MARTINDALE, ELIJAH: 1793-
Elijah Martindale was born in South Carolina on Nov. 10, 1793, and moved with his parents to Ohio when he was a child. In 1811 they emigrated to Indiana and settled in Wayne County .
In 1815 he married Elizabeth Boyd–they became the parents of fifteen children, fourteen of whom lived to adulthood–and in 1818 he became a minister. He moved to Henry County, four miles southeast of New Castle, Ind., in 1832, where he helped build the first schoolhouse and the first church in the county.
Information from the New Castle Public Library.
- Autobiography of Elder Elijah Martindale … also
Pioneer History of the Boyd Family, by Belle Sanford.
Indianapolis, 1892.
