Evidence Time Machine · 1840
Hilliard Taliaferro / Tolliver
A name inside an estate inventory
Key documented fact
Hilliard named and valued in the William Q. Taliaferro estate inventory
14 December 1840 · Copiah County
This year in the archive
2 sources · 1 people named · 1 documented events
- ? Who were Hilliard's parents?
- ? Where exactly was he living within the county?
- ? Was Bettie already in the same community?
- ? Was Hilliard born into the Taliaferro estate or acquired later?
- DocumentedSolid frame
- CorroboratedDouble frame
- Family TraditionDashed, memory layer
- Under InvestigationDotted, unresolved
- ? UnknownRecord silence
1840
A name inside an estate inventory
The earliest surviving record in this reconstruction does not describe a life. It describes an estate. Hilliard appears inside it because the legal system of the time counted him as property. He is the human subject of this year; the estate is the context around him.
- Sources
- 2
- People named
- 1
- Claims touched
- 22
- Documented events
- 1
- Evidence observations
- 4
- Open questions
- 26
Archival density only. This is a measure of surviving paperwork, never of a life's importance.
People known to the archive
- Documented
Hilliard Taliaferro / Tolliver
Family
1 record in 1840
What the records show
Hilliard named and valued in the William Q. Taliaferro estate inventory
Documented14 December 1840 · Estate Division · Copiah County (County Only)
Named entry in a probate inventory, valued at $800.