Elijah Puckett, son of Zachariah and Edith (Kester) Puckett, was born on 4 March 1815 according to all accounts. Most records show his birthplace as Randolph County, Indiana, but it is most likely that he was actually born in Surry County, North Carolina, and brought to Indiana as a small boy. His daughter, Sylvia Ann (Puckett) Petty, listed her father's place of birth as North Carolina in the 1900 Census, and I believe she is correct. It is most likely that his mother was Edith Kester and that she died shortly after his birth. His father then remarried to Edith Jackson in Surry County, North Carolina in 1817 and moved to Randolph County, Indiana in 1819. Thus Elijah Puckett was raised by her. By then she, too, had become a Quaker, and Elijah was raised as a Quaker. In the records of the White River Monthly Meeting of Randolph County, we find a note that Elijah Puckett was "complained for deviation from plainness and attending places of diversion" and disowned on 12 March 1838. Elijah Puckett, a farmer, was married to Catherine Keever, daughter of Adam and Mary (Hunter) Keever, in Delaware County, Indiana, by Abraham Kline, Justice of the Peace, on 16 November 1843. (Delaware County was created from Randolph County in 1827). They continued to live there until 1855 when they moved to central Iowa, where they stayed for only a short time before moving to Jasper Township in Carroll County, Iowa. There they settled in what became known as the old Pioneer Farm on the banks Basceen of the Raccoon River, between the towns of Glidden and Lake City. Elijah Puckett was active in the civic affairs of Carroll County, and he was a member of the first jury of Carroll County. The family was also active in the Christian Church there. Elijah Puckett died in Carroll County, Iowa, 28 August 1896, and his wife, Catherine Puckett died 30 May 1904. They are both buried in the Cottonwood Cemetery in Lake City, Iowa.

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