Letters written by Eley and Mary E. Sorey and family, March 1859-December 1885
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Cover title: Eley & Mary E. Sory family letters, 1859-1885.

"The original letters are in the possession of Mary Lena Moore Ward, great granddauthers of Elisabeth Sorey Alsabrook, sister of Eley Story. Copies of the letters were given to Joy Mitchell Taylor, great great granddaughter of Eley and Mary E. Sorey by Mary Lena Moore Ward in 1979. ... In an attempt to make it easier to extract the wealt of information the letters might contain, Linniel C. Taylor spent over a year typing the letters as nearly of possible as they were written ... the letters were transferred to computer disc from the typed copies and have not been edited for errors. They typed version precedes the original. ... For the convenience of researchers, marriages, births and deaths are listed separately. Other points that may be of special interst are listed in the order written.".

Eley Sory (d. ca. 1886) and Mary E. Sory (d. 1885) and their children, Eley Bennett Sory and Elizabeth Sory Walton, received their mail at Lost Creek, Union County, Tennessee, in 1872; at Song Hollow, Union Counry, Tennessee, 1875-1883; and at Hurricaine Branch, Union County, Tennessee in 1885. They lived on these mail routes, however they may have actually lived in Granger County or Claiborne County. Eley and Elizabeth A. Sory seem to have had at least four children. Eley Bennett Sory married Hannah Jane Sheckles in 1872. They had at least one daughter in 1872. Hannah Jane died ca. 1877. Eley Bennett married 2) Duly Weaver. They had a son in 1881. Elizabeth A. Sory married James Calvin Walton in 1874. Mary Sory married William Henry Raly in 1875. They had at least three children. Martha Sory, twin of Mary Sory, died in 1862 or 1863.

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