Elijah Hise Greathouse ^{1 2}

   Another name for Elijah was Elijah Hise Marrs.

  Notes:

Source: Rayburn H. Lee, submitter of FTM Vol. 9, Tree #2190.,
Gives all of the listed descendants of Elijah and Sampson, his brother.
DeAnna Fay Greathouse Reisland gives name as Elijah Hess. Elijah was called Lige. He spent his childhood on his father's farm in Smith Grove, District, Warren Co., KY.
Census 1870 Warren Cty , KY, Goshen Pct., page 20 shows E. H. Greathouse 31 M, Mary J.25 F, Robert A. 7 M, Lafayette S. 5 M, Alice 3 F, F. R. 1 M, all born in KY-by Lynn Leonard from Heritage Quest on Line

  Details of his life include:

• Legitimated: by Josiah Greathouse, 15 Jan 1848, , Warren County, Kentucky. ²
Acts of the General Assembly of The Commonwealth of Kentucky:
Passed at December Session, 1847.
CHAPTER 33.
AN ACT to change the names of E. H. Marrs, C. W. Marrs, W. 0. B. Marrs, and others.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That upon the petition of Josiah Greathouse, of the county of Warren, acknowledging himself to be the father of Elijah Hise Marrs, Charles Warren Marrs, and William O. Butler Marrs, illegitimate children of Sarah Marrs, the names of said children are hereby changed to Elijah Hise Greathouse, Charles Warren Greathouse, and William O. Butler Greathouse, and each and every of them are legitimated and made capable of inheritance, in law and in equity, to all the lands and tenements, goods and chattels, rights and credits, of said Josiah Greathouse, in as full and ample a manner as if they, and each of them, had been severally born in lawful wedlock.

Approved January 15, 1848.

• He appeared on the 1850 U. S. Federal census in Second District, Warren County, Kentucky
In Josiah Greathouse household,
Elijah H, 11 m, b. Kentucky

• Elijah Hise Greathouse [672] photo courstey of Fern Gold, Fern's husband took this photo through the glass of the original of Elijah.The original was in the possession of her Aunt Hallie Lowe who has passed on.

Elijah married Mary Jane Rector, daughter of John Jacob Rector Sr. and Mary Nellie, on 30 Oct 1861 in , Sumner County, Tennessee.¹ (Mary Jane Rector was born on 4 Jun 1845 in , Warren County, Kentucky,¹ died on 12 Apr 1902 in , Butler County, Kentucky ¹ and was buried in Old Bethel Church Cemetery, Butler County, Kentucky ¹.)