| | He died in [[Shreveport]] at the age of fifty-seven and is interred at Highland Cemetery in Mansfield.<ref name=bio>''The Shreveport Times'', October 25, 1935; ''Mansfield Enterprise'', obituary, October 29, 1935.</ref> | | He died in [[Shreveport]] at the age of fifty-seven and is interred at Highland Cemetery in Mansfield.<ref name=bio>''The Shreveport Times'', October 25, 1935; ''Mansfield Enterprise'', obituary, October 29, 1935.</ref> |
| − | After her husband's death, Margaret Taylor Elam, moved her children to the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]] so they would be near [[Louisiana State University]]. Their daughter, also named Margaret Taylor Elam, married the attorney Richard Harmon Drew, Sr., of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], whom she met at LSU and who was later the Webster Parish member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 and 1978. One of their three children, Elam's grandson, is Harmon Drew, Jr., of Minden, a judge since 1998 of the Louisiana Circuit Court of Appeal for the Second District, based in Shreveport. | + | After her husband's death, Margaret Taylor Elam, moved her children to the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]] so they would be near [[Louisiana State University]]. Their daughter, also named Margaret Taylor Elam, married the attorney Richard Harmon Drew, Sr., of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], whom she met at LSU and who was later the Webster Parish member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972 and 1978. One of their three children, Elam's grandson, is [[Harmon Drew, Jr.]], of Minden, a judge since 1998 of the Louisiana Circuit Court of Appeal for the Second District, based in Shreveport. |