| b 03 Oct 1901, Sevierville, Sevier, Tennessee | d 16 Nov 1969, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio | |||
| William McElroy | ||||
| | | ||||
| William Dock McElroy | ||||
| |b 11 Aug 1861 | | | |||
| |d 19 Apr 1943 | Yarberry | |||
| | | ||||
| Theodore Rosevelt McKinley McElroy | ||||
| |Mary Lou Peltier | Thomas Maples | |m 21 Sep 1921 | Guilford Russel 'Gil' Maples | b 20 Mar 1790 |
| |Knoxville, , Tennessee | |b 09 Dec 1818 | Lydia Atchley | ||
| Juliette Loretta Maples | d 22 Oct 1900 | b 22 Apr 1792 | Archibald McMahan | > |
| b 05 Jul 1870 | | | David Crockett McMahan | Elizabeth Byrd | > |
| d 30 Apr 1934 | Elenore Brunetta 'Nellie' McMahan | b 10 Oct 1796 | Samuel Large | > |
| b 29 Jan 1829 | Mary Large | Sarah 'Sallie' Gillian | ||
| d 04 Dec 1916 | b 12 Oct 1798 | |||
His father was a 'Marble Rubber' which means he engraved tombstones. Her mother was a housewife. The family evidently experienced very hard times when they were severely lacking in food and money. Our mother went to work when she was a child, after attending school through the sixth grade. She worked in a sewing machine factory helping earn money to feed the family. When she was a young teenager she met our father, Theodore 'Ted' McElroy and in the words of Ricky Nelson's song it was 'Hello, Mary Lou, Goodbye heart' for our Dad. Mom wrote in her diary she didn't remember who proposed to whom and the first thing she knew they were married she was 15 years old and Dad was 20, almost 21. They stayed together until our Dad's death in l969.
Source: genserv2, Cliff Manis, 1994