Joseph Thorpe Elliston

  General notes:

Silversmith, jeweler, and watchmaker

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed from 1795 to 1799 to Samuel Ayers in Lexington KY

• He worked from 1799 to 1820 as a silversmith, jeweler, and watchmaker in Nashville TN ³⁹

• He was a partner in 1802 with ? Hunter in Nashville TN as ELLISTON & HUNTER

• Nashville TN, 1813-1817: served as Mayor.

Joseph married Louisa Mullen on 20 Aug 1800 in Nashville TN. (Louisa Mullen was born in 1781 and died in 1816.)