Person:Christopher Elmore (1)

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_Occupation: farmer

Davidson Co. TN Marriage Records. 1820 - Illinois 1830 Saline, Missouri 1840 Benton County, Missouri 1850, 1860, 1870 Hopkins County, Tx Places of residence: NC, TN, ILL, MO, TX Source: Early Middle TN Marriages; Vol 1 (Grooms) by Byron Sistler Elmore, Christopher to Patsy Holt July 10, 1810 Davidson County Elmore, Christopher to Polly Merryman April 27, 1815 Davidson County

Source: Early Tennessee Tax Lists by Byron Sistler Elmore, Christopher 1811 Davidson County in Capt. Birdwell's Company Elmore, Christopher 1811 Davidson County in Capt. Rogers' Company

Marriage records, Greene County, Missouri : book "A" and "B," 1833-1860 Kansas City, Mo.: Mrs. H.W. Woodruff, 1971, 86 pgs. Christopher Elmore is listed as a JP of Greene County,Missouri p.. 66

Source: 1840 Benton Co., MO Census; pg. 54 (Ancestry.com) Christopher Elmore was listed with: 1 male 0-5 1 male 5-10 2 males 10-15 2 males 20-30 1 male 40-50 1 female 0-5 1 female 15-20 1 female 30-40 no slaves but 5 of the above persons were engaged in farming

Source: Texas Land Title Abstracts on Ancestry.com

Grantee: R. M. J. Redding Certificate: 53 Patentee: Christopher Elmore Patent Date: 07 Oct 1850 Acres: 238 District: Lamar County: Lamar File: 146 Patent #: 745 Patent Volume: 5 Class: Lamar 3rd.

http://www.glo.state.tx.us/archives/history/republic_texas.html

To attract new settlers, the Republic passed three more headright acts. In December 1837, a second class headright act granted 1,280 acres of land to heads of families (640 acres to single men) who had settled in Texas between March 2, 1836 and October 1, 1837. This was a conditional grant, as the grantee was required to remain in Texas for three years, perform duties of citizenship and pay surveying and other fees.

The legislature provided a third class headright grant in 1838. This grant, issued to those who arrived in Texas between October 1, 1837 and January 1, 1840, reduced the amount of land to 640 acres for heads of families and 320 acres for single men. It retained the three-year residency requirement.

To obtain a headright grant, individuals applied to the board of land commissioners in the county of residence. Applicants could choose land in that county or in another county where land was available. (The county boards had been created in December 1837 to review all claims for headrights. A board consisted of the chief justice, associate justices and clerk of the county.) Two witnesses were needed to prove the applicant had been in Texas by the required date and to attest to marital status. The applicants paid the board $5.00 for a certificate.

If the application was valid, the board issued a certificate for land to be granted from the public domain. The grantee chose a plot and hired a surveyor to mark it off; the surveyor's field notes were then certified and sent to the General Land Office of Texas, where they were examined and, if found to be correct, patented. The patent was signed by the President of the Republic and the land commissioner, and sent to the grantee after a copy was made for the General Land Office.

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Christopher Columbus Elmore and all descendants are part of Family Group 3 in the Elmore Project at FamilyTreeDNA.com ...

Leveraging the DNA marker comparisons on FamilyTreeDNA excludes these lines of Elmores from having a recent common ancestor with the following Elmore families in colonial America.

Though we probably share a common ancestor with the descendants of the brothers James, John Bernard, Athanasius, and Peter Ellmore, its likely our Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) is approx 1,000 years ago or more. This includes the New Kent County, Va Elmores & the The Red Oak District, Va Elmores near Alberta, Va. Family Group 2

The FamilyTreeDNA project also excludes this Christopher Elmore from being related to George Elmore and Mary Galbraith and the Elmores from what's considered the North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia area. Family Group 1 We don't even share the same haplogroup with these Elmores, meaning no chance we hail from the same ancestors.

Lawrence Elmore