Eli Cleveland (1734 - 1829)

Born 1734 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia

Ancestors

Died 11 Apr 1829 at about age 95 in Fayette, Fayette County, Kentucky, United States

Biography

Eli Cleveland was born about 1734 in Albemarle or Spotsylvania, Virginia. He was the son of Alexander Cleveland and Margaret Doolittle. He died about 1829 in Fayette County, Kentucky. ^[1]

He married Mary Simpson.^[2] It is assumed he had no living children at the time of his death, and that his wife had died previously. In his will, he left the majority of his estate to his niece Martha Patsy Cleveland and her husband Bernard Franklin. ^[1] Bernard was an executor for the estate of Eli Franklin.^[3]

Source

• 8 Aug 1786. ALEXANDER CLEVELAND and Sarah Ann, his wife, of Fairfax County, Virginia. to ELI CLEVELAND of Fayette County, Kentucky. conveys 260 acres in Fayette County, Kentucky. held on Preemption Rights of John Holder & including Big Spring Branch to the mouth of Bogg's Fork of Boone's Creek.(James Hughes 2006-05-05 )
• Fayette County, Kentucky 1787 Tax List
• Fayette County, Kentucky 1787 Tax
• Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties. Margaret Doolittle. Accessed 4 Feb 2017. Fredric Z. Saunders at http://genealogypro.com/fsaunders.html and Hilary G. Derby at http://www.treebranchesunlimited.com/ . Fully sourced with available record. This site attempts to reconstruct a family tree of early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties along the Potomac and Rappahannock River Valleys; Uses published works by: Jane B. Cotton, Marleen Strawser Bates, F. Edward Wright, Vernon L. Skinner, Elise Greenup Jourdan, Ralph D. Smith, John Frederick Dorman, Harry Wright Newman, Helen W. Brown, Robert W. Barnes, Linda Reno, Edward C. Papenfuse, Lois Green Carr, Henry C. Peden, Jr., Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, Effie Gwynn Bowie, Leslie and Neil Keddie, Sharon J. Doliante, W. N Hurley, Robert W. Hall, J. Thomas Scharf, Gust. Skordas, George Harrison Sanford King, T.L.C. Genealogy, Nell Marion Nugent, Sparacio, George Ely Russell, Donna Valley Russell, Grace L. Tracey, John P. Dern, Helen W. Brown, Patricia Abeland Andersen, Lorena S. Walsh, June Whitehurst Johnson, Beverley Fleet, Beth Mitchell, J. Estelle Stewart King, Patricia B. Duncan, Gertrude E. Gray, Peggy S. Joyner, William Armstrong Crozier, John Bennett Boddie, Robert K. Headley, Jr., Wesley E. Pippenger;
• Eli Cleveland
• Ancestry Family Trees: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=6601291&pid=1476871371

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} See attached Will of Eli Cleveland
2. ↑ Source needed
3. ↑ See attached Estate Inventory records from the probate for Eli Cleveland