When Elihu Canaday was born on 1 June 1809, in Lost Creek MM, Jefferson, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Canaday, was 35 and his mother, Juliatha Cox, was 30. He married Elizabeth McCowan on 24 November 1829. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Vermilion, Illinois, United States in 1830. He died on 4 October 1849, in Illinois, United States, at the age of 40.
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