WHO WAS MARY MARTIN ELMORE SCOTT?
Mary Martin Elmore was born in Autauga County, Alabama, November 23, 1823, to John Archer Elmore and his second wife, Nancy Martin Elmore. Mary Martin Elmore was the seventeenth of nineteen children of these two marriages. She was a real daughter of the American Revolution. John Archer Elmore (1762-1834), served in the American Revolution from Virginia, entering at the age of sixteen. He was a witness to the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. He served in the War of 1812 as a Brigadier General of State Troops of Alabama. He was a member of the legislature of South Carolina, and later a member of the legislature of Alabama. Mary Martin Elmore married Hamlin Freeman Lewis, a native of Georgia, in Autauga County, Alabama, January 16, 1840. Hamlin was a well educated plantation owner and a very respected citizen. Mary and Hamlin had four children: William Edward, Lucy H., Mary Elmore and Rebecca Ann, all born in Alabama. Hamlin and a group of plantation owners, including Rev. Dr. James E
