Elinor, known as Ellender, was born in 1765 in Staunton Township, Bedford Co., Virginia.1 Ellender's father was John Stump and her mother was Ann. Her maternal grandparents were Frederick and <Unknown>. She had a brother and a sister, named Thomas and Sarah?. She was the oldest of the three children. She had two half-brothers and a half-sister, named William, John and Margaret.