John G. Elms

Nathan Elms was an early school teacher, having taught in the Summers community and on Beaty Hountain about 4 miles north of Lincolns, in the first school on the Alexander Beaty farm. His son, John G.Elm, married the oldest daughter of Alexander Beaty, Sarah Jane, on Oct. 31, 1854. She died the follovling year. In 1859 John G. Elms married Ruth Carter. John G., with another Elms boy and Frank Collins, were killed ruging the Civil by bushwhackers while walking through an orchard in the Gem community.