Blount County AlArchives Biographies.....Dean, Elias 1849 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    ELIAS DEAN, a prosperous native farmer of Blount county, was born in 1849.
His parents, Joseph and Athen R. (Reed) Dean, were both born and reared in
Alabama - the father having been born in 1823. He was a soldier in the late war,
in the Nineteenth Alabama regiment, having enlisted in 1861, and served until
the close. After the war he returned to Blount county, and as the war had broken
him up, began life as a renter, and little by little accumulated until he owned
a well improved farm. He had three children by his first wife, as follows: John
A., James N. and Elias. Elias was reared a farmer, and attended the common
schools of the neighborhood. In 1870 he married Taylor Ann Sapp, daughter of
Harris and Harriet Sapp. This union was blessed by the. birth of ten children,
and of these eight still live: James M., Fannie, Joseph H., Tullula, Walter,
William, Maud and Lomey. The mother was born in 1848, and reared in Blount
county. When Elias was first married his father gave him a mule, and a cow and
calf, with which to begin life, but he has succeeded well and now owns between
400 and 500 acres of good land. He is a man who is respected by all who know
him, and he and wife are members of the Baptist church.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 514

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