Richard and Sally are one set of my great-great grandparents. Richard
was born in Pennsylvania, but moved to Illinois when his father (George
Elliott) and mother (Mary Crain Hamilton) relocated the family there.
Richard served for three years in an Illinois volunteer infantry
regiment during the Civil War - and likely met and courted Sarah
("Sally") Louisa Webster when he was stationed at Fort Donaldson on the
Cumberland River. Sally was then living - and probably born - in Dover,
Tennessee a mile or two upriver from Fort Cumberland.
After the Civil War, Richard and Sally moved to the Denver, Colorado
area with their children - including my maternal grandfather's mother,
Elizabeth Elliott.
At 13 years old, I volunteered to be part of a signal team which would
compete with other signal teams from boy scout troops in the area. This
required me to learn Morse Code. My mother's parents lived only two
houses from us in Denver, so my grandfather helped me learn Morse Code -
he told me that he had learned Morse Code from his grandfather.
I now know this to be Richard Hamilton Elliott based on the 1870 United
States Census and various Denver city directories which variously list
Richard's occupation as telegrapher and telegraph operator - and that
what my grandfather told me was true.
Bio thanks to [email protected]
1-2013
was born in Pennsylvania, but moved to Illinois when his father (George
Elliott) and mother (Mary Crain Hamilton) relocated the family there.
Richard served for three years in an Illinois volunteer infantry
regiment during the Civil War - and likely met and courted Sarah
("Sally") Louisa Webster when he was stationed at Fort Donaldson on the
Cumberland River. Sally was then living - and probably born - in Dover,
Tennessee a mile or two upriver from Fort Cumberland.
After the Civil War, Richard and Sally moved to the Denver, Colorado
area with their children - including my maternal grandfather's mother,
Elizabeth Elliott.
At 13 years old, I volunteered to be part of a signal team which would
compete with other signal teams from boy scout troops in the area. This
required me to learn Morse Code. My mother's parents lived only two
houses from us in Denver, so my grandfather helped me learn Morse Code -
he told me that he had learned Morse Code from his grandfather.
I now know this to be Richard Hamilton Elliott based on the 1870 United
States Census and various Denver city directories which variously list
Richard's occupation as telegrapher and telegraph operator - and that
what my grandfather told me was true.
Bio thanks to [email protected]
1-2013
Richard and Sally are one set of my great-great grandparents. Richard
was born in Pennsylvania, but moved to Illinois when his father (George
Elliott) and mother (Mary Crain Hamilton) relocated the family there.
Richard served for three years in an Illinois volunteer infantry
regiment during the Civil War - and likely met and courted Sarah
("Sally") Louisa Webster when he was stationed at Fort Donaldson on the
Cumberland River. Sally was then living - and probably born - in Dover,
Tennessee a mile or two upriver from Fort Cumberland.
After the Civil War, Richard and Sally moved to the Denver, Colorado
area with their children - including my maternal grandfather's mother,
Elizabeth Elliott.
At 13 years old, I volunteered to be part of a signal team which would
compete with other signal teams from boy scout troops in the area. This
required me to learn Morse Code. My mother's parents lived only two
houses from us in Denver, so my grandfather helped me learn Morse Code -
he told me that he had learned Morse Code from his grandfather.
I now know this to be Richard Hamilton Elliott based on the 1870 United
States Census and various Denver city directories which variously list
Richard's occupation as telegrapher and telegraph operator - and that
what my grandfather told me was true.
Bio thanks to [email protected]
1-2013
was born in Pennsylvania, but moved to Illinois when his father (George
Elliott) and mother (Mary Crain Hamilton) relocated the family there.
Richard served for three years in an Illinois volunteer infantry
regiment during the Civil War - and likely met and courted Sarah
("Sally") Louisa Webster when he was stationed at Fort Donaldson on the
Cumberland River. Sally was then living - and probably born - in Dover,
Tennessee a mile or two upriver from Fort Cumberland.
After the Civil War, Richard and Sally moved to the Denver, Colorado
area with their children - including my maternal grandfather's mother,
Elizabeth Elliott.
At 13 years old, I volunteered to be part of a signal team which would
compete with other signal teams from boy scout troops in the area. This
required me to learn Morse Code. My mother's parents lived only two
houses from us in Denver, so my grandfather helped me learn Morse Code -
he told me that he had learned Morse Code from his grandfather.
I now know this to be Richard Hamilton Elliott based on the 1870 United
States Census and various Denver city directories which variously list
Richard's occupation as telegrapher and telegraph operator - and that
what my grandfather told me was true.
Bio thanks to [email protected]
1-2013
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