Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Allen County.

WILLIAM J. McELROY was born July 10, 1825, in Allen County, Ky., where
he has since resided.  His father, James McElroy, was also a native of
Allen County.  He was a son of James McElroy, Sr., who was born in North
Carolina, about 1750.  He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and served for
five years in the Revolutionary war under Gen. Marion, the famous "Swamp
Fox" of South Carolina.  James McElroy, Jr., was married about 1819, to
Alice, daughter of William and Jennette (Williams) Ham. To them were
born Alfred, Rebecca (Williams), William J., Moses H., Jane F. (Jent),
Hartwell J., Nancy (Jackson), and Mary E. (Hunt).  William J. married,
in 1849, Mahala, daughter of Joseph L. and Rebecca (Ham) Dodson, of
Allen County.  To them were born James J., Rebecca (deceased), Sarah A.,
Thomas J., Marsalete, Albert F., Martha J., Mary F., Mahala R. (Hinton),
and Eunice E.  Mr. McElroy has by his own labor become the owner of 250
acres of well cultivated land.  He has been sergeant, captain,
lieutenant-colonel, deputy and county surveyor, and has for three terms
been a member of the Legislature of his native State.  He is a member of
the Missionary Baptist Church, in politics is a Democrat, and is
numbered among the most influential men of the county.

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