Elizabeth Tilley
She was married on 21 August 1827 in Wilkes County, North Carolina, up under the Blue Ridge, and she was about eighteen. The bond survives. It calls her of the county aforesaid, pledges five hundred pounds against any lawful cause to obstruct the match, and carries her husband's name written around a cross with the word mark under it, because he could not sign it himself. Her husband James Brookshire was ten years older. Their first child was born two and a half years later and six more followed, and the last of the seven arrived after the family had crossed into the Georgia mountains, which they did some time between 1847 and 1850.
In the 1850 census of Union County she is a woman of about forty one, born in North Carolina, with six children around her from nineteen down to one. Twenty years later she is still beside her husband, in Gilmer County, both of them past sixty, with a couple of grown girls and a baby in the house. By 1880 she is a widow of about seventy living at Tickanetley with her youngest son Alvy, his wife and seven grandchildren, and the enumerator that year had a column for relationships and used it, so the page says in so many words that she is his mother.
She died in 1884 and lies at Pisgah Church of Christ Cemetery outside Ellijay. Her stone reads Elizabeth Tilley Brookshire.
Her maiden name is on the Georgia death certificate of her daughter Jane Elisabeth Long, who died at Protection in Gilmer County in 1928. It names her father as James Brookshire and her mother as Elisabeth Tilley. Jane was the daughter born in 1847, and she had married a Long, into the very family her brother Levi had married into thirteen years before.
Her own parents are not named in any known record, but her family is known. The Tilleys of Wilkes County held land on the middle fork of Kings Creek and their patriarch was Edmund Tilley, whose will was proved in May of 1800 and who left six named sons and four named daughters. One of those daughters was an Elizabeth, and she is not this one: Edmund was ten years dead before this Elizabeth was born. She belongs to the next layer down, a granddaughter, the child of one of six brothers. In 1830 one of those brothers, Lewis, was keeping house within ten doors of hers.
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Cite: Heirology, "Elizabeth Tilley (1810-1884)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/elizabeth-tilley-1810-1884-823954.