Sylvester Johnson Elliott was born on July 6, 1868, in Wayne County, Indiana. He married Mary Estella Craig in 1910. They had three children during their marriage. He died on January 22, 1953, in Sterling, Kansas, at the age of 84.

Hutchinson News Herald Friday January 23, 1953
Sylvester J. Elliott
Sterling- Sylvester J. Elliott, 84, retired farmer, died in Veterans Hospital at Wichita Thursday morning.
He was born in Wayne County, Ind., July 6, 1968, had lived in the Sterling community 77 years, was a Spanish American war veteran.
Survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Leona Jessop, Wichita, Mrs. Russell Pallister, Atchison, and Mrs. Harold Ellis, Madison; a son Henry , Nickerson; five brothers, Mood, Lyons, Tabor, Sterling, C.G., Sterling Ben, Delta, Colo., and Stanley, Gage, Okla.; and four grandchildren.
Funeral will be at t2:30 p, m, Sunday in Missionary church here with burial in Sterling cemetery.