Elbert County GaArchives Photo Tombstone.....Eavenson, Eli 
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Chandler Eavenson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007294  July 14, 2009, 7:49 pm

Cemetery:           Concord UMC, Elbert Co., GA
Name:               Eli Eavenson

Date Of Photograph: Unknown
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According to the book "Eavenson-Strickland and Allied Families" by Sexta 
Eavenson Strickland, pub. 1933, Eli Eavenson, a saddlemaker, was actually 
buried near the old courthouse where Brown Brothers store stood in 1933. A 
marker was erected for him at Concord UMC cemetery where many of his 
descendants are buried. He served as a Pvt. in Capt. Joseph Mendenhall's 2nd 
Co., Pennsury Township, Chester Co., PA militia, 3rd Btn., commanded by Lt. 
Col. John Hannum, 1781. Eli had married Rachel Seal (1760-1830) on 30 May 1782 
at Old Swedes Church, Wilmington, DE, across the river from Chester Co. Eli 
and Rachel being members of Quaker congregations, they were both disowned for 
being married by a non-Quaker minister. Perhaps this influenced their decision 
to migrate southward to Elbert Co. ca 1790. The Strickland book indicated they 
came to Georgia from Virginia in a covered wagon with their son and two of 
their three daughters in a covered wagon, crossing the James River on the ice. 
Eli's parents, George and Mary Williamson Eavenson, were also married at Old 
Swedes Church in 1755. Rachel Seal was the daughter of William Seal II and 
Susannah Temple.  

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