Elisha Calvin Poole (1792 - 1865)

Born 19 May 1792 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States

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Died 30 Mar 1865 at age 72 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

Elisha Poole (1792–1865) was a planter, surveyor, and magistrate from Spartanburg County, South Carolina, one of several sons born to James Poole (1762–1830 × 1840) and Rebecca (Stovall) Poole (b. ca. 1764). Elisha married Harriet Wells (1795–1871), a daughter of Captain Thomas Wells (ca. 1765–1853) and Patty (Underwood) Wells (ca. 1765–before 1840) and owned several hundred acres on Richland Creek, Lawson’s Fork Creek, Wells Creek, and other branches of the Pacolet River in eastern Spartanburg County. He served in Captain White’s Company of the 1st Regiment of the South Carolina Militia during the War of 1812. He chaired the Nominating Committee for the Nullification Party of Spartanburg County in 1833, was a member of Goucher Creek Baptist Church, and donated the land on which Zion Hill Baptist Church and cemetery were built. Elisha and Harriet were originally buried in the old Poole family cemetery that once occupied a site where Hillbrook Forest grew up around Webber Road in the early 1960s, but their remains were relocated to Greenlawn Memorial Gardens in 1961.

1850 Census, Spartanburg Co., SC^[1]

Elisha Poole M 57 South Carolina

Harriet Poole F 55 South Carolina

M C Poole F 23 South Carolina

1860 Census, Spartanburg Co., SC^[2]

Elisha Pool M 68 South Carolina

Harriet Pool F 65 South Carolina

The Church of Christ at Zion Hill at May term 1865 passed an order that a blank sheet be appropriated to record the age and death of our beloved Brother Elisha Pool who departed this life

The 30th of March 1865

Born the 19th of May 1792

age 72 years 10 months 11 day.

and lived a consistant member of the Baptist Church of Christ for near fifty years
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth yea Saith the Spirit that they may rest from their Labours and their works do follow them.^[3]

Burial: Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, Spartanburg, SC^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8Q2-GHJ)
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZT6-VZL)
3. ↑ Zion Hill Baptist Church records, Furman University Special Collections and Archives, microfilm.
4. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2V-33RF : accessed 27 May 2016), Elisha Poole, 1865; Burial, Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States of America, Greenlawn Memorial Gardens; citing record ID 67174864, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• Source: S-156191184 Repository: #R-798255881 Title: U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. APID: 1,60525::0
• Repository: R-798255881 Name: Ancestry.com Address: Note:
• Rivers, Rudy. “Elisha Poole Steps Out of History at Hillbrook.” Spartanburg Herald-Journal. Friday, September 22, 1961. pp. 1, 25.

Acknowledgements

Poole-2159 was created by William Pool through the import of Robert Lynn Davis_ POOLE lin.ged on Jul 6, 2015.