Individual Details
Elisha "The Longhunter" Walling Jr.
(Abt, 1732 - January, 1814)
"Elisha Wallen, the Longhunter, was born ca 1732 and was one of the first white men to travel the famous Wilderness Trail through the Cumberland Gap. On his first long hunt in 1761, he was joined by Daniel Boone for part of the trip. He was a hunter in Tennessee and Kentucky and had a land company, obtaining land warrants and selling land to new settlers. The branch of the family from which he descends settled early in western Maryland and Virginia." (advertisement for ELISHA WALLEN, THE LONGHUNTER, 1990, by Carolyn D. Wallin.)
Events
| Birth | Abt, 1732 | Prince George County, Maryland | |||
| Death | January, 1814 | Washington County, Missouri | |||
| Marriage | Catherine Elizabeth Blevins |
Families
| Spouse | Catherine Elizabeth Blevins ( - 1814) |
| Child | William B. Wallen (1759 - 1850) |
| Child | Berryman Wallen (1770 - 1797) |
| Child | Catherine Wallen (1776 - ) |
| Child | John Vardeman Wallen (1780 - 1852) |
| Child | Elizabeth Walling (1792 - ) |
| Child | Lucy Palmer Wallen (1795 - 1850) |
| Child | Elisha III Walling (1795 - 1872) |
| Father | Elisha Walling (1708 - 1783) |
| Mother | Mary Blevins (1710 - ) |
| Sibling | Thomas Walling (1730 - 1800) |
| Sibling | Joseph Allen Wallen (1734 - 1792) |
| Sibling | Sarah Roberts? Walling (1736 - ) |
| Sibling | Margery Walling (1738 - 1812) |
| Sibling | Mary Walling (1740 - ) |
| Sibling | James Walling Sr. (1746 - 1786) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth "Betsy" Walling (1748 - ) |
| Sibling | John Walling (1750 - 1836) |
| Sibling | Allen Walling ( - ) |