Eli B. MENDENHALL
- Born: 2 Sep 1815, Lincoln County, North Carolina
- Marriage (1): Jane C. RHINE on 9 Aug 1842 in Lincoln County, North Carolina
- Died: 16 Dec 1879, Gaston County, North Carolina at age 64
- Buried: Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina
 General Notes:
ANCESTRY: Descended from Warinus de la Strode (born 1020 in Bretagne, France), a French knight who lived at the time of William the Conqueror
ANCESTRY: 6th Great-Grandchild of John Mildenhall Jr. (born 1560), the only Englishmen to visit both royal courts of the Emperors Akbar and Jahangir, and the first Englishmen to be buried in India
ANCESTRY: Great-Nephew of John Bartram, the "Father of American Botany"
ANCESTRY: First-Cousin (Twice Removed) to William Bartram, "America's first Ornithologist"
ANCESTRY: Second-Cousin (Once Removed) to Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (born 1841), Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier's namesake
MILITARY: Eli served in the Civil War as a Confederate soldier
Eli married Jane C. RHINE on 9 Aug 1842 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. (Jane C. RHINE was born in 1818 in North Carolina, died on 27 May 1897 in Gaston County, North Carolina and was buried in Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina.)
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