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HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of
COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876

by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers
1876

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JOHN ELLIOTT, for many years commonly designated as "Deacon Elliott," belonged to a family of mark, all winning considerable fame, despite what would he accounted an unfavorable condition at the start.  The family came from Ireland.  The mother's piety seems to have been as strong a determining force in the children as the hard sense of the father.  One of the sons, Samuel Elliott, was associate judge of the county; another, Charles, became a very prominent minister in the M. E. Church.  The deacon was thrown, in early life, into Presbyterian surroundings, and, though not favorably affected at first, after thorough study, adopted that form of Christian faith, and held to it through all his life with notable pertinacity.  He united with the church under Rev. Elisha McCurdy, of Western Pennsylvania.  After learning thoroughly the carpenter's trade, he spent some time in erecting mission buildings—church, school-house, and dwellings—for the use of the Presbyterian missionaries among the Sandusky Indians.  He was a citizen of Coshocton county about forty years. The first Presbyterian Church of Coshocton and the Methodist Episcopal Church of same place, and some others in the country, were built by him.  About 1855 he went to Iowa, with the purpose of making that his home, but in a few years returned to Coshocton, and, after working a few years, ended his days in August, 1860.   Strong sense and stead fast piety were characteristics of the man.  Indifferent as to personal appearance, and exceedingly blunt in expression, he compelled the respect and regard of all who became to any extent acquainted with him.  He was one of the two first chosen elders of the Presbyterian Church of Coshocton, and an almost never-failing attendant upon the church prayer-meetings, which he always found time to attend.
     He married Miss Blythe, of Fayette county, Pa.  She lived only a few years, and left one son (John B. Elliott), at whose home the old deacon died, Sept. 2, 1868, being sixty-eight years old.
Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers 1876 - Page 245


 


 

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