ELLIOTT, ANDREW, was born in 1792, in Rutherford county, N., C. He was there married to Zilpha Kelly. They had two children in North Carolina, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., in company with his father-in-law, Wm. Kelly, arriving in the fall of 1819, and entered eighty acres of land in what is now the northwest corner of the city of Springfield, where they had seven children. Of their children--

ELIZABETH M., born Oct. 4, 1815, in North Carolina, married in Sangamon county to Caswell Stripling. Mrs. S. died, leaving one child. Mr. Stripling and his son FRANCIS reside near Nicolaus, Sutter county, Cal.

SARAH M., born Aug. 31, 1818, in North Carolina, married to Isaac Taylor. See his name.

J. WESLEY, born May 17, 1822, adjoining Springfield on the north, married, April 13, 1843, to Allissa or Alice Baldwin. They had ten children in Sangamon county--ROBERT, born Feb. 26, 1844, enlisted, Aug. 25, 1862, in Co. G, 114th Ill. Inf., for three years, served full term, and was honorably discharged Aug. 3, 1865, resides with his parents. JAMES H., born Aug. 22, 1845, resides with his parents. SARAH E., born Jan. 3, 1848, married James A. Dunlap. See his name. CATHARINE died in her fourth year. ZILPHA, died Nov. 20, 1864, aged fourteen. HARRIET, born June 30, 1852, married Abraham Langford, and resides six miles south of Springfield. ANDREW J., CALVIN and JOHN L., reside with their parents one and threefourths miles northwest of Springfield, and within one mile of where J. W. Elliott was born.

THOMAS W., born Aug. 20, 1824, died in 1855, of cholera, in Springfield.

ANDREW H., born Nov. 22, 1828, married in 1852 to Matilda Tulley, had two children, and Mr. E. died Feb. 15, 1873, in Springfield. His widow resides in Mason City.

JAMES M., born April 22, 1835, married Louisa Rolls. He was accidentally shot while his wife was handing a gun to him, and died a week later, in Aug., 1861.

WILLIAM K., born March 13, 1838, married Martha Potts, and died May 2, 1865.

Mrs. Zilpha Elliott died March 2, 1842, and Andrew Elliott died Oct. 17, 1864, both at Springfield. Andrew Elliott was a soldier from North Carolina in 1812. He was a soldier from Sangamon county in the Winnebago war of 1827, in the Black Hawk war of 1831, and in the Mormon war of 1845. He kept the first hotel in Springfield. It was called the Buck Horn Tavern, and had a large pair of antlers for a sign. Andrew Elliott was the man who drove the Commissioners to see Sangamo town, when they were investigating the subject with the view of locating the county seat. He drove them through all the sloughs he could reach by a round-about way, and disgusted them before they reached the spot. They were thus induced to decide against Sangamo and in favor of Springfield.