An entry in the LDS Church IGI claims that John McAnally and Ann Stone are Elisha's parents.

1824 - Marriages of Lawrence County, Tennessee

  McAnnally, Elisha    No name    12-29-1824  B

1850 Census - Wayne County, Tennessee
District #6 - 19 Sep 1850

  351 356
  E. R. McAnaly     54 M Gun Smith  600  NC
  Furraby           43 F                 GA
  Jane              21 F                 Tenn
  James             19 M                 Tenn
  Saphrony          16 F                 Tenn
  William           14 M                 Tenn
  John              12 M                 Tenn
  Allison           10 M                 Tenn
  Franklin           8 M                 Tenn
  Ephragm B.         5 M                 Tenn
  George T.          3 M                 Tenn

1860 Census - Wayne County, Tennessee
Civil District #17 - 2 August 1860

  903 903
  E. R. McInally   64 M Gun Smith 1100 1100 N.C.
  Phereba S.       52 F                     Geor
  Malinda          26 F                     Tenn
  Harrison H.      19 M Farm Laborer        Tenn
  Doctor F.        17 M Farm Laborer        Tenn
  Elisha B.        16 M                     Tenn
  Gibson T.        12 M                     Tenn
  Martha L.         8 F                     Tenn
  David A.          4 M                     Tenn

misc. - Goodspeed's History of Wayne County, Tennessee p. 872

James E. M. McAnally is the son of Elisha R. McAnally, who was born in North Carolina, and who was a
farmer and gunsmith by occupation.  He married Feriba Bowden, of Georgia, and they together reared a
family of twelve children, and accumulated some property.  He and Mrs. McAnally were members of the
Christian Church, and he was a Whig in politics, and sided with the Union during the late Rebellion.
 His wife died in 1865 and he in 1873.  Our subject's birth occurred in Wayne County in 1830.  He
began farming for himself at the age of twenty-five years, and after living in different localities
in the county, finally in 1870, purchased his present farm of 160 acres.  Besides this, he owns
about 500 acres in different locations in the county, and devotes the most of his land to the
production of corn, small grain and peanuts.  In 1855 he united his fortunes with those of Fannie
Robnett, daughter of John and Nancy (Staggs) Robnett.  She was born in 1834 and is the mother of
eight children: Toulbert F., Houston, Ellender, Louisa, Esther, Margaret, Timothy R., and an infant
deceased, not named.  Mr. McAnally and his wife are members of the Christian Church, and he has
always been a firm republican in politics.