Hope to hear from you and Harry. I am new to this and was idly searching the web for my family names and came across this Elam page. I live in the UK and as far as I know my family are essentially English. I would be pleased to hear from anyone about the name as it seem there any many Elams in America. It would be interesting to find out where the name actually descends from.
Any help please.
However, he isn't listed on the 1790 SC federal census. Martin died in Chester Co. SC in 1826. Mary survived him and died in 1829. Richard and Sarah Elam did have sons named George and Martin, so there is a good possibility that I'm on to something here. Any help given would be greatly appreciated because I have very little to go on.