 | Born: 28 Oct 1792, New Paltz, Ulster Co., NY 2,3 |
| Married: 26 Aug 1814, Amesville, Ohio 79 |
| Died: 8 Dec 1860, Hansboro, Harrison Co., MS 3 |
General Notes:
Elisha's name is sometimes found spelled "Elijah".
In the "History of Athens County, Ohio," by Charles Walker, 1869, p. 376, it states that "Elijah Latimer & Obediah Clark came to Ames Township in 1806 or 1807." At this time, it is not known from what part of the country he came but several references are made to the fact he may have resided in New York or Connecticut. A link to his parents is still being researched. While in Athens County, he was well known for being an excellent hunter. In 1814, Capt.Thomas S. Lovell says, "Elijah Latimer who lived near us, was a famous hunter. I sold him thirty aces of land adjoining my farm, and took pay in hunting. He would furnish venison for my family, and also fight off the wolves whever they invaded my sheep flock." This was in Ames Township, in Athens County Ohio on Sharp's Fork of Federal Creek.
It was here in Ames Township that Elisha met and married Jane Hunter Ewing and where several of their children were born. The family moved from Ohio to Perry County, Indiana in May 1818 with Jane's parents, George Ewing and Rachel Harris and other members of the Ewing family. There are many letters from George Ewing to family during this time. He says, on June 4, 1818, "We have made an entry of 748 acres of excellent land at the mouth of Millstone Creek, fronting on the Ohio River. There are on the premises about 50 acres under cultivation, a hewn log house, several cabins, a number of bearing fruit treees, and a good millseat. The mouth of millstone is 128 miles by water below the falls of Ohio, and 651 below Marietta. ...We are comfortably accomodated, each family in a separate cabin; Latimer and I a mile apart, and George between us; all on the River bank. About 6 miles below our own lands we have and shall plant about 10 or 12 acres of corn. We are plentifully supplied with excellent fish by only throwing out our line in the evening and taking it up in the morning...Troy is our County town and nearest post office."
Land records indicate that Elisha owned land near Rome in 1826. He is listed in the 1820 and 1830 census as residing in Perry Co. In a letter written by Jane Hunter Ewing Latimer to her brother in 1827, she says "Mr. Latimer is now going to Rome to take a prisoner to jail. I expect him home tonight." She also says "we have a handsome farm on the bank of the river (Ohio) with about 25 acres under improvement but the chance of schooling our children here is so bad that Mr. Latimer says he will rent out this place and move to Troy or Rome until he can school the last line. Perry County records indicate that Elisha Latimer was one of the first residents of Rome, Indiana and that he opened a grocery store there in 1833.
In the 1790 census of New Paltz Town, New York, the family of Elisha Latimon is listed. This was apparently a translation error from the longhand enumerations of the census to the printed form now available.
There is also speculation that the name Latimer was sometimes spelled Lattimore. The NYC census of 1780 finds two Elisha Lattimore's (one son) living in that area. Jane Hunter and Elisha are buried in Biloxi, MS, in a cemetary close to the lighthouse.
Elisha is listed as husband of Jane Hunter Ewing on DAR applications #373965 and #112009.
Elisha Latimer appears on the 1816 Athens Co. OH Tax List.
In the DAR Application for Stephanie Ann Doss, Elisha Latimer's birth year is listed as 1783. In the James Jermyn Family Bible it is listed as 28 Oct. 1792. More reliability is given to the Jermyn Family Bible.
Research Notes:
ULSTER, a county in the E. S. E. part of New York, has an area of about 1150 square miles. It is bounded on the E. by the Hudson river, and is drained by Rondout, Walkill, Neversink, and Shawangunk rivers, and by Esopus creek, which supply motive-power. The surface is generally uneven and mountainous, the Catskill and Shawangunk ridges traversing the county.
Ulster County, New York, in 1683, by the Colonial Governor, Lovelace, was organized by Charter dated 1st November, "to contain the towns of Kingston, Hurley, Marbletown, Foxhall, and the New Paltz, with all villages, neighborhoods, and Christian inhabitants, from the Murderer's Creek near the Highlands to the Sawyer's Creek."
Orange County, formed also in 1683, comprises all the region West of Hudson River and South of Murderer's Creek. Both counties were then the wilderness frontier, and without any attempt at settled boundaries, till 1774, and the Colonial Act "To run the boundary of Ulster and Orange County, from the East side of the Shawangunk Mountains to the Delaware River." Ulster County included the country generally between he Hudson and Delaware Rivers, In 1797, part of Delaware County; 1800, part of Green County; 1809, part of Sullivan County were annexed; and in 1798, part of Ulster County was annexed to Orange County.
By 1809 the two counties attained their present bounds.
It is possible that Elisha was born in 1792 instead of 1783. -- Vernice Knapp notes.
Marriage Information:
Elisha married Jane Hunter EWING, daughter of George EWING Sr. and Rachel HARRIS, on 26 Aug 1814 in Amesville, Ohio 79. (Jane Hunter EWING was born on 26 Apr 1792 in Wheeling, Virginia (Now West Virginia) and died on 5 Apr 1877 in Hansboro, Harrison Co., MS 3.)
Marriage Notes:
2 _STAT Father:Natural, Mother:Natural
2 _PREF
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