When W E Elms was born in 1860, his father, Jonathan ELMS, was 51 and his mother, Sidda Louise Bradley, was 49. He lived in Illinois Township, Washington, Arkansas, United States in 1870.
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English: topographic name from Middle English atte(n) elmes ‘at the elm-trees’ for someone who lived by elm-trees, or a variant of Elm , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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