Elizabeth {Childress) Brandon's parents haven't been identified but they are not Joel and Elizabeth (Whitsett) Childress. Joel's daughter named Elizabeth died in 1814 at the age of 1; as documented in Joel Childress' family bible. [1]
Elizabeth was born about 1809. Elizabeth Childress married Phillip Andrew Brandon on November 16, 1828 in Rhea County Tennessee. Elizabeth and Phillip had 9 children, at least 8 of them were born in DeKalb County, Alabama. In 1850, she was claimed by consumption in Dekalb County Alabama, when her youngest child was about 2 years old.
Her husband and most and her children moved to Johnson County Arkansas by 1860.
Sources
Ancestry.com, U.S., Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index, 1850-1880 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999), Ancestry.com.
Ancestry.com, Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008), Ancestry.com.
"Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8YH-PZC : 21 December 2016), Phillip Brandon and Elizabeth Childress, 16 Dec 1828; citing , Rhea, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. , Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 589,468.
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