938. Dr. Parmenas Daniel D. Elam
Engineer for L&N Railroad. Went back to Corbin, KY and raised another family.
From GenForum post by Deborah Hankins ([email protected]) on 13 Oct 1999:
Looking for the parents of Martha Elam. She married Wilson Hedrick in 1876 in Laurel County,
Kentucky. They have several children together: Columbus, Steve, Harve, Thurman, Magaret, Tennie
Jane, Mary and Thelma. Any info will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!
"History of Sumter County, Georgia" (book found in the Library at Americus, GA)
The T. W. Ansley Family
One of several Ansley families in Americus and Sumter County was established in Americus in the 1870's by Thomas Wesley Ansley (5 Feb. 1815 - 29 Dec. 1898), formerly of Cuthbert. A native of Abbeville District, S.C., he was a son of Thomas and Mary Baty (McKinley) Ansley.
Accompanying Mr. Ansley when he moved to Americus were his third wife, the former Mary Jane Elam (16 Jan. 1833 - 27 Nov. 1893), and their children. Mrs. Ansley, a native of Whitehall, Georgia, was a daughter of Hodijah Elam (27 Dec. 1804 - 27 April 1883), and Mary (Davenport) Elam, the former of whom had moved to Americus prior to the Civil War.
When the Thomas Wesley Ansley family moved to Americus, they first lived in the former French residence on the site of the present Citizens Bank Building. Later they moved to a commodious house which occupied one-quarter of the block at the northeast corner of Jackson and Church
streets.Thomas W. and Mary (Elam) Ansley were the parents of:
1. Annie Louise Ansley (see the W. D. Bailey Family sketch),
2. Mary Virginia Ansley (1857-1945), who married H.W..Trippett of Texas.
3. Oscar Elam Ansley (14 Nov.1862 - 27 Jan. 1946), who married (1) Alice Noble and (2) Annie Scales, and lived elsewhere.
4. Edgar Davenport Ansley (14 Nov. 1862 - 19 Jan.1911), twin of foregoing. He and his wife, nee Cora Prince, were the parents of, among others, Prince, Mary Lou, and Ed. Ansley.
5. Charles Lee Ansley (1860- Feb. 1950), who married May Speer. Their children were Eustace, Laura (Mrs. C.. M. Hale) and Charles Speer Ansley.Mr. Ansley was active in the city's business, civic and religious life, and he was for nearly half a century a trustee of the Americus (later Carnegie) Library Association. (signed, William B. Williford.)