Shelby County AlArchives Biographies.....Elliott, Amos Merrill 1837 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    AMOS MERRILL ELLIOTT, merchant, was born about ten miles south of
Columbiana, March 22, 1829; attended such schools as the vicinity afforded, and
was early initiated into the mysteries of merchandising. In 1855, he began
selling goods on his own account at Harpersville, this county; in 1857, removed
his business to Columbiana, and, in 1858, purchased another store in
Elliottsville. He continued this business until 1861, when he was elected Clerk
of the Circuit Court. In 1872, he was elected to the lower house of the
Legislature; in 1874, again he was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court, which
position he filled, in the aggregate, twenty-five years, and finally declined a
re-election. After this he re-established his mercantile business in Columbiana,
and has continued it to the present time.

    His father, Amos M. Elliott, a Tennesseean by birth, came to Alabama when
quite young; his grandfather, of same name, came from Virginia to Tennessee in
early times, and to Alabama about 1816. He settled first in the Cahaba Valley,
and afterward about ten miles south of Columbiana.

    A. M. Elliott's mother was Sarah (Hale) Elliott, from Tennessee. Chas. B.
Elliott, the elder brother, was sheriff of the county soon after the war, and is
now County Treasurer. He also was a merchant for many years. Lindsey F. Elliott,
the other brother, has served the county as a deputy sheriff. Both these
brothers were in the army. The sister, Rachel M., is now the widow of Dr. Thomas
P. Lawrence, who was a member of the Legislature in 1852-3. He was an eminent
physician and an eloquent orator. He was elected on the Whig ticket.

    Amos M. Elliott was married in 1847 to Miss Mary Bragg, a daughter of
Captain Chas. Bragg, of South Carolina. She died in September, 1860. They had
six children, of whom three lived to be grown, and two, James and Charles, are
still living. Both are farmers.

    Amos M. Elliott was married again in September, 1861, to Mrs. Sophronia
Holdman, daughter of James Hampton, of St. Clair County, Ala. They had two
children, Emma, now wife of R. L. Cater, of Columbiana, and Amos M., who is in
his father's store.

    Mr. Elliott is a Methodist, a Royal Arch Mason, and has been Master of
Shelby Lodge No. 140 for a number of years. He is also Past Chancellor of
Knights of Pythias of Shelby Lodge, No. 50.

    Mr. Ellioit has been Justice of the Peace many years, and has been County
Administrator.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.


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