Elias married Eliza, daughter of Theodore Hudson and Jemima (Barber) Bunce, born 12 December 1801 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, and died 20 December 1896 in Adams Center, New York. They are both buried at State Road (Honeyville) Cemetery in Adams Center.
Elias and Eliza are listed in the 1835 census as having six other people living in the household, but it does not indicate their ages. The 1840 census lists a female, age 80-90, living with them; this was probably Elias' mother, Bethia, who would have been 85 at the time.
By 1850 Bethia had died, and Eliza's mother, Jemima Barber Bunce, age 76, was living with the family; she had been widowed in 1845. In 1880, Elias, age 81, with Eliza, age 79, and their daughter Lovilla, 57, were living in Adams with a grandson, Herbert Parham, 24, who was the son of their daughter Elizabeth.
Elias and Eliza joined the First Baptist Church of Adams Center in 1837.
The History of Jefferson County, New York [1878], p. 249, states:
"After the completion of the railroad, a hotel was built near the depot by E. Oatman, which is generally used for this purpose [an inn]."
It has not been determined whether "E. Oatman" referred to Elias or possibly to his brother Elijah (#98).
Elias' Will is recorded in the Jefferson County Surrogate's Court (Vol. 23, p. 471--1884).
Children of Elias and Eliza (Bunce) Oatman, all b. Adams, Jefferson Co., NY:
440 Lovila, b. 27 Apr 1823; d. 21 Apr 1881; bur. State Road (Honeyville) Cem., Adams Center, Jefferson Co., NY. Unmarried.
441 Henry C., b. 1 Oct 1825; d. 11 Mar 1902, aged 76 yr, 5 mo, 10 da.; m. Saphrona _______
442 Walter, b. 15 Aug 1827; d. 31 Oct 1879; bur. State Road (Honeyville) Cem., Adams Center, NY; m. Martha Ann Parker
443 Edward, b. Dec 1827/28; d. 1912; m. Phila A. Parker
444 Elizabeth, d. by 1884, as she is listed as deceased in her father's estate; m. _____ Parham. Children, surname Parham: