Amanda Ellender (Sibley) Presley (1835 - 1894)

Born 14 Apr 1835 in Washington Parish, Louisiana, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Elias Fletcher Presley — married 14 Nov 1848 in St. Helena, Louisiana, United States

Descendants

Died 23 Feb 1894 at age 58 in Negreet, Sabine Parish, Louisiana, USA

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Biography

Amanda Ellender SIBLEY, born on 14 Apr 1835 in Washington Parish, Louisiana.

Amanda Ellender died in Nachitoches, Louisiana, on 23 Feb 1904; she was 68. She was buried after 23 Feb 1904 in New Hope Cemetery, Near Many, Sabine Parish, Louisiana.

On 16 Nov 1848 when Amanda Ellender was 13, she married Elias Fletcher PRESLEY, son of Hosea PRESLEY, (died 1854) & Lovely WORD, (1802-1866), born on 19 Jan 1822 in Alabama.

Elias Fletcher died in Many, Sabine Parish, Louisiana, on 11 Sep 1891; he was 69 buried after 11 Sep 1891 in New Hope Cemetery, Near Many, Sabine Parish, Louisiana.

Elias F. Presley was the first Sabine Parish tax assessor and in 1844 became a deputy sheriff of the parish. In 1852 he was serving as secretary of the police jury and from 1862 to 1964 he was Sabine Parish's representative to the State Legislature. He was parish attorney in 1871 and in 1877 was the Parish Treasurer and also a member and secretary of the school board. In 1878-79 he was treasurer of the school board and in 1880-1881, the president. In 1878 he also established Sabine's first newspaper, The Sabine Southern, which continued publishing until 1891.^[1]

They had the following children: Lovey Elizabeth. Born on 12 Sep 1849 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana.31,77 Lovey Elizabeth died in Sabine Parish, Louisiana, on 13 Sep 1849.

Hosea William, 6206, M (1851-1940)
Mary Jane, 6208, F (1853-1910)
Josephine Eugenia, 6210, F (1855-1924)
Amanda Lenora, 6212, F (1857-1937)
Julia Ann, 6214, F (1859-1879)

Samuel Crawford. Born on 4 Oct 1861 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana. Samuel Crawford died in Washington, District of Columbia, on 16 Dec 1901; he was 40, buried in New Hope Cemetery, Near Many, Sabine Parish, Louisiana.

Louisa Jane, 6216, F (1864-1892)
Susan Belle, 6217, F (1866-1939)
Elias Fletcher Jr., 6218, M (1869-1937)
Homer Marvin, 6220, M (1871-1933)
Sarah Williams, 6222, F (1872-1903)
Andrew Lambreth, 6226, M (1875-1912)

Sources

1. ↑ [www.rootseekers.org]: William Sibley Family

• BIBLE OF REV. WILLIAM L. SIBLEY & ELIZABETH WATSON HIS 1ST WIFE: Pages from the Bible in possession (1959) of Mrs. Gertrude Middleton, a desc. of Rev. Wm. L. Sibley. Copied by Doris Varnado Green, 1700 Robinson St., Natchez, Miss.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M87N-DH7 : 29 May 2021), Amanda E Presley in entry for Elias F Presley, 1870.
• Find A Grave Memorial# 51423182
• [www.rootseekers.org]: William Sibley Family