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Malissa Caroline Elkins (b. February 27, 1827, d. August 05, 1924)
Notes for Malissa Caroline Elkins:Malissa Carolina Elkins was born in Cannon County, Tennessee, February 27, 1827 and died August 5, 1924, age 97 years, five months and ten days. She was married to B. B. Melton in 1843. To this union were born twelve children, seven having gone to that better land and five are living, four sons and one daughter, besides thirty-three grandchildren, sixty-seven great grandchildren and nine great-great grandchildren are left to mourn their fate. With her husband and family, she moved to Missouri in 1871 and has lived in the old family home two and a half miles northeast of McCracken ever since. Her husband passed from this life twenty six years ago this last April. Christian County Republican, 15 Aug. 1924, page 1, column 3.Note: “Cal” as she was known, was the oldest daughter of Thomas and Mary “Polly” (Melton) Elkins. Married her cousin, B. Benjamin Melton, son of Jacob and Lucy (Matthews) Melton. By age 97, she’d had only a bit over 121 descendants (not counting grandchildren who had died)- so she didn’t quite reach the standard of her aunt, Charlotte (Elkins) Estes, down in Marion County Arkansas who died in 1903, days short of her 99th birthday, leaving 303 living direct descendants, having also had about half of her twelve children precede her in death. Contributed by Mabel Phillips.
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Burial: Linden Cemetery.
Children of Malissa Caroline Elkins and Benjamin Melton are:
- +Elizabeth Jane Melton, b. 1856, d. 1891.