BIO:  ELIJAH MILAM - SHELBY CO., KY

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Contributed by: Diana Flynn "ivie@tima.com"
Date: Thursday, July 09, 1998 
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MILAM,   NASH,   BACKUS,   MCCANDLESS

"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF
INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS.
& CO.,  PUBLISHERS. 1884.

SULLIVAN CO., INDIANA
HADDON TWP.
PAGE 755

ELIJAH MILAM is a native of Shelby County, Ky., born January
8, 1809, one of seven children born to Stephen and Martha (Nash)
Milam, who settled in Indiana in 1815, locating near Carlisle, where
they died in 1822.  Subject received but a meager amount of
schooling, and began the trade of blacksmith when sixteen years
of age, but was compelled to quit it on account of his eyes.  After
that he learned the cabinet making, at which he worked two years.
He then joined Capt. Backus' Company of Rangers, serving one
year;  then returned to Sullivan and began the carding of wool,
starting a mill.  February 16, 1837, he married Ann A. McCandless,
who born him ten children-- Greenup A., Elijah W., Elizabeth H.,
Joseph P., Lavilla D., Jennie, Margaret, Charles T., Ida and Jacob
B., all living except Elijah W. and Charles T., the former being
killed in the battle of Murfreesboro.  Mr. Milam owns 170 acres
of land.  He was formerly a Whig, but is now a Republican.  He
was the Whig candidate for the Legislature at the forming of the
constitution in 1852.  For several years he was Captain of the
Light Horse Company of this county.

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