Elijah Brown Abbott was born in Indiana on February 12, 1834. In 1850, he is listed in the census as living in Tate, Clermont County, Ohio, with his father, mother, two brothers, and two sisters. He married Martha Sarah Joslin (1834-1904) on September 11, 1855, at her home near Felicity, Clermont County, Ohio. Their children were:             - Mary E Abbott (1856-1860)             - Minerva Jane Abbott Carr (1858-1897)             - Malissa Easter Abbott (1861-1929)             - Edward Abbott (1864-1911)             - Mahala Mayme Abbott (1873-1898) In 1860 he was living in Felicity, Clermont County, Ohio, with his wife and two oldest daughters; he listed his occupation as "Chairmaker." It appears that Abbott served in the Union Army in 1865 (see below). After the war, the family moved to Illinois in 1867 and to Butler County, Kansas, in 1873, settling five miles west of Augusta. In 1880 he is shown as living in Gore, Sumner County, Kansas, with his wife and three children; at that time his occupation was listed as "M. E. Minister." According to his card file from the Kansas West archives, his ministerial service record is as follows: 1874 - Augusta 1876-77 - South Haven 1878-79 - Bellevue & Rolling Green (Sumner Co.) 1880-81 - Mulvane 1882-83 - Oxford 1884-85 - Chase 1886-87 - Leon 1888 - Arlington 1889 - Burrton 1890-92 - Douglass 1893 - superannuated 1905 - withdrawn The adult daughter of Rev. Abbott and his wife, Minerva Jane (Abbott) Carr, died October 21, 1897; her memoir can be found in the Southwest Kansas Conference Journal for 1898, page 99. Their daugher Mayme died in 1898; her memoir can be found in the Southwest Kansas Conference Journal for 1899, page 150. In the 1890 census he was in Bruno, Butler County, Kansas, with his wife; at that time he was listed as a farmer.  His wife died in 1904; her memoir can be found in Southwest Kansas Conference Journal for 1904, page 258. On August 25, 1907, he married Mary C. Hutchenson in Sedgwick County, Kansas.  (No children were reported from this marriage.) He died on June 8, 1920, and is buried in Leavenworth National Cemetery by virtue of his service during the civil war: 19 January - 20 September 1865 as a Private in Company I, 184th Ohio Infantry.

Note written by Sarah St. John