Richard Henry Taliaferro

Named in secondary compilations among the free people associated with Taliaferro holdings in Copiah County, Mississippi. No original record has yet been reviewed in BEFORE TILL connecting him directly to Hilliard.

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

• A Hillyard and an Agnes in the same Virginia estate, 1831

  Under Investigation

  Can the people in Richard H. Taliaferro's 1831 estate be traced through the estate division into the households of his heirs, and from there into the William Q. Taliaferro estate?

1. Orange County estate sale, 1825 — Taliaferros as purchasers

   Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · "Orange, Virginia, United States records," images, FamilySearch · Digital Image

   Digital image of original record · Original image: Citation entered — image review pending · BT-SRC-00563

2. Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia

   Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · "Orange, Virginia, United States records," images, FamilySearch · Digital Image

   Digital image of original record · Original image: Citation entered — image review pending · BT-SRC-00559

3. Appraisement of the enslaved people in the estate of Richard H. Taliaferro

   Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · "Orange, Virginia, United States records," images, FamilySearch · Digital Image

   Digital image of original record · Original image: Citation entered — image review pending · BT-SRC-00560

4. Appraisement of the personal estate of Richard H. Taliaferro

   Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · "Orange, Virginia, United States records," images, FamilySearch · Digital Image

   Digital image of original record · Original image: Citation entered — image review pending · BT-SRC-00561

5. Aggregate appraisement and return to court, estate of Richard H. Taliaferro

   Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · "Orange, Virginia, United States records," images, FamilySearch · Digital Image

   Digital image of original record · Original image: Citation entered — image review pending · BT-SRC-00562

6. Will of John Taliaferro of Orange County, Virginia

   Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · "Orange, Virginia, United States records," images, FamilySearch · Digital Image

   Digital image of original record · Original image: Citation entered — image review pending · BT-SRC-00564

7. 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

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