Is there proof that the Elizabeth, b. 1815 in TN (according to the 1850 Bradley Co. TN census, p. 444 or 222) wife of John Perry (also spelled Pary) and lived next door to Jeptha Sivils and family in Bradley Co. TN in 1840 and 1850, was born a Sivils? So many Sivils researchers online have her listed with the maiden name of Sivils. If she was born in TN in 1815, how could she be a younger sister of Wallis, Absalom and Jeptha, and if she is not their younger sister, what would her connection be? Do people draw this conclusion simply because Absalom’s widow and son, Sallie and Timothy George Sivils, are living with Elizabeth and her family in Bradley Co. in 1850? Is it simply that she and her husband lived next door to Jeptha Sivils through the 1840’s and 1850’s? Is it that their son 16 year old son, John Pary, ends up working as a farmhand on the farm of Wallis Sivils’ widow, Virginia, in McMinn Co. in 1870? All things seem to point that she is so closely connected to these other Sivils families that she herself must have been a Sivils, but where can we find proof?

Sorry if this is redundant but I originally posted this line of questioning at the end of a long posting on Solomon and Mary Warden Sivils. I thought it would draw more attention from other researchers as a separate posting.