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Subject: [RHEA] Bio of Ellison Sliger b. in Bullitt Co. Ky Oct 11, 1822- daughter m. to a Rhea
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 18:30:16 EDT

Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and
Biographical.Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co.,
Publishers, 1884.MORGAN COUNTYADAMS TOWNSHIP PAGE 319
ELLISON SLIGER, cabinet-maker and undertaker, was born in Bullitt County,
Ky.,October 11, 1822, and is the youngest of ten children born to David
andMargaret (Stafford) Sligar, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania, and
ofGerman and Scotch descent respectively. David Sligar was educated and
marriedin his native State. In about 1797, he emigrated to Bullitt County,
Ky., thenan unbroken wilderness. Himself and wife, with several other
families, camedown the Ohio River in flat- boats from Pittsburgh, landing at
the presentsite of Louisville, Ky., which then contained only a few log
cabins. Heproceeded immediately to Bullitt County, where he entered 263
acres of land,which he was obliged to pay for twice in consequence of a
defective title.Here he improved a farm, upon which he resided until his
death, whichoccurred January 4, 1832, in his seventy-fifth year. Ellison
Sligar, thesubject of our sketch, received such an education as could be
obtained at theprimitive log school- houses of the Kentucky frontier. After
his father'sdeath, he resided with his brother Thomas until he was seventeen
years old.He then went to learn the carpenter's and cabinet-maker's trades,
serving anapprenticeship of three years, and has followed one or both of
these tradesever since. In 1843, he removed to Gosport, Owen County, Ind.,
where heresided two years; thence to Adams Township, Morgan County, Ind.,
and settlednear the present site of Eminence, where he still resides. He
erected thefirst two buildings in the village of Eminence. In 1851, he
bought wild landand has since improved the farm where he now lives, and for
the last twenty-five years has been engaged in agricultural pursuits in
connection with histrade. He was for a time one of the Trustees of Adams
Township under the oldconstitution. He was married March 25, 1844, to
Margaret Gilliland, a nativeof Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Thomas and
Margaret (Stogdal) Gilliland,natives of Ireland, who emigrated to the United
States in 1793. They werelifelong members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The former died in 1825,in his sixty-sixth year, and the latter in 1869, in
her one hundred and secondyear. To our subject and wife have been born one
daughter, viz., Sarah J.,now Mrs. James H. Rhea. Mr. and Mrs. Sligar are
members of the MethodistEpiscopal Church. He is also a member of Eminence
Lodge, No. 440, A., F. & A.M., of which lodge he has been Chaplain for some
ten years. In politics, heis a Democrat.


Patricia L. Hall






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