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About 150 years ago, one day in March,I stood on the stage of a large high school with the rest of the Glee Club singing "Welcome Sweet Springtime" and "The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring" while a wild snow storm raged outside. Sounds like it was just yesterday.
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THURMAN 'BUDDY' JACKSON (Tjack98100@aol.com) *****I was born in AL and now live just outside of Memphis, TN. Married and retired Academic Dean [2 Yr. Col.]. My 5th great grandmother was Sarah Taliaferro [1727-1769] mother of five soldiers of the Rev. and wife of John Lewis. Sarah was the daughter of Richard Taliaferro and Rose Berryman. Richard was the son of John Taliaferro and Sara Smith. John was the son of the Emigrant Robert Taliaferro and Katherine Debnam [Dedman]. Luckily my great grandfather Baylis Washington Harrison Lewis, born in GA, was in an established line and I have had many sources to use. [ In one book they relate, while serving in the Confederate Army in VA, a Bible deflected a bullet and saved the life of Baylis. However I have his military and pension papers and he served in the Union Army. Apparently this is why he stayed in TN after the war.]
Very briefly my line goes: My 5th great grandmother was Sarah Taliaferro, born June 7, 1727 --died Jan. 20 1769. She was married to John Lewis in 1750. Five of Sarah's sons were in the Revolution. Her parent's were Richard Taliaferro, b 1703 in VA, d. Sept 27, 1748 and Rose Berryman. They married on June 10, 1726. Richard's parents were John Taliaferro and Sara Smith. Then the line goes Robert Taliaferro/Katherine[Debnam] Dedman---Francis Taliaferro/Bennett Haie and Bartholomew Taliaferro/Joane Lane. [Some give Zachriah as the father of Richard]
The name Taliaferro stayed in my Lewis line until my great grand uncle, John Taliaferro Lewis [one of many with this name]. It has stayed even longer in other branches.
I would like to know more about Bartholomew , his life and his ancestors, I have read that he was a musician and/or a merchant.
Some of the Taliaferro sources are [1] Ancestry and Posterity of Dr. John Taliaferro and Mary [Hardin] Taliaferro: Willie Catherine Ivey [2] Descendants of Robert Taliaferro of VA: Carol A. Hauk [3] Gone to Texas: W. Wayne Rogers [4] The VA Mag. of Hist. and Biog., Vol 77, Jan 1969--The Origin of the family of Taliaferro: Sir Anthony Wagner and F.S. Andrus [5] Some Southern Colonial Families, Vol 1: David A. Avant [6] Taliaferro--Toliver Family Records: Nell [Watson] Sherman [7] Tyler's Quarterly, Vol IX,--The Taliaferro Family: John B.C. Nicklin [8] VA Genealogist, Vol 38--Who Was Catherine, Wife of Cadwallader Jones?: H.G. Taliaferro. For anyone pursuing a Lewis Family one of the best sources is Pioneer Lewis Families: Michael L. Cook, C. G. [ 5 Volumes].
[Ed. Note: I referred Buddy to Issue No. 2 of TT, distributed
13 Nov 96, in which the tradition that Bartholomew Taliaferro was a musician
was explored and a new perspective offered. I also hoped someone
would seriously challenge this perspective with new and better research.
So far, no one has. Wish someone would.]
RESPONSES
[Ed. Note: A couple of weeks ago, I questioned (privately) someone's spelling of the Beheathland and the contributor obligingly agreed that might be right and the spelling was Betheland, a popular girls' name of the 18th century. It will now be clear to one and all that I'm no authority. Read below.]
FRANCES ANN DORNBUSCH (FAD33)
*****I notice that the first Robert Beheathland spelled his name differently.
I suppose it became corrupted over the years. I have wondered how
it was pronounced: like a Heath bar or closer to the sound of heather.
Could not help but pick up on the BEHETHLAND name mentioned as coming into
the Taliaferro line through the Berrymans.
Capt. Robert Beheathland is an ancestor on another line of mine, the Foote line. Robert landed at Jamestown in 1607. He was born in England and was classified a "gentleman", perhaps one of those who 'did not work' according to John Smith. His daughter Mary married Maj. Thomas Bernard who was a Burgess for Warwick Co., VA. He immigrated to VA in 1638 to Charles City Co. Records of the county were burned and his will was lost. He died before 10 Oct. 1651. The Wm. and Mary Quarterly gives probable ancestry, but the missing link is lost! Behethland Bernard, b. ca 1635, m. Frances Dade, b. 1621 in England. He came to Virginia under the alias of John Smith because he had been such a strong supporter of King Charles I. He came to VA in 1651, three years after Charles was beheaded. He died on board ship returning to VA after securing his inheritance in 1663. He and Behethland m. ca 1650. Behethland remarried Andrew Gilson. She left a will in Westmoreland Co., VA dated 30 March 1720.
Apparently, one of Behethland GILSON's children married into the Berryman line. There has to be a connection somewhere when you note the names of the children. The first Berryman in the Foote line is Capt. Benjamin Berryman, b. ca. 1680, will was probated in 1729 in Westmoreland Co., VA. He married to Elizabeth Newton b. ca. 1685, will probated 22 Feb. 1768, Westmoreland Co., VA. Their daughter was Frances Berryman b. ca. 1708/9 Washington Parish, VA., died before 1759, St. Paul's Parish in VA 8 children: Gilson, Henry, George, Elizabeth, Frances, Behethland.
My conjecture is that Rose Berryman may have been a sister to Frances Berryman, or a close cousin. It sounds as if each was descended from the Beheathland line and the spelling got corrupted along the way. I cannot connect them to the Robert Beheathland line yet as I do not have all the children of Rob't. and their descendants; but with the unusual name, this is a likely conjecture. It is said that the female descendants of Mary have carried the name forward.
Hope this is not too confusing and I really hope that we can find the
connection between the Beheathlands and the Berrymans and the Taliaferros.
I have more information about Robert Beheathland, the immigrant.
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WELDON ROGERS (hcfr@mindspring.com) is responding here to information
I submitted last week from a non-Taliaferro correspondent. *****[In the
information referred to] . . Ann Johnson James Christopher is one of the
three orphans of Henry Johnson who chose Francis, John and Charles Taliaferro
as their guardians in 1707. Katherine Johnson's marriage has not
yet been identified. Ann Johnson who chose John Taliaferro as her
guardian m1 Hugh James and m2 John Christopher. Following John
the Ranger's death in 1720, his son John of Snow Creek took his place and
had several dealings with her before his death in 1744. I have
nothing on her James daughters or any of her Christopher children.
Richard Johnson chose Charles Taliaferro as his guardian in 1707 and
m about 1712 to Jael Harrison, only d/o James Harrison and the widow of
George Mott. She married first to William Williams and second to Harrison.
Children by both marriages. Ann Johnson married one of her step-brothers;
Elizabeth Johnson m Oct 1731 to Richard Tutt d 1767 s/o Richard and Mary
Underwood; William Johnson married Elizabeth Cave; and Thomas Johnson married
Ann Meriwether. The LDS has seen fit assign the Johnson orphans to a 7th
child of the immigrant named Mary Taliaferro (now in the IGI) who married
Henry Johnson, probably the same Henry Johnson and James Harrison on the
Smith- Taliaferro headright list in 1666.
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THURMAN 'BUDDY' JACKSON (Tjack98100@aol.com) *****I didn't see this
particular statement given in the William/Henry Debnam question, but I
may have overlooked it. In the VA Mag. of Hist. and Biog.,
Vol. 81, July 1973, article, The Townleys and Warners of Va.
and their English Connections, by Mary B. D. McCurdy she indicates
that Katherine was the widow of William Debnam. She quotes
a court record [York Co.] of Nov. 28, 1657 concerning a dispute of William
Debnam, son and heir of William Debnam [page 360]. In the book Dedman-Deadmon,
Anna l. Griffith indicates that William Debnam settled on the Charles River
[later York Co.] in 1639. The following are also given as forms of the
same name Dedman, Debnam, Debden, Dodman, Deadman, Deadmon and
Deadmond.
COLONIAL TALLIAFERROS
JOAN MIHAY (jmihay@slonet.org) *****This is from Sketches of Some of the First Settlers of Upper Georgia by George R. Glimer (several times Gov. of GA). Gilmer's book offers more color than light as you will see from the following. The Zack he speaks of, is, I believe, the son of Captain Richard Taliaferro and his wife Rose Berryman, who married Mary Boutwell in 1749 as Gilmer later refers to his oldest son Benjamin who fought in the Revolution.
"Zack Taliaferro removed from the neighborhood of Williamsburg to Amherst
County, where he settled and married. From the crossings of his immediate
ancestors he lost the beauty and effeminacy of the original stock. He was
as rough in looks and temper as the face of the country of his new home.
At the time when he located in Amherst County, and for some time after,
disputes among the mountain men were usually settled by the law of arms,
in which fist fights were the weapons of war. When champion pugilists were
about to fight, a ring was formed, with the combatants inside, and the
crowd out. The contest frequently ended with the loss of an eye, or an
ear; scarcely ever without blacking or bluing the face,and ribs. Zack was
a capital hand at such affairs, and never backed out, however overmatched.
He was one of the justices of Amherst County when the senior justice was
entitled to be sheriff of the county; the perquisites of that office being
the only pay which the justice received for even a life-time of service.
Old Zack had much higher qualifications for acting sheriff than judge.
A little after the commencement of the year when he became senior justice,
and' his sheriffalty was to begin, but before he was sworn in, he met with
a notorious outlaw, who had been able previously to avoid punishment for
his misdeeds by avoiding arrest. The outlaw took to his heels, and old
Zack after him. The pursued, finding that he was about to be overtaken,
plunged into a mill-pond near by, though the January cold was then pinching
severely, taking it for granted that he would not be followed. He reckoned
without his host. Old Zack deliberately walked in after him, took the scamp
by the collar, drew him out of the water, and then turned him loose, telling
him that he might know by what he had done what he would have to do when
he was sheriff.
RESEARCH
BETTY ANN SMIDDY (103107.3363@CompuServe.COM) *****Source: Northern Kentucky Taliaferros
Two branches of the Taliaferro line share northern Kentucky. One went overland from Virginia to Kentucky and settled in Erlanger, Kenton Co., Ky. The other line left Virginia in 1812 and came down the Ohio River, settling in Fort Thomas, Campbell Co., Ky.
The Campbell Co. branch stems from Capt. Richard Taliaferro of Caroline Co., Va. who married Rose Berryman 10 June 1726. Her parents were Major Benjamin Berryman and Elizabeth Newton. Rose was one of 22 children, 17 living to adulthood.
The children of Capt. Richard Taliaferro & Rose Berryman
were:
1) Saran, b 7 June 1727 m John Lewis
2) Benjamin b 1 Nov 1728, d c 1751
3) Zachariah b 29 Aug 1730, d 1811 S. Carolina, Sheriff Amherst
Co., Va. m
1749 Mary Boutwell (issue:Benjamin, Zachariah, Sally, Richard,
Warren,
Burton, Nancy, Mary Boutwell, Frances)
4) Richard 1731-1731
5) Dr. John b 7 April 1733, d 7 April 1821, m Mary Hardin, moved
to N.
Carolina (issue: Richard, Rose, Elizabeth, Anna, Charles, Benjamin,
Judith,
Mary, Bethland, Lucy)
6) Col. Charles b 17 July 1735 m Isabella McCullough (issue:
Richard, Charles, John,
Zachariah, Benjamin Berryman, William, Sarah, Roderick, James, Peter, Rose)
7) Beheathland b 20 Aug. 1738
8) Elizabeth b 2 Nov. 1741 m Zack Hawkins
9) Rose b 2 Nov. 1741, twin of Elizabeth
10) Peter b 12 Feb. 1740 m Ann Hackley
11) Mary b 6 Oct. 1743 m --Wortham
12) Francis b 9 Dec 1745
13) Richard b 2 Sept. 1747 m Jane Bankhead, Richard served in
the Rev. War.
Issue: Robert
b c 1770 d May 1805, m 8 Nov 1792 Ann Hubbard Taylor. (1776-1848),
Ann moved
to Ky. in 1812 their her son William Richard Taylor.William Richard Taylor
1802-
1893 m
3 times (1) Alice Washington Berry m (2) Harriett McGrew m (3) Cassandra
Paulding.
He had a total of 14 children.
Erlanger, Kenton Co., Taliaferros
I. Hay Taliaferro b Dec 1785 Caroline Co., Va. d 1835 Winchester, Clark
Co., Ky. 1803 m Elizabeth Tutt (1785-1826). Her parents were John
Tutt, Culpeper Co., Va.
Issue:
1) Charles Taliaferro b 1804 Va. Came to Ky. in
1813 with family, later moved to Saline Co., Missouri . Married late
in life in Missouri to Hattie Bailey .
2) Mary Taliaferro b 19 Nov 1805 in Va. m 7 Aug 1820 Judge
Richard French, Congressman from Ky,
grandson of Col. Richard Calloway .
3) Ann Hay Taliaferro b 1808 Va., moved with her brother
to Saline Co., Missouri. Unm.
4) Margaret Aylett Taliaferro b c 1812, Va. m Edmund Hockaday
5) ( Major) John Taliaferro b 1814 d 1898
Clark Co., Ky. m Lucy Hickman
Issue. a. Sarah
Taliaferro 1843-1914 m 1861 J. V. Morton
b. Charles Hay Taliaferro 1845-1852
c. Elizabeth Ann Taliaferro 1848-1899 m Judge William Morgan Beckner
d. Lucy Aylett Taliaferro b 1854 m 1882 Dr. I. Howard
McKinley
6) William Aylett Taliaferro, minister
7) Philip Taliaferro 1822-1897, b Clintonville, Ky., died
Boone Co., Ky. m 4 Oct. 1849
Mildred Clarkson Parrish (1832-1869), daughter of Edmund Hockaday Parrish
and
Mildred Smith Clarkson.
Issue: a. Margaret
Ann Taliaferro b 1850 m John Daniel Smith, Scott Co.,Ky.
b. Susan Elizabeth Taliaferro 1852-1929 m 21 Feb. 1878 Boone Co., Ky. John
G.
Bradford
c. Mary Elizabeth Taliaferro 1854-1858
d. Edmund Aylett Taliaferro 1857-1857
e. John William Taliaferro b 1860 Boone Co., Ky d 1944 Erlanger,
Ky. m 26 June
1884
Sarah C. Blanton (1869-1944). Issue:
aa. Ella Taliaferro 1886-1962, unmarried, teacher
bb. Philip Taliaferro b 1889 m Shirley Denny, funeral home director
Issue:
aaa. Philip Taliaferro b 1937, attorney, Covington, Kenton Co., Ky.
m Doris
Gibson
bbb. Betsey Taliaferro b 1942 m David Mann, former councilman of
Cincinnati
OH
cc. Sarah Madge Taliaferro 1891-1969 m Edwin Victor, Erlanger, Ky.
dd. Henry Blanton Taliaferro died infant
f. Mildred Virginia Taliaferro 1862-1894, unmarried, was a teacher in Texas
g. Philip Hay Taliaferro 1865-1865
h. infant 1866
i. infant 1868
j. Callaway French Taliaferro 1869-1942 m William H. Sutherland
8) Robert Hay Taliaferro b 1824 Ky. d 1875
Austin, Tx. m 1855 Chloe Ann Andrews
Issue: a. Anna Taliaferro
b. Washington Taliaferro
c. Elizabeth Taliaferro
d. Fannie Taliaferro
e. Chloe Taliaferro
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(VLTP@aol.com)
>From Ky Explorer-April 1997-page 98 "Genealogy from Long Ago from
Old Scrapbook of 1890s" Col. John McKinney and his wife Sarah Taliaferro
had five children>>John McKinney m Augusta Mayo (became a Judge)>>Jane
McKinney m Nathaniel Wise of Virginia>>Agnes Bodine McKinney m Hubbard
Taylor Berry of Newport,Ky>>Sallie Banket McKinney m Francis Taliaferro
Helm>>Mary McKinney m John Taliaferro.>>Col. McKinney was a widower when
he cam to Newport, but afterward married the widow of Edmund Taylor, by
whom he had one son named Monroe, who died young. Col McKinney had
numerous descendants in the vicinity of Covington and Newport. The
Wises, Helms, and Berrys are his great- grandchildren. His son Judge
John McKinney has one child living, Mrs. Mary V. Terrel of Des Moines,
Iowa. The above is correct, as my father was a grandson. End
of article.
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