Eli Campbell Beller (1809)

Born 1809 in Stokes Co., North Carolina

Ancestors

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Biography

Eli Campbell Beller was born ca 1809 in Stokes Co., North Carolina. He married Anna Baker 21 Oct 1830. ^[1]

Marble Quarry Monument

"The 1954 commemorative marker’s ambiguous language refers to the Beller and Harp brothers. Peter Beller, who established a mill on nearby Mill Creek in 1840, has always received credit for quarrying the slab. However, his brother Elijah Beller, a stone mason and tombstone carver living in Arkansas in the mid-1830s and again after 1848, may well have participated. The Harp brothers were William, Samuel, and Elijah Harp. The 1836 start date is further invalidated by the fact that Elijah (Harp)—who would have been ten years old in 1836—did not arrive in the Buffalo River valley until 1844. Another family history adds James Adair to this list, also stating that the stone was quarried in the late 1840s." ~ Encyclopedia of Arkansas^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZVC-RT6 : 19 February 2021), Eli Bella and Mary Baker, 21 Oct 1830; citing Madison, Alabama, United States, County Probate Courts, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,305,696.
2. ↑ Burnett, Abby. “Washington Monument Marble Quarry.” Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Encyclopedia of Arkansas, 12 Nov. 2019, https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/washington-monument-marble-quarry-14025/.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M67H-CWP : 20 December 2020), Eli Beller, Crooked Creek Township, Carroll, Arkansas, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).