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From: "Bernie Knowles" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Genealogy - births/Cantrell/Dillard/Talley/Linn-Lynn
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:33:43 -1000
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<<Would anyone have a death record of Elijah Cantrell, son of George S.
Cantrell?>>

Beth

I don't have much on the gentleman that was murdered and what a story that
must be, right? But, I have that his name was Miller "Elijah" Cantrell.
Born in Alabama on January 26, 1859 and died on December 01, 1883.

Like yourself, I caught that first name for his daughter,
Belle..............Elijah Belle?

If I had to guess where this Elijah Cantrell is buried............I would
bet on Spring Creek. I have that his parents were buried there,
also............George Solomon Cantrell and Catherine Jane Taylor. I
remember way back when the List was discussing the William Cantrells - in an
attempt to find out which one was connected to the George S. family. Seems
that there was another William Cantrell that was born about the same time
period as the one that was a brother to Miller Elijah Cantrell?

Linns did him in, you say?

Bernie

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births/Cantrell/Dillard/Talley/Linn-Lynn


> Guys,
> Vera's responsible, she got me started on this.
>
> In a message dated 6/17/2005 8:32:43 PM Central Standard Time,
> writes: Cantrell, Elijah Belle b. 25 Jul 1884 Izard
County mother
> Nancy Jane Dillard+++
>
> I must have missed a bunch of stuff that had been posted previously on
some
> of the other lists about some of this family.
>
> Now, I don't think that I had ever seen this documentation for this
daughter
> of Elijah Cantrell, son of George S. Cantrell (as far as I have). I had
> always seen her named just Belle Cantrell and also, shown in some
documents as
> Belle Talley.
>
> Now, if I am remembering this all correctly this was supposedly the first
> marriage for both Nancy Jane Dillard and her husband, Elijah Cantrell, son
of
> George S. Cantrell. It was early in their marriage, Nancy was pregnant
with the
> first born, Elijah Cantrell was murdered. The story was always that he had
been
> playing around with someone else's wife---you all may remember the
questions
> from the Linn/Lynn family that abruptly removed from Izard to OK and
expressed
> their thinking about the spelling change of their name. I suspect that was
> Elijah's murderer and so do they.
>
> Now, what I don't think I have connected is this, Was the murderer ever
> prosecuted?
> Anyone remember reading anything about this anywhere?
>
> Would anyone have a death record of Elijah Cantrell, son of George S.
> Cantrell?
> Marriage to Nancy Jane Dillard?
>
> If I have remembered correctly, Nancy Jane Dillard later married Isham
> Cornelius Talley and moved away. Seems like it was to Texas but I am not
sure that
> they stayed there. Seems to me that Isham Cornelius Talley died somewhere
in
> OK. I think that they had a number of other children. Would anyone
reading
> have contact with this family?
>
> Any of the Dillard researchers have information on Nancy Jane Dillard's
> family group?
> Thanks for any input on this bunch!
> Beth
>
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