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- Source:
Elmore Ancestry by J. Pitts Elmore 1988
Excerpt:
ISAAC ELMORE Probably son of Stephen Elmore I and younger brother of Mathias Elmore II.
Birth date unknown probably in 1760's.
Isaac Elmore who came to Indiana apparently participated in these land transactions:
1788 Newberry County, South Carolina. Isaac Elmore purchased approximately 100 acres, near the junction of Big Creek and "Saludy" River, from Philemon V/aters for forty pounds sterling. Transaction witnessed by Thomas W, Waters.
1790 census listings indicated the purchased land adjoined that on which Thomas Waters resided.
1801 Newberry County, South Carolina. Isaac Elmore sold the same land back to Philemon Waters for two hundred dollars. Deed referred to "Philemon Waters, son of Thomas".
1807 Warren County, Ohio. Isaac Elmore bought 153 acres on "Seasors" Creek from Reason Reagan.
1808 Warren County, Ohio. Isaac Elmore bought another 53 acres from Reason Reagan, bringing Isaac's total ownership to 204.
1817 Warren County, Ohio. In December, Isaac Elmore and wife Mary sold 204 acres on "Caesar's" Creek to Daniel Stump.
1818 Daviess County, Indiana. In October, Isaac Elmore homesteaded 160 acres, described as SW, Section 4, Township 5, Range 6, located just north of present-day (1987) town of Elnora and about 25 miles northeast of Vincennes.
No records of Isaac's birth and marriage dates have been found. Being old enough to buy land for himself in 1788 indicates he was probably born in 1760's, as a son of Stephen Elmore I and Sarah (Allen?).
From limited information discovered on his children, it seems likely he did not marry until after the I788 land purchase possibly in 1790's and possibly after he had constructed a cabin on the purchased land.
Caesar's Creek Monthly Meeting was established in 1807, about 6 miles northeast of Waynesville, Ohio; about 20 miles southeast of Dayton; probably in or near the present (1987) Caesar's Creek State Park. On May 30, 1817, Isaac Elmore and wife Mary were recorded as received there, from Lost Creek, Tennessee, with these children: Reason Stephen Thomas Rosanna Abigail Isaac Jr.
Isaac and family transferred out of Caesar's Creek Monthly Meeting June 21, 1821, nearly three years after Isaac had homesteaded in Indiana. He may have left the family in Ohio until he had cleared some of the Indiana land and built a cabin to shelter the family. On September 7, 1822 they were received into Blue River Monthly Meeting, three miles northeast of Salem, Washington County, Indiana and about 50 miles from Isaac's homestead. Blue River receiving record named all children recorded in Ohio plus another girl Rhoda. If Isaac married in early or middle 1790's, as seems likely, he could have had other children, grown up and "on their own" by 1817, in addition to the six listed in his home. One older son was probably Eleazar Elmore, who administered Isaac's estate after Isaac died in 1830, in Daviess County.
Records have been found indicating Eleazar was born October 10, 1798 in South Carolina and died December 20, 1871 in Indiana. His wife was Rachel Elliott. Another (unconfirmed) possible older son was Providence Elmore, born 1797 in South Carolina, died 1842 in Indiana, married to Lydia Saulsbury.
Isaac's 1818 land entry occurred less than two years after Indiana entered the Union as the 19th state, on December 11, 1816. First French settlement in the Vincennes area had been in 1727• The French claim was ceded to Great Britain in I763 and the Vincennes area became part of the United States by Treaty of Paris in 1783. Indiana Territory was organized in 1800. During the 1820's, Elmores in Daviess County seem to have drifted away from Quaker activities. Young people were marrying non-Quakers. The long distance to Blue River probably discouraged Monthly Meeting participation.Some break-ups of Quakers into "splinter" groups, such as the Hicksites and the Wilburites, had occurred. In 1830, Thomas and Abigail Elmore (son and daughter of Isaac) were disowned for joining the Hicksites. On August 16, 1830, in Daviess County, Eleazar Elmore was appointed administrator of Isaac Elmore's estate. A "History of Daviess County", published 1886, confirmed the' 1818 homesteading by Isaac and further stated that Stephen, Eleazar, Thomas, Reason and Isaac Elmore (presumably the son, Isaac Jr.) arrived from Tennessee about 1824. These were apparently all sons of Isaac who homesteaded*
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Abt 1760 - 1830 (70 years)
