Rev.
Elijah
Maddox
Born about in Prince Edward, Virginia
Ancestors 
Son of William Maddox
and Mary (Sampson) Maddox
Husband of
Elizabeth Ann (Brown) Maddox
— married
14 May 1793 in Prince Edward County, Virginia, United States
Descendants 
Father of
Richard V. Maddox, Elizabeth Ann (Maddox) Trovillion, Isham Fielding D Maddox and Benjamin G Maddox
Died
at about age 94
in Wilson, Tennessee, United States
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| Created 9 Jul 2016
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Biography
Baptist preacher Rev. Elijah Maddox was born in 1772 or 1764 in Prince Edward, Virginia, United States.[1]
He died 1866 in Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee, USA.
Unsourced Biography by Daniel Halloway: Elijah was a pioneer Baptist preacher who was born in Virginia, moved to Tennessee and came on up to Franklin County, Illinois by 1837. Nothing is known of the parentage of Elijah as he was supposedly found on a family's doorstep one night and this family gave him his name. The family into whose hands he fell did not appreciate him, and made of him a slave. He only went to school one day in all his life. By 1811 he and his wife were attending Mt. Olivet (Mt. Juliet) Baptist Church in Wilson County, Tennessee. (Others attending this church were William M. Moore and Sarah Moore). Mt Olivet Church was founded in 1801. Elijah moved to the community called Cedar Grove, four miles north of Lebanon, Tennessee, and there he helped found the old Cedar Grove Baptist Church in 1813, and was made the first preacher there, serving until 1841. Besides this he also did other pastoral and evangelistic work. He died in 1866, during the time of the Civil War, in the home of Foster Tucker and was buried at his expense in the old Tucker graveyard. He was 92 years old.
Sources
- ↑ Merge data had multiple unsourced dates.
- 1820 U. S. Federal Census,
- 1850 U. S. Federal Census,
- 1860 U. S. Federal. Census,
- Tennessee Early Tax List Records 1783 -1895,
- U. S. Find a Grave Index 1600's - current,
- Virginia Marriages 1660 -1800,
- Virginia Select Marriages 1785 - 1940,
- Web: Tennessee Find a Grave Index 1777 -2012
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elijah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Elijah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elijah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Elijah:
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Alan Holt 
:
Living DNA, GEDmatch QJ4849916 [compare]
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~0.78%
Amanda (Channels) Leckonby :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member akleckonby
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~0.39%
~0.39%
Megan (Seech) Sutherland :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member meganseechsutherland
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Unsourced Biography by Daniel Halloway: Elijah was a pioneer Baptist preacher who was born in Virginia, moved to Tennessee and came on up to Franklin County, Illinois by 1837. Nothing is known of the parentage of Elijah as he was supposedly found on a family's doorstep one night and this family gave him his name. The family into whose hands he fell did not appreciate him, and made of him a slave. He only went to school one day in all his life. By 1811 he and his wife were attending Mt. Olivet (Mt. Juliet) Baptist Church in Wilson County, Tennessee. (Others attending this church were William M. Moore and Sarah Moore). Mt Olivet Church was founded in 1801. Elijah moved to the community called Cedar Grove, four miles north of Lebanon, Tennessee, and there he helped found the old Cedar Grove Baptist Church in 1813, and was made the first preacher there, serving until 1841. Besides this he also did other pastoral and evangelistic work. He died in 1866, during the time of the Civil War, in the home of Foster Tucker and was buried at his expense in the old Tucker graveyard. He was 92 years old.
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by Alan Holt
Daphne Maddox
Maddox-1805 and Maddox-1634 appear to represent the same person because: they're dupes.
posted
by Daphne Maddox
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