Re: ELDER IN SC > KY > AR
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Re: ELDER IN SC > KY > AR
6/26/99
William Elder b.1/16/1785 in Spartanburg,Sc.
A descendent of Seth Elder who came to Charleston from Scoland in 1680. His father was George Elder and he two brothers, George and James. They moved to Kentucky where they were involved in the war of 1812 and served in the Livingston, Ky. militia. William married Ann Armstrong. He and my ancestor, William Warren Lassiter had a ferry on the Ohio river at Maysville. William Elder and Warren Lassiter moved to Mississippi in 1840 and Warren married his daughter Margaret. William Elder moved to Helena Arkansas in 1949, where he died Sept. 5, 1875.