 | A history of Caroline county, Virginia |  |
ELLIOTT ESTES
was born in Caroline county, Va., July 23, 1795, and baptized
by the Rev. Andrew, Broaddus, I, at Burruss's church, now
Carmel, in 1810. He entered a high grade school then under the
direction of Rev. Mr. Broaddus and at the age of twenty-two
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had a degree of success in this undertaking and accumulated
enough means to complete his own education. He was ordained
in 1820, returned to Virginia in 1827, settled in South Carolina
in 1829, married Mrs. E. A. McPeherson in 1830, went to Europe
in 1835, preached frequently in London, again took up the pastorate
in South Carolina upon his return and died on June 9, 1849, having
given about thirty years to the gospel ministry.
| A history of Caroline county, Virginia | |