When John Butler Stanton Elrod was born on 7 March 1794, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Isaac Elrod, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Stanton, was 21. He married Anna Elizabeth Swords on 19 May 1824, in Anderson, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Murray, Georgia, United States in 1850. He died in 1840, in South Carolina, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Anderson, South Carolina, United States.
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As Georgia had been weakened during the Revolutionary War, it was unable to defend its Yazoo lands, or land west of the Yazoo River. Thirty-five million acres were sold to four companies for $500,000 as Governor George Mathews signed the Yazoo Act on January 7, 1795. Angry Georgians protested in the streets as they felt bribery and corruption were involved and the sale was far below market value. The legislation tried to rescind the Yazoo Act, but much of the land had been sold to third parties. The issue made its way to the United States Supreme Court and it was determined that rescinding the law was an unconstitutional infringement on a legal contract. The government took full possession of the territory by 1814 and awarded its claimants over $4,000,000.
In 1799, in Little Meadow Creak located in Cabarrus County, North Carolina a large yellow ""rock"" was found by Conrad Reed. A few years later it was determined that the ""rock"" was a gold nugget.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Altered form of North German Ellrott, Ellrodt, perhaps a habitational name from Ellierode near Northeim, Lower Saxony, either of two places in Hesse named Ellingerode, or two lost places so named. In the US, this surname is very frequent in GA, TN, and TX.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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