Elijah Betts McClanahan
- Name
- Elijah Betts McClanahan
- Alternate Names
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Elijah McClanahan
Elisha McClanahan
E. B. McClanahan
E. B. M. Clanahan - Race
- White
- Record(s) Seen In
- Will Book 1-1: 1839-1885
- Inventory, Appraisements, and Sales Book 1
- Inventory, Appraisements, and Sales Book 3
- Birth Register - 1853-1885 - pp. 1-66
- Death Register - 1853-1881
- Page and Line Number
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IAS1: PP. 256
IAS3: PP. 149, 230, 295
BR: PP. 8 L. 40 - DR: PP. 6, L. 35, PP. 18, L. 39
- Date(s) Seen in Records
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Will Book 1: December 1857
BR: January 1855 - DR: January 1855; October 1860
- People Enslaved
- Judah
- Austin
- Betsy
- Bob
- Unrecorded Named Individual
- George
- Milly
- Nathan
- Unrecorded Named Woman
- Venus
- Caesar
- May
- Martha
- Unrecorded Named Boy
- Unrecorded Named Boy
- Additional Information
- Bequeathed Judah and Austin to his daughter, Catherine John.
- Catherine John
- Bequeathed Betsy and Bob to his daughter, Jane Lewis.
- Jane Lewis
- Bequeathed Unrecorded Named Individual to Nancy and Collin Baff.
- Collin Baff
- Nancy Baff
- Bequeathed to his seven daughters “All negroes in his possession upon his decease” - unknown names or number.
- Bequeathed Caesar, Caesar's wife, Venus, Nathan, Milly, and George by Sarah Betts.
- Sarah Betts
- A sale bill for the property of William Farly shows that "one negro man May" was sold to Elijah McClanahan for $310.00.
- William Farly
- Elijah McClanahan who was the son of James and Elizabeth McClanahan, Sarah Betts' nephew. In Sarah Betts' will, she bequeathed him Caesar, his wife Venus, and their children Martha, Milley, and George. Betts also left a bed, furniture, and her "piece of furniture called a wardrobe."
- Elijah McClanahan wrote in his will that his children, Elizabeth, Mary, Lacy, Agather, Catharine, Fanny, and Jane were to inherit all of his enslaved people.
- Fanny Miller
- Agather Ingler
- Lacy Johnston
- Mary Montague
- Elizabeth Cox
- Sally White, daughter of Elijah Betts McClanahan, was given three enslaved people that were not included with the enslaved people that went to his other daughters. He said that Sally "gets no part of my present negroes."
- Sally White
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