James T. Elliott

Born in 1823 A native of Columbus, Georgia, Elliott attended the public schools and studied law.

Mathew Brady photographed their younger son, William Sells Elliott, on the front porch of the house.

Elliott was briefly a circuit judge of the Sixth Judicial District of Arkansas from October 2, 1865, to September 15, 1866.

In this time period, the family lost two daughters, Belle and Emmaline Elliott to yellow fever on the same day.

During Reconstruction, the U.S. Representative James M. Hinds was assassinated on October 22, 1868, by George A. Clark, a member of the Ku Klux Klan and the secretary of the Democratic Committee of Monroe County, Arkansas.

U.S. Representative James Thomas Elliott's son, William Sells Elliott; William ran the Elliott Grocery Store on family land located outside of Camden , Arkansas . The Elliott family lost three of their four children.
The Elliott House was built in Camden by U.S. Representative James Thomas Elliott. During the American Civil War , the house was requisitioned by Union General Frederick Salomon and housed, simultaneously, Elliott's own Confederate family and the war photographer Mathew Brady .
Daughters of Augusta and James Thomas Elliott, Belle and Emmaline, died the same day of yellow fever