James^) of Ivy, Madison County, N. C, was a Confederate 
 soldier, Colonel of the Sixteenth North Carolina Infantry. Is a 
 lawyer. Has a son who is a lawyer at Marshall, N. C, and three 
 daughters, all married except one. 
 
 Recurring to the children of Archibald- McElroy. His son, 
 William,^ is said to have settled in Tennessee. 
 
 John'^ settled in Southern Kentucky. 
 
 The daughter, Mrs. Bowmen or Bowman, lived at Spartans- 
 burg, S. C, and had several children. 
 
 Archibald^ (Archibald,- James^) of Pendleton District, S. C, 
 a prominent citizen. Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church was built on 
 his land, and of it he was a member and elder and liberal sup- 
 porter. A man of intelligence and high personal character. He 
 was b. in a fort in Union District, S. C, September 6, 1779, and 
 was a babe of thirteen months when his father died at Kings 
 Mountain. The widow moved to Pendleton District, S. C, where 
 the son grew up. He m. at the age of twenty, in 1799, Martha 
 Craig, aged sixteen, daughter of Rev. William Craig, a Presby- 
 terian minister. Died 1851. 
 
 Children of Archibald and Martha. 
 
 1. Wm. Craig* b. 9 August, 1809. m. Harriet Simpson. 
 
 d. 24 May, 1837. 
 
 2. James McDonald* m. Susan Craig. 
 
 3. Susan Elvira* m. Clayton Webb. 
 
 4. Eliza Jane* m. Stephen McCully. 
 
 5. Margaret* m. William Steele. 
 
 6. Archibald* m. Rebecca Bellotte. 
 
 7. Samuel Rayford* m. Alontgomery M. Dickson. 
 
 8. Martha* m. Thomas M. Wilkes. 
 
 William Craig* McElroy (Archibald.^ Archibald,^ James^) 
 b. Union District, S. C, 9 August, 1804, graduated from the 
 University of Georgia and from Princeton Theological Seminary. 
 
Kentucky M cElroys 25 
 
 m. Harriet Simpson, daughter of Judge Simpson, of Princeton, 
 N. J., and became pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Danville, 
 Va. Was a very popular and promising minister. Died May 
 24, 1837. 
 
 Children of William C. and Harriet McElroy. 
 
 Ellen^ b. 1835. m. Dr. William Ridout. 
 Mary Augusta d. in infancy. 
 
 James McDonald* McElroy (Archibald,^ Archibald,=^ James^) 
 m. Susan Craig, of Laurens, S. C. He was a physician, an elder 
 in the Presbyterian Church at Pickens, and member of the Legis- 
 lature. 
 
 Children of James M. and Susan McElroy. 
 
 Eliza Jane.^ 
 Thomas Archibald.^ 
 Martha Elizabeth.^ 
 Mary Evaline.^ 
 Samuel James. ^ 
 Margaret Emma.^ 
 
 Susan Elvira* (McElroy) Webb (Archibald,^ Archibald,^ 
 James^) m. Clayton Webb. They moved to Georgia. 
 
 Children of Susan E. (McElroy) and Clayton Webb. 
 
 I. 
 
 William.^ 
 
 2. 
 
 Catharine.^ 
 
 3- 
 
 James^ Webb, M. D. 
 
 4- 
 
 Annie.^ 
 
 5- 
 
 Charles^ Archibald, M. D. 
 
 6. 
 
 Robert.^ 
 
 7- 
 
 Florence.^ 
 
 8. 
 
 Margaret.^ 
 
 9- 
 
 Lou.^ 
 
 0. 
 
 Samuel R.^ 
 
26 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 Eliza Jane (McElroy) McCully, (Archibald,^ Archibald,^ 
 James^ ) m. Stephen McCully, of Anderson, S. C. No issue. 
 
 Margaret-' (McElroy) Steele (Archibald,^ Archibald,- 
 James') m. WilHam Steele, of Anderson, S. C, merchant and 
 planter, member of the Legislature. The wife is still living 
 (1900) in her eighty-fourth year, the only survivor in her 
 father's family. 
 
 Children of Margaret and William Steele. 
 
 1. Robert Aaron.^ 
 
 2. Sarah Jane.^ 
 
 3. Martha Agnes.^ 
 
 Archibald* McElroy (Archibald,^ Archibald,- James') was 
 a graduate of the University of Georgia. Cotton planter, m. 
 Rebecca Bellotte, of Huguenot extraction. 
 
 Children of Archibald and Rebecca McElroy. 
 
 1. William Thomas.^ 
 
 2. Mattie Elizabeth.^ 
 
 3. Robert.^ 
 
 4. Sarah. ^ 
 
 Samuel Rayford* McElroy (Archibald,^ Archibald,^ James^) 
 m. Montgomery M. Dickson. Was a prominent Christian, a 
 reputable citizen, and captain in the Confederate army. He died 
 from exposure and disease early in the war. He had succeeded 
 to the ownership of the old homestead of the McElroys for 100 
 years past, now occupied by James Dickson McElroy, of Den- 
 ver, S. C. 
 
 Children of Samuel R. and Montgomery M. McElroy. 
 
 1. William Henry. ^ 
 
 2. James Dickson.^ 
 
 3. Sarah Antoinette.^ 
 
Kentucky McElroys 27 
 
 4. Martha Ellen.^ 
 
 5. Samuel Montgomery.^ 
 
 Martha* (McElroy) Wilkes (Archibald,^ Archibald/ 
 James^) m. Thomas Wilkes, of Anderson, S. C. They had one 
 child, Thomas^ M. Wilkes. 
 
 Ellen^ (McElroy) Rtdout (William C.,* Archibald,^ Archi- 
 bald,2 Jamesi) b. Danville, Va., 1835; m. Dr. William Ridout; 
 residence Annapolis, Md. Their home and name go back to 
 Colonial times. They own and occupy the Ridout homestead, 
 built by John Ridout, who was Secretary to the Colonial Governor 
 Sharpe. In that old home five generations have been born. Mrs. 
 Ridout greatly prizes her Scotch-Irish McElroy ancestry and is 
 in hearty accord with their Presbyterianism and patriotism. 
 
 Children of William and Ellen (McElroy) Ridout. 
 
 1. Harriet Simpson,'' wife of Charles D. W. Ligon, son of 
 
 the late Governor Ligon. Ellicott City, Md. 
 
 2. John,<= M. D., associated with his father in medical 
 
 practice. 
 
 3. William" d. in infancy. 
 
 4. Prudence Gragh." 
 
 HuGH^ McElroy (James^) and two younger brothers. Samuel 
 and James, removed from Campbell County, Va., with their fam- 
 ilies to what is now Marion County. Ky., 1787-89. They were 
 pioneers, locating, after a long and dangerous journey, in the 
 primeval forest near where is now the town of Lebanon. Ken- 
 tucky was not yet a state, but was part of Virginia. Kentucky 
 County was organized in 1776. Four years later it was divided 
 into three counties, and within the next ten years it contained 
 nine counties. After building their own rude cabins, the next 
 object of concern was the erection of a house of worship, built of 
 logs, where Rev. David Rice and other pioneers preached the 
 gospel. The church then and there organized has had a con- 
 
23 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 tinuous history to the present time, represented to-day in the two 
 Presbyterian churches of Lebanon. 
 
 Children of Hugh== McElroy and Esther Irvine. 
 
 1. James.^ 
 
 2. Margaret.^ 
 
 3. Sarah.^ 
 
 4. Mary.^ 
 
 5. John.^ 
 
 ■ 6. Hugh.3 
 
 7. Samuel.^ 
 
 8. Robert Abraham.^ 
 
 9. WilHam.^ 
 10. Elizabeth.^ 
 
 James m. ist, Rosa Hardin; 2nd, Mrs. Dorsey. No issue. 
 Margaret m. Capt. John Muldrow and moved to Missouri. 
 Sarah m. Sandusky. Left a small family. 
 Mary m. ist, John Simpson; 2nd, John McElroy (Samuel,' 
 
 James^). :aW^S 
 
 John m. Miss Hundley. ■ 
 Hugh m. Miss Dorsey. 
 Samuel m. Miss Wilson. Family moved to Missouri and 
 
 Robert A. m. Miss Hundley. Left a small family. Descend- 
 ants are prominent citizens in Marion and Washington counties. 
 William m. Miss Crawford. Left a small family. 
 Elizabeth died single. 
 
 Capt. John Muldrow gave his name, more than a century ago, 
 to the submountainous range in Kentucky over 100 miles long 
 known as "Muldrow's Hill." 
 
 Children of Margaret^ and John Muldrow. 
 Andrew* m. Charlotte Grundy and had eight children. 
 Hugh* m. Lettie Hughes, daughter of Edward Hughes. 
 Their son Edward^ m. Miss Schooling, whose daugh- 
 ter* is the wife of John Harrison. 
 
 I. 
 2. 
 
Kentucky McElroys 29 
 
 _3. Esther.* 
 
 4. James* m. Minerva Grundy, sister to Charlotte Grundy. 
 They had nine children, names and history unknown. 
 
 5- Jane.* 
 
 6. William.* 
 
 7. John.* 
 
 8. Samuel* and 
 
 9. Mary* (twins). 
 
 Children of Mary^ (McElroy) and John Simpson. 
 
 1. James* m. Miss Cabell. Left five or six children. 
 
 2. Margaret* m. G. H. Garten. Left five or six children. 
 
 3. Jane* m. J. C* McElroy (John,^ Samuel.^ James^). 
 4- Esther* m. James P.^ McElroy (Samuel,- James^). 
 
 James2 McElroy (James^) m. in Campbell County, Va., Mar^ 
 garet Irvine and moved to Kentucky in the fall of 1779. Was a 
 farmer and extensive land owner. His home was about two miles 
 west of Lebanon. He was the fifth and youngest son of James.^ 
 
 Children of James^ and Margaret McElroy. 
 
 1. John^ d. in early manhood. 
 
 2. Sarah^ d. young. 
 
 3. Elizabeth^ m. General Allen, a hero of the battle of New 
 
 Orleans. 
 
 4. Margaret^^ m. Dr. Blythe. Moved to Indiana or Illinois. 
 
 5. Mary3 m. ist, Allen; 2nd, Speed. Descendants in Ken- 
 
 tucky and Indiana. 
 
 6. Sarah^ d. young. 
 
 7. Nancy^ d. young. 
 
 8. Esther^ m. Felix B. Grundy. Mrs. Cleaver, wife of Dr. 
 
 W. W. Cleaver, of Lebanon, is one of her descendants. 
 
 9. James^ A. m. Mary Irvine. A physician in Lebanon; 
 
 then moved to Missouri, where he died, leaving a small 
 family. 
 
^0 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 10. Hannah^ d. young. 
 
 11. William I.^ m. Jane* Muldrow. Removed ta Missouri, 
 
 A. D. 1821-23. 
 Children of William I.^ and Jane (Muldrow) McElroy. 
 
 1. Margaret* m. Andrew McElroy, (Texas). 
 
 2. Mary J.* d. single. 
 
 3. Esther* m. Thomas W. Campbell, (jMissouri). 
 
 4. Camilla* m. Willis McReynolds, (Missouri and Texas). 
 
 5. Sallie A.* m. W. R. Campbell, (Missouri and Texas). 
 
 6. John* d. young. 
 
 7. W'illiam Irvine* m. Anna Muldrow, (Missouri). 
 
 8. Alice Ann* m. Dr. B. M. Griffith, Springfield, 111. 
 
 9. Charlotte* m. N. Wilson, (Colorado). 
 
 10. Samuel* d. young. 
 
 11. Thomas Speed* m. Miss Hitson, (Missouri). 
 
 Samuel^ McElroy (James^) was the fourth son of James.^ 
 Married in Virginia, probably in 1766, Mary Irvine. Removed 
 to Kentucky 1779. Died 1806. 
 
 Children of Samuel^ and Mary Irvine. 
 
 1. Sarah^ b. 1767; m. Alexander Handley. Lived near 
 
 New Market. 
 
 2. John^ b. 1769; m. ist, Miss Copeland ; 2nd. Mrs. Mary* 
 
 Simpson, widow of John Simpson, his cousin. 
 
 3. James^ b. 1770; d. young. 
 
 4. Hugh^ b. 1772; m. Barbara Gilkie. A prominent citi- 
 
 zen in Union County, Ky. Farmer, member of the 
 Legislature. Left one child, Hiram.* 
 
 5. Margaret^ b. 1773; m. James Wilson, son of Capt. Jim- 
 
 mie Wilson, the Indian scout. Their descendants are 
 numerous ; found in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas 
 and Texas. Had thirteen children. The connection 
 in 1848 numbered 97 living and a number deceased. 
 
Kentucky McElroys oj 
 
 6. Abram^ d. young. 
 
 7. William^ E. b. 1776; m. ist, Keturah Cleland; 2d, Mary 
 
 Kirk; d. 1875. 
 
 8. SamueP b. 1777; m. ist, Marion Briggs; 2d, Jane B. 
 
 Grundy. 
 
 9. MaryS b. 1778; m. William McColgan. No issue. 
 
 10. James P.^ (twin) b. 1780; m. Esther Simpson, his sec- 
 
 ond cousin. 
 
 11. Abram^ (twin) b. 1780; m. Miss Radford. 
 
 12. Elizabeth^ m. George Wilson. 
 
 13. Nancy3 m. George Robbins. 
 
 Children of Sarah^ (McElroy) and Alexander Handley. 
 
 1. James.* 
 
 2. Marv.* 
 
 3. Alexander.* 
 
 James and Alexander m. sisters, Sarah and Letitia Cleaver, 
 daughters of an old pioneer and magistrate of Washington 
 County. They removed with their families about 1830 to Hardin 
 County, Ky., thence some of their descendants migrated to South- 
 western Kentucky, and others to Missouri. 
 
 Mary m. Thomas Carter, and lived and died on the old farm 
 of her father, near New Market, leaving several children, whose 
 descendants are still in the same region. 
 
 JoHN^ McElroy (Samuel.- James^) b. 1769; m. Miss Cope- 
 land, by whom he had two children, James C* and Samuel.* The 
 latter d. young. 
 
 James C* m. Jane Simpson.* daughter of his stepmother, and 
 
 had four children, who became heads of families. 
 
 t 
 
 1. Mary Ann=^ m. Basil Mason and left one child Burgess 
 
 B. Mason.« 
 
 2. Lucetta^ m. George W. Grundy. 
 
 3. John= m. Lucy Ann Skiles. niece of Judge Joseph Under- 
 
 wood. 
 
52 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 4. Elizabeth^ m. J. Cleland Raney. Their daughter EHza- 
 beth is wife of a merchant in Dallas, Tex. 
 
 William E.^ (Samuel,^ James^) was b. in Virginia, 1776, and 
 was thirteen years old when his father and uncles removed to 
 Kentucky. He was a prominent citizen, a man of high character, 
 the head of a numerous family, and lived to a great age. He was 
 an elder in the Presbyterian Church for 73 years, and passed 
 away in 1875, in his 99th year. He m. ist Keturah Cleland, sister 
 of old Dr. Thomas Cleland, one of the best loved Presbyterian 
 ministers in Central Kentucky, and daughter of Squire Philip 
 Cleland, an old settler and cousin to Simon Kenton, one of the 
 early Kentucky pioneers. His second wife was Mary Kirk, 
 daughter of James Kirk, of an old and honored Irish family. The 
 words of her husband, who had lived with her nearly half a cen- 
 tury, may be recorded in her praise: While she was draped and 
 coffined for the grave, the old man, too feeble to follow her, bend- 
 ing over the coffin, said: "There lies the best woman that ever 
 lived." 
 
 Children of William E. and Keturah McElroy. 
 
 1. Maria* b. 1805; m. Joseph P. Knott. 
 
 2. Eliza* b. 1807; m. ist, Martin Everhart ; 2d, Thos. P. 
 
 Gibbs; 3d, Withrow. 
 
 3. P. Edwards* m. Lydia A. Gibbs. 
 
 4. H. Paulina* m. A. Scott Mayes. 
 
 5. Margaret* m. Samuel F. Ray. 
 
 Children of William E.^ McElroy and Mary Kirk. 
 
 6. Paul L* m. Sue^ McElroy (Hiram,* Hugh,-" Samuel,^ 
 
 James^). 
 
 7. Robert L.* m. Lizzie Hughes. 
 
 8. Cecil S.* m. Fannie Brown. 
 
 9. Lucy Ann* m. Samuel F. Ray, widower of Margaret. 
 10. William T.* m. Eliza Cassidav. 
 
Kentucky McElroys 33 
 
 11. James F.* m. Mary Chapman. 
 
 12. Samuel R.* m. Belle Reed. 
 
 13. Keturah* m. Dr. Hubbard. 
 
 14. Sarah d. young. 
 
 Samuel^ (Samuel,- James^) b. in Virginia, 1777; m. ist, 
 Marian Briggs ; 2d, Jane B. Grundy. A natural orator, member 
 of Legislature 1821" and 1822. Elder in Presbyterian Church 
 over fifty years. 
 
 Children of Samuel and Marian (Briggs) McElroy. 
 
 1. Hervey* b. 1807 ; m. Jane Grundy. 
 
 2. George Whitfield* b. Jan. 3, 1809; cl. near Natchez, 
 
 Miss., Jan. 5, 1842. 
 
 3. S. Davies* b. 181 1; m. Mary Anna Tate. 
 
 4. Elizabeth* b. 1814; m. Benedict Spalding. No issue. 
 
 5. Abram* b. 1816; m. ist, Eliza Skiles; 2d, Mary 
 
 Buckner. 
 
 6. Benjamin* b. 1816. Twin brother of Abram. A physi- 
 
 cian. Died single at Midway, Ky. 
 
 7. Keturah J.* b. 1819; m. Harvey* McElroy ( ,^ 
 
 Hugh,- James^). 
 
 8. James H.* b. 1821 ; d. in infancy. 
 
 Children of Samuel^ and Jane (Grundy) McElroy. 
 
 9. John D.* b. 1823 : d. young. 
 
 10 
 II 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 14 
 15 
 
 W. Proctor* b. 1825 ; m. Sarah Tate. 
 
 Marion B.* b. 1827; m. W. T. Knott; d. 1865. 
 
 Hugh Sneed* b. 1829 ; m. Lydia Harrison. 
 
 Mary Jane* b. 183 1 ; d. in young womanhood. 
 
 John C. Young* d. young. 
 
 Thomas Cleland* b. 1838 ; d. in infancy. 
 
 James P.^ McElroy (Samuel,^ James^) b. 1780; m. Esther* 
 Simpson (Mary,^ Hugh,= James^). First occupied his farm one 
 
2 
 
 o^ Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 mile northwest of Lebanon, then removed, between 1820 and 1830, 
 to Missouri, settHng near Palmyra. 
 
 Children of James P. and Esther McElroy. 
 
 1. Brenetta* m. John Leland McElroy* (Abram,^ Samuel, 
 
 James^). 
 
 2. Franklin Blair* m. Ann Porter. Resided in Hanni- 
 
 bal, Mo. 
 
 3. Alvey Nelson* m. , Ralls County, Mo. 
 
 4. Milford* m. , Ralls County, Mo. 
 
 5. Belfield* m. ist, Miss McReynolds; 2d, Miss Forsythe. 
 
 Reside at Palmyra, Mo. No issue. 
 
 6. Sydney Gallagher^ unmarried, Ralls County, Mo. 
 
 7. Apolita* m. McClure, Marion County, Mo. 
 
 8. Bigler* d. young. 
 
 9. Virgil* d. young. 
 
 Abram^ McElroy (Samuel,- James^). Twin brother of James 
 P., b. 1780. He and his brother Hugh occupied the old farm and 
 cared for their parents until their death. After the marriage of 
 their two younger sisters the old homestead passed into the 
 possession of SamueP McElroy (Hugh,^ James^) in whose pos- 
 session it remained for many years. Abram moved to South- 
 western Kentucky, where he m. Miss Radford, in Christian 
 County ; thence he moved to West Ely, Marion County, Mo. 
 
 Children of Abram^ McElroy. 
 
 1. John Leland* m. Brenetta* McElroy. 
 
 2. Apphia Ann* m. Jack Muldrow. 
 
 3. Emily Jane* d. single ; aet. 32. 
 
 4. Mary Malvina* m. Israel Twombly. 
 
 5. Addison Samuel* d. in infancy. 
 
 6. Araminta McChord* d. in young womanhood. 
 
 7. Marian Katharine Johnson* d. unmarried. 
 
 8. Benjamin Newton* m. Eliza Foreman. 
 
Kentucky McElroys 3c 
 
 9. James Abram Blackburn* m. Cordelia F. Finley. 
 
 10. Elizabeth Eudora* m. Rev. B. E. S. Ely, D.D., a cousin 
 
 to Gen. G. B. McClellan. 
 
 11. Cicely Ann* m. William Radford. 
 
 Burgess Burr Mason« (Mary Ann,^ James C.,* John,=* 
 
 Samuel,2 James^) m. Hundlie BlackwelP ( ,* ' Sarah.'' 
 
 Hugh,2 James^). Their children 
 
 1. William Basil" m. Maud Maxwell, in Kansas, 1884. 
 
 They have two children : Burgess B.^ b. 1885 ; William 
 B. b. 1886. 
 
 2. Alexander H.^ m., 1884, Rowena Hall, of Louisville. 
 
 Their children were Mary HalP d. an infant, and 
 Alex. H.8 b. 1887. 
 
 Children of Lucetta^ (McElroy) and George W. Grundy. 
 
 1. John L.« m. Rosa Cleland, daughter of Rev. Thos. H. 
 
 Cleland, D.D. 
 
 2. James A.« m. Mattie, daughter of Hon. James M. Fogle; 
 
 resides Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 3. Susan'' m. Joseph Howell, a banker, Nashville; have a 
 
 daughter Ethel. 
 
 John McElroy^ (James C.,* John,=* Samuel,- James^) m. Lucy 
 Ann Skiles, of Warren County, niece of the eminent Judge Joseph 
 Underwood and of Hon. Warner Underwood. 
 
 Children of John^ and Lucy McElroy. 
 
 1. A son*' who d. in early youth. 
 
 2. Mattie" m. Robert Lyle. Reside in Marion County, and 
 
 have several children. 
 
 3. Willie*' m. January Grundy, farmer, near Lebanon; 
 
 several children. 
 
 4. Lucy" m. Andrew Cochrane, lawyer; have several chil- 
 
 dren. Reside in Mayville, Ky. 
 
26 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 5. Ella." 
 
 6. Cetta." 
 
 7. Lillie m. Franklin Ray, farmer, Marion County. 
 
 Hiram* McElroy (Hugh,^ Samuel,- James^) b. 1800. Law- 
 yer, member of the Legislature, either Senate or House, for 
 twenty-seven years. Resided in Southwestern Kentucky, Union 
 County. Married Mary Clements. 
 
 Children of Hiram* and Mary (Clements) McElroy. 
 
 I. 
 
 Hugh^ b. 1825. 
 
 2. 
 
 Mary E.^ b. 1827. 
 
 3- 
 
 Addie^ b. 1830. 
 
 4- 
 
 Sue^ b. 1833. 
 
 5- 
 
 Barbara^ b. 1835. 
 
 6. 
 
 Hiram^ b. 1837. 
 
 7- 
 
 Len^ b. 1839. 
 
 8. 
 
 Martha^ b. 1841. 
 
 9- 
 
 James^ b. 1843. 
 
 10. 
 
 Sarah^ b. 1845. 
 
 Maria* (McElroy) Knott (William E.,^ Samuel,- James^) 
 m. Joseph P. Knott, of English descent, an educated man and 
 teacher, i8i9-'2i. Member of Legislature i833-'34, contractor 
 in constructing macadamized road over Muldrow's Hill, i835-'36. 
 
 Children of Maria (McElroy) and Joseph P. Knott. 
 
 I 
 2 
 
 3 
 4 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 7- 
 8. 
 
 William T.^ b. 1822. 
 Keturah F.^ b. 1824. 
 Samuel C.^ b. 1826. 
 M. Minnie^ b. 1828. 
 J. Proctor^ b. 1830. 
 Edwards W.^ b. 1833. 
 Annie M.'* b. 1836. 
 Joanna''" b. 1838. 
 
Kentucky McElroys 3y 
 
 Eliza McElroy* (William E.,^ Samuel,^ James^) m. ist, Mar- 
 tin Everhart, who died soon after marriage ; 2d, Thomas P. 
 Gibbs, a nephew of Governor Wickliffe and cousin to Hon. Ben 
 Hardin ; 3d, Withrow. 
 
 Children of Eliza (McElroy) and Thomas P. Gibbs. 
 
 1. William E.,^ lawyer at Batesville, Ark.; major in Con- 
 
 federate army under General Price, losing life in the 
 service. 
 
 2. Margaret M.^ m. U. M. Rose, lawyer at Batesville and 
 
 Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 Philip Edwards* McElroy (William E.,^ Samuel,^ James^) 
 m. Lydia Ann Gibbs, sister of Thomas P. Gibbs. 
 
 Children of Philip Edwards and Lydia Ann McElroy. 
 
 1. Keturah^ m. James Chapman, Bowling Green, Ky. No 
 
 issue. 
 
 2. Sarah R.^ m. J. Proctor Knott, her cousin. No children. 
 
 3. Annie Maria^ d. young. 
 
 H. Paulina* (McElroy) Mayes (William E.,^ Samuel,^ 
 James^) m. A. Scott Mayes, farmer, stock raiser and trader in 
 the Southern markets. They have three children surviving ; two 
 or three d. young. 
 
 Children of Paulina (McElroy) and A. Scott Mayes. 
 
 1. Keturah^ m. ist, Robert Extine Grundy, Presbyterian 
 
 minister, d. early ; 2d, William Johnston, business man, 
 assassinated in prime of life ; 3d, Hayes, of Louis- 
 ville, leaving several children. 
 
 2. Eusebias,^ farmer, Washington County, m. Mary Curry, 
 
 Has several children. 
 
 3. William,^ farmer, m. Miss Forsythe. They have two chil- 
 
 dren. 
 
2g Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 Margaret J.* (McElroy) Ray (William E.,^ Samuel,^ 
 James^) m. Samuel F. Ray, farmer and prominent citizen. 
 
 Children of Margaret (McElroy) and Samuel F. Ray. 
 
 1. Albert^ Newton d. young. 
 
 2. William E.^ m. ist, Annie Logan; 2d, Fannie Froman. 
 
 3. Elizabeth^ m. Edward Miller, widowed husband of Lucy 
 
 (Texas). 
 
 4. Priscilla^ m. Richard Chandler, merchant in Texas. 
 
 5. Anna E.^ m. R. B. Edmonds, business man in Lebanon. 
 
 6. Lucy^ m. Edward Miller; d. early. 
 
 Paul L* McElroy (William E.,^ Samuel,- James^) m. Sue 
 McElroy (Hiram,^ Hugh,^ Samuel,^^ James^). He is a farmer, 
 an elder in the church, living on the old farm of his father near 
 Lebanon. His wife d. 1884. 
 
 Children of Paul L and Sue McElroy. 
 
 L Irvine.^ 
 
 2. Nannie.^ 
 
 3. Jennie.^ 
 
 4. Proctor.^ 
 
 Robert L.* McElroy (William E.,^ Samuel,- JamesO m. Eliza- 
 beth C. Hughes. Farmer, and elder in the church. Early in their 
 married life they removed to Texas, where they continued to 
 reside. 
 
 Children of Robert L. and Elizabeth McElroy. 
 
 Thomas H.^ b. 1854; d. in early youth. 
 
 Mary Letitia"' b. 1856; m., 1878, P. C. Harty. 
 
 Lucy Belle^ b. 1858; d. in young womanhood. 
 
 Margaret Hetty^ b. i860; m., 1881, A. H. P. McCurdy. 
 
 Edward H.^ b. 1862. 
 
 William R.« b. 1864. 
 
Kentucky McElroys c>q 
 
 7. James C.^ b. 1866; m., 1887, Ida Allen. They have one 
 
 child, Robert^ A. McElroy. 
 
 8. Herbert Lee^ b. 1870. 
 
 9. Celia^ b. 1870. Twin sister to Herbert. 
 
 10. Franklin^ b. 1873. 
 
 11. Samuel Bracken^ b. 1875. 
 
 Cecil S.'' McElroy (William E.,^ Samuel,^' James^) m. Fannie 
 Brown. A farmer. Resides in Davis Countv, Ky. Their only 
 child, Susan Mary,^ m. Dr. McCarty. 
 
 Lucy Ann^ (McElroy) Ray (William E.,^ Samuel,^ James^) 
 m. Samuel F. Ray, the widower of her older sister, Margaret. 
 
 Children of Lucy Ann (McElroy) and Samuel F. Ray. 
 
 1. McElroy Ray^ went to Texas. Married Mary L. Miller 
 
 of Belton, Tex. 
 
 2. Maggie^ b. 1855 ; m. Joseph W. Wakefield, of Nelson 
 
 County, 1876. 
 
 3. Paul Franklin^ b. i860; m. Lillie McElroy. 
 
 4. Lee D.^ b. 1861 ; m. Lillie Rountree, 1886. One son, 
 
 Harrison R.'' 
 
 5. Charles F.^ Ray b. 1870. 
 
 William T.* McElroy (William E.,^ Samuel,^ James^). A 
 graduate of Centre College, Danville, Ky., and of Union Theo- 
 logical Seminary, New York. Married Eliza, daughter of Samuel 
 Cassiday, of Louisville. Held pastorates at Glasgow, Perrysville 
 and Maysville, and later at Louisville. His oldest son, Samuel 
 Addison,^ is a Presbyterian minister. Born Louisville, i86o- 
 graduated Princeton Theological Seminary, 1885. ' Pastor 
 Eufaula, Ala., i888-'9i ; Cape Girardeau, Mo., 1891.^ 
 
 James Franklin McElroy (WilHam E.,=' Samuel,^ James^). 
 A physician at Bowling Green. Married Mary Chapman. They 
 
.Q Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 have three children. One of these, WilHam,' is a bank clerk in 
 Bowling Green. 
 
 Samuel Rice* McElroy (William E.,^' Samuel,^ James^) 
 m. Mary Belle Reed, of Washington County, January 22, 1856. 
 Now residing (1900) in Chicago. 
 
 Children of Samuel R. and Mary B. McElroy. 
 
 1. William R." b. December 17, 1856. Presbyterian minis- 
 
 ter. West Plains, Mo. 
 
 2. James Edward^ b. 1858; m. Miss Beckam, of Arkansas. 
 
 They have had two children. He d. in 1894, Kansas 
 
 City. 
 
 3. Robert LemueP b. 1861. Merchant, Chicago, 111. 
 
 4. Lilly' b. 1863; m., 1884, Harry Tappan, Kansas City. 
 
 5. Mary Rice' b. 1865 ; m., 1882, Daniel W. Brown, attor- 
 
 ney, Kansas City. 
 
 6. Frank Braxton' b. 1867, Detroit. 
 
 7. Annie Belle' b. 1869. 
 
 8. Grace' d. in early childhood. 
 
 Keturah* (McElroy) Hubbard (William E.,^ Samuel,^ 
 James^) m. Dr. George Hubbard, of Taylor County, and removed 
 to Munfordsville, Hart County. The names of their children 
 not known. 
 
 Hervey* McElroy (Samuel,^ Samuel,- James^ b. 1807; m. 
 Jane Grundy, sister of Rev. Robert C. Grundy, D. D., farmer and 
 stock raiser near Lebanon. 
 
 Children of Hervey and Jane G. McElroy. 
 
 1. Elizabeth M.' m. William Simpson' ( .' Tylary,^ 
 
 Hugh,2 james^). 
 
 2. Samuel G.' m. Ellen Skiles, of Bowling Green. 
 
 3. Davis' d. unmarried. 
 
Kentucky M cElroys 41 
 
 4. Extine" d. unmarried. 
 
 5. Hervey^ migrated to California. Unmarried. 
 
 6. Thomas C.^ m. Elizabeth Field. Two children d. ; four 
 
 now living. 
 
 7. Benjamin^ m. Lizzie Gartin. They have one child. 
 
 8. Mollie° m. Guthrie, a merchant in Paducah, Ky. 
 
 George Whitfield* McElroy (Samuel,^ Samuel,- James^) 
 b. January 3, 1809; graduated from Center College 1833; studied 
 theology at Princeton, N. J. ; ordained by Presbytery of West 
 Lexington, September 28, 1838. He visited Liberia, West 
 Africa, as agent of the American Colonization Society, and upon 
 his return became pastor at Winchester, Ky. At a later time he 
 had charge of the Salem church. On account of impaired health 
 he was advised to go South. He received a call to become 1:he 
 successor of Dr. John Breckenridge, in the First Presbyterian 
 Church of New Orleans. On his way south the final summons 
 came. He d. near Natchez, Miss., January 5, 1842. He was a 
 young man of fine abilities and attainments. He d. single, yet 
 betrothed. The end came just before the day set for his marriage. 
 
 S. Davies* McElroy (Samuel,^ Samuel,- James^) b. 1811 ; m. 
 Anna Tate. Became a farmer ; then gave his attention to medi- 
 cine and became a skilled physician. Died early, leaving three 
 children. 
 
 Children of S. Davies and Anna McElroy. 
 
 1. Marion Briggs.^ 
 
 2. Sarah Finley^ m. Robert McElroy, descendant of Hugh.^ 
 
 They reside in Washington County, and have no 
 children. 
 
 3. Isaac Tate^ d. in early manhood. 
 
 Abram* McElroy (Samuel,^ Samuel,^ James^) b. 1816; m., 
 1st, Eliza Skiles, sister to Lucy Ann, of the noted Underwood 
 
42 Scotch-Irish M c Elroys 
 
 family; 2d, Mary Buckner, of the family of Buckners famous 
 in Kentucky as jurists and statesmen. 
 
 Children of Abram* and Eliza McElroy. 
 
 1. George Whitfield'^ m. Lucy Cleaver, descendant of James^ 
 
 McElroy. 
 
 2. Clarence Underwood^ m. Miss Trigg, of Glasgow. Law- 
 
 yer of high standing. Member of the Legislature. 
 
 Children of Abram and Mary McElroy. 
 
 3. Litie'^ m. E. Montgomery, farmer. 
 
 4. Buckner.^ 
 
 5. Mmnie.^ 
 
 Keturah'^ J. McElroy (Samuel,'' Samuel,- James^) b. 1819; 
 m. Harvey^ McElroy, grandson of Hugh,^ d. early. 
 
 Children of Keturah and Harvey McElroy. 
 
 1. W. Wallace^ m. Margaret Montgomery, of Washington 
 
 County. 
 
 2. Marion^ m. Thomas Young, lawyer, of Bath County. 
 
 3. Alice^ m. J. B. Goodpasture, banker, Owensville. No 
 
 issue. 
 
 4. Katie^ d. in young womanhood. 
 
 W. Proctor McElroy* (Samuel,^ Samuel,- James^) b. 1825; 
 m. Sarah Tate, of Green County. Elder in Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Children of W. Proctor and Sarah McElroy. 
 
 1. Samuel^ m. Miss Glass, of Shelby County. Have several 
 
 children. Reside in Kansas. 
 
 2. Mary, unmarried. 
 
 3. Anne. 
 
Kentucky McElroys 43 
 
 4. Isaac T., a Presbyterian minister. Began his ministerial 
 work in Missouri ; then in Kentucky, was on duty at 
 Stanford and Mt. SterHng, and later at Lexington. 
 For a time he was agent for Central University, Rich- 
 mond, Ky. 
 
 Hugh Sneed* McElroy (Samuel,^ Samuel,^ James^) b. 1829. 
 Became a Presbyterian minister. In 1850 he took charge of the 
 church at Midway, Ky. In 1855 he became pastor of the Jeffer- 
 son Avenue Church, Detroit, where he continued until his death 
 in December, 1857. Married Lydia S. Harrison, of Honesdale, 
 Pa., of English descent and nearly related to the Abbots, widely 
 known in the circles of literature. 
 
 Children of Rev. Hugh Sneed and Lydia McElroy. 
 
 1. Martha LaRose^ m. James B. Shepard, real estate, Kan- 
 
 sas City. 
 
 2. George Sneed,^ Kansas City. 
 
 Mary^ McElroy (Samuel,- James^) b. 1778; m. William 
 McColgan. Resided in Taylor County. They had no children. 
 They owned a large family of negroes, whom they freed and set- 
 tled on farms in Ohio, at their death. 
 
 Brenetta* McElroy (James P.,^ Samuel,^ James^) m. her 
 cousin, John Leland* McElroy (Abram,^ Samuel,^ James^). 
 Farmer, located near Palmyra, Mo. 
 
 Children of John Leland and Brenetta McElroy 
 
 1. Mary Eudora.^ 
 
 2. Laura Brenetta.^ 
 
 Franklin Blair* McElroy (James P.,^ Samuel, ^ James^) 
 m. Ann Porter. Was a Presbyterian minister. Resided in Han- 
 nibal, Mo. 
 
44 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys 
 
 Children of Rev. Franklin B. and Ann McElroy. 
 
 1. James^ d. unmarried. 
 
 2. Annie^ m. J. Fuller, a Presbyterian minister. 
 
 3. Charles^ m. Miss Baird. Reside in Carthage, Mo. Have 
 
 two children, Nellie® and Walter.® 
 
 4. Franklin^ is a journalist in Southwestern Missouri. 
 
 5. William^ is a widower, in business in Colorado. 
 
 6. Mamie^ m. William Thomas, bank employe in Denver, 
 
 Col. 
 
 Apphia Ann* McElroy (Abram,^ Samuel,- James^) m. Jack 
 Muldrow, descendant of John and Margaret Muldrow. 
 
 Children of Apphia Ann (McElroy) and Jack Muldrow. 
 
 1. John A.^ m. Mary Rhodes. Have three daughters, 
 
 Annie,® Rose,® Gertrude.® 
 
 2. Rhoda^ m. T. F. Priest. Died early; left a daughter, 
 
 Willena.® 
 
 Mary Malvina* McElroy (Abram.^ Samuel,- James^) m. 
 Israel Twombly. Their one daughter, Mary E.,^ m. Calvin Fore- 
 man. Their grandchildren are Laura Dean® Foreman and Paul 
 Findley® Foreman. 
 
 Benjamin Newton* McElroy (Abram,^ Samuel,- James^ 
 m. Eliza Foreman. Their children are Benjamin A.^ and 
 Susie M.^ 
 
 James Abram Blackburn* McElroy (Abram,^ Samuel,^ 
 James^) m. Cordelia F. Finley. 
 
 Children of James A. B. and Cordelia McElroy. 
 
 1. James A. B., jr.,^ m. Minnie Moore. 
 
 2. Bettie F.^ m. John West, and has one child, Eva® West. 
 
Kentucky M cElroys 45 
 
 3. M. Eva^ m. George Turner. They have one child, 
 
 Frances® Turner. 
 
 4. Warner F.^ In St. Louis. 
 
 5. Cordelia F.^ 
 
 Elizabeth Eudora* McElroy (Abram,^ Samuel,^ James^) 
 m. Ben Ezra Stiles Ely, a cousin of Gen. Geo. B. McClellan. His 
 father, of same name, was for many years a pastor in Philadel- 
 phia, and founder in later years of Marion College in North Mis- 
 souri. The son studied law and practiced his profession for some 
 years in California, and was a member of the California Legis- 
 lature. Forsaking the law he entered the Presbyterian ministry. 
 He has held important pastorates, in Chicago, at Willow Creek, 
 111., at Ottumwa, Iowa, and at Winterset, Iowa. He now resides 
 in Des Moines. 
 
 Children of Elizabeth E. McElroy and Rev. B. E. S. 
 
 Ely, D. D. 
 
 1. B. E. S. Ely,^ jr., D. D., m. Sally Pryor. Pastor Presby- 
 
 terian Church, Rockford, 111. 
 
 2. George M.^ d. young. 
 
 3. Laura^ m. Rev. Dr. E. L. Curtis, Professor in Yale 
 
 Theological School, New Haven, Conn. They have 
 children Bessie,® Margaret,® Edward.® 
 
 4. Rose m. Rev. Samuel F. Moore. They are missionaries 
 
 in Corea. 
 
 5. Charles Wadsworth^ d. in young manhood. 
 
 6. Anita, deceased. 
 
 HuGH^ McElroy (Hiram,* Hugh,^ Samuel,^ James^) m. ist, 
 M. E. Arnold; 2d, S. E. Lindo. Descendants are in Union 
 County, Ky. 
 
 Children of Hugh McElroy and M. E. (Arnold) McElroy. 
 
 1. Emma® b. 1847; r^i- Samuel Abell. 
 
 2. Sue® b. 1847; twin sister with Emma. 
 
46 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys 
 
 3. John** b. 1849; m. Louisa Harris. 
 
 4. SaJlie« b. 185 1. 
 
 5. Ella^ b. 1853; m- R- W. Abell. 
 
 6. William B. b. 1855. 
 
 7. Mollie b. 1857; m. Robert Thomas. 
 
 Mary E.^ McElroy (Hiram,^ Hugh,^ Samuel,- James^) b. 
 1827 ; m. Hiram Senour. 
 
 Children of Mary E. (McElroy) and Hiram Senour. 
 
 1. Bella^ b. 1854; m. Watt Washington. Has two children. 
 
 2. Dish« b. 1856. 
 
 3. Fanny" b. 1858; m. J. Daniels. Has four children. 
 
 4. James® b. 1865. 
 
 Addie^ McElroy (Hiram,* Hugh,^ Samuel,- James^) b. 1830; 
 m. J. Bailey. Have four children. 
 
 1. Edward*' b. i860. 
 
 2. Mattie'' (twin) b. 1869. 
 
 3. Mollie*' (twin) b. 1869. 
 
 4. John*' b. 1873. 
 
 Barbara^ McElroy (Hiram,* Hugh,^ Samuel,^ James^) b. 
 1835 ; m. W. R. Greathouse, steamboat captain on lower Missis- 
 sippi, residing in New Orleans. 
 
 Children of Barbara and Capt. W. R. Greathouse. 
 
 1. W. R. Greathouse," jr., b. 1859. Consul at Tampico, 
 
 Mexico. 
 
 2. McElroy** b. 1861. 
 
 3. Grafton*' b. 1863. 
 
 4. Waverly*' b. 1865. 
 
 5. Violet" b. 1867; d. young. 
 
 6. Tillie*' b. 1869. 
 
 7. James*' b. 1870. 
 
W'lij.iAM T. Knott,'^^ Ph. D. 
 
 Maria McElroy' Knott. William E.." Sanuiel.- James^ 
 
Kentucky McElroys 47 
 
 HiRAM^ McElroy (Hiram,* Hugh,^ Samuel,- James^) b. 1837; 
 m. Carrie Watts, of New Orleans. Owns and operates one of 
 the finest farms in Union County. 
 
 Children of Hiram and Carrie (Watts) McElroy. 
 
 I. 
 
 Courtney W." b. 1876. 
 
 2. 
 
 Viola« b. 1878. 
 
 3- 
 
 Hiram« b. 1880. 
 
 4- 
 
 CaswelP b. 1882. 
 
 5- 
 
 Nellie R.« b. 1885. 
 
 6. 
 
 Carrie L." b. 1888. 
 
 Len McElroy^ (Hiram.* Hugh,^ Samuel,^ James^) b. 1839; 
 m. Mary McCauley. A farmer in Union County. They have two 
 children, Len** b. 1885, and one b. 1889. 
 
 Martha^ McElroy (Hiram,* Hugh,^ Samuel,^ James^) b. 
 1841 ; m. Cyrus Higginson, a banker at Waco, Tex. Their 
 children. 
 
 I 
 
 Green" b. 1867. 
 
 2. 
 
 Birdie" b. 1869 
 
 3- 
 
 Ord-^ b. 1871. 
 
 4- 
 
 Mattie" b. 1873 
 
 5- 
 
 Annie*' b. 1878. 
 
 6. 
 
 Vara" b. 1879. 
 
 7- 
 
 Ruth" b. 1882. 
 
 James^ McElroy (Hiram,* Hugh.^ Samuel, ^ James^) is un- 
 married. Resides in New Orleans. Engaged in business. 
 
 Marion Briggs* McElroy (Samuel,^ Samuel,^ James^) b. 
 1827 ; m. her cousin, William T. Knott, who was b. October 10, 
 1822. Resided at Lebanon. Died February 7, 1899. A man of 
 scholarly tastes and attainments, a public spirited citizen, and 
 prominent as a teacher and school superintendent. His standing 
 
48 Scofch-Irisli McElroys 
 
 as a scientist secured for him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 
 conferred by Center College. He was a steadfast friend and 
 worker in the Lebanon Presbyterian Church. He had high 
 appreciation of the sturdy character and noble traits of those 
 Scotch-Irish ancestors to whom he and we and our country are 
 so much indebted. From early youth he seemed to have a taste 
 for genealogical researches and inquiries. He was much in the 
 company of his venerated grandfather, Elder William E. 
 McElroy, and listened with delighted interest to the stories of the 
 old gentleman as he related what he had seen and known, and 
 what parents and grandparents had told him of the olden time. 
 William Knott was thoughtful enough to make memoranda of 
 those old stories, specially in the line of family history. As the 
 years passed he was careful to keep posted in regard to indi- 
 viduals and families who from the McElroy headquarters at 
 Lebanon went out westward and southward and northward to 
 other localities and homes. To his thoughtfulness we are 
 indebted for the names and dates and facts given in this account 
 of the Kentucky McElroys. Dr. Knott published in 1895 a his- 
 tory of the Presbyterian Church in Marion County, Ky., a narra- 
 tive full, and of great interest, and which no other person could 
 have given, dating from the founding of the church in 1789. He 
 had in contemplation the publication of a "History of the 
 McElroys," for which he had accumulated material and on which 
 his pen had been engaged, but which he did not live to complete. 
 Mrs. Marion Knott d. 1865. Dr. Knott m. a second wife, Lydia, 
 widow of Hugh Sneed McElroy, who survives him, residing with 
 her daughter, Mrs. Shepard, in Mexico. 
 
 Children of W. T. and Marion (McElroy) Knott. 
 
 I. Joseph McElroy'' (Marion.-* W. T. K.'^') is cashier of 
 Marion National Bank, Lebanon, Ky. Married Mattie 
 Rubel. Has three children. William Walter, b. Feb- 
 ruary 22, 1878; Joseph Proctor, b. October 15, 1890, 
 and Marion Katharine, b. September 24, 1893. 
 
Kentucky McElroys .g 
 
 2. William S., a successful lawyer in Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Married Lulu Pierce, sister of Judge James Pierce and 
 of Hon. William Pierce, Consul to Hawaii under Presi- 
 dent Arthur. They have a son, James Proctor, b. in 
 1886. 
 
 3. Miss Kate Grundy lives with her brother in Lebanon. 
 
 Three children of Dr. Knott died in infancy, and a 
 grown daughter, Jennie Marion, in later years. 
 
 Keturah F. Knott^ (Maria,' William E.,^ Samuel,^ James^) 
 b. 1824; m. Wells Rawling, of Missouri. Has five children, 
 William," Proctor," Minnie," Mattie," and Annie." Lives with 
 a married daughter in Northeastern Missouri. 
 
 Samuel C. Knott^ (Maria,* William E.,^ Samuel,^' James^) 
 b. 1826 ; m. Sarah Gates, of Georgia. Lives in Scotland County, 
 Mo. Has filled two or three offices of honor and trust. They had 
 seven children : 
 
 1. Elizabeth. 
 
 2. Joseph. 
 
 3. Benjamin. 
 
 4. Edwards. 
 5- Minnie. 
 6. Annie. 
 
 7- Samuel. 
 
 U. Minnie^ Knott (Maria,* William E.,=^ Samuel,^ James^) 
 b. 1826; m. Robert T. Nesbit, of Missouri. They have two 
 children. 
 
 1. James" m. his cousin, Annie Knott, daughter of Samuel. 
 
 Is Clerk of the Court, Scotland County, Mo. 
 
 2. Robert," unmarried. Is connected with the Standard 
 
 and Times, of Lebanon, Ky. 
 
-Q Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 J. Proctor Knott^ (Maria,* William E.,^ Samuel^ James^ 
 b 1830; m. I St, Mary Froman, who d. soon after marriage; 2d, 
 Sallie R. McElrov, daughter of P. Edwards and Lydia Ann 
 (Gibbs). They have no children. The name and record of 
 Proctor Knott have become public property, known and honored 
 not only in Kentucky but throughout the United States. Havmg 
 studied law in his native Kentucky, he went to North Missouri 
 and entered upon his professional career. He was a member of 
 the Missouri Constitutional Convention, and of the Legislature, 
 and when the war broke out he was Attorney-General of the State. 
 He then returned to Kentucky and practiced law at Lebanon. 
 During twelve years he represented his district in Congress, and 
 in 1883 became Governor of the State. His reputation as a law- 
 yer, statesman and orator is of the highest. 
 
 Edwards W. Knott^ (Maria,* William E.,^ Samuel,^ James^ 
 m. Mattie McCoy and resides in St. Louis. Engaged in insurance 
 business. He was for a time Assistant Insurance Agent of the 
 State of Missouri. They had several children. 
 
 Annie Maria Knott^ (Maria,* William E.,^ Samuel,- James^) 
 m. J. R. Hudnall, merchant, of Memphis, Mo., and d. early. 
 Their one child, Annie Maria Hudnall,^ is a successful teacher, 
 on duty in the High School at Carson City, Nev. 
 
 Joanna Knott^ (Maria.* William E.,' Samuel,^ James^ m. 
 Rev. M. C. Gorin, a Presbyterian minister in St. Louis. Their 
 children are : 
 
 1. Alice" who m. a Mr. Harrison, a lawyer, residing in 
 
 Duluth. 
 
 2. Maud.® 
 
 3. Fred." In St. Louis. 
 
 4. Grant." A merchant in Fulton, Mo. 
 
 Margaret'* Gibbs (Eliza.* William E.,= Samuel,- James^ m. 
 

 Hon. J. Proctor Knott 
 
Kentucky McElroys c I 
 
 Uriah M. Rose, a young lawyer of Lebanon, Ky. They settled 
 at Batesville, Ark., and after a few years removed to Little Rock, 
 where they still reside. Judge Uriah M. Rose occupies a high 
 position as a scholar and jurist, and as a practitioner in State and 
 United States Courts. 
 
 Children of Margaret P. (Gibbs) and Judge U. M. Rose. 
 
 1. John M.^ b. 1855; m., 1877, Lilian May Kelly, of Mal- 
 
 vern, Ark. Only two of their five children survive, 
 William G.« and Wallace D.« John M. Rose is a law- 
 yer residing at Little Rock. 
 
 2. William G.^ b. 1857. Lawyer, Butler, Mo. Unmarried. 
 
 3. George B.^ b. i860. Associated with his father in law 
 
 practice. Married. 1882, Miss Marion Kimball. They 
 have one son, Clarence E.. b. 1883. 
 
 4. Fannys b. 1863; m. in 1884 to W. W. Dickerson, mer- 
 
 chant. Their three children are : i, William Wallace," 
 b. 1885 ; 2, Rose« b. 1886, and 3, Benjamin R, b. 1888. 
 
 5. Lawrence FairchikP b. 1866; d. in infancy 
 
 6. Ellen^ b. 1867. 
 
 7. Emma^ b. 1870. 
 
 8. Charles C.^ b. 1872. 
 
 9. Lewis Henry^ b. 1874. 
 10. Jessie Alice^ b. 1877. 
 
 William R.^ McElroy (Samuel R.,* William E.,^ Samuel,^ 
 JamesO b. at Maxwell, Ky., December 17, 1856. His parents 
 having moved to Western Missouri, his early academic training 
 was in the High School at Kansas City, and also at Carthage. Mo. 
 Graduated from Drury College, Springfield, 1886. Studied 
 theology two years in Union Theological Seminarv, New York, 
 and one year at McCormick Seminary. Chicago. Ordained by the 
 Presbytery of Platte, at Grant City, 1889. Pastor at Chillicothe, 
 Mo., 1889-1893. Pastor four years at Cassopolis, Mich., and 
 now for almost three years has had charge of the church at West 
 
C2 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 Plains, near Kansas City. Married November 3, 1892, Miss Mary 
 E. Black, of Chillicothe, Mo. 
 
 Children of Rev. William R. and Mary E. McElroy. 
 
 1. William Rice*' b. Cassopolis, Mich., June 15, 1894. 
 
 2. James Millenton" b. Cassopolis, June 20, 1896. 
 
 3. Robert OdiP b. West Plains, Mo., April 13, 1898. 
 
 4. Mary Louise^ b. West Plains, February 14, 1900. 
 
 Samuel G. McElroy^ (Hervey,* Samuel,^ Samuel.- James^) 
 m. Ellen Skiles, of Bowling Green, sister of Lucy Ann. who m. 
 John I^IcElroy.^ Three daughters, Josie," Mattie« and Lizzie,'' 
 became accomplished and prominent teachers. Henry« and Effie'' 
 are younger members of the family. 
 
BIG SPRING (PA.) Mcelroys 
 
 About the year 1760 Hugh McEIroy, at the age of twenty-two, 
 left County Down, Ireland, and came to America, to Big Spring,' 
 Cumberland County, Pa., near Newville, not far from Carlisle! 
 Two younger brothers followed him in later years. He was the 
 writer's grandfather, and special effort has been made to trace our 
 family history as far back and as fully, and from as wide sources 
 as possible. 
 
 Tradition has it that "all the McElroys of County Down" are 
 descended from three brothers who came from Scotland "time o' 
 the persecutions ;" also that their home in Scotland had been "in 
 the region of Glasgow." Their names were doubtless correctly 
 given as John, Hugh and James. The first of these, John, settled 
 in the southern part of the county, the name appearing in family 
 traditions reduced to writing about the year 1850 by the late Hon. 
 John Scott, of Philadelphia, whose ancestors included McElroys, 
 one of whom was among the heroic defenders of Londonderry 
 in 1681. 
 
 James probably lived in the central or west part of the county. 
 This, however, is a matter of conjecture or inference. The re- 
 maining name, Hugh, appears in an interesting family record 
 which we secured from Joseph K.^ McElroy, of Sigourney. Iowa, 
 whose father, Hugh^ McElroy. was a banker at Sidney, Ohio. 
 
 HuGH^ McElroy, from Scotland, came to County Down, Ire- 
 land, at a date not precisely known, probably about 1685,' and 
 bought a tract of land at Kate's Bridge, in the Parish of Ballyna- 
 hmch, about twenty miles south of Belfast. He had at least three 
 sons— possibly several more— and as to daughters we are not 
 informed. 
 
54 Scotch-Irish M c Elroys 
 
 The sons were John,^ Hugh,^ and probably Robert.- Some of 
 Hugh's descendants still reside at Kate's Bridge and cultivate 
 the paternal acres, and attend the old Ballyroney Presbyterian 
 Church, where, in the churchyard near by, four or five genera- 
 tions lie buried. 
 
 John McElroy,* of Leitrim, five or six miles north of Kate's 
 Bridge, a very aged man, is a grandson of Robert. He had some 
 seven sisters, one of whom, Mary* McElroy, married a Mr. Dick- 
 son. Rev. William Dickson,'^ D. D.. of Canfield, Ohio, is her son. 
 
 Another descendant of Robert, John'^ by name, who had lived 
 twelve miles from Belfast, in County Down, came to Baltimore 
 in the year 1819. He had four sons. Of these, James* continued 
 to reside at Baltimore. Thomas* came to Pittsburgh, and thence 
 perhaps to St. Louis. Robert* was a Covenanter minister and 
 died in Virginia before the war. 
 
 John,* the remaining son, lived in Washington County, Pa., 
 and in Armstrong County, Pa. His son, David W.^ McElroy, 
 is a prominent citizen and business man in Keokuk, Iowa. 
 
 Hugh McElroy' (son of the Scotch Hugh) had a family, but 
 we have the name of only one of his children, viz, Andrew,'' who 
 lived in County Down. Two of Andrew's sons were John,* who 
 lived and died in County Down, and whose son Samuel,^ now lives 
 in Philadelphia, and a son Richard^ and family now occupy the old 
 home at Kate's Bridge ; and Hugh,* who came to America about 
 the year 1818 and settled in Pittsburgh, Pa. He was a member 
 of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, a man of great 
 energy and high character. He engaged in the enterprise of 
 shipping flour and other produce to New Orleans in flat boats 
 on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He made several trips, going 
 with his boat or boats in person, selling out his produce in New 
 Orleans, and then returning on foot to Pittsburgh. This was be- 
 fore steam navigation commenced on those rivers, and long before 
 the time of railroads. His father, Andrew, came to America in 
 his old days, and closed his long life at the home of his son. 
 
Big Spring (Pa.) McElroys 55 
 
 In later years Hugh resided in Sidney, Ohio, and was there 
 engaged in the banking business. Two sons survived their father, 
 one, Joseph K.^ residing in Sigourney, Iowa; the other, John 
 Andrew,^ in Kansas. 
 
 Joseph K. informs us that his father made fifty-two trips be- 
 tween Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, crossing the Alleghany moun- 
 tains and accomplishing the whole journey either on foot or in 
 private conveyance. 
 
 John- McElroy, son of Hugh,^ who came from Scotland, 
 lived and died in County Down. Born as early, perhaps, as 17 10' 
 and living until near the close of the century. He was married 
 twice and was the father of three sons and five daughters, viz, 
 Hugh,3 John,3 Prudence^ (McKee), Betsy^ (McKee), Mary'*' 
 (Smith), Ann^ (McKnight), Joseplr and Jane=^ (Grove). 
 
 The three sons all came to America ; Hugh, as we have seen, 
 about 1760, to Big Spring; John to Big Spring about 1780, and 
 Joseph to Westmoreland County, Pa., in 1829. 
 
 John McElroy^ (John,^ Hugh^) of Big Spring, m. Sarah 
 Erwin, of Erwinston, and lived at Castle Blaney in County 
 Monaghan. They had eight children, six sons and two daughters. 
 They came to America and to Big Spring probably about 1780. 
 The daughters were Mary'' and Martha.* William* lived and 
 died at Chillicothe, Ohio, of which he was one of the early set- 
 tlers and founders. John* was a soldier in the war of 1812 and 
 was killed by the bursting of a cannon, which put out his eyes. 
 This is said to have occurred at Quebec, the date unknown. 
 From "Pennsylvania Archives/" Vol. XII, we learn that John 
 McElroy was Lieutenant in Capt. William Morris's company, 
 belonging to the Militia Regiment commanded by Col. Rees Hill,' 
 in service May 5 to November 5, 1813. One of their marches 
 was to Erie, Pa. Hugh* settled in Erie County, Pa. He married 
 and had a family. His wife's name was Margaret, but we have 
 no information as to his descendants. 
 
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 Abram* McElroy, fifth son of John,^ of Big Spring, was a 
 tanner and lived at Mansfield, Ohio. He was an exemplary mem- 
 ber *of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. He m. 
 Jemima Wilkerson. Their son Frank^ spent some time in Cali- 
 fornia about 1850, and was living in Muscatine, Iowa, some years 
 later. Their daughter, Jemima,' m. a Mr. Holmes. 
 
 James Erwin^ McElroy, b. August 2, 1781, was probably the 
 oldest son of John,^ of Big Spring. He was m. near Pittsburgh, 
 by Rev. William Wilson, of the Associate Reformed Church, 
 November 14, 1805, to Isabella Malvina Glenn, and lived at Mid- 
 dlefield, Geauga County, Ohio. He was a farmer, and in the 
 war of 1812 was in army service as a teamster, and contracted 
 disease in the service at Lundy's Lane, of which he d. in 1826. 
 The widow was left with a family of nine children, the oldest only 
 sixteen years of age, on a farm but partially improved and not 
 fully paid for. With energy and wise management she brought 
 up all her children, with fair education, to respectable manhood 
 and womanhood, and lived to see her eighty-sixth year. She was 
 b. August 26, 1782. Their children, nine in number, were: 
 
 1. John' McElroy b. August 20, 1806. Had eight children. 
 
 2. Mary' b. March 26, 1808 ; m. Silas Evans, and had ten 
 
 children. 
 
 3. Sarah' b. March 20. 1810; m. William Glendenning. 
 
 Large family. 
 
 4. Meander' b. January 9, 1812 ; m. Lorenzo Rider. Two 
 
 of their daughters were well known in New York City 
 some vears since. One was the second wife of "Brick' 
 Pomeroy; the other m. a Mr. Goodyear, connected 
 with the India rubber trade. 
 
 5. Glenn Wallace' McElroy, whose residence in late years 
 
 was at Vassar, Tuscola County, Mich., was b. April 
 16, 1814. 
 
 6. Martha Isabella' m. William S. Rider. They had six 
 
 children. The eldest, Erwin Lorenzo,*' a soldier in 
 
Big Spring (Pa.) McElroys 57 
 
 Company E, Sixteenth Wisconsin, was killed April 6, 
 1862, in the battle of Shiloh. The father d. in 1884. 
 Their living children are Mrs. Ellen M. Gray*^ and 
 Clinton O. Rider,*' Ira, Iowa; Cyrus W. Rider,'' 
 Harrisburg, Neb. ; Mrs. Myra Brown," Des Moines, 
 Iowa, and Mrs. Mary C. Parker,*' Newton, Iowa. 
 Mother Rider has been a widow for six years past. She 
 is in her eighty-fifth year, and is now (in 1900) the 
 only survivor in her father's family, residing with her 
 daughter, IVIrs. Gray, at Ira, Jasper County, Iowa. 
 
 7. Lydia^ b. May 26, 1818; m. Charles Trunkee. They had 
 
 six children. 
 
 8. James E. McElroy^ b. April 22, 1820; m. December 24, 
 
 1840, near Economy, Beaver County, Pa., Margaret 
 Jordan. He d. June 9, 1863. His wife d. July 2y, 
 1873. Their home was in Muscatine County, Iowa. 
 They had five children : 
 
 (i) Isabella M.*' b. 1842; m. C. V. Van Epps. They reside 
 at Sheldon, Iowa, and have two children, Mrs. Mary Gifford and 
 Erwin. 
 
 (2) Celia E.*' b. 1844; m. E. A. Albee. They live at Pleasant 
 Prairie, Iowa, and have five children : Margaret M.,^ Marcia,^ 
 Gustavus,'^ Erwin E." and Irene C.^ 
 
 (3) William J. McElroy" b. May 25, 1847; m- Mary J. Hall. 
 They live at Pleasant Prairie, and have three children : Isaac 
 Erwin,^ Glenn Earl' and Pearl." 
 
 (4) Irene Meander" b. November 8, 1850; m. D. S. Brown. 
 They live in Dexter, Dallas County, Iowa. Their children are 
 Clarence J.,^ Gertrude P.' and Nellie." 
 
 (5) James E. McElroy" b. September 20, 1853; "i. Effie 
 Johnson. They reside in Muscatine. They have three children : 
 Orrie J.,^ William Edward" and Ethel J. M.^ 
 
 9. The ninth and youngest of the family of James Erwin 
 
 McElroy,^ of Geauga County, Ohio, was. 
 
c8 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 William Montgomery^ McElroy (James Erwin/ John,^ 
 John,- Hugh^) b. in Geauga County, Ohio, July 24, 1823. Being 
 left fatherless at three year* of age, he went, while yet a boy, to 
 live with his brother Glenn, in Oswego, N. Y., with whom he 
 learned the tailor trade. Afterward he engaged in mercantile 
 business, stopping for a time in New York City, and later resid- 
 ing in Wisconsin, and at length locating in Muscatine County, 
 Iowa, near his brother James/' His tastes and opportunities led 
 him into the teacher's avocation, and in this calling he labored 
 successfully to the close of life, which occurred February 28, 
 1868, at the early age of forty-five. 
 
 William McElroy^ was a man "o' pairts." He had a pro- 
 digious memory, being able to recite in full both "Marmion" and 
 ''The Lady of the Lake." He had a wide acquaintance with litera- 
 ture, with fine appreciation of the beauties of poetry. He made 
 some use of the pen, and his contributions to the local press were 
 many and not without merit. He was a man of character, and 
 held in the highest esteem by all who knew him. 
 
 His wife, to whom he was m. March 22, 1848, was Helen Mar 
 Parsons, daughter of Fortius Parsons, of Oswego, N. Y., and the 
 seventh in direct descent from "Cornet" Parsons, who sailed for 
 Boston from Gravesend, England, July 4, 1635, and from whom 
 the New Englanders of that name are largely descended. Mrs. 
 McElroy was b. August 3, 1823, and now, at the age of yy, enjoys 
 fair health, residing with her daughters, Hattie'^ and Alice,'"' in 
 Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Children of William Montgomery^ McElroy. 
 
 Charles Murray*' McElroy. 
 
 Addie.« 
 
 William" who d. in infancy. 
 
 Mrs. Nellie McElroy'^ Farmer, deceased, who left three 
 
 children — Lawrence,'^ Helen^ and Margaret.^ 
 Miss Hattie Parsons McElroy." 
 Miss Alice Matilda McElroy." 
 
William Montgoa[erv" McElrov, 1823-1868 
 
 The Baby, b. 1S52. named Charles ^vlurray'' McElrov 
 
Big S'priiig (Pa.) McElroys 59 
 
 Charles Murray McElroy*^ (William Montgomery," James 
 Erwin,* John,^ John,- Hugli^) great-grandson of John McElroy,^ 
 of Big Spring, was b. in Oswego, N. Y., February i, 1852, and 
 came with the family to Iowa in 1858. Ten years later, at the 
 age of sixteen, the death of his father devolved upon him the 
 responsibility of caring for his widowed mother and her children. 
 He entered the school of journalisn;, learning the printer's trade 
 in Muscatine. He was employed on the Register in Des Moines, 
 was later a reporter on the Des Moines Leader, and still later 
 one of the proprietors of the Indianola Tribune. In 1879 he pur- 
 chased the Tribune at Fairfield, Iowa, and remained its publisher 
 for over twenty years. He served as postmaster during the first 
 term of President Cleveland, and was for many years a member 
 of the city school board, and also a trustee of the free public 
 library. 
 
 He is a man of recognized ability, of high character, and enjoys 
 the confidence and esteem of the whole community. He was m. 
 September 2, 1885, to Alice Rebecca Pollock, of Plattsmouth, 
 Neb. Their children are : 
 
 Hugh Murray. 
 
 Thomas Pollock. 
 
 Helen Louise. 
 
 Mary Kerr. 
 
 Florence Palm. 
 
 Virginia. 
 
 Charles Parsons (deceased). 
 
 Robert Hamilton. 
 
 The sixth and youngest son of John'' McElroy, of Big Spring, 
 was Joseph,^ who lived and died in New York City. No one in 
 our immediate connection, and very few bearing the McElroy 
 name, have been so widely known as the New York pastor. 
 
 Rev. Joseph* McElroy. D. D. (John,^ John,^ Hugh^ was 
 b. in Cumberland County, Pa., near Big Spring, Decem- 
 ber 29, 1792. After the death of his father the widow 
 
6o Scotch-Irish M c Elroys 
 
 and children removed to Western Pennsylvania while Joseph 
 was yet a boy, perhaps fourteen years of age. The 
 first time he ever saw Pittsburgh was in 1807, when he entered it, 
 a boy of fifteen, driving a five horse team which he had driven 
 from Baltimore. He graduated from Jefferson College at Canons- 
 burg, Pa., in 18 12, and studied theology in New York under Rev. 
 John M. Mason, D. D. He was licensed to preach the gospel by 
 the Associate Reformed Presbytery of Pittsburgh in 1814. He 
 was pastor for eight years of the First Associate Reformed Pres- 
 byterian Church of Pittsburgh. In 1822 he accepted a call to 
 New York to become the successor of Dr. Mason, as pastor of the 
 Scotch Presbyterian Church. There he fulfilled a pastorate of 
 more than fifty years, closing with his death, which occurred 
 at the age of eighty-four, September 16, 1876. 
 
 He was tall, of commanding presence, and spoke with great 
 clearness and power. He had a large library and was a thorough 
 student, yet, during most of the years of his long ministry he made 
 but little use of the pen, his discourses being delivered without 
 notes. Until late in life there was but little change in his mode 
 of conducting public worship ; the usages that had prevailed in 
 the Associate Reformed Church were for the most part retained. 
 There was no instrumental music, the service of song being led 
 by a precentor. On communion occasions the participants were 
 served at tables in the aisles. He was a diligent and wise pastor, 
 enjoying in a remarkable degree the confidence and esteem of his 
 people. Robert Carter, the publisher, was one of his valued elders 
 and a life-long friend. 
 
 Dr. McElroy was m. four times. His first wife was Miss Mary 
 Allison, of Beaver, Pa. His second wife was Mrs. Marianne Fox 
 Poyntelle, a sister of Hon. Robert J. Walker. His third wife was 
 Miss Sarah McLanahan, and his fourth wife, a most excellent 
 lady, was Mrs. Rebecca D. Jaffray, of New York, her maiden 
 name having been Dexter. 
 
 Only two of Dr. McElroy's children survived their father. 
 To a friend he said in 1869, at the age of yy, "I have followed 
 nineteen funerals out of my house." 
 
Rev. Joseph McElrov. D. D. 
 
 At 33, 1792 — 1876 
 
 Mrs. Mary McElroy-Moir 
 
 Mrs. Mari.\nne Fo.\ McElroy 
 
 At 30. i7q6 — 1836 
 
 Mk. James Moir 
 
Big S'pring (Pa.) Mc Elroys 6i 
 
 A promising son, Mason Knox^ McElroy, died in early man- 
 hood. 
 
 An older son, Robert Duncan^ McElroy, b. in 183 1, enlisted 
 in the Fourth New York Heavy Artillery, and at Gettysburg lost 
 a limb, which retired him from the service, and from the effects 
 of which he never fully recovered. He d. at his residence in Mor- 
 ristown, N. J., of typhoid pneumonia, February 11, 1869. Hts 
 wife, Caroline Charlotte Lee, daughter of Thomas Rankin Lee, 
 of Croton Falls, d. November 6, 1869, leaving four children. 
 
 1. Mamie*' wife of Frank Chase, Randolph, N. H. 
 
 2. Carrie*^ who m. Mr. Willis Benner, attorney, of New 
 
 York City, d. in 1889, leaving two sons, Roger and 
 Hildreth. 
 
 3. Miss Nannie McElroy,^ who resides in New York City. 
 
 4. Mason K. McElroy,*' a resident, since 1880, of St. Paul, 
 
 Minn. He is m. and has one child, Caroline Charlotte,^ 
 named for her grandmother. 
 
 Dr. McElroy's daughter Josephine^ m. Hugh Maxwell, of New 
 York. She survived her father, but has since, with her two 
 children, passed to the other shore. 
 
 His daughter Mary^ became the wife of James Moir, a success- 
 ful merchant in New York. In the late evening of life, after the 
 death of his last wife. Dr. McElroy enjoyed the affectionate care 
 and attention of this daughter and her excellent husband. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Moir, who were married in 1845, celebrated their 
 golden wedding June 3, 1895. Both have since passed away, Mrs. 
 Moir on March 14, 1896, and her husband December 7, 1899. 
 
 Four children of the Moir family survive their parents. 
 
 1. Josephine,*' who married Henry T. Lee, a young lawyer 
 
 in New York. Their residence is in Los Angeles, Cal., 
 where they have a good home and a lovely family. 
 Their three children are : Thomas Rathbone,^ Mary^ 
 and Margaret." 
 
 2. Joseph McElroy*' Moir is a farmer, residing at Bloom- 
 
 ington, Minn. He married Agnes Pond, daughter of 
 
62 Scotch-Irish M c Elroys 
 
 one of the early missionaries to the Indians in Min- 
 nesota, a niece of the late Judge McDill, of Iowa, and 
 great-granddaughter of Rev. R. G. Wilson, D. D., of 
 Ohio. They have eight children : Marian Walker,^ 
 Agnes Pond," James,^ Joseph McElroy,^ William Wil- 
 merding," Dougal Stuart, '^ Arthur Duncan,^ and 
 John.^ 
 
 3. Rev. William Wilmerding Moir,® Assistant Rector of 
 
 the Church of the Holy Communion, New York City. 
 
 4. Arthur Duncan Moir,** engaged in business in New York. 
 
 His wife was Laura Merriam Russell. 
 
 Dr. McElroy had two sisters, Mary* and Martha.* Mary 
 McElroy m. Adam Hawthorn and later m. John Oxer. She had 
 two sons, Abram** and Joseph'' Oxer, and, perhaps, other children. 
 She died in 1838, at Farmington, Trumball County, Ohio. 
 
 Martha was also m. twice. Her first husband was John Walker, 
 and her second husband was James Walker. After her second 
 marriage she removed to Ohio, where she d. not far from Zanes- 
 ville. 
 
 Mrs. Marianne Fox McElroy, second wife of Dr. Joseph 
 McElroy, was a lady whose ancestry embraced distinguished peo- 
 ple on both sides of the Atlantic. Her father, Jonathan Hoge 
 Walker, was Judge of the Court for the Western District of 
 Pennsylvania, appointed by President Madison. Her mother was 
 the daughter of Judge Duncan, also of Pennsylvania. Her 
 brother, Robert J. Walker, was Secretary of the Treasury under 
 President Polk. She was a lineal descendant, through Charles 
 James Fox-Lord Holland, and the Dukes of Richmond, of the 
 Royal House of the Stuarts, Charles II, Charles I, James I and 
 Mary Queen of Scots. 
 
 Mrs. McElroy was a woman of personal worth and rare beauty, 
 and of gifts and graces befitting her station and lineage. 
 
 Joseph^ (John,^ Hugh^ youngest son of John,- of County 
 Down, came to America in 1829. He was the son of his father's 
 
Big S^pring (Pa.) McElroys 63 
 
 old age, and for that reason, according to a rule widely prevalent 
 among the Scotch-Irish patriarchs, received the name Joseph. 
 The date of his birth we are unable to state, although it must have 
 been not far from 1776. His two older brothers had d. in America 
 and their families were scattered before his arrival. His wife 
 and two daughters d. of ship fever and were buried at Baltimore. 
 He settled in Westmoreland County, Pa., near the Kiskiminetas, 
 a branch of the Allegheny river, about twenty-five miles from 
 Pittsburgh. 
 
 He and family were Covenanters, belonging in Ireland to Fair- 
 view congregation, and in their new home, members of Brook- 
 land Church. He m. a second wife. Miss Jane McKee, in 1838. 
 The maiden name of his first wife was Jane Grey. After his 
 second marriage he removed to Mercer County, Pa., was con- 
 nected with the Springfield Covenanter (or Reformed Presby- 
 terian) Church, and d. in the fall of 1851. 
 
 Joseph McElroy^ was the father of ten children, including two 
 daughters, who were buried in Baltimore. 
 
 Jane* (Garrett). 
 
 John.* 
 
 David.* 
 
 Isabella* (Nixon). 
 
 Hugh.* 
 
 All these lived in Westmoreland County and were members 
 of Brookland congregation. 
 
 Joseph the Covenanter. 
 
 By his second marriage he had three children, viz : 
 Joseph,* who resides at Quinter, Kansas. 
 Jane,* who lives in Mercer County, Pa. 
 
 James Renwick,* named for the last of the Scotch martyrs, 
 and who d. in 1883. 
 
 These Covenanter friends, by their sterling Christian character, 
 and by the intelligence and firmness with which they maintained 
 their own peculiar tenets and usages, secured and held the respect 
 
64 Scotch-Irish McEIroys 
 
 and confidence of all who knew them. To show the kind of stuff 
 they were made of, it may be mentioned that in 1833 Joseph 
 McElroy, being then a Ruling Elder in the Brookland Church, 
 was commissioned as a delegate to the Reformed Presbyterian 
 Synod meeting in Philadelphia. The place was 300 miles away. 
 The mountains lay between. The voice of the locomotive had not 
 yet been heard through those mountains and valleys and hills. 
 The season for plowing and planting and cultivating was at hand. 
 The three boys could be trusted to do the farm work, but their 
 limited force in the way of teams was absolutely essential. So the 
 head of the family, staff in hand, set out to fulfill his mission. On 
 foot he traveled 300 miles and attended synod, and then, in the 
 same way, with a light heart and a good conscience, he walked 
 back, 300 miles, to his Westmoreland home. 
 
 In 1862 the writer had an opportunity of visiting those people. 
 They were plain, hospitable, well-to-do farmers, and the memory 
 of that visit abides with me as something very pleasant to recall. 
 Most of the elderly friends I met have since passed away, but 
 their descendants, somewhat scattered, are still in that region, 
 maintaining the principles and illustrating the virtues of their 
 ancestors. 
 
 We now revert to 
 
 HuGH^ McElroy (John,- Hugh^) to whom John and Joseph 
 were younger brothers. My grandfather Hugh, was m., at Big 
 Spring, about the year 1783, to Ann Scroggs, a native of Scot- 
 land. Her father was one of the pioneer settlers and one of the 
 original members of the Seceder (or Associate Presbyterian) 
 Church of Big Spring. Father Scroggs had a snug family of 
 twenty-one sons and daughters, the result of two marriages. His 
 descendants are very numerous, amounting probably to thousands. 
 The late Rev. Elijah Scroggs, of Beaver County. Pa., was his 
 youngest son. The late Rev. Joseph Scroggs. D. D., of Ligonier, 
 Pa., was a grandson. 
 
 Hugh and Ann McElroy resided most of their days in Mifflin 
 County, now Juniata County, Pa., at first in Lost Creek valley and 
 
Big S^pring (Pa.) McElroys 65 
 
 later, and until the close of life, near the village of Mexico on 
 the Juniata. 
 
 The names of their first two children exemplify a rule widely 
 prevalent among the patriarchs of their day. The first child in 
 the family must be named for the mother's people, usually for 
 her father or mother. The second child must be named for the 
 father's people, usually for his mother or father ; the third child 
 for the mother's people, and so on alternately. 
 
 Hugh's first child, a son, was called Alexander, for his grand^ 
 father, Alexander Scroggs. The second, a daughter, was called 
 Prudence. Hugh had a sister of that name, and it is likely that 
 his mother was Prudence. They had a daughter Ann who d. un- 
 married about 1840, some 50 years of age. Two sons, Hugh and 
 John, and two daughters d. young and unmarried. 
 
 Their youngest son was called for the Scotch Divine, Ebenezer 
 Erskine. 
 
 Uncle Alexander* (Hugh,^ John,^ Hugh^) was born March 
 6, 1784. Like his father and brothers, he was a farmer. Like 
 them he was thoroughly instructed in the Bible, the Catechisms, 
 and the Confession of Faith. There were no Sabbath schools and 
 no religious papers in those days, but the instructions of the pulpit 
 and of the home were effective, and the printed sermons of the 
 Erskines. with a few other religious books, had their influence. 
 After his father's death he had occasion to give a good deal of 
 attention to financial and business matters, and developed a talent 
 for finance which staid with him all his life. He was never mar- 
 ried. He lived plainly and frugally and left an estate of about 
 $30,000 as a fund for the publication and sale or distribution of 
 Bibles, known as "The McElroy Fund" of the United Presby- 
 terian Church. Every copy of the Scriptures so published must 
 contain also the Psalms in metre as used in the United Presby- 
 terian Church. To a Covenanter church in Washington County, 
 Pa., he made a donation, a number of years before his death, of 
 about $2,000, the interest of the money to go to the support of 
 
66 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys 
 
 the pastor. He was well informed on matters Biblical and theo- 
 logical, and adhered very rigidly in belief and practice to the 
 views and doctrines generally prevalent among Seceders and 
 Covenanters. During his later years he resided in what was then 
 called the west ; at Cannonsburgh, in Washington County, Pa., 
 in Harrison County, Ohio, and in Wheeling, Va. After i860 he 
 lived among the McElroy relatives in Westmoreland County. 
 During the late evening and decline of life he enjoyed the kind 
 care and hospitality of his cousin, Hugh* McElroy, under whose 
 roof and in the midst of whose family he d. in 1876, in his ninety- 
 third year. His remains are interred near the Brookland 
 Covenanter Church. 
 
 Aunt Prudy McElroy* m. Robert Robinson, and after the 
 death of her parents occupied and owned the old McElroy home 
 near Mexico. They had two children, daughters, — Prudence,^ 
 who m. William Hart, and Levinia,^ who m. Henry Harrison 
 Rodgers. They were all members of the "Fermanagh" Associate 
 Reformed Church, of which Grandfather McElroy had been a 
 charter member and chief supporter. In 1851 the writer spent 
 a college vacation among those Juniata friends. My birthplace 
 and the residence of our family was in Southwestern Ohio, and 
 this was the first time that I ever met any of those Pennsylvania 
 kinfolks. I found Mrs. Hart,^ with her four children, occupy- 
 ing the old McElroy home, her husband having d. a year or two 
 earlier, and her mother, Aunt Prudy, having also passed away 
 still earlier. Their place of worship was in their new brick church 
 in the village of Mexico. The old church building, three miles 
 away, then lately vacated, was an object of peculiar interest. It 
 was probably the second house built on the same site. It was of 
 hewed logs, of shingle roof, and of fair size. The pews were of 
 the very high kind. The high pulpit was surmounted by what 
 was called a "sounding board." The seat for the Precentor or 
 Clerk was just in front of the pulpit facing the audience. No 
 hymns had ever been sung in that house, but solelv and onlv the 
 
Big S^pring (Pa.) McElroys 67 
 
 Psalms in Rouse's version. Continuous singing had not been the 
 practice, but the Precentor would "give out" two lines of the 
 Psalm, then start the tune and lead the song; then give out two 
 lines more and so on to the end of the Psalm. 
 
 No pipe organ, no "cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulci- 
 mer" or other Babylonish instrument had ever lifted up voice 
 there. 
 
 And here at the minister's left hand, the second pew is the one 
 that belonged to grandfather. An aged lady remembered him 
 very distinctly. She spoke of him as a very grave man. All those 
 fathers were grave and thoughtful when in the house of God. 
 He used to sit with closed eyes, lest something earthly and visible 
 might distract his attention from the divine message. Outside^ 
 a few steps from the building, are the graves of Hugh and Ann 
 McElroy. 
 
 Southward, two or three miles distant, you may see the wind- 
 ings of "The Blue Juniata," and hear the screaming locomotive 
 on the Pennsylvania railroad, and beyond are the Tuscarora val- 
 ley and Tuscarora mountain. 
 
 Mrs. Hart sold out some years later and removed to Wooster, 
 Ohio, where she died a few years since. Her older daughter, 
 Mrs. Levinia Cummin,*' a widow, resides in Marion, Ohio, having 
 one daughter. Miss Winifred." The older son, Robert S. Hart," 
 is in business at Avoca, Iowa. The younger daughter. Miss 
 Mary Hart,*' resides in Wooster, Ohio, and the younger son. Dr. 
 Hugh Hart,** is at Wooster. He practised medicine for some 
 years in New York City. He was Surgeon-General of Ohio 
 under the recent administration of Governor Campbell. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Rodgers d. in Pennsylvania many 
 years ago. Three of their four sons were Union soldiers in our 
 late civil war. One of these, Matthew," having passed unscathed 
 through forty-nine battles and skirmishes, d. soon after the 
 war, from a very unusual cause — the bite of a vicious horse. One 
 of the sons, William," lives in Mifflin, near his birthplace, a highly 
 respected and active member of the Presbyterian Church. The 
 
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 only daughter, Ann Eliza,^ has resided for many years in Lincoln, 
 Neb., the wife of Charles Griffith, a prominent citizen. 
 
 Grandmother Ann Scroggs McElroy d. in 1811, at the age of 
 sixty-eight years. Grandfather Hugh McElroy d. March 2, 181 3, 
 aged seventy-five years and two weeks. 
 
 Ebenezer Erskine McElroy* (Hugh,'' John,- Hugh^) the 
 writer's father, youngest son of Hugh, was b. in Mifflin County, 
 Pa., December 22, 1791. He was m. April 13, 1813, in his twenty- 
 second year, Rev. Thomas Smith, officiating, to Sarah Ghormley, 
 eldest daughter of Thomas Ghormley, who lived near Mexico, 
 and was a member, perhaps an elder, in the Fermanagh Church. 
 
 The same spring my parents, in company with Grandfather 
 Ghormley and family, came west. They traveled in wagons by 
 way of The Burnt Cabins, Bedford and Washington. Pa., and by 
 way of Wheeling and Zanesville to Chillicothe, Ohio. 
 
 Here they stopped for a year or two, father and Uncle David 
 Ghormley being engaged as army teamsters hauling goods from 
 Portsmouth to Columbus. Soon after the war closed father 
 removed to Fayette County, twenty-five miles west, where he had 
 bought a tract of 500 acres of land and where he entered upon 
 the work of making a home "in the woods." The place was on 
 the west side of Paint Creek, four miles north of Greenfield (in 
 Highland County) and three miles west of Grandfather Ghorm- 
 ley's place. This proved to be his home for life and the birth- 
 place of all his children. 
 
 My recollections go back to a period about twenty years after 
 his settlement there. There were about fifty acres of cleared land 
 under cultivation, with a good hewed log house and a large barn. 
 The orchard was just beginning to bear, and it would have the 
 reputation in coming years of being the best orchard in Southern 
 Ohio. The farm was well stocked. A half hundred maple trees 
 furnished sugar and syrup for the year round. Flax and wool 
 were produced sufficient for wheel and reel and loom and cloth- 
 ing. The spring furnished abundance of clear cool water. The 
 
Big S'pring (Pa.) McElroys 69 
 
 lambs skipped merrily over the knolls and through the pasture. 
 The mulberry tree at the end of the lane was an object of great 
 interest to the squirrels and the boys. The pewit's nest under the 
 eave right up over our front window interested me greatly, but 
 I never could get to see into it. On the corner of our farm, a 
 half mile distant, was the schoolhouse, where a three months' 
 school was "kept" each winter. Our place was surrounded in 
 every direction by the unbroken forest, but through the trees in 
 the early morning, from the south, we often heard the crowing 
 chanticleer sounding the signal, from Mr. Smith's barn, of the 
 new day. Squirrels in the timber were very plentiful. The wild 
 deer were often seen passing by, and wild turkeys would some- 
 times invade the cornfield, fifty in a flock. 
 
 Last, but not least important, the stone church at the village of 
 Greenfield had much to do with family arrangements and joys 
 and hopes. 
 
 My parents were among its charter members in 1820, organiz- 
 ing the Presbyterian Church of Greenfield. The pastor. Rev. 
 Samuel Crothers, would spend his entire ministerial life there, 
 and be succeeded in later years by his son, bearing the same name. 
 Now as these lines are penned, in the year A. D. 1900, those two 
 pastorates, the latter still continuing, have occupied a space of 
 seventy-three years, or including ten years during which the elder 
 Dr. Crothers had been pastor of the Associate Reformed Church 
 at Greenfield, eighty-three years. 
 
 In the McElroy family, church attendance was a matter of 
 course and also of privilege. We went on horseback. Each fam- 
 ily occupied their own pew. Two sermons, each an hour in length, 
 with a half hour interval between, together with eight miles of 
 slow travel, occupied most of the day. 
 
 The children were baptized by the old pastor, most of them 
 were married by him, and all became communicants in the church. 
 
 My parents were faithful and exemplary Christians, maintain- 
 ing family worship morning and evening, with Scripture reading, 
 singing and prayer. 
 
JO Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 Ebenezer McElroy was an intelligent and successful farmer, 
 and his grain and apples, and dressed porkers brought the high- 
 est market price. 
 
 He was a man above medium height, well proportioned, rather 
 swarthy in complexion, with very dark hair, inclining to curl. 
 He had something of the grave aspect and reticence characteristic 
 of the Scotch, while my mother was of fair complexion, with 
 light brown hair, with a vivacity and an appreciation of the 
 ludicrous characteristic of those who dwell south of the Irish sea. 
 
 The death of Ebenezer McElroy occurred on Monday, March 
 31, 1845. He was in usual health, and had attended church with 
 his family the day previous. He was summoned with others to 
 a neighboring farm, where a fire, in dead timber and fences and 
 forest, was raging. There while engaged in fighting the fire, he 
 was caught by a falling tree, resulting in instant death — in his 
 fifty-fourth year. 
 
 Ebenezer and Sarah McElroy were the parents of ten 
 children, four of whom d. in infancy. Three daughters and three 
 sons grew to maturity and became heads of families. 
 
 I. Judith Ann,=^ b. in 1815; m., in 1834, James B. Curran, 
 of Juniata County, Pa. They resided near Greenfield 
 for twenty years, then removed to Illinois, and later 
 to near Carrollton, Mo., where Mr. Curran d. in 188 1, 
 at the age of seventy. The widow afterward lived with 
 a daughter at Hubbell, Neb., where she died in 1892, 
 in her seventy-eighth year. They had eight children: 
 
 Mrs. Nancy G. Batchelder," Osborne, Kan. Three children 
 and several grandchildren. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Snyder," Carrollton, Mo. 
 
 Mrs. Maggie Vandevender," who d. in Illinois in 1878, leaving 
 four children. 
 
 Mrs Mattie Johnson," Hubbell, Neb. Four children. 
 
 Hugh Ebenezer Curran," who d. in Illinois in 1872, leaving two 
 children. 
 
Big Spring (Pa.) McElroys 71 
 
 Mrs. Levinia Chunn,*^ Adams County, Ohio. Three children. 
 
 Mrs. Laura Ewing,** Hubbell, Neb. Two children. 
 
 John McElroy Curran,'' Shenandoah, Iowa. Six children. 
 
 2. Jane^ b. in 1817; m. William Templeton. Lived at 
 
 Greenfield ten years, then removed to Story County, 
 Iowa, where she d. in 1896, in her eightieth year. Her 
 husband d. in 1885. Four sons and their families and 
 an unmarried daughter reside at Ames, Iowa. Two 
 married daughters are deceased. The oldest son. Dr. 
 H. M. Templeton." is a prominent physician. 
 
 3. Hugh McElroy^ b. in 1820; m., in 1845, Martha Kerr. 
 
 Lived near Greenfield fourteen years, and has resided 
 in Jasper County, Iowa, since 1869. His esteemed wife, 
 the mother of all his children, d. September 4, 1880. 
 In November, 188 1, he m. Mrs. Rosanna B. Wright, 
 who d. in 1894. Eight children lived to maturity : 
 
 (i) Mrs. Sarah Agnes" McLean d. in 1877, leaving three 
 children: Anna Zelma,^ Carl Hugh" and Mattie.^ 
 
 (2) James Kerr" McElroy m. Mary E. Wambaugh and 
 resides near Dexter, Guthrie County, Iowa. Their children are : 
 Hugh J.,'^ Grace Eva,'^ Martha Amy^ and Charles.^ 
 
 (3) Elizabeth Ann" m. J. P. Winstead, a lawyer and judge of 
 the Court of Common Pleas. They reside in Circleville, Ohio, 
 and have four children, Samuel Hugh.' William M.,' Charles 
 Edward" and Margaret." 
 
 (4) Hannah Margaret" m. Joseph Vanatta, attorney, now 
 deceased. She resides in Newton. Her daughter, Mattie M.,^ 
 is in college at Ames. 
 
 (5) William O. McElroy" is a lawyer at Newton, Iowa. Is 
 a graduate of the Iowa College at Ames, and a trustee of the same 
 institution. Has a fine home and a good law practice. His wife 
 was Miss Julia Cavanaugh. Their children are: Margaret,^ 
 Harold,'^ Richard Cavanaugh" and Carroll Fellows.'^ 
 
 (6) Charles Sumner McElroy" is a farmer near Newton. He 
 
72 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 m. Lucv Miller. Their children are Floy Pauline," Edward 
 Charles' and Dale.' 
 
 (7) Hugh E. ^McElroy"* is a prosperous young lawyer at 
 Boise City, Idaho. He m. Miss Mary Rand, of Burlington, la. 
 They have one child, Catherine Martha.^ 
 
 (8) Miss Mattie Esther*^ d. in 1882. 
 
 Brother Hugh, in his eightieth year, lives with his daughter. 
 ]\Irs. Vanatta. at Newton, Iowa. 
 
 4. Margaret^ b. in 1823 ; m. Robert Kerr. They resided 
 
 near Greenfield, Ohio. Her husband is an elder in the 
 Pissrah Presbvterian Church. Thev had five children : 
 
 Lizzie*^ m. Marcus Parrett. Died in 1894, leaving five children. 
 
 James Kerr^ m. a ^Miss Fannie Young. Lives near Newton, 
 Iowa. One son. 
 
 Emma*' d. unmarried. 
 
 Mattie® m. Lewis W. Parrett. They reside near Washington 
 Court House, Ohio, and have four children. 
 
 Thomas Chalmers® Kerr m. Miss Emma Ware. Occupies the 
 old home and is an elder in the Pisgah Church. Four children. 
 His father lives with him. in his eighty-first year. 
 
 5. Thomas Ghormley ^McElroy"^ b. May 29, 1827; m., in 
 
 1848, ]\Iiss Esther Kerr. Resided near Greenfield. A 
 farmer and stock raiser and soldier. They had six 
 children, five sons and one daughter, all of them now 
 heads of families. Thomas was a man of fine physique, 
 erect, six feet in height and well proportioned. He 
 was courageous, prompt and ready for any service to 
 which duty called him. He was active in church work, 
 in prayer meeting and in the Sunday school. His 
 earthly life closed suddenly and in a distressing and 
 tragic way while in his early prime, at the age of 
 thirty-seven. 
 
 Death of Thomas G. McElroy. 
 
 It occurred February 4. 1865. at Lees Creek Bridge, on the 
 
5t«S 
 
 ...^ 
 
 Thomas G. McKlkoy/ 1827-1865 
 Elifnczer/ IIurIi.' JoIin,= Hugh ^ 
 
Big Spring (Pa.) McElroys 73 
 
 Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad. He had lately returned from 
 army service. He had occasion to go on a business errand to 
 Cincinnati, carrying with him a sum of money belonging largely 
 to neighbors to make an important payment. At the Greenfield 
 depot a banker handed him a package of $4,000 in greenbacks to 
 carry to a bank in Cincinnati. While awaiting the train he was 
 introduced to a stranger, Lieutenant Calohan, of Logansport, 
 Indiana. They entered the car together and sat in adjoining seats. 
 They talked of army experiences and perils. Thomas spoke 
 of the importance of a soldier being a true Christian, 
 with his feet on the sure foundation and ready for what- 
 ever might befall. They were soon at Lees Creek, a small 
 stream flowing through a deep gorge. It was a time of 
 high water and running ice, and the one pier under the 
 middle of the bridge had been undermined and had fallen during 
 the night. The train men knew nothing of this till they were on 
 the falling bridge. Twenty-five persons with the train fell some 
 fifty or sixty feet to the bottom. The wreck took fire and burned 
 every thing above the water. It was in the early morning and in 
 a country place where but little help could be had. A few were 
 able to crawl out of the wreck. A few were rescued. Eight or 
 nine persons, including Thomas, were consumed by the fire. 
 Some of the bodies burned beyond recognition. Some of them, 
 including Thomas, had probably been killed by the fall. The 
 greenbacks on his person, amounting to $8,000, were consumed. 
 After the death of Thomas, the widow and children took hold, 
 bravely and prudently, to carry on the farm and meet the require- 
 ments of the situation. 
 
 Family of Thomas^ (Ebenezer Erskine,* Hugh ^ John ^ 
 Hugh^). 
 
 I. Ebenezer Erskine,^ the oldest of the six children, was 
 not quite sixteen years old at the time of his father's 
 death. With the hearty cooperation of the rest 
 of the family he conducted the farm operations. 
 
74 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys 
 
 and did it wisely and successfully. He at length 
 entered Salem Academy, and from there went to 
 Cornell University, graduating from the scientific 
 department in 1872. He then entered the law depart- 
 ment of the Iowa State University and graduated in 
 1873. He immediately entered upon law practice in 
 Ottumwa, where he continues to the present, and where 
 he has built up a large business. He is not a politician 
 and has never sought public office. He has served, 
 however, as alderman, and has been for a number of 
 years President of the School Board. He is a member 
 and ruling elder in the First Presbyterian Church. He 
 m. 1st, Miss Belle Hamilton, of South Salem, Ohio, 
 and after her demise Miss Elizabeth Milner, of Green- 
 field, Ohio. His widowed mother, now in her seventy- 
 first year, has her home with him. Four sons and 
 three daughters fill the family circle. 
 
 Children of Ebenezer E. and Belle (Hamilton) McElroy. 
 
 (i) Thomas Clifford,'^ graduated from Cornell University in 
 1899, and has entered upon practice as architect in Buffalo, N. Y. 
 He m. Miss Jean Smith, of Lounsberry, N. Y. 
 
 (2) Carl Erskine.^ Member of the wholesale grocery firm 
 of Hutchinson & Co., of Ottumwa. 
 
 (3) Walter Hamilton^ is a lawyer, associated with his father 
 in legal practice. 
 
 (4) Ralph^ is a clerk with Hutchinson & Co. 
 
 (5) Evalyn'^ is a student in the High School. 
 
 Children of Ebenezer E. and Elizabeth (Milner) McElroy. 
 
 (6) Edna.^ 
 
 (7) Edith.^ 
 
 2. Robert*' N. McElroy, second son of Thomas, was b. on 
 the old McElroy homestead in Fayette County, Ohio, 
 
Big Spring (Pa.) Mc Elroys 75 
 
 October 2, 1850. He was m. December 23, 1874, in the 
 same house in which he was born, by Rev. Mr. Mitchell, 
 to Miss Almena Clemantine Mead, who was born in 
 Pickaway County, Ohio, April 17, 1854. They resided 
 some fourteen years in Greenville, where Robert was 
 engaged in grocery business. Since 1888 their home 
 and business have been in Otumwa. They have two 
 children : 
 
 Thomas George,^ who holds a responsible position with John 
 Mowell & Co., and Miss Bertha," a pupil in Ward Seminary, 
 Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 3. James Finney," third son of Thomas,^ was b. November 
 25, 1852. He attended the district school in winter 
 and worked on the farm in summer until about seven- 
 teen. He pursued academic studies at South Salem and 
 also at Bloomingburg, Ohio, and then entered Dart- 
 mouth College, graduating in 1876. He was principal 
 of the Indiana Institution for the Blind, at Indianapolis, 
 four years, and superintendent for seven years of the 
 Institution for the Blind, at Lansing, Mich. This was 
 a new institution, and its organization and the planning 
 of buildings, etc., devolved upon him. At Dartmouth, 
 along with the classical course, he had pursued special 
 studies in mathematics and chemistry. These were con- 
 tinued at Indianapolis and Lansing with original 
 investigations and experiments. During these years 
 he brought out a number of inventions, leaving 
 them unpatented. When he found later that 
 his own valuable devices had been appropriated 
 and patented by others, he adopted the plan of 
 securing all his inventions by letters-patent. In 
 1887 he organized a company for manufacturing 
 some of his own inventions, "The McElroy Car Heat- 
 ing Company." Two years later this was combined 
 with the "Sewell Car Heating Company," forming 
 
76 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 "The Consolidated Car Heating Company," of Albany, 
 N. Y. They manufacture and sell to railroads heating 
 apparatus of all kinds, in which steam, hot water, fire 
 and electricity are used. These are based upon patents, 
 mostly taken out by Mr. AIcElroy. Their growing 
 business extends throughout the United States and 
 Canada, with large shipments to Europe. The patents 
 issued to James F. McElroy.to the present time (A. D. 
 1900) in the United States, Canada and Europe, num- 
 ber 260, with sixty-three further applications pending, 
 and with a number of nascent inventions in various 
 stages of preparation for the patent office. He is act- 
 ing president and consulting engineer of the company. 
 Mr. McElroy was m. July 9, 1879, to Miss Susie Hale, 
 of Newbury, Vt. Her father was John Hale, a de- 
 scendant, seven generations removed, of Thomas Hale, 
 who emigrated from England in 1635 to Newbury 
 Mass. They have three children : John Hale, b. ]\Iay 
 I, 1880, now a sophomore at Dartmouth; and two 
 daughters, Edith and Alice, students in the Albany 
 High School. The family residence is 131 Lake 
 Avenue, Albany, N. Y. Mr. McElroy has prepared 
 papers on various scientific subjects which have been 
 read before scientific bodies, and has delivered ad- 
 dresses on such topics in New York, Boston, Chicago 
 and Montreal. Most of these have been published, 
 either in pamphlet form or in the proceedings of 
 societies. 
 
 4. Mary, only daughter of Thomas, b. October 10, 1854; m., 
 
 December 18, 1881, Oscar Duncan, son of an elder in 
 the Greenfield Church. He is a farmer, residing near 
 Greenfield. They have two children, Esther Elizabeth 
 Duncan and John McElroy Duncan. 
 
 5. John Mercer McElroy, fourth son of Thomas, is a 
 
 farmer, residing near Ottumwa. He was m. to Miss 
 
James F. McElroy" 
 
 Thomas," Ebenezcr/ Ilugh,'^ John,- Hugh ' 
 
Big Spring (Pa.) McElroys 77 
 
 Ella Milner, near Greenfield, February, 1882. They 
 have seven children, viz: Mayna Kate, Robert Owen, 
 Nellie Fern, Esther Priscilla, Fred, Mary and Ruth. 
 
 6. Hugh Nevin McElroy, youngest son of Thomas, is also 
 a farmer, residing a few miles north of Ottumwa. He 
 m., in 1882, Miss Emma Duncan, sister of Oscar. 
 Their two children are Ethel May, aged fourteen years, 
 and Arthur, aged nine years. 
 
 The youngest son of Ebenezer,-* of Greenfield, O., the writer of 
 these lines, John McConnelP McElroy, was b. January 21, 1830, 
 and named for a Mr. John McConnell, a prominent elder in the 
 church. 
 
 Until his sixteenth year he remained at home, working on the 
 farm in the summer and attending a three months' district school 
 in the winter. In 1845 he entered Salem Academy, continuing 
 almost four years. In the fall of 1849 he entered the junior class 
 in Jefiferson College, at Canonsburg, Pa., graduating in 185 1. 
 The next two years he spent as assistant teacher in the Elders- 
 ridge Academy, having his home with the principal, Rev. Dr. 
 Donaldson, and also pursuing theological studies under his direc- 
 tion. He then spent two years in the Theological Seminary at 
 Princeton, N. J., and was licensed by the Presbytery of Chilli- 
 cothe, in session at Bloomingburg, Ohio, June 6, 1855. Soon 
 after, he set out for Iowa, in response to an urgent invitation, to 
 visit a newly organized church at the little town of Ottumwa, 
 on the Des Moines river. He traveled by rail to Burlington, on 
 the Mississippi, and thence by stage coach, seventy-five miles, to 
 Ottumwa. In the town of seven or eight hundred inhabitants 
 there were only four members of the Presbyterian Church, with 
 perhaps twenty scattered through the county. They had no house 
 of worship and had never had any regular preaching. 
 
 After thorough exploration, and with a formal "call" from the 
 infant congregation, he concluded to pitch his tent here on the 
 frontier. Returning east he attended the fall meeting of ChilH- 
 cothe Presbytery and was granted a letter of dismission, as a 
 
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 licentiate to the Presbytery of Des Moines. He was m., near 
 Murrysville, Westmoreland County, Pa., September ii, 1855, 
 to Miss Agnes Greer, by her pastor. Rev. William Conner, of the 
 Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. He was ordained in 
 Ottumwa, December 6, 1855, by Des Moines Presbytery, whose 
 territory then extended westward indefinitely to and beyond the 
 Rocky Mountains. Here and in the immediate vicinity has been 
 his home and field of labor for fully forty-five years. His pastorate 
 of the First Church of Ottumwa covered a period of fifteen years. 
 Then the Batavia Church, fourteen miles distant, was his field 
 for about fourteen years. Returning to Ottumwa in the fall of 
 1883, he supplied the church of Kirkville for a time, and then, 
 in 1885, took charge of the East End Chapel Mission, in Ottumwa. 
 Here six years of diligent labor resulted in the organization of the 
 East End or Second Presbyterian Church with 116 communicants. 
 
 Since 1891 he is on the retired list, having been disabled by 
 three annual sieges of la grippe, which left him unequal to the 
 requirements of active work. 
 
 It is proper to add that along with his ministerial work in 
 Ottumwa he was for two years County Superintendent of Schools, 
 and for five years proprietor and principal of the Ottumwa 
 Seminary. 
 
 He has been an occasional contributor to the secular and religi- 
 ous press. As historian he published a history of his college class 
 in 1881. He wrote, later, a small volume entitled, "Abby Bryam 
 and her Father, Indian Captives," which was published in 1898. 
 The degree of D. D. was conferred on him in 1881 by his Alma 
 Mater, Washington and Jefferson College. 
 
 The town of Ottumwa now contains a population of about 
 20,000, and our three Presbyterian churches have a membership 
 of over 700 communicants. 
 
 Children of John M. and Agnes G. McElroy. 
 
 r 
 
 /illiam Ge 
 
 13, 1862.' 
 
 I. William Geer b. June 29, 1856; d. of diphtheria, January 
 
John M. McElroy, D. D. 
 
Big S^pring (Pa.) Mc Elroys 79 
 
 2. Addison Hodge b. May 14, 1859; m., June 15, 1880, 
 
 Emma Durr. They reside in Ottumwa. Their two 
 children, WilHam T., aged nineteen, and Maude Agnes, 
 aged seventeen, attend the Ottumwa High School. 
 
 3. Sarah Abigail (Abby), Secretary Y. W. C. A., Nashville, 
 
 Tenn. 
 
 4. Mary, General Secretary Harlem Y. W. C. A., New 
 
 York City. 
 
 5. Jennie Agnes b. 1872; m., September i, 1897, Everett 
 
 R. Beard, M. D. They reside at Liberty, Ind., and have 
 a son, Raymond McElroy. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah McElroy, the writer's mother, was a widow twenty- 
 six years, residing with her son Thomas, and after his death, with 
 her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kerr. Her 
 death occurred April 20, 1871, in her eighty-fourth year. 
 
 James Moir, merchant, of New York, was a native of Scot 
 land, b. in Edinburgh, March 15, 1817, son of Dr. James Moir. 
 His brother, Dr. John Moir, was President of the Royal College 
 of Physicians and Surgeons. Two other brothers held responsi- 
 ble positions in government service in India and in the West 
 Indies. James Moir came to New York in 1836 and was engaged 
 actively and successfully for more than forty years in mercantile 
 business, retiring in 1879 — a man of strict integrity and unblem- 
 ished character. He was a director for many years of the Bank 
 of New York, President of the St. Andrew's Society of the State 
 of New York, a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 
 of the Geographical Society, of the Museum of Natural History, 
 and of many other religious, charitable and beneficial organiza- 
 tions. He m. Mary McElroy, June 3, 1845. The home then 
 founded was a favored and happy one, the seat of intelligence 
 and culture and Christian refinement, continuing more than fifty 
 years. His death occurred, as noted elsewhere, in 1899. 
 
 Rev. William Wilmerding Moir, of New York, son of James 
 and Mary (McElroy) Moir, and grandson of Rev. Joseph 
 
8o Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 McElroy, D. D., was born in }\Ianchester, Eng., March 30, 1857, 
 his parents returning, two years later, to their former home in 
 New York. Their son graduated from HeUmuth College, Lon- 
 don, Canada, in 1874. For eleven years he was in business with 
 Bacon Baldwin & Co., New York, most of that time managing 
 their western business, with headquarters in Chicago. He grad- 
 uated from the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church in May, 1891, and was ordained deacon in the 
 Chapel of the Seminary on May 24th of that year by the Right 
 Rev. Henry C. Potter, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of New York. He 
 was advanced to the priesthood by Bishop Potter June 12, 1892, 
 and since that date has been the assistant pastor of the Church 
 of the Holy Communion. He has charge also of the new and 
 unique church enterprise at Lake Placid in the Adirondacks. 
 On September 9, 1900, the Church of St. Eustace-by-the-Lakes 
 was opened for public worship, a monument to the energy and 
 successful labor of Mr. Moir. The building was consecrated by 
 the Bishop of Albany, the Bishop of New York and other ecclesi- 
 astics assisting. Summer visitors and native residents are alike 
 interested. For the latter an Industrial School, a Penny Provi- 
 dent Bank, and a Poor Closet are features of the work. 
 
 David White^ McElroy (John,* John,^ Robert,- Hugh^) b. 
 March i, 1842, in Rural Valley, Armstrong County, Pa. His 
 mother was Julia Ann White. His father was a merchant, and 
 the son assisted in the business, when not in school, until the out- 
 break of the war in 1861. He enlisted as a private in Company A, 
 Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, serving until 
 mustered out November 4, 1864. Was in the battles of Stone 
 River — in which he was wounded — Chickamauga and New Hope, 
 and in other smaller engagements. After the war he came west, 
 settling in Keokuk, Iowa, in 1867. For two years he was engaged 
 in mercantile business, then bought an interest in the Buckeye 
 Foundry and Machine Shops. With this business he has been 
 identified to the present time, being now sole proprietor under the 
 name of the McElroy Iron Works. 
 
Miss Aebie McElroy 
 
 Secretary Y. \\'. C. A.. Nashville, Tcnn. 
 
 Miss Mary McElroy 
 
 Secretary Y. ^\■. C. A., Harlem, N. Y. 
 
Big spring (Pa.) McElroys 8i 
 
 He is a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, and 
 one of its Board of Deacons for the past twenty-nine years. He 
 is an active and prominent member of the Grand Army of the 
 RepubHc, and has been repeatedly honored with official position. 
 He m., January 17, 1872, Miss Mary Bailey, of Keokuk. Their 
 children are : 
 
 1. May^ b. October 24, 1872 ; d. April 9, 1880. 
 
 2. John A." b. March 31, 1875. 
 
 3. Nannie M.'' b. August 28, 1877; d. April 8, 1880. 
 
 4. Margaret*' b. September 7, 1879 ; m. Henry M. Colisson, 
 
 February 23, 1898. 
 
 5. Cora Belle*' b. September 28, 1884; d. January 23, 1885. 
 
 6. David White*' b. June 5, 1888. 
 
 Rev. William^ Dickson, D. D., of Canfield, Ohio, is of 
 McElroy lineage. He was born January 24, 1830, in County 
 Down, Ireland, a few miles north of Kate's Bridge. His mother 
 was Mary* McElroy, daughter of Robert,^ granddaughter of 
 Robert^ and great-granddaughter of Hugh, the Scotch pioneer, 
 who settled at Kate's Bridge. Mrs. Mary Dickson d. in Decem- 
 ber, 1875. She had a brother John, who resided at Leitrim, and 
 seven sisters, all except one remaining in Ireland, and all except 
 one or two being now deceased. 
 
 Mr. Dickson graduated from Jefferson College in 1858, and 
 from the Alleghany Presbyterian Theological seminary in 1861. 
 He was ordained by the Presbytery of New Lisbon in 1861, and 
 has been diligent and successful in ministerial and educational 
 work for forty years, pastor at Canfield and Professor in Normal 
 College since 1881. He m., in 1857, Miss Hettie Neswonger. 
 Their two children are: 
 
 Dr. James Dickson, of Mt. Jackson, Pa. 
 
 Anna, who m. a merchant and resides at Cortland, Ohio. 
 
 Mt. Union College honored Mr. Dickson, in 1875, with the 
 title of D. D. 
 
Davh) W. McElroy' 
 
 Joim,* John."' Robert.- Hugh 
 
RICH HILL Mcelroys 
 
 About the year 1759 James McElroy from Rich Hill, County 
 Armagh, near the west line of County Down, came to America, 
 at the age of twenty-one, and settled in Franklin County, Pa., in 
 the valley through which flows the creek which was called then 
 and since by the Indian name Conecocheague. The early settlers 
 there were Scotch-Irish and connected with the Seceder and Cove- 
 nanter churches. There were at least two Seceder churches in 
 that valley, known as the East and West churches. The latter 
 was near Green Castle. James McElroy was an only son, and 
 was m. at the early age of nineteen. Their one child, Margaret, 
 grew to womanhood and m. a Mr. Wilson. The young mother 
 d. of consumption, after which James sold his interest in the fam- 
 ily estate to his brother-in-law, a Mr. Shields, and came to 
 America. 
 
 Here he met and m. a Miss Margaret Mays, who had come 
 from Ireland when eleven years of age. Her people had settled 
 at or near Baltimore, where in later years they were well known 
 and prominent. 
 
 James McElroy was, according to family traditions, a revolu- 
 tionary soldier. It is probable that when he enlisted he sent his 
 wife and three little boys to stay with her people at Baltimore 
 during his absence. That proved to be the family home for a 
 number of years. After the close of the war the tide of migration 
 tended strongly toward Western Pennsylvania, and especially 
 to Washington County. 
 
 James McElroy fell in with this movement, and with his family, 
 came to Washington County, Pa., in 1784. He was related to 
 the Knox family, of Scotland, but in what way we do not know. 
 He d. November 20, 1820, aged eighty-two, and was buried in the 
 
84 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys 
 
 Seceder cemetery of Dr. Ramsey's church, of which he was a 
 member, at Canonsburg. 
 
 Children of James and Margaret McElroy. 
 
 1. John b. February 8, 1770; d. September 2, 1813. Mar- 
 
 ried, 1st, February 22, 1791, Mary Duncan, who was b. 
 October 8, 1767, and d. May 20, 1812; 2d, Nancy 
 Doland, who had one child, Francis, b. after his father's 
 death. 
 
 2. Alexander b. April i, 1772; m. ist, Elizabeth McCarty; 
 
 2d, Nancy White. 
 
 3. James b. 1774; m. Mary Mitchell. 
 
 JoHN^ McElroy (James^) b. February 8, 1770; d. September 
 2, 1813. Resided eight miles northwest of Washington. Owned 
 and operated a horse-mill, the first flouring mill in his community. 
 Married Mary Duncan, who became the mother of eleven children 
 and d. May 20, 1812, in her forty-fifth year. 
 
 Children of John and Mary (Duncan) McElroy. 
 
 1. Margaret^ b. June 14, 1792; m. John Smith; d. June 6, 
 
 1840. One child only survived childhood. 
 
 2. James^ b. June 17, 1794; m. Mary Smith, sister of John. 
 
 3. Susannah^ b. November 15, 1796; m. Jacob Osborne. 
 
 4. Alexander^ b. December 15, 1798; m. Jane McDowell; 
 
 d. April 18, 1840. 
 
 5. Ellen^' b. February 20, 1800; m. James Canon, nephew 
 
 of the founder of Canonsburg, Pa. Their son, John, 
 d. young. One daughter, Mary, survives. 
 
 6. Mary3 b. June 17, 1802; m. George Drake. Of their 
 
 two children, Sarah* and Lizzie,* the latter alone sur- 
 vives. 
 
 7. John^ b. December 15, 1804; m. Mary Cassil, of Knox 
 
 County, Ohio; d. 1878. 
 
 8. Eliza^ b. February 15, 1806; m. Alexander Vincent, of 
 
 Knox County, Ohio; d. February 23, 1864. 
 
James McElroy/ 1796-18^3 
 
 Joliii," James ' 
 
Rich Hill McElroys 85 
 
 9. Ebenezer^ b. June 11, 1807; m. Seliiia Dunnivan; d. 
 
 1875- 
 
 10. Tabitha^ b. February 20, 1809; m. James Graham; d. 
 
 November, 1881. 
 
 11. Jane^ b. September 12, 1810; m. Abram Drake; d. 1842. 
 
 Their one child, Alexander, m. Elizabeth Shrimplin, 
 who bore him four children. He d. in Iowa a few 
 years ago. 
 
 Of the above family, all married, and with one exception had 
 children of their own. All with perhaps one exception were? 
 members of the Disciples' Church, and earnest church workers. 
 Six of these families migrated to Knox County, Ohio, between 
 1836 and 1840, and there organized a Disciples' Church, in which 
 John and Ebenezer were, all their lives, efficient and prominent. 
 Two of the families settled near Warren, Ohio, while three re- 
 mained in Pennsylvania. 
 
 James^ McElroy (John,- James^) b. June 17, 1794; m. Mary 
 Smith, sister of John. He was a farmer and lived and died in 
 Washington County. He was one of the early and steadfast 
 friends of Alexander Campbell and was identified with the relig- 
 ious movement of which he was leader. He was a man of fine 
 character, of great energy and immense capacity for work. He 
 m. at the early age of twenty, and succeeded to the ownership 
 of his father's farm and also furnished a home to his younger 
 brothers and sisters. He carried on the farm, ran the little mill, 
 and gradually embarked in the wool and sheep business, and pros- 
 pered. In a little more than twenty years he bought and paid for 
 five farms, and had erected on one of them near West Middle- 
 town, a large steam flouring mill, and was from that time engaged 
 largely in the flour business. He d. July 10, 1843, at the early 
 age of forty-nine, leaving a good name, considerable property, 
 and a large family. He was considered a very well-informed 
 Bible student. Although not an ordained minister, he often con- 
 ducted the public services in their meetings for worship. 
 
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 Children of James and Mary (Smith) McElroy. 
 
 1. John* b. March 4, 1815; m. Margaret Steele and had 
 
 four children : Jennie,^ James, ^ Charles^ and Lizzie.^ 
 
 2. Mary Ann* b. October 3, 1816; m. William McKeever. 
 
 Their five sons were Thomas,^ James,^ Birney,^ Alex- 
 ander^ and David.^ The three older were soldiers in 
 the civil war. Thomas lost his life along with fifty 
 others by the sinking of a boat. 
 
 3. Margaret* b. June 16, 1818; m. David McClay, by whom 
 
 she had five children. 
 
 4. Harriet* b. October 13, 182 1 ; m. AUison. Had six 
 
 children. 
 
 5. Lucinda* b. October 15, 1823; m. John Christie. Had 
 
 six children. 
 
 6. James* b. October 16, 1825 ; m. Mary J. Daugherty, of 
 
 West Middletown, and had four children. 
 
 7. Alexander* b. November 7, 1827; m. Malissa Fosbinder. 
 
 Had eight children. 
 
 8. Rebecca* b. December 7, 1830; m. Thomas Lane. Had 
 
 ten children. 
 
 9. Smith* E. b. March 12, 1832; m. Emma Critchfield. 
 
 TO. Selena* b. July 18, 1834; m. William Dodds. Had five 
 children. 
 
 11. Lavinia* b. August 27, 1836; m. Bazil Williams. Had 
 
 four children. 
 
 12. Ebenezer* B. b. September 17, 1841 ; m., 1869, Agnes 
 
 C. McFadden. 
 
 Susannah^ McElroy (John,- James^ b. November 15, 1796; 
 m. Jacob Osborne. Two of their three children — Alexander* and 
 James* — d. young. Their daughter, Mary,* m. Joseph Dawson. 
 Two of Mrs. Dawson's six children d. in infancy. The other 
 four are : 
 
Rich Hill McElroys 87 
 
 George^ m. twice, ist, to Jane Critchfield. Has had four 
 children. 
 
 Clarinda.^ 
 
 Ella.^ 
 
 Chase.^ 
 
 Aunt Susan, then a widow, removed with her children about 
 the year 1837 to Knox County, Ohio, settling in Howard Town- 
 ship. She was a woman of active mind and remarkable memory. 
 In the year 1868, Austin A. Cassil, now an attorney in Chicago, 
 then a lad of 14, listened with great interest to the conversations 
 of his grand aunt, then seventy-two years of age, and committed 
 to writing what she recalled of her grandfather, James McElroy, 
 of Rich Hill, and of his descendants. This he printed some years 
 later, and this is the nucleus of our present history. Mrs. Osborne 
 d. in July, 1878, in her eighty-second year. 
 
 Alexander^ McElroy (John,^ James^) b. December 15, 1798, 
 in Mt. Pleasant Township, Washington County, Pa. A farmer. 
 Married, April 13, 1820, Jane McDowell, a descendant of Judge 
 McDowell, who was prominent as an elder in Dr. McMillan's 
 Church, and one of the founders of Jefiferson College. She was 
 b. May 14, 1797, and d. in September, 1872. He d. April 19, 1840. 
 They were identified with the Associate Reformed Church, of 
 Cross Roads, where both are buried. 
 
 Children of Alexander and Jane McElroy. 
 
 James* b. March 2, 182 1 ; m., in 1844, Mary Cundall. 
 John* b. June 12, 1823; m., May, 1862, Julia Farrar. 
 
 He d. August 4, 1880. The wife d. June 21, 1882. 
 Alexander* b. January 31, 1827; d. 1844. 
 William* b. May 13. 1829; m., A. D. 1848, Nancy 
 
 Buchanan. 
 Mary* b. October 7, 1833 ; d. January 20, 1840. 
 Joseph* b. October 14, 1836; m., May i, 1873, Margaret 
 
 Brown. 
 
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 Children of James* and Mary McElroy. 
 
 1. Mary Jane^ m. Maj. S. L. Wilson. She d. in 1890, leav- 
 
 ing five children, viz.: Albert,*^ Rella*^ (d. January, 
 1900), Hattie,^ May® and Henry.® 
 
 2. Edward^ m. Lottie Hamilton, and d. 1872. Left one 
 
 daughter. 
 
 3. Alexander^ M. A business man in Washington, Pa., 
 
 and elder in U. P. Church. Married Mattie Nichol. 
 Two of their children are deceased, viz. : James® and 
 Lula.® Five are living, viz. : Mary,® Helen,® 
 Earl,® Ida® and Blanche.® 
 
 4. James^ d. unmarried. 
 
 5. John^ d. unmarried. 
 
 William jMcElroy* (Alexander,^ John,- James^) b. May 13, 
 1829; m., about 1848, Nancy Buchanan. Resided at Wellsburgh, 
 W. Va. Was a soldier during the civil war. Died about 1885. 
 His wife d. September, 1899. 
 
 Children of William and Nancy McElroy. 
 Two d. young. Their living children are : 
 
 1. Miss Emma Jane.^ At Wellsburgh. 
 
 2. William^ d. at the age of twenty-three. 
 
 3. Alexander^ m. and has a family at Wellsburgh. 
 
 4. Laura^ m. Campbell Wells ; d. 1890. Left one child, 
 
 Absalom.® 
 
 5. Frank^ is m. and has two sons at Wellsburgh. 
 
 6. Charles^ unmarried. 
 
 Joseph McElroy* (Alexander,^ John,- James^) b. October 14, 
 1836. Is a physician with large practice at Hickory, Washington 
 County, Pa., where he has resided for thirty years. Has two 
 daughters. The older one, Leila Blanche,"^ m., August 16, 1898, 
 Joseph B. Kithcart, attorney. They reside in Steubenville, Ohio. 
 The younger, Miss Jennie Adaline,^ is at home with her parents. 
 
Joseph McElroy/ M. D. 
 
 Alexander,'' John,- James i 
 
Rich Hill McElroys 89 
 
 Ellen^ McElroy (John,- James^) m. James Canon, nephew 
 of the founder of Canonsburgh, Pa. Their son, John, d. young. 
 They have one daughter, Mary. 
 
 Maky^ McElroy (John,- James^) m. George Drake, of How- 
 ard Township, Knox County, Ohio, and had two daughters, Sarah 
 and Lizzie. The former d. young. 
 
 JoHN^ McElroy (John,- James^) m. Mary Cassil, daughter of 
 John Cassil, Sr., of Knox County, Ohio. He was a farmer and a 
 man of unusual stability and worth and good influence. He took 
 an active part in organizing the first Disciples' church in the region 
 where he lived, and in erecting their house of worship, and in 
 conducting their church services. He was County Commissioner 
 for two terms during the "50's." 
 
 Children of John and Mary Cassil McElroy. 
 
 1. Tabitha* m. Peres Critchfield and had two children. 
 
 1st, John M.,^ who m. Belle Critchfield; her son, 
 Donald P. Critchfield, being of the sixth generation. 
 2d, Mary Ida^ m. Royal D. Langford, and had two 
 children, PauP and Clair. '^ John M. Critchfield was 
 Probate Judge of Knox County 1887-1893. 
 
 2. John* d. in infancy. 
 
 3. Nancy Jane* m. Meshach Critchfield. Their children : 
 
 (i) Etta^ m. James Dawson, and had Phil. H.,® Keturah,** 
 John M.*' 
 
 (2) Dora^ m. Fremont J. Critchfield, and had one child, 
 Blanche.^ 
 
 (3) Elmer^ m. Eunice Boyd. 
 
 4. John* m. Mary Ann Daymude and had children : 
 
 (i) Burgess M.^ 
 
 (2) Jennie, m. John Berry. 
 
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 5. Mary Esther* m. George Critchfield, and had children: 
 
 Barton M.^ and James R.^ B. M. Critchfield was Pro- 
 bate Judge of Knox County, 1893- 1896. 
 
 6. James* m. Frances Mast, and had one child, William 
 
 Lincoln.^ 
 
 7. Margaret Ellen* m. Roland Critchfield. Lovilla- and 
 
 Minnie^ are their children. 
 
 8. Lucinda* d. young. 
 
 9. Julietta* m. Hiram Magers. Their children, Del Ray,^ 
 
 Polly,^ Bessie^ and Dorse."' Their residence was near 
 Hutchinson, Kan., where she d. in 1898. 
 
 Burgess M. McElroy^ (John,* John,^ John,- James^) is at 
 present (1900) Clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives. 
 
 Eliza^ McElroy (John,- James^) m. Alexander Vincent, and 
 resides in Howard Township, Knox County. 
 
 Children of Eliza (McElroy) and Alexander Vincent. 
 
 1. Alexander* m. Mary Jane Buchanan, and had six chil- 
 
 dren : Jennie,^ Alice, ^ Elizabeth,^ Amanda,^ Judson,^ 
 and Mark.^ 
 
 2. Mary Jane* m. Alexander Cassil, and had two children : 
 Austin A.^ b. 1854; m. Clara A. Bergen, June 20, 1880. 
 William R.^ d. May 9, 1881. 
 
 3. Martha* m. Wilson Critchfield, and had children: Fre- 
 
 mont J.,^ Flora,^ Lorin,° Alice, '^ Harvey,"' d. young. 
 
 4. Selena* m. Elias Peeler, and had five children : Vincent 
 
 J,,** Frank,^ deceased ; Ella,"' deceased ;Walter,^ Barker.^ 
 
 5. Amanda* m. C. E. Critchfield. Their children : Charles,'^ 
 
 and Nellie.^ 
 
 6. Jay* m. and has several children. 
 
 Ebenezer^ McElroy (John.^ James^) was an active and in- 
 fluential man in his community, a fluent speaker, endowed with 
 
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 natural gifts of a high order. Married Selina Dunnivan, who 
 bore him five children. 
 
 1. Mary Ann* m. James Buchanan, and had three children: 
 
 James,^ Selena,^ Sallie.^ 
 
 2. Harriet* m. David McGugin. Their children : William,^ 
 
 George,^ Lizzie,^ Mary,^ Frank,^ Walter.^ 
 
 3. Thomas* m. Elmira Shrimplin. He was a soldier. Died 
 
 in the civil war, leaving two daughters : 
 Cora,^ who m. Laurel Robinson, and has two children. 
 Eva° m. Winnie Robinson, and had one child. 
 
 4. John* d. young. 
 
 5. Sarah Jane* m. ist, Smith Buchanan, a soldier, who d. 
 
 during the war. She m. 2d, George Burris. 
 
 Tabitha^ McElroy (John,- James^) m. James Graham, and 
 had five children. Died 1881. 
 
 1. John* m. Louisa Shrimplin, and had two children: 
 
 Pardee,^ deceased, and John.^ The father d. many 
 years ago. 
 
 2. Alexander* m. Anna Cake, and had one child, Laura. ^ 
 
 A soldier. Died from disease contracted in the army. 
 
 3. James Burleigh.* An attorney engaged in law practice 
 
 in Mt. Vernon. Born November 9, 1842 ; graduated 
 from Kenyon College in 1866 ; a teacher for two years. 
 Studied law with Judge Hurd, of Mt. Vernon, admitted 
 to the bar in 1872. and now has been in practice twenty- 
 eight years. Married, in 1881, Miss Jennie Taylor, 
 whose sudden death occurred November 29, 1897. 
 
 4. Eliza Jane* m. Lyman Ellis, and had a daughter, Edna. 
 
 Children of James B. and Jennie Graham. 
 I. George^ b. 1882. 
 
 Ada.s 
 May.^ 
 James. ^ 
 Zilla^ b. 1896. 
 
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 William Lincoln McElroy^ (James,* John,^ John,- James^) 
 b. near Howard, Knox County, Ohio, October 6, 1865. Brought 
 up on the farm, attended the public school, a student in Butler 
 University, Indiana, one year, attended Bethany College, West 
 Virginia, graduating with the highest honors in 1886. Studied 
 law with Hon. William M. Koons, was admitted to the bar 
 December 6, 1887, and had been engaged in law practice in Mt. 
 Vernon for twelve years past. Was prosecuting attorney for the 
 county three years, trustee of the Institution for the Deaf and 
 Dumb at Columbus, and had been prominently spoken of for Con- 
 gressional honors. He was a man of fine attainments and oratori- 
 cal power. He d. of typhoid pneumonia at the home of his 
 parents August 23, 1900, leaving many friends to mourn his 
 demise, among them his affianced bride, to whom he would have 
 been m. in October. 
 
 Alexander^ McElroy (James^) b. April i, 1772; m. ist, 
 Elizabeth McCarty ; 2d, Nancy White. The first wife d. soon 
 after the birth of their one child, Margaret, who was b. April i, 
 1798, and d. unmarried July 3, 1865. The 2d wife was b. Octo- 
 ber 19, 1781 ; m. December 2, 1812; d. November 12, 1851. 
 Alexander McElroy was an industrious and prosperous farmer, 
 lived five miles from Canonsburgh. Pa., was a member of Mil- 
 ler's Run Presbyterian Church, and an elder for sixty years. He 
 d. March 4, 1864, aged ninety-two, and was buried at Wash- 
 ington. 
 
 Chi|:.dren of Alexander and Nancy McElroy. 
 
 1. Eliza Ann^ b. November 2, 1814; m. Joseph V. Rea, 
 
 November 26, 1840; d. 1878. 
 
 2. James^ b. June 28. 1817; m. Elizabeth Campbell, August 
 
 20, 1840; d. June 9, 1876, aged sixty-three. 
 
 3. Nancy Jane^ b. May 26, 1821 ; m. James Cotton, August 
 
 24, 1843. 
 
Kick Hill McElroys 03 
 
 Children of Eliza Ann (McElroy) and Joseph V. Rea. 
 
 1. A. McElroy Rea,* physician, West Middletovvn. 
 
 2. William Rea,* farmer, McConnell's Mills, Pa. 
 
 3. Mrs. Nancy Jane* (McDowell), Washington, Pa. 
 
 Children of Nancy Jane (McElroy) and James Cotton. 
 
 I. A. McElroy Cotton,* physician, Haddonfield, N. J. Born 
 May II, 1844. 
 2. James S.* b. March 8, 1847. A soldier. Died during the 
 war, November 30, 1864. 
 
 3. Agnes* b. May 30, 185 1 ; d. August 16, 1863, unmarried. 
 
 4. Christian M.* A widower, Washington, Pa. Born 
 
 February 9, 1853. 
 
 5. L. S.* Cotton, Washington. Married Lillie B. Judson. 
 
 They have three children. 
 
 6. Robert H.* Cotton, b. September 4, 1856; m. September 
 
 5, 1882, Miss Florence M. Freshwaters, who d. March 
 15, 1898, the mother of three children: 
 
 Gilmore^ b. at Columbus, Ohio, November 25, 1883. 
 
 Flossie^ b. July 16, 1886; d. October 26, 1889. 
 
 Roberta^ Laraine, b. at Wellsburg, W. Va., March 15, 1898. 
 
 Robert H. Cotton is a prominent lawyer ; admitted to the bar 
 by the Supreme Court of Ohio, December 7. 1880. In practice 
 at Columbus six years, and at Wellsburg, W. Va., since 1886. 
 Has been prosecuting attorney of his county for eight years past, 
 and his name was before the nominating convention as candidate 
 for Attorney-General of West Virginia. 
 
 Mother Cotton lives with her son Robert, at Wellsburg, a 
 widow, in her eightieth year. 
 
 James^ McElroy (Alexander,^ James^) b. June 28, 1817; m. 
 Elizabeth Campbell, August 20, 1840. She d. June 9, 1876, aged 
 sixty-three, leaving six children : 
 
 I. Esther Mary* m. Samuel Brady. Residence Canons- 
 burgh. No issue. 
 
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 2. Nancy Ann* m. William Rea. Reside at Bulger, Pa. 
 
 3. Alexander M.* m. Mary Richardson. Residence Cleve- 
 
 land, Ohio. Have one child, Raymond. 
 
 4. Lucinda H.* m. Joseph McKirahan (now deceased), 
 
 Carnegie, Pa. 
 
 5. Elizabeth Jane* m. John A. Aiken, August 20, 1879. 
 
 Ingram, Pa. 
 
 6. Sarah* Isabel McElroy, single, Canonsburgh, Pa. 
 
 Grandchildren of James and Elizabeth (Campbell) 
 
 McElroy. 
 
 John Rea, deceased. 
 
 S. Jefferson Rea, Bulger, Pa. 
 
 William M. Rea, Bulger, Pa. 
 
 A. Roy McKirahan, m. Mabel Moyer, Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 Ray McKirahan (deceased). 
 
 Thomas El Moyne McKirahan, Carnegie, Pa. 
 
 Adia E. Aiken, Ingram, Pa. 
 
 Myrta Fay Aiken, Ingram, Pa. 
 
 Fred. A. Aiken, Ingram, Pa. 
 
 James^ McElroy (James^) b. 1774. His home near Baltimore, 
 where he attended an institution of learning, of which his kins- 
 man, a Mr. Alexander Mays, was the head. He was a scholarly 
 man, of good attainments and extensive reading. He studied 
 medicine, but never engaged in practice, devoting himself to the 
 life of a farmer. He m., in Washington County, Pa., Miss Mary 
 Mitchell, whose family were well-known and prominent people. 
 One of her sisters was the wife of Rev. Dr. Riddell, an Associate 
 Reformed Presbyterian minister. She was b. in 1786, and d. in 
 1850. 
 
 After living for a time in Washington County, he removed to 
 Ohio, locating on a farm seven miles from Steubenville, erecting 
 a residence modeled after the Maryland home, where he passed 
 the rest of his life. He was an intelligent man, generous and 
 kind, and the soul of honor, but naturally dignified and unbend- 
 
Rich Hill McElroys 95 
 
 ing. Even his children, who admired and honored him, felt some- 
 thing of awe in his presence. He d. in 1858, at the age of eighty- 
 four. He and family were members of the Associate Reformed 
 Presbyterian Church, merged, later, in the United Presbyterian 
 Church. 
 
 Children of James and Mary McElroy. 
 
 1. Margaret^ m. Madison Gladden. She d. 1865. They 
 
 had five children living in 1900: 
 
 (i) William Gladden* b. 1834. Merchant, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. 
 
 (2) James.* California. 
 
 (3) John Riddell.* California. 
 
 (4) Mrs. Van Vranken.* Tabor, Iowa. 
 
 (5) Miss Selena* Gladden. Denver, Col. 
 
 2. James^ m. Sarah McCausland, daughter of Col. McCaus- 
 
 land, who figured in the Mexican war, and, later, a 
 member of Congress. They had two sons and three 
 daughters. Parents are both deceased. 
 
 3. Jane^ m. Cyrus Cunningham, of Richmond, Ohio, and d. 
 
 1862. Had two sons and eight daughters. Resided in 
 Wellsburg, W. Va. 
 
 4. Joseph^ m. Mary Jane Lee, of Cadiz, Ohio. He d. 1863. 
 
 Had two sons and three daughters. Two daughters 
 and one son deceased. 
 
 5. John^ m. Keziah Lewis, of Wellsburg; d. in the early 
 
 '90's leaving three sons. 
 
 6. Elizabeth^ m. James Russell, of Washington County, 
 
 Pa. She resides, a widow, at Barnesville, Ohio. 
 
 Ebenezer B.* McElroy (James,^ John,^ James^) b. in Wash- 
 ington County, Pa., September 17, 1841. Brought up on the farm, 
 attended the public schools and State Normal school, became a 
 teacher at twenty. Enlisted in First West Virginia Volunteers 
 in 1861, serving two years. In 1863, re-enlisted in One Hun- 
 dredth Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers ("Round Heads") and 
 
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 served in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac to the final 
 surrender of Lee's army. At the close of the war he re-entered 
 college and then taught for several years in Pennsylvania and 
 West Virginia. In 1873 he went to Oregon, settling at Corvallis. 
 Was County Superintendent of Schools for six years, and in 1882 
 was nominated and elected as State Superintendent of Public 
 Schools, being twice reelected and holding the position twelve 
 years. For six years past he has been a professor in the Univer- 
 sity at Eugene, Oregon. He is prominent in Grand Army circles, 
 and has been an officer in the National Teachers' Association. 
 He is a worker, and is recognized as one of the most capable and 
 high-minded among the public men of his State. He is known as 
 Colonel McElroy, and carries the honors of A. M. and Ph. D. 
 
 He m., in 1869, in Washington County, Pa., Miss Agnes C. 
 McFadden, niece of the distinguished Alexander Campbell, 
 prominent in the Disciple or Christian Church. 
 
 The death of Professor McElroy occurred at Eugene. Oregon, 
 May 4, 1901. 
 
 James* McElroy (James,^ John,- James^) b. near West Mid- 
 dletown, Washington County, Pa., October 16, 1825. Married 
 1st, March 23, 1849, Miss Mary J. Daugherty, who d. April 11, 
 1867; 2d, April 8, 1874, Elizabeth M. Clough. His schooling 
 was in the district schools, in the sheep folds, and in his father's 
 flouring mill. At the age of fourteen he joined a military com- 
 pany, and at eighteen received commission as captain from Gover- 
 nor Porter. At sixteen he became master of transportation in the 
 flour trade, with six horse team hauling to Pittsburgh, to Wells- 
 burg, on the Ohio river, and across the mountains to Cumberland. 
 
 For twelve years after marriage he was a farmer, in wool busi- 
 ness and shipping fat stock to Eastern markets. 
 
 When the war broke out he was one of the first to volunteer, 
 he and his company of ninety-six men being mustered in at Wheel- 
 ing, as Company B, First W. Va. Volunteers. His regiment, in 
 which he was captain and adjutant, was on duty in the West 
 
James McElroy 
 
 Late Captain I'irst West \'irginia \'olunteer Infantry 
 
Rich Hill M cElroys 97 
 
 Virginia mountains, and in the Shenandoah valley and in Mary- 
 land, and was engaged in thirty-six battles, not to speak of skir- 
 mishes and severe marches. 
 
 A year after returning from his three years of military service, 
 having sold his farm and stock, he removed to Davenport, Iowa, 
 and was there engaged for eight years in mercantile business, 
 hides, wool, live stock and grain. 
 
 In 1874 he removed to Chicago, and immediately bought a 
 membership in the Board of Trade, and has been engaged in the 
 commission business on the Board of Trade ever since. He has 
 met with success in business, and is very happy in his family 
 relations. His children are all married. He has seven grand- 
 children and one great-grandchild. 
 
 He is a member and officer of the First Baptist Church of Chi- 
 cago, of which Dr. P. S. Henson is pastor. His seventy-five 
 years seem to sit lightly upon him — judging by his portrait. He 
 is six feet and one inch in height, and his avoirdupois amounts 
 to 190. 
 
 The captain writes us nothing about present-day politics, but 
 he tells us that his father and uncles were old-time Whigs, and 
 also that they were earnest and zealous Abolitionists. 
 
 Since our manuscript went to the printer an item of interest 
 has come in regard to Margaret, infant daughter of James 
 McElroy, of Rich Hill, who in mature years m. a Wilson. 
 
 The late James Wilson, of Troy, N. Y., was probably her son. 
 He was a native of County Armagh, his mother a McElroy. A 
 granddaughter of his, Mrs. James H. Lobdell, resides in Chicago. 
 A grandson, Hon. Charles R. Sligh, of Grand Rapids, is a promi- 
 nent citizen of Michigan, who narrowly escaped the Governorship 
 a few years since. 
 
ALBANY Mcelroys 
 
 The name McElroy has been well known in Eastern New York 
 for more than a hundred years. Shortly before the year 1800 
 two brothers, James and Samuel McElroy, came from County 
 Down, North Ireland, and settled at Albany. Their father was 
 David McElroy, residing in the northern part of County Down, 
 whose wife was the Lady Eleanor Glendenning. Tradition re- 
 lates that this noble lady when hunting was on one occasion 
 rescued from great peril by David McElroy, and the resulting 
 acquaintance and appreciation led to their marriage. 
 
 Children of David and Eleanor McElroy. 
 
 1. James- m. Jane White. Resided at Albany. 
 
 2. Samuel' b. 1762; m. ist, Eleanor Jackson; 2d, Esther 
 
 C. Porter. 
 
 3. David. 2 
 
 4. Mary2 m. John Hvde. Resided in Delaware County, 
 
 N. Y. 
 
 5. Margaret' m. John Lundie. 
 
 6. Eleanor- m. Joseph McBurney, merchant, Albany. 
 
 James^ McElroy (David^) who m. Jane White, was widely 
 known as "Boss McElroy." He was an architect and celebrated 
 builder. He built the old Albany capitol, Waterford bridge, first 
 canal lock near Rome, N. Y., and Government forts on the lakes 
 for the war of 1812. He was a man of splendid physique and 
 resided at Albany. 
 
 Children of James and Jane McElroy. 
 
 1. Mary3 m. John McElroy. Settled in Ohio. 
 
 2. Eleanor^ m. David Martin, M. D. Albany. 
 
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 3. Sarah^ m. Campbell. Albany. 
 
 4. Nancy.^ 
 
 5. Margaret.^ Married and resided in Philadelphia. 
 
 6. James^ m. Eleanor Russell. 
 
 7. Robert^ m. Jane McCullom. 
 
 Samuel^ McElroy (David^) b. in County Down, 1762. Was 
 educated with a view to the Presbyterian ministry, but "ran 
 away" — so tradition has it — to America, settled at Albany, and 
 became a merchant. His first wife was Eleanor Jackson, of New 
 Scotland, Albany County, N. Y. Her father, John Jackson, 
 emigrated from Scotland time of the French war, and was 
 founder of the town. Died in 1826, at the age of ninety-nine. 
 His wife was Sarah Lundie. His descendants numbered at his 
 death 178. Five grandsons were soldiers in the civil war. 
 
 Samuel McElroy m., as second wife, in 1817, at Ballston, 
 Esther C. Porter. He was a prominent citizen and successful 
 merchant. Retiring from business about 1825, he removed to 
 Johnstown, N. Y., where he built a large residence. He was a 
 man of fine appearance and was often taken for Governor DeWitt 
 Clinton. He d. in 1834, set. seventy-two. 
 
 Children of Samuel and Eleanor McElroy. 
 
 1. Margaret^ b. November 11, 1800; m. Thomas McElroy, 
 
 January 3, 1825 ; d. September 8, 1883. 
 
 2. Thomas^ b. August 16, 1802 ; m. Antoinette Gregory, 
 
 1823; d- May 12, 1858. 
 
 3. James^ b. December 4, 1804 ; m. Sarah Wand, April 10, 
 
 1838; d. February 22, 1871. 
 
 4. Sarah^ b. September 12, 1806; m. Rev. Cornelius Gates, 
 
 November 27, 1827; d., Philadelphia, November 
 30, 1855. 
 
 5. Jane^ b. November 14. 1808; m. Peter McNaughton, 
 
 M. D., 1836; d. March 15, 1889. 
 
Albany McElroys lOi 
 
 6. Eleanor^ b. June 12, 181 1 ; m. John Dorr, attorney, 1838 ; 
 
 d. November 13, 1883. 
 
 7. SamueP d. in infancy. 
 
 Another family comes now within our view. 
 At Shaw's Loch, County Armagh, Thomas McElroy and wife 
 Mary (McCullough) had their residence. Their children were: 
 
 James. ^ 
 
 Robert.2 
 
 Thomas.^ 
 
 Alexander.^ 
 
 Elizabeth.- 
 
 John.2 
 
 Susan.^ 
 
 Alexander b. 1760; m. Jane Irving (or Irvine), September 
 25, 1783, living at Mary Lane, in Ireland, and came to America 
 about 181 1. He bought land and opened a farm at Newton, 
 Oneida County, a few miles northwest of Rome, N. Y., where he 
 spent most of his days. Died August 16, 1847. 
 
 Children of Alexander and Jane McElroy. 
 
 I 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 9 
 10 
 
 Agnes^ m. Samuel Stevenson. 
 Mary^ m. James K. McElroy. 
 William^ m. Esther Austin. 
 Eleanor^ m. Alex. Frazier. 
 Susan^ m. Abram Goodrich. 
 
 Thomas^ b. February 12. 1799; m. Margaret McElroy 
 
 (Samuel). 
 Jane^ m. William L. Piatt ; d. August, 1872. 
 James^ m. Cordelia Richardson ; d. 1847. 
 Alexander^ d. in infancy. 
 Elizabeth^ d. young. 
 
102 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 Chldren of John Hyde and Mary^ McElroy. 
 
 Sarah.^ 
 
 Elizabeth.^ 
 
 Mary.3 
 
 Children of Joseph McBurney and Eleanor^ McElroy. 
 
 1. Jane^ m. Mcllvaine. Her son, Glendenning/ Episcopal 
 
 clergyman, Ohio. 
 
 2. Elizabeth^ m. Dr. Craig, Ogdensburgh. 
 
 3. Ellen.^ 
 
 4. Thomas.^ 
 
 5. David. ^ 
 
 Jane* daughter of Eleanor^ (McElroy) and Dr: David Martin, 
 m. Rev. Chauncey Webster. 
 
 Sarah Jane* daughter of Sarah^ (McElroy) Campbell, m. 
 Ogden N. Chapin, Albany. 
 
 The Children of James^ McElroy (James,- David^), who m. 
 Eleanor Russell, were : Jane,* Peter.* 
 
 Children of Robert^ McElroy (James,- David^), who m. 
 Jane McCullom : 
 
 1. Joseph Randall.* Settled in California. 
 
 2. Robert.* A Methodist minister. Settled in California. 
 
 3. Mary* m. English. 
 
 Children of Jane^ McElroy (Samuel.- David^) and Dr. Peter 
 
 McNaughton. 
 
 1. Eleanor b. November 16, 1837, Scottsville, N. Y. ; d. 
 
 1858. 
 
 2. Catharine b. Scottsville, N. Y. 
 
 3. Sarah Jane b. Scottsville ; m. Dr. D. Stuart Allen, June 
 
 28, 1888. 
 
Albany McElroys 103 
 
 Children of Eleanor^ McElroy (Samuel,^ David^) and John 
 
 Dorr. 
 
 1. Jane Ann b. Scottsville, N. Y., December 23, 1841 ; d. 
 
 July 29, 1884. 
 
 2. Eleanor b. April 25, 1844, at Scottsville, N. Y. 
 
 3. Samuel Hobart b. at Scottsville, N. Y., July 8, 1850. 
 
 Children of Agnes^ McElroy (Alexander,- Thomas^) and 
 
 Samuel Stevenson. 
 
 Mary Jane* m. Rev. Taylor, Evans' Center, N. Y. 
 
 James Thomas* m. Louisa Wright, Albany. 
 
 Alexander.* 
 
 Margaret.* 
 
 William* m. Mary A. Betts. New York. 
 
 Samuel.* 
 
 George.* 
 
 James K.* McElroy (John,- Thomas^) b. in Ireland, 1780, at 
 Ratharbury, County Armagh. His mother was Hannah Kil- 
 patrick. He came, a young man, to New York City, where he was 
 m. about 1809, to his cousin, Mary McElroy, daughter of Alexan- 
 der,2 and older sister of Thomas,^ she having come from Ireland 
 to marry him. They lived in New York City. The wife d. June 
 22, 1822, leaving two sons. The husband afterward m. Esther, 
 widow of his first wife's brother, William. They resided in later 
 years at Trenton Village, Oneida County, N. Y. 
 
 Children of James K. McElroy. 
 
 By his first wife, Mary : 
 
 1. William* who lived and d. in New York City. 
 
 2. John* b. in New York, April 4, 181 2 ; d. Delaware, Ohio, 
 
 1889. 
 By second wife, Esther : 
 
 3. James* who resided in Binghamton, N. Y. 
 
 4. Thomas,* also at Binghamton, N. Y. 
 
 5. Charles* A. Columbus, Ohio. 
 
104 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys 
 
 William^ McElroy (Alexander,* Thomas^) m. Esther Austin. 
 Was a civil engineer. Resident engineer, Erie canal, middle 
 division, and later engineer Delaware Breakwater. Died before 
 middle age, leaving two daughters, Agnes* and Elizabeth.* 
 
 SusAN^ McElroy (Alexander,- Thomas^) m. Abram Goodrich. 
 Their children: 
 
 Susan.* 
 
 Alexander M.* m. Hannah Lord. 
 
 Elizabeth* m. Stephen Salisbury. 
 
 Jane.* 
 
 Thomas* m. Jane Blodgett. 
 
 Charles.* 
 
 Abram.* 
 
 Thomas^ McElroy (Alexander,^ Thomas^) b. February 12, 
 1799; m. Margaret McElroy^ (Samuel,- David^). Thomas was 
 rodman and assistant engineer on Erie canal. Later and during 
 a long life he was a merchant in Albany. He was widely and 
 favorably known, a man of means, public spirit and benevolence, 
 elder in the Dutch Reformed Church twenty-six years, a friend 
 and liberal patron of the American Bible Society. He w^as Col- 
 lector of the Port under President William H. Harrison, alderman 
 of his ward for many years, school commissioner, and one of the 
 founders and trustees of the Albany Medical College. He d. in 
 his eighty-third year, October 21, 1881, killed by a railroad train 
 as he was crossing the track at the Albany Cemetery. His wife, 
 who was b. November 11, 1800, survived her husband almost 
 two years, her death occurring September 8, 1883. 
 
 Children of Thomas and Margaret McElroy. 
 
 1. Samuel* b. at Albany, October 4, 1825. Civil engineer. 
 
 Brooklyn. 
 
 2. Jane* b. at Albany, May i, 1828; m. S. M. Shaw, editor, 
 
 Cooperstown, N. Y. 
 
^ 
 
 Thomas McElroy/ of Albany, 1799-1881 
 
 Alexander," Thomas^ 
 
Albany McElroys 105 
 
 3. Eleanor^ b. at Albany, July 21, 1830. 
 
 4. Alexander^ b. July i, 1832. Civil engineer. Died 1892. 
 
 5. Thomas Irving* b. February 12, 1834. A soldier in New 
 
 York regiments during civil war; Assistant Secretary 
 to Admiral Worden, Pacific squadron. Died at Callao, 
 1868. 
 
 6. Margaret* b. January 25, 1836; d. August 8, 185 1. 
 
 Jane^ McElroy (Alexander,^ Thomas^) m. William L. Piatt, 
 descendant of Piatt family, Plattsburgh, N. Y. He d. 1864. His 
 wife d. 1872. Their children: 
 
 1. Eliza* b. at Remsen, Oneida County, May 23, 1825; d. 
 
 1826. 
 
 2. John B.* b. December i, 1826; m. Elmira Shaver, 
 
 Canandaigua, September 30, 1857. 
 
 3. Mary Louisa* b. May 2, 1829; m. Daniel Polly, May 20, 
 
 1852. Alder Creek. 
 
 4. Abbie* b. February 11, 1851 ; m. George S. Van Vorhees, 
 
 November 4, 1866. Alder Creek. 
 
 5. Jane I.* b. January 31, 1835. Trenton. Married James 
 
 P. Scott, July I. 1858. Plattsburgh. 
 
 6. James McElroy* b. August 21, 1836. Trenton. 
 
 7. Chauncey Alex.* b. March 13, 1838. Boonville. 
 
 8. William A.* b. August 9, 1840. Boonville. Married Julia 
 
 H. Holcomb, April i, 1870. Sherburne. 
 
 James^ McElroy (Alexander,^ Thomas^) m. Cordelia Richard- 
 son ; d. 1847. Their children : 
 
 1. James* b. New Hartford. N. Y.. July, 1832; m. Julia 
 
 McGaughey, Cleveland. 
 
 2. William* Henry b. New Hartford, 1838 ; d. 1845. 
 
 Samuel* McElroy (Thomas,^ Samuel,^ David^) b. at Albany, 
 October 4, 1825. A distinguished civil engineer. Connected with 
 
jo6 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 United States Engineer Corps, designing- engineer, Brooklyn 
 water works; engineer of various water works, canals, harbor 
 works, and railways ; prominent expert in water power and other 
 cases. In recent years he was the oldest hydraulic engineer in 
 practice in the United States. He d. at his Brooklyn residence, 
 from heart trouble, December lo, 1898, aet. seventy-three, and 
 was buried in Albany. Married, February i, 1848, Catharine 
 Knapp, of Albany, a descendant of the Clark, Haring and Kip 
 families of New York. 
 
 Children of Samuel and Catharine McElroy. 
 
 1. Irving' b. Albany, January 19, 1849; '""•' J"b' i?- 1873, 
 
 Kate P. Williams. 
 
 2. Samuel Haring' b. Albany, May 12, 185 1 ; m. Grace E. 
 
 Fish, May 10, 1876. 
 
 3. Mary Haring' b. New York City, March 9, 1854. 
 
 4. Margaret Sokoloff' b. May 18, 1857, Brooklyn ; d. Aug- 
 
 ust 14, 1857. 
 
 5. Kate Knapp' b. April 18, 1865, Brooklyn; m. Albert 
 
 Banker, October, 1884. 
 
 Alexander* McElroy (Thomas,^ Samuel,- David^) b. July 
 I, 1832; m. Rebecca Adams, Lyons, N. Y., December 30, 1856. 
 Civil engineer, Erie canal enlargement, various railways and other 
 public works. Died at Pittsburgh. 1892. 
 
 Their Children. 
 
 1. Mary Hamilton' b. June 13, 1858, Lyons, N. Y. ; m. W. 
 
 A. Gangweyer, attorney, Burlington, N. J. 
 
 2. Georgia Lewis' b. March 18, 1862, Brooklyn ; d. 1865. 
 
 3. James Adams' b. September 15, 1864. Walden. N. Y. 
 
 Died August 10, 1877. 
 
 4. Grace Alexander' b. July 22, 1870. Brooklyn. 
 
 John* McElroy (James K.,^ John,- Thomas^) b. New York, 
 April 4, 1812; m., November 2, 1832, Maria Gilbert Blinn, of 
 
Albany McElroys 107 
 
 Trenton, N. Y. His business was that of wagon and carriage 
 making. In 1834 he removed to Delaware, Ohio, which proved 
 to be his permanent home. He was a member from the age of 
 thirteen in the Presbyterian church, and was for many years an 
 elder in the Delaware church. He was five times a delegate to 
 the Presbyterian General Assembly, including the Reunion 
 Assembly of 1869. He d. at Delaware, September i, 1889. 
 
 Children of John and Maria McElroy. 
 
 1. Ervin Butler^ b. August 6, 1835. Unmarried. California. 
 
 2. Amelziah Hovey-' b. July 22, 1836. 
 
 3. Milo Gilbert^ b. February 4, 1842: d. 1890, leaving 
 some family. 
 
 4. Mary Ellen^ b. August 7, 1847; d January 9, 185 1. 
 5- Stella May^ b. June 10, 1852. 
 
 Irving^ McElroy (Samuel,* Thomas,^ Alexander,- Thomas^) 
 b. Albany, January 19, 1849. Educated, public school, Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., Trinity school, New York, St. Stephen's College, Annan- 
 dale, and the General Theological Seminary, New York City. 
 
 He took Bachelor's Degree in 1870, and that of Master of Arts, 
 1873. Ordained deacon, January 29, 1873, by Bishop Littlejohn! 
 and priest, May 31, 1874. During the past twenty-seven years 
 he has been busily employed in the duties of his sacred calling- 
 on duty in the City and State of New York, in Baltimore, tn 
 Washington City, and for seven years in Iowa and North Dakita 
 where he was Archdeacon and Bishop's assistant. Since 1897 
 he has been curate of St. James', New York City. Married ist 
 July 7, 1873. Kate P. Williams, Fordham, New York City who 
 d. August 9, 1893; 2d, Mrs. Grace W. Birch, Fordham' lulv 
 17, 1898. -^ ^ 
 
 Children of Rev. Irving and Kate P. McElroy. 
 I. Margaret Edgar« b. May 30, 1874; m. George Rowland 
 Hill, September 10. 1895. They have a daughter 
 Kathanne Irving" Hill, b. May 24, 1896. 
 
jQg Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 2. Robert" b. July 5, 1876; m. Mabel Coulter Ferris, Sep- 
 
 tember 21, 1900. 
 
 3. Thomas Percy** b. July 4, 1877. 
 
 4. Mary Howard® b. October 4, 1880. 
 
 5. George Glenwyn« b. October 4, 1881 ; d. 1882. 
 
 Samuel Haring^ McElroy (Samuel,'' Thomas,^ Alexander,^ 
 Thomas^ b. May 12, 1851 ; m. Grace E. Fish, May 10, 1876. 
 A civil engineer. Kings County, N. Y. Resides at Bensonhurst, 
 L. I. Their children : 
 
 1. Georgia.* 
 
 2. Samuel Austin.® 
 
 3. Jessie® (deceased). 
 
 4. Evylyn.® 
 
 5. Malcolm.® 
 
 The earliest McElroy name that has come down to us is that 
 of John.^ of Scotland. A descendant, probably a son of his, bear- 
 ing the same name, with his wife Jean, lived and d. in the southern 
 part of County Down, Ireland. His granddaughter, Mrs. Stitt, 
 lived at Kilked. He may be set down as John.^ 
 
 At Dromantine, near Newry, not far from Kilked, there is a 
 home that has been occupied by the McElroys during four or five 
 generations. One hundred years ago it was the home of a John 
 McElroy, and his father before him had lived in the same house, 
 and, as his descendants understand, had also borne the name John. 
 These two are probably the third and fourth generations. 
 
 Children of John McElroy* (John,' John,- John^). 
 
 1. William^ b. October 28, 1796; m. Jane McMullen. 
 
 2. John^ d. in Mississippi. 
 
 3 Joseph** d. in New Orleans. 
 
 4. SamueP occupies the old homestead at Dromantine. 
 
 5. Richard.^ A farmer near Dromantine. 
 
 6. James^ m. Susanna Evertson. Residence, Albany. 
 
William McElroy 
 
 Of Albany, 1796 — 1887 
 
Albany McElroys 109 
 
 7. Margaret' m. William Tate. 
 
 8. Jane' m. Andrew Beatty. 
 
 9. Mary' m. A. M. Ligget. 
 
 William McElroy' (John,* John,^ John,^ John^) b. October 
 28, 1796. Came to America 1822. Landed at Quebec, went to 
 Philadelphia, then returned north and found employment in his 
 trade as a linen weaver at Schaghticoke and other places in the 
 State of New York. In 1824 he came to Albany and went into 
 business as a grocer in company with Mr. John Ewart. Later 
 he sold out and embarked in the dry goods trade, in which he 
 continued^ a successful merchant, until he retired from business 
 at an advanced age. He was an elder m the Reformed Presby- 
 terian Church and widely known and respected. In 1876 his 
 children and their families united in a celebration of the grand- 
 father's eightieth anniversary. There were hospitality and mirth, 
 and memorial exercises of high literary character, which were 
 greatly enjoyed, and which will be long remembered. He d. 
 November 16, 1887, at the age of ninety-one years. 
 
 Children of William and Jane (McMullen) McElroy 
 
 1. Andrew.*' 
 
 2. Margaret.^ 
 
 3. John E.® 
 
 4. William H.« 
 
 5. Emma.^ 
 
 6. Charles E.^ 
 
 Of these, only three are now living, Margaret and John E., of 
 Albany, and William H., of New York City. 
 
 William H. McElroy^ (William,' John,-* John,^ John,^ John^) 
 of Albany is widely known as a journalist, lecturer, poet and 
 ready speaker on important public occasions. He was at one time 
 editor-in-chief of the Albany Journal, and later prominent in the 
 editorial corps of the New York Tribune. In 1894 he removed 
 
no Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 to Rochester, N. Y., becoming editor of the Rochester Post- 
 Express. In 1898 he returned to New York, where he has since 
 
 resided. 
 
 In the Albany Centennial Celebration, several years since, Mr. 
 McElroy was the poet of the occasion. He has been honored 
 with the merited title of LL. D. He has four children living: 
 John Curtis, Eloise, Margaret Bradford and one younger. 
 
 John E. McElroy" (William,^ John,* John,^ John,- John^) is 
 a well-known citizen and prominent business man in Albany. 
 His wife was Mary Arthur, daughter of Rev. William Arthur, 
 and sister of President Chester A. Arthur. Mrs. McElroy was 
 well-known in Washington during the presidency of her dis- 
 tinguished brother, occupying the position of "Lady of the White 
 House," and nobly meeting its responsibilities. They have had 
 four children : 
 
 1. Mary Cotton^ who m. Charles H. Jackson. They reside 
 
 at Boise City, Idaho, where they have a large prune 
 ranch. Their children are Jessie^ and Charles Henry.^ 
 
 2. William.^ An attorney, who d. several years since. 
 
 3. Jessie.^ 
 
 4. Charles Edward. '^ 
 
William H. McElroy, LL. D. 
 
MICHIGAN-ALBANY McELROYS 
 
 About the year 1809, David McElroy, who was b. near Belfast, 
 in County Down, Ireland, emigrated with wife and six children 
 to the United States, and settled at Paterson, N. J. The maiden 
 name of his wife was Elizabeth Mills or IMilroy, probably the 
 latter. Some of his descendants say that his place of birth was 
 Bellamy — perhaps Bellamy Hinch, the name of a parish and of 
 a town in County Down. He was a merchant in the old country, 
 and the family record indicates that two of his children were b. in 
 Limerick. 
 
 The family remained in New Jersey only two or three years 
 and then removed to Canada, settling in the Province of Ontario. 
 His children were twelve in number : 
 
 1. David b. in Ireland in 1798; lived to be ninety-seven 
 
 years old. 
 
 2. Barney b. in Ireland in 1800. 
 
 3. Francis b. in Ireland in 1802 ; d. in 1880, aged seventy- 
 
 eight. 
 
 4. Andrew b. in Ireland in 1805. 
 
 5. John b. in Limerick in 1807; lived to be ninety. 
 
 6. Mary b. in Limerick in 1809. 
 
 7. Jane b. probably in New Jersey in 181 1. 
 
 8. Catharine b. in Canada in 1813. 
 
 9. Hiram b. in Canada in 1816. 
 
 10. James b. in Canada in 1818. 
 
 11. Sarah b. in Canada in 1820. 
 
 12. Elizabeth b. in Canada in 1823. Resides at Woodslee, 
 
 Ontario. Mrs. Henry North — the only survivor of 
 her father's family. 
 Andrew McElroy was a prominent man and at one time mayor 
 of Hamilton, Can. 
 
112 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 Francis McElroy, third son of David, m., in November, 1827, 
 Mary Surerns, of Flamboro, East Ontario. They had ten chil- 
 dren, all b. probably in Canada. Their names were: 
 
 Jacob* b. in 1828. 
 Andrew* b. in 1831. 
 David* b. in 1833. 
 Crocket* b. in 1835. 
 Worthy* b. in 1838. 
 Francis* b. in 1841. 
 William* b. in 1844. 
 Mary* b. in 1846. 
 Robert* b. in 1849. 
 Wesley* b. in 185 1. 
 
 The career of Francis McElroy was checkered, adventurous, 
 long and highly honorable. When twelve years old he was bound 
 out to the owner of a cotton factory, and for a trivial offense was 
 whipped by a brutal overseer with a cat-o'-nine-tails. Soon after 
 this he and a younger brother ran away and went to the City of 
 New York. Later he worked on a farm, and then went into a 
 blacksmith shop and learned the blacksmith trade. At Lockport, 
 N. Y., he carried on smithing business when the Erie canal was 
 being built. Removing to Dundas, Ontario, he continued in 
 business, and to draw custom kept a keg of free whiskey in his 
 shop. Whiskey was cheap and he and almost everybody used it 
 freely. 
 
 Discovering at length that he was on the high road to ruin he 
 threw the whiskey out of his shop, and became and continued 
 a strong temperance man. 
 
 When the rebellion of 1835 broke out in Canada, he was noti- 
 fied, because of his sympathy with the rebels, to leave the country 
 within two days. He removed with his family to Lockport, N. Y., 
 and finally went from there to Texas. In 1838 he returned to 
 Canada, settling at Gait. From and after 1852, his residence was 
 on Lake Superior, where he owned a farm in a beautiful location 
 which he called "The Vale of Avoca." 
 
Michigan- Albany M c Elroys 113 
 
 He was a large, able-bodied man, with unusual power of endur- 
 ance. He followed blacksmithing more than fifty years, was a 
 great reader, and had a wonderful memory, and because of his 
 wide information, and his familiarity with history and poetry, 
 was sometimes called "the learned blacksmith." He d. in 1880, 
 at the residence of his son Francis, in Lapeer, Mich. 
 
 Four of his ten children are yet living, viz. : 
 
 Andrew McElroy, of Marine City, Mich. 
 Francis McElroy, of Lapeer, Mich. 
 Hon. Crocket McElroy, of St. Clair, Mich. 
 Wesley McElroy, of Windsor, Ontario. 
 
 Crocket* McElroy, fourth son of Francis, and grandson of 
 David, who came to Paterson, N. J., was b. in Dundas, Can., in 
 1835. His school studies were pursued at Gait, Ontario, and in 
 Detroit. He was m. at the age of eighteen at Ira, Mich., to Miss 
 Julia Chartier. The lower rounds of the ladder he has been climb- 
 ing were : grocer's clerk, store keeping, school teaching and 
 justice of the peace. Mercantile, manufacturing and vessel inter- 
 ests gradually opened up to him and have occupied his attention 
 with eminent success and usefulness, at New Baltimore, Marine 
 City and St. Clair to the present time. He has served as mayor 
 of St. Clair, and was for two terms Senator in the Michigan 
 Legislature. He is a man of active mind and wide information, 
 with literary tastes and capabilities of a high order. He wields a 
 facile pen, and is an orator of more than ordinary power. 
 
 The children of Crocket and Julia McElroy are twelve in num- 
 ber, as follows : 
 
 1. Frank McElroy, of Detroit. 
 
 2. Julia McElroy, deceased. 
 
 3. Mrs. Mary Lamon, Millington, Mich. 
 
 4. Victoria. 
 
 5. Andrew. 
 
 6. Margaret. 
 
 7. David Crocket. St. Clair, Mich. 
 
114 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 8. Carrie McElroy. St. Clair, Mich. 
 
 9. Worthy, wife of Rev. G. N. Kennedy, FHnt, Mich. 
 
 10. Mrs. Flora Beck. Detroit, Mich. 
 
 11. Mrs. Etta Recor. St. Clair, Mich. 
 
 12. Grace McElroy. St. Clair, Mich. 
 
 Frank McElroy, son of Crocket and grandson of Francis, 
 resides in Detroit. He was mayor of Marine City in 1887, and 
 representative in the Michigan Legislature in 1889. In 1893 he 
 was a commissioner attending the Presbyterian General Assembly 
 in Washington City, representing the Presbytery of Detroit. 
 
 He m., in 1885, Miss Susie Robertson, daughter of Capt. John 
 Robertson, of Marine City. The Robertsons were related to 
 Robert Edwards, of Wales, of Edwards' estate fame. Three 
 children have been given them : 
 
 Harry R. Now deceased. 
 Frances Pauline, aged six. 
 John Burnham, aged four. 
 
 The above information in regard to the Michigan McElroys 
 comes from Frank McElroy, of Detroit. He writes : "My grand- 
 father often spoke about relatives in this country. He used to 
 say he had some uncles in Albany, N. Y." 
 
 We conclude that David, who came to Paterson, N. J., was a 
 brother to James and Samuel, of Albany, and have set forth the 
 genealogy in that way. 
 
LANCASTER COUNTY (PA.) McELROYS 
 
 Shortly before the Revolutionary war two young men, brothers, 
 Daniel and James McElroy, came from County Donegal, in North 
 Ireland, not remote from Coleraine, where other McElroys 
 resided, and settled in Lancaster County, Pa., near what is now 
 New Holland. They m. sisters, natives of Glasgow, Scotland, 
 by the name of Wishart. Daniel m. Rebecca, and James m. Sarah 
 Wishart. The name carries us back to the times of John Knox, 
 and recalls Knox's spiritual father, George Wishart, who suffered 
 martyrdom at St. Andrews, March i, 1546. 
 
 The father of these two McElroy wives fought and was 
 wounded in the war of the Revolution, and received a pension 
 from the Government ; and their husbands, Daniel and James 
 McElroy, were also Revolutionary soldiers. Both of them lived 
 and d. in Lancaster County, and each had a family of nine chil- 
 dren — four sons and five daughters in each. 
 
 Children of Daniel and Rebecca (Wishart) McElroy. 
 
 1. Eliza b. August 19, 1798; d. 1875. 
 
 2. Archibald, merchant, Philadelphia. Born April 20, 1800 ; 
 
 d. August 27, 1875. 
 
 3. Sarah b. July 29, 1802. 
 
 4. James b. December 29, 1804; d. January 25, 1888. 
 
 5. Martha b. August 29, 1807; d. 1875. 
 
 6. Mary A., b. January 29, 1810. 
 
 7. Rebecca b. August 17, 1813; m. Benj. F. Hill. A mar- 
 
 ried daughter and two or three sons reside at Prophet's 
 Town, 111. 
 
 8. William J., b. December 11, 1815. 
 
 9. George W., b. July 23, 1818. 
 
Ii5 Scotch-Irish M c Elroys 
 
 Archibald- McElroy. Merchant in Philadelphia. Born April 
 20, 1800; m., October 8, 1828, Sophia Maria Repplier, who was 
 Ix 1804, and d. October 27, 1886. 
 
 Children of Archibald and Sophia McElroy. 
 
 1. Anna Catharine b. September 18, 1829; d. March 28, 
 
 1894. 
 
 2. Louisa Rebecca b. December 21, 183 1 ; m. William M. 
 
 Beckley, M. D., now deceased. They have three chil- 
 dren: William, George and Annie M. 
 
 3. Charles Repplier b. August 4, 1833 ; d. June, 1850. 
 
 4. Ellen Eliza b. February 8, 1835. 
 
 5. Thomas Elmo b. October 21, 1836; d. February 6, 1874. 
 
 6. Daniel Repplier b. November 30, 1838 ; d. June 23, 1866. 
 
 7. John George Repplier b. June 30, 1842 ; d. November 
 
 26, 1890. 
 
 8. Joseph Repplier b. December 9, 1844. 
 
 James^ McElroy (Daniel^) b. December 29, 1804; d. January 
 25, 1888, at Alexandria, Huntingdon County, Pa. ; m., June 5, 
 1837, Rebecca Keith, who was b. October 14, 18 18. 
 
 Children of James and Rebecca McElroy. 
 
 1. Mary Jane b. April 22, 1838; m., September 29, 1872, 
 
 B. S. Rumberger, who is at the present time (1900) 
 sheriff of Huntingdon County, residing at Huntingdon, 
 Pa. They have two sons : 
 
 James McElroy b. August 9, 1873. 
 Walter Wray b. April 13, 1876. 
 
 2. Mattie Elizabeth b. Huntingdon County, Pa., October 8, 
 
 1839; m., Vinton, Iowa, March 3, 1859, by Rev. Jamas 
 Kirk, Abraham A. Gerberich, who was b. February 25, 
 1834, in Lebanon County, Pa. She d. November 25, 
 1896. He d. August 7, 1879. Their children: 
 
 (l) Ella H. b. March 18, 1861 ; d. May 10, 1879. 
 
William \\ . il. McKlkov 
 
Lancaster County (Pa.) McElroys 117 
 
 (2) Jennie E. b. April 3, 1864; d. April 19, 1864. 
 
 (3) William C. b. December 8, 1865; m., May 9, 1899, 
 Blanche Brooks, Cedar Rapids. 
 
 (4) Anna Louisa b. July 6, 1867 ; m. May 9, 1893, William F. 
 Bacon ; d. November 4, 1896. 
 
 (5) Charles E. b. April 21, 1870; m., June 14, 1899, Amy E. 
 Sawyer. 
 
 (6) Frank L. b. October 27, 1871 ; m., October 5, 1898, Har- 
 riet L. Butterfield. 
 
 Marion G. Bacon, grandchild, b. September 12, 1896. 
 
 3. Hays Hamilton b. April 13, 1841 ; m. Sarah Maria Red- 
 
 field, October 1;^, 1864, who was b. March 26, 1864. 
 He is a hardware merchant at Vinton, Iowa. They 
 have two children : 
 (i) Winnifred Price b. March 30, 1866; m., May 23, 1888, 
 David Charles Main, a banker. Wayne, Neb. 
 
 (2) George Dexter b. July i, 1868. Assistant Cashier 
 Farmers' National Bank, Vinton, Iowa. 
 
 4. Rebecca Wishart b. May 12, 1843 ; d. April 2, 1844. 
 
 5. Susan Alice b. January 20, 1845 ; m. J. A. Newling, 
 
 December 26, 1867; d. December 19, 1869. 
 
 6. Anna Rebecca b. May 2y, 1847; "i-' December 12, 1867, 
 
 J. J. Shirk, of Tyrone, Pa. ; d. March 12, 1876, leaving 
 five children : Anna, Minnie, Ella and Maimie, who are 
 single, and Grace, wife of John W. Cox, and mother 
 of Hazel, Ruth and Ethel. 
 
 7. James Stevens b. July 7, 1849; d. April 13, 1885. 
 
 8. Cassandra Gibson b. November 22, 185 1. 
 
 9. George Scott b. November 25, 1853. 
 
 10. Ellen Keith b. December 25, 1855 ; m. George W. Eichel- 
 
 berger, April 17, 1878. He d. September, 1882, leav- 
 ing two sons : James Cloyd b. November, 1879, and 
 Marion b. September, 1881. 
 
 11. William Watkins Hicks b. July 11, 1858. Is deputy 
 
 sheriff Huntingdon County, Pa. Married Anna Mary 
 
ii8 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys 
 
 Ayres, June 21, 1886. Three children d. in infancy; 
 
 two survive : 
 Winifred Wray b. October 11, 1877. 
 Rebecca Irvin b. September 3, 1894. 
 
 George W. McElroy- (DanieU) b. July 23, 1818; m. ist, 
 2d, ; d. November i, 1887. A lawyer at York, 
 
 Pa. Mayor, district attorney, soldier, three years in Union army. 
 His children: 
 
 1. Horace b. 1853. Graduate United States Naval Acad- 
 
 emy. Attorney, Janesville, Wis. 
 
 2. Robert J. F. Lawyer, now in United States Land office, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 3. George A. York, Pa. Telephone Company. 
 
 4. Sarah E. York, Pa. Cashier. 
 
 5. Samuel S., printer, and Grace E., teacher. York, Pa. 
 
 6. John B. United States Hospital Corps, at Zamboango, 
 
 P. L 
 
 7. Daniel W. Stenographer, S. P. R. R. Co. Los Angeles, 
 
 Cal. 
 
 JoHN^ George Repplier McElroy (Archibald,- DanieP) b. 
 June 30, 1842; d. November 26, 1890; m., November 2. 1869, in 
 Philadelphia, Anna Baldwin Clayton, who was b. November 2, 
 1847; d. August 31, 1897. 
 
 John G. R. McElroy graduated from the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania in 1862, and received the degree of A. M. later from the 
 same institution. He taught in the City of Chicago for a time 
 and in 1867 became Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and History 
 in his Alma Mater. Two years later he became Assistant Pro- 
 fessor in Greek and History. After seven years' service he was 
 promoted to the Professorship of Greek and the English language, 
 which position he retained until his death in 1890. He was a 
 very genial man and a popular and successful teacher. He was 
 author of "The Structure of English Prose," and of numerous 
 articles in philological journals. 
 
Lancaster County (Pa.) M cElroys 119 
 
 Children of Prof. John G. R. and Anna McElroy. 
 
 1. Clayton* McElroy b. September 4, 1872; m., November 
 
 ID, 1896, Margaret Jolliffe Crenshaw, who was b. July 
 6, 1874. Their son, Clayton^ McElroy, jr., was b. 
 January 28, 1898. 
 
 2. Katharine* Allgaire m. November 26, 1899, Seth B. 
 
 Capp. 
 
 Joseph Repplier^ McElroy (Archibald,- DanieH) b. Decem- 
 ber 9, 1844 ; m. Annie Burkhart Sellers, who was b. January 28, 
 1848. Their children : 
 
 1. Archibald b. December 30, 1878; d. June 16, 1879. 
 
 2. Rebecca Bird McElroy b. January 16, 1883. 
 
 Children of James and Sarah (Wishart) McElroy, 
 of Lancaster County, Pa. 
 
 1. Samuel d. at Mifflin, Pa., leaving two children. 
 
 2. James d. young in 1823. 
 
 3. David d. at or near Pittsburgh, leaving a large family. 
 
 4. Thomas m. and went west. Lived in Ohio, then in Iowa, 
 
 and d. near Lincoln, Neb. 
 
 5. Jane d. single. 
 
 6. Martha m., resided and d. in Lancaster County. 
 
 7. Margaret m., resided and d. in Lancaster County. 
 
 8. Sarah m., resided and d. in Lancaster County. 
 
 9. Elizabeth b. January 25, 1819. Joined the Mormon 
 
 Church when twenty years old in 1839, entered the 
 Mormon community at Nauvoo, 111., in 1845 : was with 
 them in their long journey across the State of Iowa, and 
 across the plains to Salt Lake, where she has resided 
 ever since. On that journey she was m., in 1848, near 
 the Missouri River, to Jacob Weiler, known in later 
 years as Bishop Weiler, who d. in March, 1896, at the 
 age of eighty-eight. Mrs. Weiler is the last survivor 
 among the eighteen children of the two McElroy 
 
120 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys 
 
 families in Lancaster County. For a woman in her 
 seventy-eighth year she writes a remarkably clear and 
 satisfactory letter. She has the distinction of being, 
 so far as we know, the only one of Covenanter lineage 
 and McElroy name who carries the name Mormon. 
 How many sister widows share her grief over the loss 
 of their one husband we do not know. 
 
DELAWARE STATE McELROYS 
 
 James and Hugh. 
 
 Shortly after the close of the Revolutionary war, probably in 
 1784, James McElroy and two sisters — all unmarried — came to 
 America from the Parish of Bally-na-hinch, in County Down, 
 Ireland. They had no brothers, and their parents had recently 
 died. With them came, from the same place, a cousin, Hugh 
 McElroy. 
 
 Arriving at Philadelphia, they turned their faces southward 
 and settled in Delaware. 
 
 They remained there some eight years and m. there. James m. 
 Nancy A. Smith, while Hugh m. one of his McElroy cousins. 
 
 Soon after 1790 they removed westward and settled in Wash- 
 ington County, Pa., about ten miles from the town of Washing- 
 ton. Their post office is believed to have been Shelby. Both of 
 them continued there for some years and had families. Of the 
 history of Hugh and family our information is very meager. One 
 of his sons we are told settled some place in Northern Ohio, and 
 another located, many years since, in Philadelphia. 
 
 James McElroy had six sons. The eldest, William, was b. in 
 Pennsylvania in 1793. The other sons were: Glasby, Henry, 
 James, John and Alexander. 
 
 The family removed in 1816 to Morgan County, Ohio, where 
 the father d. some years later. 
 
 William and family removed to the State of Indiana in 1837, 
 where he d. in 1872. aged seventy-nine. A son of his, J. S.' 
 McElroy, b. in 1834, is an elder in the Presbyterian Church at 
 Missouri Valley, Iowa, having moved to Iowa in 1855. 
 
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 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 Rev. James C. McElroy. 
 
 John, son of James McElroy, resided in Morgan County, Ohio, 
 and was the father of five sons, viz. : James C, WiUiam, Stephen 
 C, Calvin G. and John L. 
 
 James C. McElroy, eldest son of John, and grandson of James, 
 was b. in Morgan County, Ohio, October i8, 183 1. Studied at 
 Hanover College, Indiana, and at the Western Theological Semi- 
 nary. Was a soldier, first lieutenant in the Thirteenth Kansas 
 Infantry, from July, 1862, to the close of the war. 
 
 He was ordained by the Presbytery of Fairfield, at Summit, 
 Iowa, in 1868, and has been a diligent and faithful home mis- 
 sionary in Iowa and Kansas to the present time. His first wife 
 was a Miss Paxton, daughter of Rev. J. D. Paxton, D. D., of 
 Beyrout, Syria. His present wife was Miss Eunice E. Greer, of 
 Murrysville, Pa. They reside in Topeka, Kan. They have one 
 child,' Miss Abigail C. McElroy, a graduate of Oswego Female 
 College, and now engaged in teaching. 
 
 BRADDOCK (PA.) McELROYS 
 
 William McElroy of Braddock, Pa., is a son of John McElroy, 
 of Tempo, Fermanagh County, Ireland. He lived at Lisburn, 
 County Down, two years, and in Belfast four years. In 1891 he 
 m. Miss Sarah McElroy, whose father resided at Omagh, County 
 Tyrone. Her brothers, John and William, and sisters, Lizzie and 
 Anna, live at Braddock. Two married sisters, Mrs. Mary Dodds 
 and Mrs. Jane Dodds, reside in Allegany, Pa. 
 
/ 
 
 ▼ 
 
 Rev. James C. A/IcElkov " 
 
 John-, Tames' 
 
LiGONiER (PA.) Mcelroys 
 
 About the year 1787 James McEIroy, from County Down, came 
 to Philadelphia, and subsequently located in Chester County Pa 
 He had been preceded a year or two or three by a brother from 
 County Down whom he greatly desired to find. His descendants 
 a hundred years later, tell us their grandfather inquired and 
 hunted for that brother far and near and never found him It 
 was probably for that reason that he located where he did, some 
 miles west from Philadelphia, and on the main route traveled by 
 bcotch-Insh immigrants who journeved toward the frontier 
 
 It is highly probable that the lost brother was the Hugh alreadv 
 spoken of settling in the State of Delaware. There were no tele- 
 graphs, no daily papers, no daily mails, no cables and no kind of 
 steam transportation in those days. Hugh might almost as well 
 have been in Algiers as in Delaware, so far as James's finding him 
 was concerned. 
 
 James m. Betsy Douglass and three children were given them 
 while in Chester County. The Delaware sojourners concluded 
 to go to the far west, and with wives and babies and pack-horses 
 and a milch cow or two, struck out for Washington Countv Pa 
 passing some distance south of Lancaster on their way west' ' Not 
 long after this James and wife concluded to go to the further 
 west. They had two stout horses. On one of these the wife was 
 mounted carrying with her the cooking utensils and some sup- 
 phes and the baby. On the other horse bedding and things were 
 securely girthed, and on top a bed tick, open above, filled in part 
 with clothes and other movables, and then two of the children- 
 
 !, )Tu r'/ '''^'" ^''" ^^^' ^"^^^"^ "P «" the south side,' 
 and the head of another, five years old, peering out on the north 
 side. Ihe father, wearing hunting shirt and belt, with bridle rein 
 m hand and gun on his shoulder, walked along side. Thus they 
 
124 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 journeyed some 200 miles, along bridle paths, across valleys and 
 streams, camping at night, and moving forward in the morning. 
 At length their long journey ended in Ligonier Valley, some fifty 
 miles east of Pittsburgh, where they and their descendants found 
 home and happiness for many years. The sojourners from Dela- 
 ware made their way to Washington County, locating some thirty 
 miles south of Pittsburgh. And there the two brothers— if our 
 facts and inferences be correct— spent the remainder of their lives, 
 not more than seventy-five miles apart, each wondering, and long- 
 ing to know what had become of his brother. 
 James and Betsy McElroy had four children : 
 
 1. Joseph Alexander, who m. Jane Parks. They had one 
 
 child. He lost his life in a sudden and tragic manner. 
 Was carrying a grain-cradle on horse back. The horse 
 took fright and threw him, with fatal result. 
 
 2. John Douglass m. Sarah Menoher, and lived and died 
 
 on the old homestead. He raised a large family and 
 lived to the age of ninety-two years. 
 
 3. Mary m. Robert Halferty and had large family. 
 
 4. James b. in Ligonier Valley, in 1799; m. Ruth Nesbit, 
 
 and removed to Northern Ohio in 1835. These 
 McElroy friends have been identified all along with 
 the United Presbyterian— originally Associate or 
 Seceder— Church. The late Rev. Joseph Scroggs, 
 D. D., was for many years their pastor. 
 The children of James and Ruth McElroy in Ohio were eight 
 
 in number. Two sons d. young. Four sons and two daughters 
 
 are living in 1900, viz. : 
 
 Alexander McElroy. Bedford, Ohio. 
 
 David McElroy. Twinsburg, Ohio. 
 
 Samuel McElroy. Madison, Ohio. 
 
 James McElroy. Cleveland, Ohio. 85 Ledyard Street. 
 
 Mrs. P. A. Simmons. Denver, Colo. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Laburty. Prescott, Ariz. 
 
Ligonier (Pa.) M c Elroys 125 
 
 Frank McElroy (James,* James,^ James,-^ James^). Resides 
 in Cleveland. 1349 Harvard Street. 
 
 Of the descendants of John Douglass McElroy we have only 
 a partial account. His son, Squire James McElroy, quite ad- 
 vanced in years, occupies the old home at West Fairfield, Pa. Of 
 his children^ we have the names of three : 
 
 1. William Barr McElroy resided at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 
 
 Died October 4, 1889. Leaving a large family. 
 
 2. James McElroy. West Fairfield. 
 
 3. Mrs. Fannie Wood. New Florence, Pa. 
 
 William Barr McElroy m., February 20, 1866, Miss Jennie 
 Graham Lytle. 
 
 Children of William Barr and Jennie (Lytle) McElroy. 
 
 1. Hugh Lytle m., June, 1896, Anna Benedict. Resides 
 
 Youngstown, Ohio. 
 
 2. James Ira. 
 
 3. Edward Halferty m. Agnes Mary Shea. They have three 
 
 children. 
 
 4. Harry Arthur. 
 
 5. William Barr m., February 20, 1900, Maggie Shea. 
 
 6. John Francis. Editor of Progressive Farmer. Quincy, 
 
 111. 
 
 7. Ralph Graham. 
 
 8. Susan Mary. 
 
Rev. W. N. McElroy, D. D. 
 
DESCENDANTS OF ADAM 
 
 Among the McEIroys there are certain names that occur very 
 frequently, John. James and WilHam. Then there are names that 
 are unusual. Solomon and Crocket belong to this class. Now 
 we meet with Adam. We cannot call it a new name, nor deny 
 that it is a good name, nor question its claim to respect and 
 veneration. 
 
 Adam^ McElroy lived in County Down, where he married and 
 had a family. His wife's name was probably not Eve. He came 
 to America between 1760 and 1770, and settled in Eastern 
 Pennsylvania, probably near Easton. From "Pennsylvania 
 Archives" we learn that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary 
 war. His son John^ enlisted, although under age, in Washington's 
 army as a musician, filling the position of fife-major. 
 
 Alexander,^ son of Adam, came to America some years later, 
 about 1780. His wife was Mary Donaldson and their home was 
 in Huntingdon County, Pa. At least two of their children were 
 b. in Ireland, John^ and Adam.^ Their son Robert^ was b. in 
 Pennsylvania in 1784. Their four daughters were Mary,^ wife 
 of Robert Taylor ; Rachel,^ wife of William Marshall, who lived 
 near Cleveland, Ohio ; Margaret,^ wife of John Simpson, and 
 uncle to Bishop Matthew Simpson, and Mary,^ wife of John 
 Daugherty. 
 
 Adam McElroy,^ jr., had one son, and a daughter, Rachel,* who 
 m. Thomas Hughes. 
 
 John,^ son of Alexander, and grandson of Adam, sr., had two 
 sons, James* and John,* and several daughters. They are sup- 
 posed to be residing in Oregon and California. 
 
 Robert,^ son of Alexander, and grandson of Adam, lived in 
 Harrison County, Ohio, near Cadiz, and had ten children. Three 
 
128 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 of the daughters are now deceased, Mary J.,* wife of Robert 
 Anderson; Lucretia* and EHzabeth.* Mrs. Rachel Crowner,* of 
 Holyoke, Colo., and Mrs. Margaret Moore,* of Moulton, Iowa. 
 Two sons are deceased, John Alexander,* who d. in infancy, and 
 Joseph W.,* of Rosamond, 111., whose only son, William H.'^ 
 McElroy, lives at Galva, 111. 
 
 The three living sons are Robert Hamilton* McElroy, of Hol- 
 lister, California ; John A.* McElroy, of South Pullman, Chicago, 
 and Rev. W. N.* McElroy, D. D., of Springfield, 111. 
 
 Passing to the fifth generation, William N.^ McElroy, jr., son 
 of Robert Hamilton, is at Gilroy, Cal. Francis^ and Ray^ Mc- 
 Elroy, sons of John A., are in Chicago ; and Charles G.^ McElroy, 
 of Peoria, and Robert Walter,^ of Springfield, are sons of Rev. 
 Dr. W. N. McElroy. 
 
 Rev. W. N. McElroy, D. D., was b. near Cadiz, Ohio, in 1832. 
 Came to Griggsville, 111., in 1840, and was educated in the public 
 and high school of that town. After spending some time in 
 teaching, he entered, at the age of twenty-eight, in i860, upon the 
 work of the ministry in the Methodist Episcopal Church. His 
 charges have been Naples, Havana, Shelbyville, Bloomington 
 First, Champaign, Danville First, Decatur First, Grace Church, 
 Jacksonville, and First Church, of Springfield. He has been pre- 
 siding elder in the various districts of his conference sixteen 
 years, and was for a time Acting President of Illinois Wesleyan 
 University, from which he received the degree of D. D.. He 
 has been six times a member of the General Conference. He was 
 also a member of the First Ecumenical Conference, held in Lon- 
 don, Eng., in 188 1. He has been a contributor to the various 
 church papers — Advocate and The Quarterly Review — for thirty 
 years past, and is now editor of The Illinois Methodist Journal. 
 At the age of sixty-eight he enjoys vigorous health, is full of 
 work, and seems to know nothing of any "dead line" beyond 
 which he may not go. He is proud of his Scotch-Irish ancestry, 
 and thinks that next to being "born again" is to be well-born. 
 
Descendants of Adam 129 
 
 Recurring to John McElroy, fife-major in Washington's army : 
 After the war closed he m. a Miss Baughman, of Easton, Pa., 
 struck out for the "Far West," and settled at Warrenton, Belmont 
 County, Ohio. He made the first survey of Government lands 
 in Eastern Ohio. He had several sons and daughters. His de- 
 scendants are now widely scattered, and of them we have no 
 definite knowledge. 
 
John McElrov 
 
 Son ot Adam McElroy — Fife Major in Washington's Army 
 
MEADVILLE (PA.) McELROYS 
 
 Capt. Joseph C. McElroy. 
 
 Samuel McElroy b. in Scotland about 1743, came to America 
 and settled in Baltimore in 1784. He removed to Meadville in 
 1800, where he d. in 1829, at the age of eighty-five. From what 
 place he migrated in Scotland we are not informed. 
 
 His son, John McElroy, was b. in 1784; m., in 1812, and d. 
 in Meigs County, Ohio, in 1869, aged eighty-five. He had four 
 sons and four daughters. 
 
 His son, grandson of Samuel, Hon. Joseph C. McElroy, was b. 
 in Meigs County, Ohio, in 1831. He has led a very active life, 
 and is very widely and favorably known. A steamboat man, a 
 California miner, a soldier, being captain in the Eighteenth Ohio 
 Infantry during the civil war. After the war he was sheriff of 
 his county, and member of the Ohio Legislature. 
 
 He resides at Pumroy, Ohio, and has been engaged in manu- 
 facturing and coal mining. 
 
 He has four children and six grandchildren. 
 
 He and family are connected with the Methodist Church. His 
 son. Rev. B. L. McElroy, D. D., is a methodist minister, lately 
 transferred from Ann Arbor, Mich., to Columbus, Ohio. Captain 
 McElroy has been on duty for two or three years past in Washing- 
 ton City. In the Fifty-fifth Congress he was doorkeeper to the 
 House of Representatives, and in the present Congress has the 
 position of postmaster. 
 
VIRGINIA Mcelroys 
 
 William McElroy b. in North Ireland in 1798, came to America 
 in 1819, when twenty-one years of age. He settled in Leesburg, 
 residing there some twenty years, then removing to Charleston, 
 W. Va. At a later time he removed to Cumberland County, Pa., 
 and then to Fayetteville, Franklin County ,where he resided from 
 1842 to 1876. 
 At Leesburg he m. Elizabeth Beatty. They had six children : 
 
 Mary Ellen (Byers). 
 John William McElroy. 
 Robert Fulton McElroy. 
 Josiah Beatty McElroy. 
 Ann Elizabeth. 
 Jane. 
 
 Robert Fulton McElroy, son of William, was b. at Leesburg, 
 Va., November 12, 1828. He m., in 1853, Agnes Jane Renfrew, 
 and in 1866, Miss M. E. Black. He resides at Steelton, near Har- 
 risburg, Pa., where he is a member and elder in the Presbyterian 
 Church. His children are : 
 
 John Renfrew McElroy. Fayetteville, Pa. 
 Josiah Beatty McElroy. Philadelphia. 
 Frank Thompson McElroy. Steelton. 
 
 James McElroy, who came from North Ireland before 1787, 
 was among the early settlers of Huntingdon County, Pa., residing 
 in what is called Stone Valley. His son, John McElroy, was b. 
 in 1788. His grandson, Jackson McElroy, was residing in 1896, 
 in the town of Huntingdon, Pa. An uncle to Jackson McElroy 
 used to reside in Baltimore, but is now deceased. 
 
134 Scotch-Irish Mc Elroys 
 
 In the latter part of the eighteenth century, Daniel McElroy, 
 from North Ireland, migrated to Virginia, settling according to 
 tradition, in Berkley or Loudoun County. His son Daniel came to 
 Ohio probably in 1803 or '4, from Petersburg, Va., settling in 
 Green County, near Cedarville. He had three sons : 
 
 1. Archibald b. about 1820. Resides, in advanced years, at 
 
 Cedarville. 
 
 2. John J. McElroy b. Green County, Ohio, October 14, 
 
 1827. A physician, residing at Rossville, 111. Was 
 surgeon of the 125th Illinois Infantry during civil war. 
 His only daughter, Netta M., b. November i, 1861, is 
 the wife of Rev. A. G. Bergen, Cumberland Presby- 
 terian minister at Mattoon, 111. His only son. John 
 Howard, m. Miss Cora M. Allen, August 31, 1899, and 
 is an attorney in Chicago. 
 
 3. Melancthon McElroy. Blairstown, Iowa. 
 
 4. Alexander b. 1837; came to Paxton, 111., 1857; ^n-- 1865, 
 
 Mary Hanley, who d. 1898. He resides at Paxton. 
 
 County Judge of Ford County. Has two children : 
 (i) Mrs. Margaret M. Westbrook, of Paxton. 
 (2) John H. McElroy. A resident of Chicago. 
 
Robert Fulton McElroy 
 
MONROEVILLE (PA.) McELROYS 
 
 William McElroy, from North Ireland, settled near Monroe- 
 ville, Allegheny County, Pa., some fifteen miles east of Pittsburgh, 
 at an early date, which we are unable to give. His sons were : 
 John, Thomas, Robert and James. He had also three daughters. 
 
 Thomas (son of William) had four sons: Thomas, Johnson, 
 John and William. A son of this William, grandson of Thomas! 
 m. Miss Isabella Patterson, of Beulah, Westmoreland County,' 
 Pa. His name is John H. McElroy. He resides in Oil City, and 
 is an elder in the Presbyterian church. 
 
 Robert G. McElroy, son of Robert, and grandson of the original 
 William, was b. August 2, 1832. He m. Miss Elizabeth Donald, 
 who was b. January 27, 1832. Their marriage occurred March 
 30, 1854. They have thirteen children, as follows: 
 
 Mrs. Phebe M. Loughridge. 
 Mrs. Lila C. Gill. 
 William Cunningham McElroy. 
 Mrs. Nancy K. Warner. 
 James Donald McElroy. 
 Robert Dunlap McElroy. 
 John Cote McElroy. 
 Thomas McMaster McElroy. 
 Joseph Collins McElroy. 
 Mrs. Sarah G. McFarland. 
 Charles Fetterman McElroy. 
 Orlando Metcalf McElroy. 
 Mrs. Mary J. Cameron. 
 
 In this fruitful family there are— in A. D. 1899— an army of 
 twenty-seven grandchildren. 
 
BEAVER COUNTY (PA.) McELROYS 
 
 About the year 1800 Matthew McElroy came from North Ire- 
 land and settled in Beaver County, Pa. He removed in later years 
 to Scotland, Ind., and d. there. He had three sons : 
 
 Alexander b. in 1812. 
 Joseph, of Holmes County, Ohio. 
 
 John, who settled at Pleasantville, Iowa, and who d. at 
 Indianola, Iowa. 
 
 Alexander (son of Matthew) had two sons, viz. : 
 
 Matthew (2d) b. in Holmes County, Ohio, in 1837, and who 
 resides at Percival, Fremont County, Iowa. 
 
 James A. McElroy. He settled in the Northwest corner of 
 Missouri. Went to California in 1849, and d. in 1893. 
 He left two sons and two daughters. The older son 
 Gilbert A. McElroy was, in 1896, a student in the State 
 University at Iowa City. 
 
 A New York Physician. 
 
 Dr. S. H. McElroy has been for some years a practitioner in 
 New York City. His ancestors were among the early settlers at 
 Scotland, Franklin County, Pa. The details of their family his- 
 tory we have been unable to secure. 
 
 Robert McElroy, of Philadelphia 
 was b. near Coleraine, at a place called Flower Hill, in the County 
 of Londonderry, Ireland, about the year 1800. His father, whose 
 Christian name we have not, d. when Robert was quite young, 
 leaving a daughter Mary and a son Daniel, and perhaps others' 
 Robert came to Philadelphia about 1820. He m. a Miss Clements, 
 a native of Newton Savilla, in County Tyrone, Ireland. 
 
1^8 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 The ancestors of both Robert and wife came from Scotland at 
 the time of the persecutions. 
 
 A nephew of Robert, John McElroy, still resides at Flower Hill. 
 Two nephews came to Philadelphia about 1850, one of them, 
 Robert McElroy, settling in Baltimore. The other, James Mc- 
 Elroy, went to Australia, where, it is reix>rted, he was successful 
 and rose to prominence. 
 
 Robert McElroy d. in Philadelphia about the year i860, his 
 widow surviving him three years. They had three children, one 
 of whom d. in infancy. Their only son, William J. McElroy, 
 lived all his days in Philadelphia. He was a lawyer widely known 
 and esteemed. Dt . R. M. Patterson speaks of him as "a lawyer of 
 capital standing in Philadelphia." He was a member and ruling 
 elder in the Tenth Presbyterian Church, of which Rev. H. A. 
 Boardman, D. D.. was pastor. His sudden and deplorable death 
 occurred October 4, 1877, in a railroad disaster near Milford, N. J., 
 occasioned by the breaking of a culvert on the Pennsylvania Rail- 
 road in the midst of a storm. 
 
 He left a wife and five children, two of whom have since died. 
 The oldest, William, has been for some years in Portland, Ore. 
 The widow, with her two daughters, Jennie and Bessie, occupies 
 their old home in Philadelphia. 
 
 As a testimony of the high standing of Mr. McElroy, we insert 
 the following, written by his pastor, the late Dr. Boardman: 
 
 "A disciple of Jesus, from his childhood his whole life bore 
 testimony to the vigor of his faith, the fervor of his love, the 
 purity of his motives, and the unselfishness of his aims. It was 
 his high distinction to maintain, amidst the coniiicts of a labori- 
 ous profession and in every sphere of life, a spotless reputation 
 for truthfulness, integrity hororable dealing and unostentatious 
 benevolence, the beautiful and harmonious outgrowth of deep- 
 seated and all-pervading Christian principle. The Bar is left to 
 mourn one of its bright ornaments, and the Church, one of its 
 most faithful, useful and beloved members." 
 
Beaver County (Pa.) McElroys 130 
 
 Isabella McElroy, only daughter of Robert, was m. in Phila- 
 delphia, October 8, 1856, Rev. J. B. Dales, D. D., officiating, to 
 Rev. George Patton, an Associate Reformed Presbyterian minis- 
 ter. For fifteen years he was pastor of the United Presbyterian 
 Church, at Seneca, N. Y. In 1871 he accepted a call to the Third 
 Presbyterian Church, of Rochester, of which he was pastor until 
 his death in 1897, in his sixty-ninth year. Mrs. Patton continues 
 to reside in Rochester with her two daughters and a son and two 
 grandchildren. 
 
A PITTSBURGH FAMILY 
 
 William McElroy, from County Fermanagh, Ireland, came to 
 Philadelphia in 1824. His father, Dennis McElroy, was a schol- 
 arly man, a professor in some institution of learning in the old 
 country. He had five or six sons. From Philadelphia, William 
 came west and settled at BeallviUe, Washington County, Pa. His 
 son, William McElroy, jr., d. in Pittsburgh, leaving a widow, 
 Mrs. Jane McElroy. Their son, John M. McElroy, is a clerk 
 of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, residing in Edgewood. 
 
 Hon. John Scott, of Philadelphia. 
 
 Some years since a Female College was established at Decatur, 
 Georgia, through the liberality of Col. George Scott, of that place,' 
 and called "The Agnes Scott Institute," in memory of the 
 founder's mother. At its dedication, Hon. John Scott, a brother 
 to the Colonel, delivered an address in which he referred to his 
 mother's ancestry as including some who bore the name McElroy, 
 and some who were among the heroic defenders in the siege of 
 Londonderry in 1689. 
 
 In reply to a letter addressed to him at Philadelphia, Mr. Scott 
 gave us some particulars which are deemed worthy of insertion 
 here. 
 
 "Upon referring to some notes I made in the year 1848 of 
 information given me by my mother and grandmother, both of 
 whom were then living, I find as follows: My grandmother 
 Mary Stitt, was m. June 22, 1793, to William Irvine. She spoke 
 of there having been a John McElroy among her maternal ances- 
 tors m Scotland before their emigration to Ulster, without giving 
 date, however. She gave the names of John McElroy and Jane 
 McElroy as her maternal grandfather and grandmother in Ulster 
 Their residences were all in County Down, Ireland, and my 
 
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 grandmother resided at or near to the town of Kilkeel, in that 
 
 county." 
 
 Mr. Scott has since passed to the other shore. He was a dis- 
 tinguished citizen, an elder in the Presbyterian Church, solicitor 
 for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and at one time United 
 States Senator from Pennsylvania. 
 
Rev. Geokge B. McElruy, D. 1). 
 
SLiGO Mcelroys 
 
 Samuel McElroy, b. and brought up in Sligo, Ireland, came to 
 America and settled in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1821. He was b. in 
 1788. His mother was Cecelia Knott. Mr. McElroy came to the 
 United States through Canada. He was a nail maker, and worked 
 at that trade for some years in Pittsburgh, and then learned the 
 trade of cut nail making by machinery. He afterward built and 
 operated the first machine for making spikes in the City of 
 Pittsburgh. 
 
 He was a man who had the courage of his convictions, and 
 became prominent all over Western Pennsylvania for his pro- 
 nounced views on the anti-slavery question and his close con- 
 nection with the "Underground Railroad." 
 
 He d. in 1868. at the age of eighty years. 
 
 The maiden name of his wife was Ann Beamish. Their eld- 
 est son. 
 
 Rev. George B. McElroy, D. D. 
 
 of Adrian, Mich., was b. in 1824, became a member of the Metho- 
 dist Protestant Church at the age of sixteen, and was licensed as 
 a preacher on his eighteenth birthday. For the next ten years 
 he filled various appointments in Pennsylvania and Virginia. 
 
 July 22, 185 1, he m. Mary Good, of Johnstown, Pa. 
 
 In 1852 he became principal of the Preparatory Department of 
 Madison College, at Uniontown, Pa., the beginning of a career of 
 activity and distinguished success in the line of higher education. 
 In 1857 he removed to Henry, 111., and took charge of the North 
 Illinois Institute, continuing in that work and in public school 
 work for seven years. From 1864 to 1866 he was principal of 
 Alleghany Seminary at Sharpsburg, Pa., 
 
 In 1866 he accepted a call to become Professor of Mathematics 
 and Astronomy in Adrian College, Michigan, where he has con- 
 
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 tinued to the present time. He has been active in the work of 
 instruction, and as a member and officer in the Board of Trustees. 
 For seven years, from 1873 to 1880, he was President of the 
 College, and later was made Professor of Systematic Theology. 
 In 1881 he was a delegate from the Methodist Protestant Church 
 to the Ecumenical Conference of Methodism, in the City of Lon- 
 don, and presented an essay which was printed in their pro- 
 ceedings. 
 
 Mr. McElroy has his full share of academic honors : B. A. and 
 M. A., from Madison College ; Ph. D. from Western Maryland 
 College, and D. D. from Waynesburg College. His life has been 
 one of good influence, indomitable energy and high achievement. 
 
 John H. McElroy, of Pittsburgh, the second son of Samuel 
 and Ann, was b. January 12, 1828. He is a self-made man and 
 his life has been one of good influence and marked success. He 
 attended the public schools in his early boyhood, but before reach- 
 ing his teens had been registered as a learner in the practical 
 school of iron work, machinery and business. In later years he 
 attended night schools. He visited the eastern cities and in their 
 machine shops learned lessons that were of value to him as 
 machinist and engineer. He assisted in building the first carding 
 machines that were used in Pennsylvania. He was foreman of 
 the Fort Pitt Foundry Company, and at a later time foreman for 
 a large iron works, resigning in 1879, to take charge as chief engi- 
 neer of the Pittsburgh Fire Department. 
 
 For a number of years past he has been identified with the 
 Pittsburgh Gas Company, as secretary and consulting engineer. 
 
 In 1856 Mr. McElroy m. Miss Jane Macklin, of Pittsburgh. 
 They have five sons : 
 
 William M. A lawyer in Pittsburgh. 
 
 Samuel M. Cashier of the Citizens' National Bank. 
 
 Orlando M. Connected with the Philadelphia and Consoli- 
 dated Gas Companies. 
 
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 Harmon N., who resides in the City of Mexico, auditor of the 
 
 International Railway. 
 John H. McElroy, jr., who is with the Shoen Pressed Steel 
 
 Car Works. 
 
 The third and youngest son of Samuel and Ann was : 
 
 Hon. Samuel McElroy, who was b. in 1834, and who d. in 
 1888, at the age of fifty-four. He was a man of recognized ability 
 and of great popularity. He represented Alleghany County four 
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 Between 1825 and 1830 Rev. James McElroy, D. D., a Protes- 
 tant Episcopal clergyman, came to America from Ireland, accom- 
 panied by his wife, whose maiden name was Burrowes. He was 
 of strictly Irish descent and conld trace his line back full 400 
 years through McElroys and McGuires. During those four 
 centuries the McElroys were known as soldiers and fighters, tak- 
 ing an active part in almost all the conflicts of the times. They 
 were involved in the Irish Rebellion of 1642, losing their estates 
 in County Fermanagh, and some of them probably also losing 
 their heads. 
 
 Dr. McElroy was b. in Spiter Island, County Cork, in the ex- 
 treme south of Ireland. His father. Charles McElroy, was a 
 major in the British army. He d. in 1846, being ninety-six years 
 of age. Two brothers of the doctor were also in the public ser- 
 vice ; Francis in the navy, and another brother a major in the 
 army, on duty in Jamaica. 
 
 Dr. McElroy was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. Upon 
 coming to this country he accepted a professorship in Kenyon 
 College, at Gambier, Ohio, which he held for a number of years. 
 He was subsequently on duty at Delaware, Ohio, for twelve years. 
 He then removed to California, where he d. at Oakland, in 1880, 
 at the age of eighty years. He left two daughters residing at 
 Oakland. His two sons were prominent as soldiers and as 
 citizens. 
 
 CoL. James Newton McElroy was a cadet for two years at 
 West Point. It: the civil war he was major and lieutenant-colonel, 
 Twentieth Ohio Infantry; lieutenant-colonel. Sixtieth Ohio; 
 major and judge advocate of volunteers. After the war, was 
 appointed to positions in United States army : lieutenant, captain. 
 
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 major and lieutenant-colonel. Was honorably discharged at his 
 own request in August, 1870. He d. in December, 1870. 
 
 Hon. Charles H. McElroy b. 1830. Was captain in Twen- 
 tieth Ohio Infantry and promoted major Ninety-sixth Ohio. He 
 has been in law practice at Delaware, Ohio, and judge of the 
 Court of Common Pleas. His wife d. several years since. His 
 son Frank is m. and resides in Indianapolis. 
 
 John McElroy, of Washington City. 
 
 About the year 1820, Patrick McElroy, with his wife Bridget, 
 came from Belfast, North Ireland, and settled in Pennsylvania. 
 Some years later he removed west to Coshocton County, Ohio. 
 He was a stone cutter and was employed on public works through 
 that region. He was a strict Presbyterian, and a man of gigantic 
 build and strength. Tradition says he had no ribs, but a solid 
 plate of bone instead, and double teeth in front. His wife was a 
 very expert lacemaker. John, the younger of their two sons, 
 d. young. 
 
 Robert Adams McElroy, son of Patrick, m. Mary Henderson, 
 and moved to Greenup County, Kentucky, where he d. about the 
 year 1857. 
 
 John McElroy, son of Robert, was b. in Kentucky in 1843. 
 After the death of his father, and while yet a boy, he went to St. 
 Louis and became a devil-boy in a printing office. He learned to 
 set type and also to write shorthand. 
 
 He was with the Union troops in the earlier operations around 
 St. Louis. 
 
 Afterward he went to Chicago, where he enlisted in Company 
 C, McClernard Body Guard, which subsequently became part of 
 the Sixteenth Illinois Cavalry, and served with the Army of the 
 Tennessee until after the fall of Vicksburg. Then his regiment 
 was transferred to the Army of the Ohio, under Burnside. 
 
 On the third day of January, 1864, the battalion to which he 
 
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 belonged, being on a raid up Powell's Valley into Virginia, and 
 about forty miles from Cumberland Gap, where were the nearest 
 United States troops, they were surrounded, at Jonesville, by 
 Gen. William E. Jones's rebel brigade, and after a stubborn 
 resistance lasting all day, were compelled to surrender. The pris- 
 oners were taken to Richmond, later to Andersonville, and before 
 the war closed John McElroy had been in the prisons successively 
 at Savannah, Millen and Blackshear, Ga., and at Charleston and 
 Florence, S. C. 
 
 The Illinois battalion went into the fight at Jonesville, Va., with 
 about 325 men and lost about sixty-five killed and severely 
 wounded before they surrendered. Of the remaining 260, the 
 Official Report shows 157 who were known to have died. The 
 company of which McElroy was a member almost disappeared, 
 not over thirteen or fourteen known to have come out alive. 
 
 John McElroy's prison life occupied a term of fifteen months, 
 or until the close of the war in April, 1865. Of this, about nine 
 months were at Andersonville. 
 
 After the war he went to Chicago and reentered a printing 
 office. He furbished up his shorthand and became a reporter, 
 helping to start the Inter-Ocean. Leaving Chicago, he went to 
 Toledo, Ohio, to accept the position of city editor of the Toledo 
 Blade. He was managing editor of the Blade ten years, when he 
 left, in 1884, to accept the editorship of the National Tribune at 
 Washington City, which position he still holds. He is one of the 
 three owners of the paper, the style of the firm being "McElroy, 
 Shoppell & Andrews." 
 
 While at Toledo he published an octavo volume of 650 pages 
 entitled "Andersonville : a story of southern prisons." The work 
 has had an immense sale, and now, twenty years after its publi- 
 cation, is still in demand. He has also published several other 
 books, stories, etc. His pen is facile and prolific, and his interested 
 readers are numbered by the ten thousand. 
 
 Mr. McElroy may be justly characterized as printer, soldier, 
 journalist and author. 
 
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 He served as Commander, Department of the Potomac, G. A. R., 
 in 1896. 
 
 He m. Miss Elsie, daughter of Dr. C. T. Pomeroy, of Ottawa, 
 Ohio. Their two Hving children are : 
 
 Karl P. McElroy, an examiner in the Patent Office. 
 Elsie Pomeroy, wife of H. D. Slater, editor and proprietor 
 of the El Paso, Texas, Daily Herald. 
 
NORTH CAROLINA McELROYS 
 
 It is probable that McElroys were among the earliest settlers in 
 North Carolina. There are several connections of the name — 
 unrelated so far as we know — in different parts of the state. Yet 
 they are all, beyond doubt, of Scotch-Irish stock. There is a 
 Samuel J. McElroy, at Hopewell, Mecklenburg County, and a W. 
 E. McElroy at Charlotte. We learn of a Col. Hugh McElroy, in 
 Transylvania County, in addition to Col. John S. McElroy, of 
 Madison County, mentioned elsewhere as related to the Kentucky 
 McElroys. A letter came recently to hand from 
 
 David McElroy, of Waynesville, N. C. 
 
 His grandfather, Henry McElroy, lived in Lincoln County. 
 He had a son, David McElroy, who removed to the State of 
 Indiana some sixty years ago. He had a large family, and was 
 reported later as about moving to California. Another son of 
 Henry settled in Georgia. The father of our correspondent, James 
 McElroy, lived in Haywood County. He had ten children, eight 
 sons and two daughters. Four of the sons are yet living, Abra- 
 ham, William, Johnson and David. Their father d. about 1870. 
 David McElroy was b. April 15, 1830. He was m. in 1856 and 
 has seven children, six daughters, and a son seventeen years old, 
 whose name is John Battle McElroy. 
 
 George McElroy, a Patriarch in Iowa. 
 
 At Eldora, Hardin County, Iowa, on the 19th day of September, 
 1900, occurred the death of George McElroy, in his ninety-eighth 
 year. He was b. at Castle Blaney, North Ireland, in August, 
 1803. His people were of Scotch-Irish Covenanter stock. He 
 was one of a family of twelve children. He came to America at 
 the age of eighteen and located in Philadelphia. He learned the 
 
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 trade of marble cutter, and worked at that business more than 
 thirty years. When over forty years of age he m. Margaret 
 Sproull, who d. in 1898, a sister of Rev. A. W. Sproull, D. D., 
 now at Perth Amboy. In 1857 George removed to Iowa, settling 
 on a farm in Hardin County. About 1875 he sold his farm and 
 removed to Eldora, the County seat. Since the death of his wife, 
 about two years ago, he has lived with his son-in-law and daugh- 
 ter, Mr. and Mrs. D. Wills. He was a good citizen and reputable 
 Christian, a member of the Congregational Church. His surviv- 
 ing children are: 
 
 1. George A. b. 1846. Resides in California. A conductor 
 
 on Southern Pacific Railroad. Married Sarah Hart- 
 man, 1867. Is a grandfather. Two married daughters 
 in Colorado. 
 
 2. James G. b. 1848; m. F. E. Westfall, 1874. Resides at 
 
 Eldora, Iowa. Traveling salesman. 
 
 3. Eliza Jane b. 1850; m. D. Wills, 1874. Eldora. 
 
 4. Robert W. b. 1853 ; m. in 1880. Conductor on M., K. & 
 
 T. Railway. 
 
NEW BRUNSWICK McELROYS 
 
 In County Derry, North Ireland, about the beginning of the nine- 
 teenth century, Hved Patrick McElroy. He had a considerable 
 family, most of whom remained in Ireland. His son, James 
 McElroy, b. about 1810, migrated, when a young man, to America, 
 settling in New Brunswick. His wife was Nancy Rankin, of 
 Garvagh-on-the-Bann. His later years were spent in Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., where he d. at the age of seventy-five. He is said to 
 have had a strong facial resemblance to Rev. Joseph McElroy, 
 D. D., of New York. There were McElroys in Philadelphia who 
 traced kinship with him. Grandfather Patrick McElroy claimed 
 that certain McElroys who were related to him had settled in 
 Kentucky. 
 
 James McElroy had seven daughters and one son. 
 
 The Rev. Solomon C. McElroy. He was b. at St. John, New 
 Brunswick, October 8, 1840, graduated from the University of 
 New York in 1862, and from Princeton Theological Seminary 
 in 1865. 
 
 The thirty-five years of his ministry have been spent chiefly in 
 Eastern Pennsylvania and in New York. His present residence 
 is Jonesville, near Albany. 
 
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Mcelroy pennings and personals 
 
 Tribute to a Mother, Mrs. Mary McElroy, by Her Son, 
 
 Crocket McElroy. 
 
 (From the St. Clair Republican of April ip, i8p4.) 
 
 My mother lived to be eighty-four years six months and twenty- 
 six days old and died on the 12th inst., at Jackson, Mich., where 
 she was living with her daughter Mary. Her body was laid to 
 rest on the 14th, at Lapeer, by the side of my father, who pre- 
 ceded her thirteen years in entering the great hereafter. She 
 was the mother of ten children, eight sons and two daughters, 
 all provided with stout bodies and strong constitutions. Three 
 children died before reaching the age of maturity, one of small- 
 pox, one of cholera and one of wounds received in battle while 
 serving as a soldier in the Union army. The seven children who 
 reached maturity were all large and able bodied. At one time my 
 father and mother and all their children would average in weight 
 over 2QO pounds each. Only five of the children are now living, 
 who are named in the order of their ages as follows : Andrew, of 
 Marine City; Crocket, of this city; Francis, of Lapeer; Mary 
 (Mrs. S. D. Bailey) of Jackson, and Wesley, of Windsor, Ont. 
 
 In her prime my mother was a woman of pride, ambition and 
 great usefulness. She was noted for her strict integrity, remarka- 
 ble industry and wonderful powers of endurance. She was a 
 worker, and nearly all her life worked almost incessantly from 
 early morn until late bedtime. Usually the first one up and the 
 last one to bed, she would almost invariably do a longer day's 
 work than any other person in the household, which included 
 mechanics in the employ of my father. In those days there were 
 no sewing machines and no gas or electric lights, and for many 
 long hours at night when the children were all in bed, my mother 
 would sit by the light of candles made by her own hands and 
 
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 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 ply her dextrous needles making all kinds of garments from shirts 
 and socks, to coats and caps. Ready made clothing was not heard 
 of in those days, at least in our town, according to my memory. 
 My mother did all kinds of work about her home, she was an 
 expert gardener, and took pride in her gardening as m all her 
 work She would be among the first in town to have ripe straw- 
 berries, green peas, onions and such things in the garden every 
 summer She was an excellent cook, milliner, dressmaker, 
 tailoress and in fact could do any kind of work that women in 
 those days were called upon to do, and do it well. 
 
 My mother was a housekeeper from her nineteenth year until 
 she was past eightv-two, a period of nearly sixty-four years, 
 ^he never surrendered the power to rule and run her own house, 
 but old age at last took it from her. Not one of her children 
 possesses the ambition, the energy, or the powers of endurance 
 that my mother had. Some of her splendid qualities may 
 be observed trickling through the characters of her children, 
 but none of them will live to show a record of hours of labor done, 
 equal to that of their mother. 
 
 Overshadowing all her other good qualities was my mother's 
 intense love for her children. She taught them to be good and 
 ruled them through love, but did not hesitate to enforce obedience 
 by harsher means when necessary. 
 
 I have tried all my life to realize and appreciate the immeasura- 
 ble value of a mother's love and no effort I have ever made 
 brought me back such rich returns of consolation and satisfac- 
 tion, and in closing this poor sketch I wish to say to all persons 
 who read it, (especially to the young) who have a mother to love, 
 —love your mother. Do it not only from a sense of duty, but for 
 love's sake, no matter what may befall your mother let her have 
 the benefit of vour love. Her eyes may grow dim and her ears 
 get dull, but so long as you have a mother to love, continue to 
 love your mother, and you may rest assured of reaping a rich 
 reward in the up-building of your manhood and in soul satisfying 
 comfort. 
 
McElroy Pennings and Personals icy 
 
 From "City of the Dead." 
 
 Written by William Montgomery McElroy in 1863. 
 
 The City of the Dead ! 
 How grand its solemn temples rise; 
 To deeds of fame its tenants sleep, 
 Or soar immortal in the skies. 
 
 Tears are of no avail ; 
 The broken bleeding heart, 
 Cannot bring back the dead to life, 
 Nor bid their pulses start. 
 
 Oh, holiest memory, 
 Though time's swift years run fast. 
 With busy steps our thoughts will turn 
 Along the shadowy past. 
 
 The past we know ; 
 The future is our anxious care ; 
 We paint a heaven of bliss on high, 
 And dream that we are there. 
 
 Opening Stanza from a Poem on "The Wisconsin River." 
 By William Montgomery McElroy. 
 
 No Roman walked on Arno's side 
 Or mused on Ario's falling tide 
 With more delight than I have stood 
 And gazed upon Wisconsin's flood. 
 Its booming roar to me more dear 
 Than aught that could salute my ear, 
 Invites me oft, at set of sun. 
 When tasks are o'er and labor's done, 
 To wander on its grassy brink. 
 Forget the world and idly think. 
 
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 The Irvine Mothers. 
 
 From unpublished manuscript of the late W. T. Knott, Ph. D. 
 
 With whatever pride and veneration and honor the generations 
 of the McElrov clan of this day revert to their noble paternal 
 ancestors of a hundred years ago, how much more may they m 
 truth and justice accord to their maternal ancestors of that day 
 "For if we have any good in us is it not greatly due to our good 
 mothers rather than to our fathers?" 
 
 The Irvines, the three sisters, Esther, Mary and Margaret, the 
 honored and noble wives of Hugh, Samuel and James McElroy, 
 the mothers, twelve decades ago, of the Kentucky McElroys, were 
 of a family of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, ever true to the great 
 principles of political freedom and religious liberty ; ever found 
 side by side with their brother Covenanters, the McElroys and 
 others in defence of those principles-with them in every trial 
 and trouble-sufifering with them in all the persecutions that it 
 was their lot to endure. The Irvine name in Scotland reaches 
 far back into the centuries that are past, and may be found all 
 along the line of the meagre history of the sixteenth and seven- 
 teenth centuries, either in Scotland or North Ireland. 
 
 Early in the eighteenth century, about the year 1729, we find 
 the good ship "George and Ann" bearing the Irvines and their 
 compatriots and kinsmen, the McElroys, McDowells, McKees, 
 McCunes. McCampbells and many others over the broad waters 
 of the Atlantic to the shores of America. Nor was the name 
 Irvine more illustrious and noble among the hills of Scotland, 
 and the counties of Irish Ulster, than it was destined to become 
 in the colonies of America. The name is imperishable in the 
 annals of earlv American history, and found among the bravest 
 generals who directed the armies during the French and Indian 
 wars. It found a place in every rank in the battles for American 
 independence. The Irvines were educated men for that day, and 
 while we find them foremost as statesmen and soldiers on the 
 secular battlefields, we find also the name prominent as valorous, 
 
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 earnest, and zealous soldiers under the Great Captain of the 
 armies of Jehovah as ministers of the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Then well may the generations of to-day, and those to follow, 
 descendants of the McElroys and Irvines, be proud of their 
 lineage, and of the commingled blood of those noble families that 
 courses in their veins. 
 
 A Poem by William H. McElroy. 
 
 (Read on the occasion of the eightieth birthday of William McElroy 
 of Albany, N. Y., October 28, 1876.) 
 
 A truce to politics to-night; 
 
 Let rival parties be ; 
 All patriotic toasts we slight — 
 
 "My country" not "of thee" 
 Our native land we will not sing, 
 
 Nor e'en our native town, 
 But each will hearty tribute bring 
 
 To Erin's County Down. 
 
 Beyond a waste of waters wild, 
 
 Just eighty years ago. 
 Above a lusty new-born child 
 
 Fond hearts were bending low; 
 And, faith, his parents did declare 
 
 That any honest jury 
 Could call their boy beyond compare 
 
 In Dromantine or Newrv. 
 
 The years transform the baby weak, 
 
 And whisper tales romantic. 
 That tempt him to his fortune seek 
 
 Beyond the wild Atlantic. 
 At length delay he will not brook. 
 
 Tells Erin he "must leave her," 
 And, presto! he's in "Schaghticoke" 
 
 Her first "imported" weaver. 
 
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 He did not take from Dromantine 
 
 A bulgy pocket-book, 
 Nor stocks, nor bonds, nor raiment fine, 
 
 When he his home forsook. 
 But in their stead he bore away 
 
 What's better worth possessing, 
 A help for every after day, — 
 
 His dear, good father's blessing. 
 
 The new world caught him to her breast 
 
 That friendless Irish boy. 
 And cried "Just up and do your best ;" 
 
 You're welcome, McElroy! 
 I've room enough, and room to spare, 
 
 My skies are free as sunny ; 
 And those who will but do and dare 
 
 Shall gain my milk and honey. 
 
 He loved the new world, bluff and free, 
 
 And with the rule that's golden, 
 He won his way this side the sea 
 
 As in the world that's olden. 
 He did his best — was brave and true. 
 
 Hewed close to honor's line. 
 And friends and fortune came to him, 
 
 That boy from Dromantine. 
 
PERSONALS 
 
 Abby and Mary, daughters of Rev. John M. McElroy, were 
 born in Ottumwa, Iowa, and trained in the pubHc schools and in 
 the Western College for Women at Oxford, Ohio, with the addi- 
 tion of some experience as teachers in Ottumwa schools, and as 
 helpers in the work of city missions at the East End Chapel. 
 
 From this the transition was easy to the work of the Young 
 Women's Christian Association, which, about that time, was be- 
 ginning to attract public notice. Abby became secretary of the 
 Association at Kansas City, Mo., and afterward had charge of a 
 newly organized association at her home in Ottumwa. In 1897 
 she was invited to Newburgh-on-the-Hudson, where two full 
 years of successful work followed. In January, 1900, an urgent 
 call took her to Nashville, Tenn., where in a wide and important 
 field, she has been on duty the past year, with appreciation and 
 success. 
 
 Mary began her work in the Association at Topeka, Kan., and 
 was afterward State Secretary for Illinois, with headquarters at 
 Galesburg. By the International Committee she was sent to New 
 York City to take charge of the newly organized Harlem Associa- 
 tion. It was the day of small things. The work was new and but 
 little known, occupying rented rooms, with small membership 
 and income. 
 
 Nine years of service and management have witnessed gratify- 
 ing expansion and progress, and have attracted a host of appre- 
 ciative helpers. The association now has a membership of eleven 
 hundred, with six hundred young women in educational classes, 
 and three hundred in gymnasium classes, occupying their own 
 property, a commodious home valued at $120,000. 
 
 In the summer of '98 the two sisters were delegates in attend- 
 ance upon the World's Association Conference in the City of 
 
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 London. Mary remained, upon invitation of the London Council, 
 and had charge for some months of their Central Institute, with 
 a view to introducing certain American methods and plans which 
 might be helpful in the London work. Returning the following 
 winter, she resumed her position, where she continues, as General 
 Secretary of the Harlem Young Women's Christian Association, 
 of New York City. 
 
NOTES AND NAMES 
 
 In the city directories of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Chicago 
 the McElroy names number, in each, between seventy and eighty. 
 New York has fifty-nine names, Boston twenty-seven, New 
 Orleans eleven, and Toledo eleven. A portion of these are Scotch- 
 Irish, but a majority are Irish-Irish. 
 
 If an enumeration were made of all the descendants of the 
 McElroy fathers who came to America from Ulster, how many 
 would there be? No one knows. Perhaps as many as fifty 
 thousand ! 
 
 A study of the Christian names in vogue among our people is 
 interesting and instructive. Those Scotch and Celtic fathers were 
 religionists. The name Hugh, which means "Fire," carries us 
 back to the times and heathen rites of the Druids, beyond the 
 pale of history. The name Patrick is not the exclusive property 
 of the Catholics. There are many Scotch Patricks. All classes 
 of Celtic Christians venerate the name of Saint Patrick, the 
 devoted missionary who brought the Gospel to Ireland long before 
 the opposing camps of Catholic and Protestant were established. 
 
 The many Bible names, Abraham, Joseph, Sarah, Samuel, 
 David, John. Mary, Elizabeth, show us what book they were most 
 familiar with. 
 
 They were patriots, naming their sons for the reigning 
 sovereign, giving Jameses without number, and, after the acces- 
 sion of the Prince of Orange, changing to William. In this coun- 
 try they have had many George Washingtons, while it is note- 
 worthy that in naming their boys those Scotch Presbyterians have 
 honored John Wesley and George Whitfield more than Calvin 
 and John Knox. 
 
 Kinship among our dififerent McElroy tribes is, from the stand- 
 point of genealogy, worthy of notice. We are all one as to our 
 Scotch origin. It is probable, too, that the number of our fore- 
 bears who lived in Scotland was not large. More than half of 
 
i64 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 our American McElroys came from County Down, Ireland, and 
 tradition has it that "all the McElroys in County Down are de- 
 scended from three brothers who came from Scotland time of the 
 persecutions." One of these, Hugh, bought a tract of land at 
 Kate's Bridge, in the Parish of Bally-na-Hinch, in the central part 
 of the county, where some of his descendants still reside ; and 
 there at Bally Roney Church, in unmarked graves, the fathers 
 lie sleeping. 
 
NOTES— KINSHIP 
 
 There is a presumption that all our tribes which trace back to 
 that parish, Bally-na-hinch, are related to each other. These in- 
 clude the McElroys of Big Spring, of Ligonier, the Delaware 
 State McElroys, and probably also those of Albany and Michi- 
 gan. 
 
 Wherever we find Hugh as a prevalent and honored name there 
 is room for surmise that the tribe is descended from Hugh, of 
 Kate's Bridge. 
 
 The Sligo McElroys, now at Pittsburgh and elsewhere, have 
 a claim, based upon tradition, of kinship with the Albany Mc- 
 Elroys, but whether with William from Dromantine, or with 
 James and Samuel from the northern part of the county, we are 
 not sure. 
 
 The large tribe of Michigan and Ontario McElroys are also 
 pretty certainly related to those of Albany. 
 
 The Bucks County McElroys, the oldest tribe in the country, 
 have also a tradition, wide-spread and persistent, of kinship with 
 those of Albany, relating probably to Alexander McElroy, who 
 lived many years near Rome, N. Y. There is also good reason to 
 believe that the McElroys of Bucks County and those of Kentucky 
 are nearly related. James, the patriarch of the Kentucky tribe, 
 upon arriving in this country with his young wife in 1729, stopped 
 for a time in Bucks County, where the other McElroy family 
 had located twelve years earlier. The Christian names of these 
 two tribes are similar, Archibald being a favorite. The father 
 of James probably bore that name. 
 
 We ordinary McElroys must be on our guard against too great 
 effort to establish kinship in certain directions. It would be a 
 great honor to be related to Agnes McElroy Scott, the great- 
 grandmother of Mrs. Carrie Scott Harrison, wife of President 
 
/ i56 Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 Benjamin Harrison, and to Agnes's brother-in-law, Capt. Matthew 
 Scott, who was the great-grandfather of Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes. 
 
 None of us would feel humiliated by being classed with the 
 Kentucky people, who have given to the country and to history 
 the orator and statesman, Ex-Governor Proctor Knott. Nor 
 would we be grieved to be compelled to acknowledge relationship 
 with the Schaghticoke weaver, of Albany, whose family is con- 
 nected by marriage with the late President Chester A. Arthur. 
 
 Our McElroys in colonial times were not lacking in patriotism. 
 In "Pennsylvania Archives" Vol. XHI, p. 151, we find, among the 
 names of Revolutionary soldiers, the following McElroys : James, 
 Daniel, Charles, James (2d), Adam, John and William. Among 
 enrolled militiamen in Bucks County were George and Alexander, 
 and Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald McElroy. In Virginia and the 
 Carolinas there were at least three : John, Archibald and Samuel, 
 and probably Hugh and James additional. 
 
 In the war of 1812, as we know from traditional and other 
 sources, the McElroys were not wanting in devotion to their coun- 
 try's service. 
 
 From official records I have obtained a list of McElroys who 
 have served in the army and navy for which I am indebted to the 
 courtesy of John McElroy, of Washington, D. C. Omitting 
 names which appear elsewhere in this history, the following may 
 be noted : 
 
 1. Capt. James F. McElroy, of Pennsylvania. Served in Six- 
 teenth United States Infantry throughout the war with Great 
 Britain. 
 
 2. William McElroy, Ohio. Captain Seventy-second United 
 States Colored Infantry ; later first lieutenant Thirty-ninth United 
 States Infantry. 
 
 3. James P. McElroy. First Lieutenant Sixth Ohio Battery. 
 
 4. James A. McElroy. First Lieutenant Second Ohio Cavalry. 
 
 5. Samuel D. McElroy. First Lieutenant 129th Ohio. 
 
 6. Clesson R. McElroy. First Lieutenant Thirteenth Ver- 
 mont. 
 
Notes — Kinship 167 
 
 7. Samuel McElroy. Second lieutenant, 211th Pennsylvania. 
 
 8. William B. McElroy. Adjutant, Fourth Pennsylvania 
 Cavalry. 
 
 9. William J. McElroy. Second Lieutenant, Sixty-third 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 10. Robert McElroy. Captain, Third Missouri State Cavalry. 
 
 In the Navy. 
 
 Archibald, Lieutenant. Appointed May 11, 1798. 
 
 Daniel R. McElroy. Second assistant engineer. 
 
 Samuel McElroy. Third assistant engineer. 
 
 Horace McElroy. Ensign. 
 
 Thomas McElroy. Gunner (1861), master (1864). 
 
 George Wightman. Appointed from Michigan. Graduated 
 1878. Now lieutenant with the Wisconsin. 
 
 Among our Celtic forebears in the dim and distant past, the 
 doings of heroes and families and clans and their chiefs were 
 rehearsed, on special occasions, by the bards, in the numbers of 
 rude verse, with pantomime and extravagance and with small 
 regard for the line between fact and legend. 
 
 The progress of civilization has retired the ancient bard and 
 written history has taken the place of his rude poetry. In regard 
 to family history, however, the pen has not come into universal 
 use. There are intelligent people and good citizens busied with 
 the activities of social and business life who have no written 
 family record. That they may have had grandparents they do 
 not call in question, but they do not know who they were. By 
 and by they or their children will wake up to the importance of 
 knowing something about ancestry. There may be an estate in 
 question, or there may be a desire to establish connection with the 
 honored ones of Colonial or Revolutionary times. Let us hope 
 that this family history will tend to encourage and promote the 
 Family Record, in the Family Bible, with fullness of names, dates, 
 changes and localities. 
 
i68 Scotch-Irish M c Elroys 
 
 The fullest and best record we have met with is that of the late 
 Samuel McElroy, C. E., of Brooklyn. 
 
 Another record of much importance comes to us from A. A. 
 Cassil, Esq., of Mount Vernon, Ohio. When a lad of fourteen 
 he wrote out the history of his tribe as given by his aged grand- 
 aunt, dating back from 1769. 
 
 Dr. Knott, however, gives us the fullest account of the most 
 numerous tribe, the Kentucky McElroys, the early facts and inci- 
 dents of which were given him by his venerated grandfather, who 
 lived to be almost a centenarian. 
 
 The preparation of this McElroy History has required some 
 labor and care, and has involved a very extensive correspondence. 
 We have tried to have it accurate, yet, we doubt not that errors 
 will be discovered in it. Names and dates have been in some 
 instances incorrectly reported to us, and the penmanship was not 
 always easily deciphered. 
 
 The author begs leave to say, however, that the work has 
 accorded with his tastes and has afforded him some satisfaction. 
 
 Our wide correspondence with many whose faces we have never 
 seen has been very satisfactory ; marked by courtesy and appre- 
 ciation and a just family pride. It is an honor to be identified 
 with such a people and with their history. We cannot but admire 
 their rugged strength, their conscientious devotion to what they 
 thought was right, their fearlessness amidst peril, their patriotism, 
 and their Protestantism. 
 
 Two thoughts have been to us matters of special interest. First, 
 the oneness of the Scotch-Irish Americans in general, and of the 
 McElroys in particular, even amid some diversity of religious 
 name. The greater part of us are Presbyterians, with high regard 
 for John Knox, and loyal to Presbyterian faith and order ; and of 
 this number some are United Presbyterians and some are 
 Reformed Presbyterians, or Covenanters. Some of our num- 
 ber are Epi*:opalians, admiring the conservatism and sound 
 doctrine, and pleased with the order and worship of the 
 Episcopal Church. Some are Methodists, admirers of 
 John Wesley, and deeming it an honor to be seen walking in his 
 
Notes — Kinship ign 
 
 footsteps, even as he followed in the steps of the Master. Others 
 yet, renouncing- all authoritative human creeds, accept the Bible 
 as their one symbol and desire no other name than Disciple or 
 Christian. We do well to remind ourselves, that John Knox was 
 for years an Episcopal clergyman, using the liturgy and assisting 
 in its revision, and that he had the honor of declining a bishopric 
 in the English church ; that Wesley was an Episcopal clergyman 
 to the close of his long ministry, and that the form of govern- 
 ment in the churches which bear his name is not Prelacy but 
 Presbytery; and that Alexander Campbell was a Scotch-Irish 
 Presbyterian, educated for the Presbyterian ministry. We are all 
 one in acknowledging the supreme authority of the word of God, 
 and we are one family in heirship to that civil and religious 
 liberty for which our forefathers contended in Scotland. It is our 
 right to be Methodists, or Disciples, or Episcopalians, or Presby- 
 terians, without asking permission of any earthly power. 
 
 Our remaining thought relates to our country ; of wide extent, 
 with a teeming population, a heroic past, and a magnificent future. 
 McElroys are found in every part of it, probably in every state 
 in the Union, and north and south of every parallel of latitude. 
 In our late deplorable civil war they were in opposing camps, and 
 confronted each other on the field of battle. That was one trouble, 
 there were so many Scotch-Irish on both sides,— conscientious, 
 stubborn, heroic men, not easily whipped and who did not know 
 when they were whipped. Let us be thankful that the war is over, 
 and that the asperities and ill-feeling pertaining to it are passing 
 away. As we received reports from southern correspondents, and 
 read the names of soldiers— fallen, or surviving— Hugh, John, 
 Samuel, William, Frank, it seemed like the roll-call of our own 
 grandfather's family. And our Confederate kinsmen, as they 
 look through this family history, may have a kindred feeling as 
 they note the names of federal soldiers, Hugh. John, Samuel, 
 James, Thomas, Robert, Charles and Joseph ! 
 
 Time and Providence have had a wonderfully unifying power. 
 One name, one history, one country, one flag! 
 
 It is not claimed that we have found and registered all the 
 
 11 
 
j^o Scotch-Irish McElroys 
 
 Scotch-Irish McElroys in America. It is only an approach toward 
 it. We have done the best we could. A few— a very few— made 
 no reply to our letters of inquiry, were "dumb with silence," and 
 of course their names and records do not appear. There must be 
 many of our people in California. From most of our cor- 
 respondents came the report of some member of the family having 
 gone to California, but no address given. 
 
 Our inquiries have brought courteous replies from several 
 Catholic McElroys, of the class that Froude speaks of as Irish- 
 Irish. Hugh McElroy, a merchant of Pittsburgh, Pa., and James 
 W. McElroy, city attorney of Baltimore. From several sources 
 we hear of a "Father John McElroy," Catholic priest, who died 
 a few years since at Frederick, Md., at the age of ninety-five. 
 
 We hear of a Professor McElroy, who figured as a teacher in 
 New York City some forty years since, principal of public school 
 in Baxter street ; a learned scholar, and a successful teacher, with 
 humorous and fun-loving peculiarities which made him immensely 
 popular with his "boys." He had a unique way of taking notice 
 of Washington's Birthday. On the evening preceding, just before 
 dismissal, he would have his boys all drawn up in line, and very 
 gravely would say: "Now boys, what day is to-morrow?" In 
 chorus they would answer, "Washington's Birthday." "Who was 
 George Washington?" the teacher would ask, still with solemn 
 formality. The answer came promptly "First in war, first in peace, 
 and first in the hearts of his countrymen," and then all would go 
 into a vigorous breakdown performance, stepping in unison, and 
 yet with the gravity of a regular school exercise. 
 
 "Right ye are," McElroy would reply, "take a holiday to- 
 morrow." The boys did not forget this drill. Years later when 
 their teacher was in his grave, the old boys appeared, during the 
 Washington Centennial in 1889, upon the streets, in groups, ask- 
 ing in unison "Who was George Washington?" Then giving 
 the reply and the break-down. The prank took, and spread almost 
 all over the city, though few knew its origin. The Professor's 
 Christian name we did not learn, and whether he really belonged 
 to the Scotch stock was a question that we did not care to press 
 too far. 
 
Notes — Kinship j^j 
 
 A Carolina correspondent writes under date of November 24, 
 
 ^.''1900, that a Mr. William McElroy, bachelor, died intestate at or 
 
 near Asheville a few years ago, leaving an estate of $10,000, for 
 
 which no heirs had been found unless very recently. The matter 
 
 is believed to be still in the Probate Court at Asheville, N. C. 
 
 Our latest item of McElroy news is from the San Francisco 
 Chronicle of December 9, 1900. Sister Sanghamitta, the Budd- 
 hist nun, had just arrived, returning from Ceylon. She was born 
 in Texas, daughter of Captain McElroy, who is said to have been 
 of old Pennsylvania stock. Her mother was a Castillian. Her 
 early years were passed in Mexico. At the age of sixteen she 
 married a Mr. Bates and resided in Oakland, where she was left 
 a widow with three children. Her second husband was Count 
 Canavarro, Minister from Portugal to the Hawaiian Islands, by 
 whom she had a son, now sixteen years old. Some years ago'she 
 became enamored of Theosophy, and under the tutorship of 
 Dharmapala, the Buddhist priest, who figured in the parliament of 
 religions, was inducted into the mysteries of Buddhism. Three 
 years ago she renounced Christianity and turned her back upon 
 her family and native country and went to the Orient as priestess 
 and missionary. She will return, later, to her mission and medita- 
 tion in India. 
 
 The McElroys are human, all of them fallible, and some, erratic. 
 
INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 BUCKS COUNTY McELROYS 15 
 
 KENTUCKY McELROYS 21 
 
 Abiam.s (Samuel,^ James^) 31, 34 
 
 Abram,* (Samuel.^ Samuel,^ James^) ... 33 
 Addie," (Hiram,* Hugh,' Samuel,^ 
 
 James') 36, 46 
 
 Alvey N.,* (James P..^ Samuel,^ James') 34 
 Alice," Keturah,* Samuel,^ Samuel,^ 
 
 James') 42 
 
 Anne.s (Proctor,* Samuel,^ Samuel,= 
 
 James') 42 
 
 Annie," (Frank B.,* James P.,' Samuel,^ 
 
 James') 44 
 
 Apolita,* (James P.,3 Samuel,^ James') 34 
 
 Archibald,^ (James') 22 
 
 Archibald,* (Archibald,^ James') 23, 24 
 
 Archibald,* (Archibald,* Archibald.^ 
 
 James') 26 
 
 Alice Ann,* (William I.,* James,^ 
 James') 30 
 
 Barbara," (Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,= 
 
 James') 36 
 
 Belfield,* (James P.,* Samuel,^ James') 34 
 Benjamin,* (Samuel,* Samuel,^ James'). 33 
 Benjamin," (He-"°y,* Samuel,* Samuel,^ 
 
 James') 41 
 
 Benjamin A.," (Benjamin N.,* Abram,* 
 
 Samuel,=^ James') 44 
 
 Benjamin N.,* (Abram,* Samuel,^ 
 
 James') 34, 44 
 
 Bettie F.," (J. A. B.,* Abram,* Samuel,= 
 
 James') 44 
 
 Brenetta,* (James P.,» Samuel,^ James') 34 
 Buckner," (Abram,* Samuel,' Samuel,^ 
 
 James') 42 
 
 Camilla,* (Wi.liam I.,» James,^ James') . 30 
 Carrie L.," (Hiram," Hiram,* Hugh,* 
 
 Samuel,2 James') 47 
 
 Caswell," (Hiram," Hiram,* Hugh,* Sam- 
 uel," James') 47 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Cecil,* (William E.,* Samuel,^ James') 32, 39 
 Celia," (Robert,* WilHam E.,» Samuel,^ 
 
 James') jg 
 
 Cetta,« (John," James C.,* John,* Sam- 
 
 uel,2 James') 36 
 
 Charles," (Franklin B.,* James P.,* Sam- 
 
 uel,2 James') 44 
 
 Charlotte,* (William I.,* James," James') 30 
 Cicely Ann,* (Abram,* Samuel," James') 35 
 Clarence U.," (Abram,* Samuel,* Sam- 
 
 ue\,- James') 43 
 
 Cordelia F.," (J. A. B.,* Abram,* Sam- 
 uel," James') 45 
 
 Courtney W.,« (Hiram," Hiram,* Hugh,* 
 Samuel," James') 47 
 
 Edward H.," (Robert,* William E.,* 
 
 Samuel," James') 38 
 
 Edward,6 (Addie," Hiram,* Hugh,* Sam- 
 uel," James') 46 
 
 Effie," (Samuel G.," Hervey,* Samuel,* 
 
 Samuel," James') 52 
 
 Eliza,* (William E.,* Samuel," James,') . . 37 
 Eliza J.," (James M.,* Archibald,* Archi- 
 bald," James') 25 
 
 Elizabeth,* (James," James') 29 
 
 Elizabeth,* (Samuel," James') 31 
 
 Elizabeth,* (Samuel,* Samuel," James').. 33 
 Elizabeth,* (Abram,* Samuel," James').. 35 
 Elizabeth," (James C.,* John,' Samuel," 
 
 James') ^^ 
 
 Elizabeth M.," (Hervey,* Samuel.' Sam- 
 uel," James') 40 
 
 Ella," (John," James C.,* John.* Sam- 
 uel," James') jg 
 
 Emma," (Hugh," Hiram,* Hugh,' Sam- 
 uel," James') 45 
 
 Eva M.," (J. A. B.,« Abram,* Samuel," 
 
 James') 4^ 
 
 Esther,' (James," James') [[[ 29 
 
 Esther,* (William I.,' James," James').! 30 
 Ellen," (W. C* Archibald,' Archibald," 
 
 James') 25, 27 
 
 Ella," (Hugh," Hiram,* Hugh,' Samuel," 
 James') ^g 
 
174 
 
 Index — Kentucky McElroys 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Rev. Franklin B.,* (James P.," Sarauel,^ 
 
 Jamesi) 34. 44 
 
 Franklin," (Franklin B.,* James P..^ 
 Samuel,^ James^) 44 
 
 Franklin.s (Robert,* William E.,» Sam- 
 uel,- James') 39 
 
 Frank B.,^ (Samuel R.,* William £.,=> 
 Samuel,^' Jamcsi) 40 
 
 George Whitfield,* (oamuel.s Samuel,^ 
 James') 33 
 
 George Whitfield,'^ (Abram,* Samuel,' 
 Samuel,2 James') 42 
 
 George Sneed,^ (Hugh S.,* Samuel,' 
 Samuel,^ James') 43 
 
 Harvey,* ( ,' Hugh,^ James') 42 
 
 Henry,8 Samuel G.,^ Hervey,* Samuel,' 
 
 Samuel,^ James') 52 
 
 Herbert Lee,=^ (Robert,* William E.,' 
 
 Samuel," James') 39 
 
 Hervey,* (Samuel,' Samuel,^' James').. 40 
 Hervey,8 (Hervey,* Samuel,' Samuel- 
 James') 41 
 
 Hiram,* (Hugh,' Samuel," James') 36 
 
 Hiram.s (Hiram,* Hugh,' Samuel," 
 
 James') 47 
 
 Hiram," (Hiram," Hiram,* Hugh,' Sam- 
 uel," James') 47 
 
 Hugh," (James') 22 
 
 Hugh,' (Hugh," James') 28 
 
 Hugh,' (Samuel," James') 30 
 
 Hugh Sneed,* (Samuel,' Samuel," 
 
 James') 43 
 
 Hugh," (Hiram,* Hugh,' Samuel," 
 James') 36 
 
 Irvine," (Paul I.,* William E.,' Sam- 
 uel," James') 38 
 
 Isaac I.,"* (I'roctor,* Samuel,' Samuel," 
 James') 43 
 
 James' ^^ 
 
 James," (James') 29 
 
 James.' (Archibald," James') 23 
 
 James,' (Hugh," James') 28 
 
 James A.,' (James," James') 29 
 
 James P.,' (Samuel," James') 33 
 
 James M.,« (Archibald,' Archibald," 
 
 James') 25 
 
 James F.,* (William E.,» Samuel," 
 
 James') 39 
 
 PAGE 
 
 James C* (John,' Samuel," James') 31 
 
 James A. B.,* (Abram,' Samuel," James') 35 
 James D.," (Samuel R.,* Archibald,' 
 
 Archibald," James') 26 
 
 James," (Hiram,* Hugh,' Samuel," 
 
 James') 36 
 
 James C," (Robert,* William E.,' Sam- 
 uel," James') 39 
 
 James E.," (Samuel R.,* William E.,» 
 
 Samuel," James') 4© 
 
 James A. B.,s (J. A. B.,* Abram,' Sam- 
 uel," James') 44 
 
 James," (Hiram,* Hugh,' Samuel," 
 
 James') 47 
 
 James," (John W.." John,* John,' Archi- 
 bald," James') 23 
 
 James M.,« (William R.," Samuel R.,* 
 
 William E.,' Samuel." James') sj 
 
 Jennie,^ (Paul,* William E.,' Samuel," 
 
 James') 38 
 
 Josie," (Samuel G.," Hervey,* Samuel,' 
 
 Samuel," James') 52 
 
 John," (James') 22 
 
 John,' (Archibald," James') 23 
 
 John,* (John,' Archibald," James') 23 
 
 John,' (Hugh," James') 28 
 
 John,' (SamueJ/ James') 31 
 
 John L.,* CAram,' Samuel," James') ... 43 
 John W.," (Joiin,* John,' Archibald," 
 
 James') 23 
 
 John," (James C.,* John,' Samuel," 
 
 James') 35 
 
 John S.,' (John W.," John,* John,' Sam- 
 uel," James') 24 
 
 John,* (*tugh," Hiram,* Hugh,' Samuel," 
 
 James') 46 
 
 John," (Addie," Hiram,* Hugh,' Samuel," 
 James') 46 
 
 Keturah,* (William E.,» Samuel," James') 33 
 Keturah J.,* (Samuel,' S.imuel," James') 33 
 keturah," (P. E-wards,* William E.,' 
 Samuel," James') 37 
 
 Laura B.," (John L.,* Abram,' Samuel," 
 James') 43 
 
 Len," (Hiram,* Hugh,' Samuel," James') 47 
 
 Len," Hiram," Hiram,* Hugh," Samuel," 
 James') 47 
 
 Lilly," (Samuel R.,* William E.,» Sam- 
 uel," James') 40 
 
 Lilly," (John," James C.,* John,' Sam- 
 uel," James') 36 
 
Index — Kentucky McElroys 
 
 175 
 
 Litie,^ (Abram,* Samuel,^ Samuel,^ 
 
 James' ) 42 
 
 Lizzie,^ (Samuel G.,^ Hervey,* Samuel,* 
 
 Samuel, 2 Jamesi) 52 
 
 Lucy Ann,* (William E.,* Samuel, " 
 
 Jainesi) . 32, 39 
 
 Lucetta,^ (James C.,* John,* Samuel, " 
 
 James^) 31 
 
 Lucy,' (John,6 James C.,* John,* Sam- 
 
 uel,2 James^) 35 
 
 Margaret E.,^ (James M.,* Archibald,* 
 
 Archibald," James^) 25 
 
 Margaret,* Archibald,* Archibald, ^ 
 
 James^) 24 
 
 Margaret,* (Hugh,^ James^) 28 
 
 Margaret,* (James,^ Jamcs^) 29 
 
 Margaret,* (William I.,* James,^ James^) 30 
 
 Margaret,* (Samuel,- James') 30 
 
 Margaret,* (William E.,* Samuel,^ 
 
 James') 32 
 
 Margaret H.,b (Robert,* William E.,* 
 
 Samuel," James') 38 
 
 Martha,* (Archibald,* Archibald," James') 27 
 Martha E.,^ (James M.,* Archibald,* 
 
 Archibald,^ James') 25 
 
 Martha E.,° (Samuel R.,* Archibald,* 
 
 Archibald,^ James') ?....'.... 27 
 
 Martha,= (Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel,^ 
 
 James^) 36 
 
 Martha L. R.,^ (Hugh S.,* Samuel,* 
 
 Samuel,^ James^) 43 
 
 Mary,* (Hugh,^ James^) 28 
 
 Mary,* (James,^ James^) 29 
 
 Mary,* (Samuel,- James') *. 31 
 
 Mary M.,* (Abram,* Samuel," James'). . 34 
 Mary E.,'- (James M.,* Archibald,* Archi- 
 
 bald,^ James') 25 
 
 Mary Ann,^ (James C.,* John,* Samuel, - 
 
 James') 31 
 
 Mary E.,^ (Hiram,* Hugh,* Samuel, ^ 
 
 James^) 36 
 
 Mary L.,^ (Robert,* William E.,* Sam- 
 uel.^ James^) 38 
 
 Mary R.,^ (Samuel R.,* William E.,* 
 
 Samuel,- James') 40 
 
 Mary,^ (Proctor,* Sam.uel,* Samuel,^ 
 
 James^) 4 ? 
 
 Mary E.,^ (John L.,* Abram,* Samuel,^ 
 
 James^) 43 
 
 Mary L.,« (William R.,^ Samuel R.,* 
 
 William E.,* Samuel,^ James').... 52 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Mamie,5 (Franklin B.,* James P.,* Sam- 
 uel," James' ) 44 
 
 Mollie,^ (Hervey,* Samuel,* Samuel,^ 
 James^) 41 
 
 Mollie," (Hugh,5 Hiram,* Hugh,* Sam- 
 uel,^ James') 46 
 
 Mollie« (Addie.s Hiram,* Hugh,* Sam- 
 uel,^ James') 46 
 
 Maria,* (William E.,* Samuel,^ James'^) 32 
 
 Marion B.,* (Samuel,* Samuel," James') 33 
 
 Marion,^ (Keturah,* Samuel,* Samuel, ^ 
 James^) 42 
 
 Mattie E.,^ (Archibald.* Archibald,* 
 Archibald,^ James'^) 26 
 
 Mattie," (John,^ James C.,* John,* Sam- 
 uel,- James^) 35 
 
 Mattie,' (Addie,5 Hiram,* Hugh,* Sam- 
 uel,^ James^) 46 
 
 Mattie," (Samuel G.,* Hervey,* Sam- 
 uel,* Samuel,^ James') 52 
 
 Milford,* (James P.,* Samuel, ^ Jamesi) . 34 
 
 Minnie,^ (Abram,* Samuel,* Samuel,* 
 
 James^) 42 
 
 Nancy,* ( Samuel, ^ James') 31 
 
 Nanny,5 (Paul I.,* William E.,* Sam- 
 
 uel,2 James') 38 
 
 Nellie," (Charles,^ Franklin B.,* James 
 
 P-^) 44 
 
 Nellie R..« (Hiram.B Hiram,* Hugh,* 
 
 Samuel," James') 47 
 
 Nicholas," (John W.,^ John,* John,* 
 
 Archibald,^ James') 23 
 
 Paul L.* (William E.,* Samuel,* James^) 38 
 
 Paulina,* (William E.,* Samuel, ^ James^) 37 
 Proctor,5 (William I.,* William E.,* 
 
 Samuel,* James^) 38 
 
 Proctor W.,* (Samuel,* Samuel,* James^) 33 
 
 Robert A.,* (Hugh,* James') 28 
 
 Robert L.,* (William E.,* Samuel,* 
 Jamesi) 38 
 
 Robert,^ (Archibald,* Archibald,* Archi- 
 bald,* James') 26 
 
 Robert L.,^ (Samuel R.,* William E.,* 
 
 Samuel,* James') 40 
 
 Robert," (John W.,^ John.* John,* Archi- 
 bald,* James') 23 
 
 Robert A.,« (James C.,^ Robert,* Wil- 
 liam E.,* Samuel,* James^) 39 
 
 Robert O.," (William R.,^ Samuel R.,* 
 William E.,* Samuel,* James') 52 
 
176 
 
 fndex — Kentucky McElroys 
 
 PAGE 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Sallie A.,* (William I.,= Jamesr Janies^) 30 
 Sallie,« (Hugh.s Hiram,* Hugh,^ Sam- 
 uel,:: jamesi) 46 
 
 Samuel,= (Jamesi) 30 
 
 Samuel,^ (Hu^h,^ Jamesi) 2b 
 
 Samuel,^ (Samuel,= Jamesi) 33 
 
 Samuel R.,* (Archibald.' Archi'Dald,- 
 
 Jamesi) 26 
 
 Samuel,* (John,' Samuel,^ James^) 31 
 
 Samuel R.,* (William E.,' Samuel,= 
 
 Jamesi) 40 
 
 Samuel D.,* (Samuel,' Samuel,^ James^) 41 
 Samuel J.,« (James M.,* Archibald,' 
 
 Archibald,^ James^) 25 
 
 Samuel B.,^ (Robert,* William E.,' 
 
 Samuel,^ JamesO 39 
 
 Samuel A.,^ (William I.,* William E.,' 
 
 Samuel,2 james^) 39 
 
 Samuel G.,^ (Hervey,* Samuel,' Sam- 
 
 uel,= Jamesi) 52 
 
 Samuel,^ (Proctor,* Samuel,' Samuel,= 
 
 Jamesi) 4' 
 
 Samuel M..^ (Samuel R.,* Archibald,' 
 
 Archibald.^ James^) ~7 
 
 Sarah,' (Hugh,^ James^) 28 
 
 Sarah,' (Samuel,* James») 30 
 
 Sarah,s (Archibald,* Archibald,' Archi- 
 
 bald,2 Jamesi) 26 
 
 Sarah A..^ (Samuel R.,* Archibald,' 
 
 Archibald,- James^) 26 
 
 Sarah R.,^ (P. Edwards,* William E.,' 
 
 Samuel,= JamesO 37 
 
 Sarah F.,^ (S. Darius,* Samuel,' Sam- 
 
 uel,2 Jamesi) 41 
 
 Sue,=> (Hiram,* Hugh,' Samuel,* Jamesi)^ 36 
 Sue,' (Hugh,B Hiram,* Hugh,' Samuel,- 
 
 Jamesi) 45 
 
 Susan t.,* (Archibald,' Archibald,* 
 
 Jamesi) 24 
 
 Susan M.,s (Cecil,* William E.,' Sam- 
 uel,* Jamesi) 39 
 
 Susie M.,^ (Benjamin N.,* Abram,' 
 
 Samuel,* Jamcsi) 44 
 
 Sydney G.,* (James P.,' Samuel,* 
 James^) 
 
 Thomas A.,'^ (James M.,* Archibald,' 
 Archibald,* James^) 25 
 
 Thomas C.,^ (Hervey,* Samuel,' Sam- 
 uel,* Famesi) 41 
 
 Thomas S..* (W>lliam I..' James,* 
 James') 
 
 \^iola,« (Hii-am,5 Hiram,* Hugh,' Sam- 
 uel,* Jamesi) 47 
 
 Wallace W.,'^ (Keturah,* Samuel,' Sam- 
 uel,* Tamesi) ^2 
 
 Walter,^ (Charles.^ Franklin B.,* James 
 
 p 3) 44 
 
 Warner F.,^ (J. A. B.,* Abram,' Sam- 
 uel,* Jamesi) 45 
 
 William,' (Archibald,* Jamesi) 24 
 
 William,' (Hugh,* James^) 28 
 
 William I.,' (James,* Jamesi) 30 
 
 William E.,' (Samuel,* James^) 3i 
 
 William C* (Archibald,' Archibald,* 
 
 James^) ; ^^ 
 
 William I.,* (William I.,' James,- 
 
 James') 3° 
 
 William T.,* (William E.,' Samuel,* 
 
 Jamesi) . ■ • 39 
 
 William I.,^ (Archibald,* Archibald,' 
 
 Archibald,* James^) 26 
 
 William H.,« (Samuel R.,* Archibald,' 
 
 Archibald,* James^) 26 
 
 William R.,= (Robert,* William E.,' 
 
 Samuel,* James^) 38 
 
 William,^ (James F.,* William E.,' 
 
 Samuel,* Jamesi) 40 
 
 William R.,^ (Samuel R.,* William E.,' 
 
 Samuel,* Jamesi) 51 
 
 William," (Franklin B.,* James P.,' 
 
 Samuel,- James^) 44 
 
 William," (John.i^ James C.,* John,' 
 
 Samuel,* James^) 35 
 
 William B.,' (Hugh,!^ Hiram,* Hugh,' 
 
 Samuel,* James^) 46 
 
 William R.,» (William R.,^ Samuel R.,* 
 William E.,' Samuel,* James^) 52 
 
 OTHER FAMILY NAMES 
 
 Abell, U. W., 
 Abel, Samuel 
 i.\llen, Gen. — 
 
 Allen, Ida 
 
 Arnold, M. E. 
 
 34 
 
 30 
 
 Bailey, J 
 
 Bellotte, Rebecca 
 
 Blackwell, Hundlie. . 
 
 Blythe, Dr 
 
 Bowen, Mrs 
 
 Briggs, Miss Marion. 
 Brown, Daniel W... 
 
 46 
 45 
 29 
 39 
 45 
 
 46 
 26 
 35 
 29 
 . 24 
 
 • 41 
 
 • 40 
 
Index — Kentucky M c Elroys 
 
 177 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Brown, I annie 3- 
 
 Buckner, Mary 42 
 
 Campbell, Thomas W 30 
 
 Campbell, W. R • 30 
 
 Carter, Thomas 31 
 
 Cassiday, Eliza 32 
 
 Chandler, Richard 38 
 
 Chapman, Mary 39 
 
 Cleland, Rosa 35 
 
 Clements, Mary 36 
 
 Craig, Susan 25 
 
 Craig, Martha 24 
 
 Cleaver, Dr. W. W 29 
 
 Curry, Mary 37 
 
 Curtis, Rev. E. L 45 
 
 Cleland, Keturah 32 
 
 Cochrane, Andrew 35 
 
 Chapman, James 37 
 
 Daniels, J 46 
 
 Dickerson, Benjamin F 51 
 
 Dickerson, W. W 51 
 
 Edmonds, R. B 38 
 
 Ely, Anita 45 
 
 Ely, Rev. B. E. S., Sr 45 
 
 Ely, Rev. B. E. S., Jr 45 
 
 Ely, Charles W 45 
 
 Ely, George M 45 
 
 Ely, Laura 45 
 
 Ely, Rose Moore 45 
 
 Everhart, Martin 32 
 
 Field, Elizabeth 41 
 
 Findley, Cordelia F 35 
 
 Fogle, Mattie 35 
 
 Foreman, Calvin 44 
 
 Foreman, Eliza 34 
 
 Foreman, Paul F %a 
 
 Foreman, Laura Dean 44 
 
 Froman, Fannie 38 
 
 Froman, Mary 5° 
 
 Fuller, Rev. J 44 
 
 Garten, G. H 29 
 
 Garten, Lizzie 41 
 
 Gates, Sarah 49 
 
 Gibbs, Lydia 32 
 
 Gibbs, Margaret 5° 
 
 Gibbs, Margaret M 37 
 
 Gibbs, Thomas P 37 
 
 Gibbs, William E 37 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Gilkie, Barbara 30 
 
 Goodpasture, J. B 42 
 
 Gorin, Rev. M. C 50 
 
 Gorin, Alice 50 
 
 Goiin, Fred 50 
 
 Gorin, Grant 50 
 
 Gorin, Maud 50 
 
 Greathouse, Grafton 46 
 
 Greathouse, James 46 
 
 Greathouse, McElroy 4^ 
 
 Greathouse, Tillie 40 
 
 Greathouse, W. R 46 
 
 Greathouse, W. R. Jr 46 
 
 Greathouse, Waverly 46 
 
 Grundy, James A 35 
 
 Grundy, January 35 
 
 Grundy, John L 35 
 
 Grundy, Susan 35 
 
 Grundy, Felix B 29 
 
 Grundy, Jane B 33 
 
 Grundy, George W 35 
 
 Griffith, Dr. B. M 30 
 
 Handley, Alexander 31 
 
 Handley, James 3 1 
 
 Handley, Mary 31 
 
 Harrison, Lydia 43 
 
 Harty, P. C 38 
 
 Harris, Louisa 46 
 
 Higginson, Cyrus 47 
 
 Higginson, Green 47 
 
 Higginson, Birdie 47 
 
 Higginson, Ord 47 
 
 Higginson, Mattie 47 
 
 Higginson, Annie 47 
 
 Higginson, Vara 47 
 
 Higginson, Ruth 47 
 
 Hudnall, J. R 50 
 
 Hudnall, Annie Maria 50 
 
 Hughes, Elizabeth 38 
 
 Hughes, Lizzie 32 
 
 Howell, Joseph 35 
 
 Hubbard, Dr 3Z 
 
 Irvine, Rev. John 22 
 
 Irvine, Esther 28 
 
 Irvine, Margaret 28 
 
 Irvine, Mary 28 
 
 Irvine, Nancy 21 
 
 Kelly, May Si 
 
 Kimball, Marion Si 
 
 Kirk, Mary 32 
 
178 
 
 Index — Kentucky M c Elroys 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Knott, Joseph P 32 
 
 Knott, William T 48, 158 
 
 Knott, Keturah 49 
 
 Knott, Samuel C 49 
 
 Knott, Minnie 36 
 
 Knott, J. Proctor 50 
 
 Knott, Edwards W 50 
 
 Knott, Annie M 50 
 
 Knott, Joanna 50 
 
 Knott, Joseph M 48 
 
 Knott, William Walter 48 
 
 Knott, William S 49 
 
 Knott, J. Proctor, Jr 49 
 
 Knott, Samuel Proctor 49 
 
 Knott, Annie Maria 50 
 
 Knott, Kate Grundy 49 
 
 Knott, Jennie Marion 49 
 
 Knott, Elizabeth 49 
 
 Knott, Joseph 49 
 
 Knott, Benjamin 49 
 
 Knott, Edwards 49 
 
 Knott, Minnie 49 
 
 Knott, Annie 49 
 
 Knott, Samuel 49 
 
 Ligon, Charles D. W 27 
 
 Ligon, Harriet S 27 
 
 Lindo, S. E 45 
 
 Logan, Annie 38 
 
 Lyle, Robert 35 
 
 McCarthy, Dr 39 
 
 Macauley, Mary 47 
 
 McColgan, William 43 
 
 McCoy, Mattie 50 
 
 McCully, Stephen 24 
 
 McCune, Sarah 21 
 
 McCurdy, A. H. P 38 
 
 McReynolds, Willis 30 
 
 Mason, Basil 31 
 
 Mason, Burgess Burr 33 
 
 Mason, William Basil 35 
 
 Mason, William B 35 
 
 Mason, Alexander H 35 
 
 Mason, Mary H 35 
 
 Mayes, A. Scott 37 
 
 Mayes, Keturah 37 
 
 Mayes, Eusebias 37 
 
 Mayes, William 37 
 
 Miller, Edward 38 
 
 Miller, Mary L 39 
 
 Montgomery, E 42 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Montgomery, Margaret 42 
 
 Moore, Minnie 44 
 
 Moore, Rev. Samuel F 45 
 
 Muldrow, Capt. John 28 
 
 Muldrow, Andrew 28 
 
 Muldrow, Hugh 28 
 
 Muldrow, Esther 29 
 
 Muldrow, James 29 
 
 Muldrow, Jane 29 
 
 Muldrow, William 29 
 
 Muldrow, John 29 
 
 Muldrow, Samuel 29 
 
 Muldrow, Mary 29 
 
 Muldrow, John A 44 
 
 Muldrow, Annie 44 
 
 Muldrow, Rose 44 
 
 Muldrow, Gertrude 44 
 
 Muldrow, Roda 44 
 
 Nesbitt, Robert J 49 
 
 Nesbitt, James 49 
 
 Nesbitt, Robert 49 
 
 Pierce, Lula 49 
 
 Priest, T. F 44 
 
 Priest, Willena 44 
 
 Porter, Ann 34 
 
 Radford, William 35 
 
 Raney, J. Cleland 32 
 
 Rawling, Wells 49 
 
 Rawling, William 49 
 
 Rawling, Proctor 40 
 
 Rawling, Minnie 49 
 
 Rawling, Mattie 49 
 
 Rawling, Annie 49 
 
 Ray, Samuel F 38, 39 
 
 Ray, Franklin 36 
 
 Ray, William E 38 
 
 Ray, Elizabeth 38 
 
 Ray, Priscilla 38 
 
 Ray, Anna E 38 
 
 Ray, Lucy 38 
 
 Ray, McElroy 39 
 
 Ray, Maggie 39 
 
 Ray, Paul F 39 
 
 Ray, I^e D 39 
 
 Ray, Charles F 39 
 
 Reed, Belle 33 
 
 Reed, Mary Belle 40 
 
 Rhodes, Mary 44 
 
 Ridout, William, M. D 2? 
 
Index — Big Spring M c Elro ys. 
 
 179 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Ridout, Harriet S 27 
 
 Ridout, John, M. D 27 
 
 Ridout, Prudence G 27 
 
 Robbins, George 31 
 
 Rose, Uriah M 51 
 
 Rose, John M 51 
 
 Rose, William G 51 
 
 Rose, Wallace D 51 
 
 Rose, George B 51 
 
 Rorie, Fanny 51 
 
 Ro'e, Ellen 51 
 
 Rose, Emma 51 
 
 Rose, Charles C 51 
 
 Rose, Lewis Henry 51 
 
 Rose, Jessie Alice 51 
 
 Rowntree, Lillie 39 
 
 Rubel, Mattie 48 
 
 Senour, Hiram 46 
 
 Senour, Belle 46 
 
 Senour, Dish 46 
 
 Senour, Fanny 46 
 
 Senour, James 46 
 
 Shepard, James B 43 
 
 Simpson, Harriet 25 
 
 Simpson, James 29 
 
 Simpson, John 28 
 
 Simpson, Margaret 29 
 
 Simpson, Jane 29 
 
 Simpson, Esther 29 
 
 Simpson, William 40 
 
 Skiles, Lucy Ann 31 
 
 Skiles, Eliza 41 
 
 Skiles, Ellen 40 
 
 Spalding, Benedict 33 
 
 Steele, William 26 
 
 Steele, Robert Aaron 26 
 
 Steele, Sarah Jane 26 
 
 Steele. Martha Agnes 26 
 
 Tappan, Harry 40 
 
 Tate, Mary Ann 33 
 
 Tate, Sarah 42 
 
 Thomas, William 44 
 
 Turner, George 45 
 
 Turner, Francis 45 
 
 Twombly, Israel 34 
 
 Twombly, Mary E 44 
 
 Wakefield, Joseph W 39 
 
 Watts, Carrie 47 
 
 Webb, Clayton 25 
 
 Webb, William 25 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Webb, Catharine 25 
 
 Webb, James, M. D 25 
 
 Webb, Annie 25 
 
 Webb, Charles Archibald, M. D 25 
 
 Webb, Robert 25 
 
 Webb, Florence 25 
 
 Webb, Margaret 25 
 
 Webb, Lou 25 
 
 Webb, Samuel R 25 
 
 West, John 44 
 
 West, Eva 44 
 
 Wilkes, Thomas, Sr 27 
 
 Wilkes, Thomas M., Jr 27 
 
 Wilson, James 30 
 
 Wilson, George 31 
 
 Wilson, N 30 
 
 BIG SPRING McELROYS 85 
 
 INDEX TO HEADS OF FAMILIES 
 
 NAME OF Mcelroy 
 
 Abram* . 56 
 
 Addison H.,^ (John M'*) 79 
 
 Alexander* 65 
 
 Andrew,^ (Hugh,- Hugh^) 54 
 
 Charles Murray," (William M.,^ James 
 
 E.«) 59 
 
 Charles Sumner,^ (Hugh,^ Ebenezer,*) . . 71 
 
 David W.= 80, 54 
 
 Ebene7er E.,* (Hugh.^ John,") 68 
 
 Ebenezer E.," (Thomas G.,^ Ebenczer 
 E.«) 73 
 
 Hughi 53 
 
 Hugh- 5+ 
 
 Hugh,3 (Johnf) 64 
 
 Hugh,* (Andrew,^ Hugh^) 54 
 
 Hugh,5 (Ebenezer E..* Hugh^) 71 
 
 Hugh Eddie,« (Hugh^) 7^ 
 
 Hugh Nevin,« (Thomas G.^) 77 
 
 John,- (Hughi) 55 
 
 John,3 (Robert^) 54 
 
 John,3 (John2) 55 
 
 John,* (John,3 Robert^) 54 
 
 John,* (Robert," Robert^) 54 
 
 John Andrew,^ (Hugh*) 55 
 
 John,^ (Ebenezer*) 77 
 
i8o 
 
 Index— -Rich Hill McElroys 
 
 PAGE 
 
 John M.,5 (Ebenezer E.,* Hugh3) 77 
 
 James* (John.a Robert^) 54 
 
 James Ervin,* (John' John-) 56 
 
 James ?:rvin,5 (James E.*) 57 
 
 James Kerr,« (Hugh^) 7i 
 
 James E.," (Thomas G.,^ Ebenezer E.*) 75 
 John Mercer,8 (Thomas G.,^ Ebenezer 
 
 E.*) 76 
 
 Joseph.s (John-) 55. 62 
 
 Joseph," (John.s John") 59 
 
 Joseph K.,s (Hugh,* Andrew^) 55 
 
 Mason K.,« (Robert D.,^ Joseph*) 61 
 
 Robert^ 54 
 
 Robert* 54 
 
 Robert Duncan,^ (Joseph*) 61 
 
 Robert X.,» (Thomas G.^) 74 
 
 Richard,^ (John,* Andrew") 54 
 
 Samuel,'^ (John,* Andrew'') 54 
 
 Thomas,* (Jonn,» Robert^) 54 
 
 Thomas Gfcormley,^ (Ebenezer E.*) 72 
 
 Thomas Clifford/ (Ebenezer E.," 
 Thomas G.^) 74 
 
 William Montgomery ,s (James E.*) 58, 157 
 
 William J.,*^ (James E.^) 57 
 
 William 0.,8 (Hugh,^ Ebenezer E.*) 71 
 
 01 HER FAMILY NAMES 
 Albee, E. A 
 
 57 
 
 Brown, D. S 57 
 
 Beard, Everett R 79 
 
 Cummin, Mrs. Levinia 67 
 
 Curran, James B 7© 
 
 Curran, John M 7i 
 
 Dickson, Rev William, D. D 81, 54 
 
 Duncan, Oscar 76 
 
 Griffith, Charles 68 
 
 Hart, William 66 
 
 Hart, Robert S 67 
 
 Hart, Hugh, M. D 67 
 
 Kerr, Robert 72 
 
 Kerr, James B 72 
 
 Kerr, T. Chalmers 72 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Lee, Henry 1 6i 
 
 Moir, James 79 
 
 Moir, Joseph M 61 
 
 Moir, Rev. William Wilmerding 79 
 
 Moir, Arthur D 62 
 
 Oxer. John 62 
 
 Parrett, Marcus A 72 
 
 Parrett, Lewis W 72 
 
 Rider, Lorenzo 56 
 
 Rider, William S 56 
 
 Robinson, Robert 66 
 
 Rodgers, Henry Harrison 66 
 
 Rodgers, William 67 
 
 Templeton, William 7i 
 
 Templeton, Dr. K. M 71 
 
 Vanatta, Joseph ; 71 
 
 Van Epps, C. V 57 
 
 Winstead, Jacob P 7' 
 
 Walker, John 62 
 
 Walker, James 62 
 
 RICH HILL McELROYS 85 
 
 Alexander,^ (James^) 84 
 
 Alexander,^ (John,- James') 87 
 
 Alexander,* (James,* John^) 86 
 
 Alexander,=^ (William,* Alexander,^ 
 
 John=) 88 
 
 .vlcxander M.,* (James," Alexander^) . . . 94 
 
 Alexander M.,-"^ (James,* Alexander")... 88 
 
 Ebenezer," (John,- James') 90 
 
 Ebenezer B.,* (James," John=) 95 
 
 Edward,^ (James,* Alexander," John^) . . 88 
 
 Frank,!^ (William,* Alexander") 88 
 
 James' 83 
 
 James," (James') 95 
 
 James." (John=) §5 
 
 James," (James=^) 95 
 
 James," (Alexander-) 93 
 
 James,* (James," John=) 86 
 
 James,* (John," John^) 9° 
 
 James,* (Alexander," John^) 87 
 
Index — Albany McElroys 
 
 i8i 
 
 PAGE 
 
 John,2 Games') 84 
 
 Jolin,8 (John2) 89 
 
 John,s James2) 95 
 
 John,* (James.s John^) 86 
 
 John,* (Alexander,* John^) 87 
 
 John,* (John,* John^) 89 
 
 Joseph,* (James,* James^) 95 
 
 Joseph,* (Alexander,* John^) 88 
 
 Smith E.,* (James,* John*) 86 
 
 Thomas,* (Ebenezer,* John^) 91 
 
 William,* (Alexander,* John^) 88 
 
 William Lincoln,^ (James,* John,* John*) 92 
 
 OTHER FAMILY NAMES 
 Aiken, John A 94 
 
 Brady, Samuel 9-^ 
 
 Buchanan, James 9 1 
 
 Buchanan, Smith 91 
 
 Cassil, Alexander 90 
 
 Cassil, Austin A 87 
 
 Cannon, James 84 
 
 Christie, John 86 
 
 Cotton, Dr. A. M 93 
 
 Cotton, Christian M 93 
 
 Cotton, James 93 
 
 Cotton, L. S 93 
 
 Cotton, Robert H 93 
 
 Critchfield, C. E 90 
 
 Critchfield, Elmer 89 
 
 Critchfield, Fremont J 89 
 
 Critchfield, George 90 
 
 Critchfield, John M 89 
 
 Critchfield, Meshach 89 
 
 Critchfield, Roland 90 
 
 Critchfield, Wilson 90 
 
 Cunningham, Cyrus 95 
 
 Drake, Abram 85 
 
 Drake, Alexander 85 
 
 Drake, George 84 
 
 Dawson, C^orge 87 
 
 Dawson, Joseph 86 
 
 Dodds, William 86 
 
 Ellis, Lyman 91 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Gladden, James 9S 
 
 Gladden, John Riddell 95 
 
 Gladden, Madison 95 
 
 Gladden, William 95 
 
 Graham, Alexander 91 
 
 Graham, Jamas 91 
 
 Graham, James Burleigh 91 
 
 Graham, John 91 
 
 Kithcart, Joseph B 88 
 
 Lane, Thomas 86 
 
 Langford, Royal D 89 
 
 McClay, David 86 
 
 McDowell, Mrs. Nancy J 93 
 
 McGugin, David 91 
 
 McKeever, William 86 
 
 McKirahan, A. Roy 94 
 
 McKirahan, Joseph 94 
 
 Magers, Hiram 90 
 
 Osborne, Jacob 86 
 
 Peeler, Elias 9o 
 
 Rea, Dr. Alexander M 93 
 
 Rea, Joseph V 93 
 
 Rea, William 9'} 
 
 Russell, James 95 
 
 Smith, John S4 
 
 Vincent, Alexander, Sr 90 
 
 Vincent, Alexander, Jr 9° 
 
 Vincent, Jay 9" 
 
 Van Vranken, Mrs 93 
 
 Wells, Campbell 88 
 
 Williams, Bazil 86 
 
 Wilson, Major S. L 88 
 
 ALBANY Mcelroys 99 
 
 Alexander,* (Thomas^) loi 
 
 Alexander,* (Thomas,* Alexander*) 105 
 
 Andrew,* (David,* David^) 1 1 1 
 
 Andrew,* (Francis,* David*) 112 
 
 Barney,* (David*) m 
 
 Charles A.,* (James K.») 103 
 
I82 
 
 Index — Albany M c Elroys 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Crocket,* (Frances^) 112, 155 
 
 David' 99 
 
 David,^ (David') 99 
 
 David,* (Francis') 112 
 
 Francis,' (David^) 112 
 
 Francis,* (Francis') 112 
 
 Frank,^ (Crocket*) 114 
 
 Hiram,* (David*) iii 
 
 Irving,^ (Samuel,* Thomas') 307 
 
 Jacob,* (Francis') 107 
 
 Jacob,* (Francis') 112 
 
 James,* (David') 99 
 
 James,' (Samuel*) 100 
 
 James,' (James,* David') 100 
 
 James K.,' (John,* Thomas') 103 
 
 James,' (Alexander,* Thomas') 105 
 
 James,' (David*) 1 1 1 
 
 James.* (James K.') 103 
 
 James,* (James,' Alexander*) 105 
 
 James,^ (John,* John,' John,* John') ... 108 
 
 John,* (John,' John,* John') 108 
 
 John,* (James K.') ... 103 
 
 John,' (uavid*) iii 
 
 John,^ (John,* John,' John,* John') .... 108 
 
 John E.," (William,^ John*) no 
 
 Milo Gilbert,^ (John,* James K.') 107 
 
 Richard,^ (John*) 108 
 
 Robert,' (James,* David') 102 
 
 Robert,* (Robert') 102 
 
 Robert,* (Francis') 112 
 
 Robert," (Irving'^) 108 
 
 Samuel,* (David') 100 
 
 Samuel,* (Thomas') 105 
 
 Samuel Haring,^ (Samuel*) 106 
 
 Samuel,^ (John,* John,' John,* John'). 108 
 
 Thomas,* (Samuel*) 100 
 
 Thomas,' (Alexander*) 104 
 
 Thomas,* (James K.') 103 
 
 Thomas Irvin,* (Thomas') 105 
 
 Wesley,* (Francis') 112 
 
 William,' (Alexander,* Thomas') 104 
 
 William,* (James K.') 103 
 
 William,'* (John,* John,' John,* John'). 109 
 
 PAGE 
 
 William H.,« (William^) 109, 159 
 
 Vvilliam," (John E.,* William^) no 
 
 OTHER FAMILY NAMES 
 
 Allen, Dr. Stuart 103 
 
 Beck, Mrs. Flora 114 
 
 Banker, Albert 106 
 
 Beatty, Andrew 109 
 
 Craig, , M. D 102 
 
 Campbell, 100 
 
 Chapin, Ogden N 103 
 
 Dorr, John, Attorney 103 
 
 Frazier, Alexander 107 
 
 Gates, Rev. Cornelius 100 
 
 Gangweyer, W. A., Attorney 106 
 
 Goodrich, Abram 104 
 
 Goodrich, Alexander M 104 
 
 Hyde, John 102 
 
 Hill, George Rowland 107 
 
 Jackson, John 100 
 
 Jackson, Charles H no 
 
 Kennedy, Rev. G. N 114 
 
 Ligget, A. M 109 
 
 Lamon, Mrs. Mary 113 
 
 McBurney, Joseph 102 
 
 Mcllvaine, Rev. Glendenning 102 
 
 McNaughton, Peter loa 
 
 Martin, Dr. David loa 
 
 North, Henry in 
 
 Piatt, Chauncey A 105 
 
 Piatt, James 105 
 
 Piatt, John B 105 
 
 Piatt, William A 105 
 
 Piatt, William L 105 
 
 Polly, Daniel 105 
 
 Recor, Mrs. Etta 114 
 
 Salisbury, Stephen 104. 
 
Index — Miscellane ous M c Elr o y s 
 
 183 
 
 Scott, James P 105 
 
 Shaw, Samuel M 104 
 
 Stevenson, James Thomas loj 
 
 Stevenson, Samuel 103 
 
 Stevenson, William 103 
 
 Taylor, Rev. 103 
 
 Tate, William 109 
 
 Van Vorhees, George S 105 
 
 Webster, Rev. Chauncey 102 
 
 LANCASTER COUNTY McELROYS 115 
 
 DELAWARE STATE McELROYS.. 121 
 
 BRADDOCK McELROYS 122 
 
 LIGONIER McELROYS 123 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF ADAM MC- 
 ELROY 127 
 
 MEADEVILLE McELROYS 131 
 
 VIRGINIA McELROYS 133 
 
 PAGE 
 
 MONROEVILLE McELROYS 135 
 
 BEAVER COUNTY (PA.) Mc- 
 ELROYS 137 
 
 ROBERT McELROY, OF PHILA- 
 DELPHIA 137 
 
 PITTSBURGH McELROYS 141 
 
 Hon. JOHN SCOTT, OF PHILA- 
 DELPHIA 141 
 
 SLIGO McELROYS 14a 
 
 DELAWARE (OHIO) McELROYS.. 147 
 
 JOHN McELROY, OF WASHING- 
 TON CITY 148 
 
 NORTH CAROLINA McELROYS.. 151 
 
 GEORGE McELROY, A PATRI- 
 ARCH 151 
 
 NEW BRUNSWICK McELROYS. ... 153 
 
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