Eli married Dora Belle Clontz on 12 Nov 1889 in Old Fort, McDowell County, North Carolina. Dora (daughter of Larken Berry Clontz and Martha Lucinda Pittman) was born on 15 Nov 1873 in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina; died on 25 Feb 1940 in Ogden, Weber County, Utah. [Group Sheet]