Joseph E. Taliaferro / Tolliver

Joseph E. is enumerated as a two-year-old in the Taliaferro household in 1870 and as a twelve-year-old son of Hilliard and Bettie, working as a farm hand, in 1880. The two ages are consistent within a year. No record entered in this archive follows him past 1880.

No claim in this case has reached documented status.

• The eighty-acre place

  “John and Laura acquired approximately eighty acres, with a house, barns, livestock, a blacksmith shop, wells, orchards, pastures, streams, gardens, trees, and poultry.”

  Earliest known teller: Alma Smith Spearman · BT-TRD-00097

• Laura attended "Vicksburg College"

  “Laura Tolliver, while yet a student of Vicksburg College, was given in marriage to John Smith, a country farmer.”

  Earliest known teller: Alma Smith Spearman · BT-TRD-00098

• Bishop C. H. Mason in the Smith home

  “Around 1897 John and Laura Smith welcomed Bishop C. H. Mason into their home, extended an ongoing invitation for him to stay when in the area, their son Joe cared for his horse and buggy, and their oldest grandson Mason Harrison Smith was named for him.”

  Earliest known teller: Alma Smith Spearman · BT-TRD-00099

• The five-year separation

  “Hilliard was sold to another enslaver in Arkansas and separated from Bettie. Bettie's grief was so constant that her enslavers purchased Hilliard back, ending a separation the family remembers as lasting about five years.”

  Earliest known teller: Alma Smith Spearman · BT-TRD-00195

• Choctaw ancestry in Bettie's line

  “Family memory identifies Choctaw ancestry in the ancestry of Bettie Alexander Taliaferro, born about 1837.”

  Earliest known teller: Not recorded · BT-TRD-00604

• Shawnee ancestry in Hilliard's line

  “Family memory identifies Shawnee ancestry in the ancestry of Hilliard Taliaferro, born about 1823 in Virginia.”

  Earliest known teller: Not recorded · BT-TRD-00605

No open question is currently recorded.

1. 1880 U.S. Census — Rose Hill Precinct, Copiah County, Mississippi (Taliaferro household, p. 24)

   H. H. Barlow, enumerator · FamilySearch / National Archives and Records Administration · United States Census, 1880 · Digital Image

   Digital image of original record · Original image: Citation entered — image review pending · BT-SRC-00455

2. 1870 U.S. Census — Copiah County, Mississippi

   United States Bureau of the Census · FamilySearch / National Archives and Records Administration · U.S. census, Copiah County, Mississippi, population schedule, Townships 9 & 10 (Post Office Hazlehurst) · Digital Image

   Digital image of original record · Original image: Citation entered — image review pending · BT-SRC-00036

3. Bibliographic details pending — family history by Alma Smith Spearman

   Alma Smith Spearman · Authored Narrative

   Authored family history · Original image: Publication details pending · BT-SRC-00040

2 discrete observations were extracted from these sources for this case.