Here are the parents of Elisha Abrams according to this record shown at www.familysearch.org - the marriage date is probably for a second wife since it is after Elisha's birth:

Arden Abrams
Birth: 1795 , Pitt, North Carolina
Marriage: 04 MAR 1839 , Edgecombe, North Carolina
Death: 1850 , Edgecombe, North Carolina

Wife
Elizabeth Deal

Birth: 1815 , Edgecombe, North Carolina
Marriage: 04 MAR 1839 , Edgecombe, North Carolina
Death: 1846 , Edgecombe, North Carolina

Children

1. Elisha Abrams
Birth: 07 FEB 1828 , , North Carolina
Death: 05 SEP 1885
Burial: Crisp, Edgecombe, North Carolina

2. William Abrams
Birth: 1820 , Edgecombe, North Carolina
Death: 28 MAY 1847 Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Here are some other records that I found at that same website:

1880 census of Sparta, Edgecombe, North Carolina
Elisha Abrams Self M Male W 57 NC Farmer NC NC
Mary F. ABRAMS Wife M Female W 52 NC Keeping House NC NC
Ann Ren Abrams Dau S Female W 16 NC At Home NC NC
Temperance C. ABRAMS Dau S Female W 14 NC At Home NC NC
Elisha P. ABRAMS Son S Male W 11 NC At Home NC NC
Martha J. ABRAMS Dau S Female W 6 NC At Home NC NC

ELISHA Abrams
Birth: 07 FEB 1823, Pitt, North Carolina
Death: 05 SEP 1885

Elisha Abrams
Birth: 07 FEB 1828 , , North Carolina
Marriage: 24 AUG 1848, Pitt, North Carolina
Death: 05 SEP 1885 Crisp, Edgecombe, North Carolina

Wife
Mary Fannetta DuPree

Children

1. William Redmon Abrams
Birth: 14 APR 1856 Crisp, Edgecombe, North Carolina
Death: 29 SEP 1928 Crisp, Edgecombe, North Carolina

There is a website at: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&... that gives more information on Elisha's family.

Herb Abrams, Mission Viejo, CA