NameSilas Easterling
Birthabt 1823, Kentucky
Death13 Dec 1861, Scott Co., Virginia
FatherHenry W. Easterling Sr. (1799-1876)
MotherFrancina Elam (~1801-)
Marriageabt 1842, Virginia
SpouseRebecca Elam
Birthabt 1823, Virginia
FatherWilliam Walter Elam (1798-1862)
MotherRebecca Ramey (1797-)
Children
Birth20 Dec 1840, Scott Co., Virginia
Birth24 Oct 1843, Scott Co., Virginia
Death12 Dec 1926, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Birth16 Nov 1846, Scott Co., Virginia
Death15 Aug 1914, Scott Co., Virginia
Birth17 Jul 1849, Scott Co., Virginia
Death15 Jun 1935, Lawrence Co., Kentucky
Census Notes for Silas Easterling
1850 census of Morgan Co., KY, page 112, lists family #1025:
Silas Easterling, 27, b. Ky; Rebecca, 27, b. Va; Louisa, 7; Henry, 6; Rebecca, 4; William, 1; Thomas Easterling, 23. All the children have ditto marks, suggesting they were born in Virginia. (Thomas is the son of Thomas & Joannah, making him a first cousin of Silas. He is not Silas’s brother Thomas, who was only 14 in 1850 and still living with his parents.)

1860 census of Scott Co., Virginia, Estillville P.O., enumerated 7 Sep, lists on p. 204 as family #1326:
Silas Easterling, 35, b. Ky; Louisa J., 18, b. Va; Henry S., 16, b. Va; Martha D., 15, b. Va; William M., 11, b. Va.
Notes for Rebecca Elam
Some family trees on Ancestry.com show her date of death as 19 Oct 1852 in Scott Co, Viriginia, but they show the same date and place of death for her mother, so almost certainly one of those is an error. (I am not even totally convinced that the attribution of Silas’s wife as William Elam’s daughter is correct. Not that I have any specific reason to doubt it, just that it is unsourced.)
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