Pike-Lauderdale-Statewide County AlArchives Obituaries.....Mansell, Elkanah October 27, 1895
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Linda Jordan jordan49@bellsouth.net December 26, 2005, 6:17 pm

Troy Messenger  Oct. 30, 1895
The angel of death came along and on the last Monday plucked one of the most 
venerable land marks of Pike County, L.Cana Mancil.  He was born in Columbus 
County, North Carolina, March 30, 1808, and came from his native state to 
Montgomery county in 1831, where he lived till 1834.  He then came to Pike 
County and made a good useful citizen the balance of his days. He was devoted 
to the tenants of the Baptist church, being a member when the division 
occurred.  He went with the Missionary side.  He was a soldier in capt. 
Stringer's company in 1836 fighting the Indians, and since 1892 has been  a 
beneficiary of the pension act.  Joel Brunson and David Stringer are now the 
only survivors of that company.  He leaves nine children and an aged widow, 
seventeen grand children and nine great grand children.  H has always been a 
hard working and industrious man, honest and upright.  He has ever been a 
democrat as true as ever carried the blood of democracy.
  Uncle "Cain", as he was familiarly called, helped to erect the first house at 
Centerville, now Troy, in 1835. He helped to build the jail house, built of 
logs, in 1839.  Indeed he was one of the oldest land marks of this country.

Additional Comments:
Elkanah was my great-great grandfather. He is buried in a family cemetery that 
can no longer be located on Elm Street Road in Pike County, AL.  From other 
records I have learned that he also help build the Buelah Primitive Baptist 
Church in Troy, AL.

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