Huff Family

The Huff family was centered around Elizabeth Norton Wells Huff. Elizabeth's first husband, Thomas Wells died in 1847, leaving her with his four children from a previous marriage: Albert, Green, Jackson, and Zipporah who married Monroe Willis. Elizabeth and Thomas also had three children: Margaret (Wells) Henry, Montgomery, and Warren. After Thomas' death, Elizabeth married Jeremiah Huff and had three more children: Sarah (a prominent Atlanta writer), Cordelia, and Silas Clayton Huff. Elizabeth's sister was Sarah A. Norton and her brother was William F. Norton. Jeremiah also had a sister, Palantine, who married William Miles Penn with whom Elizabeth and her family moved in when she fled the fighting in Atlanta.