Elisha T. (Rountree) Roundtree (1788 - 1842)

Born 1788 in Richmond, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Charlotte (Marshall) Roundtree — married 2 Jan 1812 in Natchez, Adams County,Mississippi

Descendants

Died 1842 at about age 54 in San Augustin County, Texas

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Biography

Elisha was born in 1788.

He passed away in 1842.

Parents

Samuel Rountree

Lucy Tate

Education

Elisha T. Rowntree was a mason by trade, so it may be that he and his younger brother were apprenticed out to master craftsmen as children. Education seems to have been highly valued by the Rowntrees, and both Elisha and Samuel apparently received a good education for their time, place, and family circumstance

Married

2 January 1812

Charlotte Marshall

Children

William Joseph Roundtree (1813)

Nancy (Roundtree) Hawley (1818)

Military

“By Colonel George T. Ross, commanding the 44th United States Infantry in the service of the United States: ELISHA ROUNDTREE having faithfully served in the Army of the United States the term for which he enlisted viz (during the war with England) and last as a Private in Captain J. J. Miles’ Company of the 44th Infantry, and having been paid, clothed and subsisted agreeably to law as appears by his receipt hereto annexed, he is honorably discharged.

“To prevent imposition, here follows a description of the said ELISHA ROUNDTREE. He was born in RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, is twenty-seven years of age, six feet two inches high, has dark eyes, dark hair, light complexion, and is, by occupation, a mason. Given under my hand at New Orleans, this eighth day of April in the year of our Lord 1815….”

Sources

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:9C4G-MQM

https://elishatrowntree.com/tag/william-rowntree/

http://texasescapes.com/TOWNS/San_Augustine/San_Augustine_Texas.htm