Sikes/Sykes Family Cards - Person Sheet
Sikes/Sykes Family Cards - Person Sheet
NameElijah DeMoss Carney 
Birth19 Aug 1824, SC
Spouses
Birth24 Jan 1841, Stewart County, TN
Death11 Jul 1910
BurialTrinity Cemetery, Dover, Stewart Co., TN
FatherWilliam Howell “Will” Sikes (1818-~1875)
MotherSarah Rebecca Guerin (1824-~1855)
Marriage11 Nov 1859
ChildrenMary Ann (1860-1943)
Martha Ann (1862-1893)
Josephine (1865-1908)
James Henry “Jim” (1867-1947)
John Wesley (1868-1920)
Lot (1870-1895)
Marcella “Syllie” (1874-1953)
Elijah “Lige” “Bud” (1877->1911)
Joel “Bee” (1879-1971)
George Harvey (1881-1889)
Thomas Smith (1884->1911)
BurialWhitford Cemetery, Dover, Stewart Co., TN
Notes for Elijah DeMoss Carney
One account suggests that Elijah was born in 1815 in Ireland and that he migrated to the Carolinas before settling in Dover, TN. Prior to his marriage to Elizabeth Sikes, he married Marcella Brandon with whom he fathered six children.