Elijah Brumfield was the son of John Brumfield and Margaret Kelly. He was born in York, SC. He married Charlotte Temple Ott who was the widow of Elijah’s brother, Nathaniel. In 1860 Elijah Brumfield and Charlotte were in Washington Parish, LA with several children.
1 Elijah Brumfield b: 1805 in York, SC, d: after 1860
… + Charlotte Temple Ott b: 1815 LA, d: 1895
……2 Charlotte Angelina Brumfield b: 7 Aug 1855, d: 1936
……2 Courtney Rebeccca Brumfield b: 11 Apr 1857
Selected Sources:
- 1860 US Census, Washington Parish, Louisiana; Elijah Brumfield & family.
- Kerns, Gloria Lambert. Washington Parish, Louisiana Records, 1810 – 1898. Baker, Louisiana: Folk Finders, 1983.
- Randolph, Ruth Brumfield, and Nell Brumfield Jacobs Smith. Brumfields Revisited: Ancestors and Descendants of George Y. and Martha Penny Brumfield. Privately printed, 1995.