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Elliston married
Elizabeth Boddie. She was a granddaughter of his stepmother. They resided at the Burlington mansion, which they had built in 1859 to incorporate a house built by his father Joseph. Then within a 208-acre plantation, its former site is on what is today modern-day Elliston Place. Their
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Burlington mansion as a base, after it had occupied Nashville . Elliston had hid "the valuables of Nashville merchants" in his basement. After the war, Elliston was among several businessmen who called for the construction of a chapel in Lexington, Virginia, in honor of
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Elliston (1841–1879) married Leonora née Chapman (1846–1899). Among their children was William R. Elliston (1872–1909), named for his grandfather. He married Selene Harding Jackson, a daughter of General
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Nashville, Tennessee. An investor in railroads and real estate, Elliston entered his horses in equestrian competitions. The former plantation property was later developed as modern-day
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Elizabeth arranged to build a new mansion in 1859 to replace his father's plantation house. Elliston continued to depend on slave labor to operate the plantation.
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Lizinska married Edward Buford, a Confederate veteran, in November 1875. They had five children, four of whom survived to adulthood, including Edward Buford III.
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in equestrian competitions such as the ones held by the
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