Leonora's early years were spent at Glen Allen, her father's plantation on Lake Washington, thirty miles south of Greenville, Mississippi. Her family belonged to historical Saint John's Episcopal Church in Washington county, where Dr Chapman was a vestryman.
Through her mother, Leonora was a granddaughter of Col. Leonard Pope Cheatham (1792–1863) of Nashville, Tennessee, a native Virginian and Tennessee pioneer, and his wife Elizabeth Davis née Robertson (1796–1881), granddaughter of Nashville founder Gen. James Robertson.
Dr Chapman had completed the sale of his plantation in the months just preceding his death in 1958, after which Leonora with her mother and little sisters Louise and Ophelia eventually returned to live in her mother's hometown of Nashville.
Leonora was married to Elijah Boddie Elliston on 1 October 1868 from the Nashville home of her uncle, Felix Robertson Cheatham. Their first child, Medora, born in August 1869, died in infancy. After the death of Elijah's father in 1870, Leonora became mistress of Burlington, the Elliston family homeplace, where the couple's children Bessie, William, and Louise were born.
After Elijah's death in 1879, Leonora and her three young children vacated their residence at Burlington to make way for her mother-in-law and the family of Josephine née Elliston and Norman Farrell, whose family and descendants occupied the property continuously thereafter until the house was demolished in 1932. Over the next twenty years, Leonora moved house a number of times, usually sharing a residence with her widowed mother.
Leonora Elliston died in Russellville, Kentucky, at the residence of her daughter Bessie (Mrs C. Edwards Sinclair). A funeral service was conducted at Christ Church (Episcopal) Chapel in Nashville on 15 December 1899 before the burial of her remains beside those of her husband on the family plot of her father-in-law, William R. Elliston, Sr, at Mount Olivet Cemetery.
(Biographical sketch provided by Find a Grave ID 49076375)
Through her mother, Leonora was a granddaughter of Col. Leonard Pope Cheatham (1792–1863) of Nashville, Tennessee, a native Virginian and Tennessee pioneer, and his wife Elizabeth Davis née Robertson (1796–1881), granddaughter of Nashville founder Gen. James Robertson.
Dr Chapman had completed the sale of his plantation in the months just preceding his death in 1958, after which Leonora with her mother and little sisters Louise and Ophelia eventually returned to live in her mother's hometown of Nashville.
Leonora was married to Elijah Boddie Elliston on 1 October 1868 from the Nashville home of her uncle, Felix Robertson Cheatham. Their first child, Medora, born in August 1869, died in infancy. After the death of Elijah's father in 1870, Leonora became mistress of Burlington, the Elliston family homeplace, where the couple's children Bessie, William, and Louise were born.
After Elijah's death in 1879, Leonora and her three young children vacated their residence at Burlington to make way for her mother-in-law and the family of Josephine née Elliston and Norman Farrell, whose family and descendants occupied the property continuously thereafter until the house was demolished in 1932. Over the next twenty years, Leonora moved house a number of times, usually sharing a residence with her widowed mother.
Leonora Elliston died in Russellville, Kentucky, at the residence of her daughter Bessie (Mrs C. Edwards Sinclair). A funeral service was conducted at Christ Church (Episcopal) Chapel in Nashville on 15 December 1899 before the burial of her remains beside those of her husband on the family plot of her father-in-law, William R. Elliston, Sr, at Mount Olivet Cemetery.
(Biographical sketch provided by Find a Grave ID 49076375)
Leonora's early years were spent at Glen Allen, her father's plantation on Lake Washington, thirty miles south of Greenville, Mississippi. Her family belonged to historical Saint John's Episcopal Church in Washington county, where Dr Chapman was a vestryman.
Through her mother, Leonora was a granddaughter of Col. Leonard Pope Cheatham (1792–1863) of Nashville, Tennessee, a native Virginian and Tennessee pioneer, and his wife Elizabeth Davis née Robertson (1796–1881), granddaughter of Nashville founder Gen. James Robertson.
Dr Chapman had completed the sale of his plantation in the months just preceding his death in 1958, after which Leonora with her mother and little sisters Louise and Ophelia eventually returned to live in her mother's hometown of Nashville.
Leonora was married to Elijah Boddie Elliston on 1 October 1868 from the Nashville home of her uncle, Felix Robertson Cheatham. Their first child, Medora, born in August 1869, died in infancy. After the death of Elijah's father in 1870, Leonora became mistress of Burlington, the Elliston family homeplace, where the couple's children Bessie, William, and Louise were born.
After Elijah's death in 1879, Leonora and her three young children vacated their residence at Burlington to make way for her mother-in-law and the family of Josephine née Elliston and Norman Farrell, whose family and descendants occupied the property continuously thereafter until the house was demolished in 1932. Over the next twenty years, Leonora moved house a number of times, usually sharing a residence with her widowed mother.
Leonora Elliston died in Russellville, Kentucky, at the residence of her daughter Bessie (Mrs C. Edwards Sinclair). A funeral service was conducted at Christ Church (Episcopal) Chapel in Nashville on 15 December 1899 before the burial of her remains beside those of her husband on the family plot of her father-in-law, William R. Elliston, Sr, at Mount Olivet Cemetery.
(Biographical sketch provided by Find a Grave ID 49076375)
Through her mother, Leonora was a granddaughter of Col. Leonard Pope Cheatham (1792–1863) of Nashville, Tennessee, a native Virginian and Tennessee pioneer, and his wife Elizabeth Davis née Robertson (1796–1881), granddaughter of Nashville founder Gen. James Robertson.
Dr Chapman had completed the sale of his plantation in the months just preceding his death in 1958, after which Leonora with her mother and little sisters Louise and Ophelia eventually returned to live in her mother's hometown of Nashville.
Leonora was married to Elijah Boddie Elliston on 1 October 1868 from the Nashville home of her uncle, Felix Robertson Cheatham. Their first child, Medora, born in August 1869, died in infancy. After the death of Elijah's father in 1870, Leonora became mistress of Burlington, the Elliston family homeplace, where the couple's children Bessie, William, and Louise were born.
After Elijah's death in 1879, Leonora and her three young children vacated their residence at Burlington to make way for her mother-in-law and the family of Josephine née Elliston and Norman Farrell, whose family and descendants occupied the property continuously thereafter until the house was demolished in 1932. Over the next twenty years, Leonora moved house a number of times, usually sharing a residence with her widowed mother.
Leonora Elliston died in Russellville, Kentucky, at the residence of her daughter Bessie (Mrs C. Edwards Sinclair). A funeral service was conducted at Christ Church (Episcopal) Chapel in Nashville on 15 December 1899 before the burial of her remains beside those of her husband on the family plot of her father-in-law, William R. Elliston, Sr, at Mount Olivet Cemetery.
(Biographical sketch provided by Find a Grave ID 49076375)
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