Elliott - Joab - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Joab Elliott died at 3 o’clock this afternoon, aged 84 years. Further notice will appear tomorrow.

Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Friday 3 April 1891

Joab Elliott died at his home south of the city at 3:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon at the advanced age of 84 years. He was one of the earliest of Indiana’s sons, born on the soil of the Territory Nov. 18, 1807, at a log cabin on Green Fork, near the site of the city of Richmond, where his parents had stopped to spend the night on their 700 mile journey from Randolph County, North Carolina, to their new home in the Twelve Mile Prairie. He was attended in his infancy by an Indian woman of the Shawnee tribe. During the troubles of 1811-13 when the Indians arose under Tecumseh, the family removed to a more thickly settled part of the state, Warren County, from where they then went to the Reservation south of Terre Haute and settled among John Green’s band of friendly Indians. In 1821 after his father’s death, Joab removed to Ohio where he remained seven years, coming back to Indiana in1828 and entered 80 acres of land in Ripley Township. The following year he was married to Susan Mann, a sister of the late Mrs. Edmund Nutt and Mrs. Meredith Rountree. The couple was childless but eight orphan children at different times found homes in their house and in Mrs. Elliott they found a kind and loving mother. Mrs. Jane Gilliland, of Portland, Oregon, and Mrs. A. B. Cunningham, of this city, are among those who revere the memory of this woman, who died April 17, 1876. They removed to Crawfordsville in 1857 where Joab engaged in the grocery business and from which he retired in 1872. They were both members of the Christian Church. July 6, 1887, he was married to Jane Bunnell, of Frankfort, who survives him. The funeral occurred this afternoon at two o’clock conducted by J. C. Barnhill. Interment was at Odd Fellows Cemetery.

Source: Weekly Argus News 4 April 1891 p2