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From: "Carroll Tarver" <>
Subject: Re: [TARVER-L] tarver immigrants - early lineages
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:22:24 -0500
References: <F144QKwZkYvSpjYPEsJ0001ffc5@hotmail.com>


Whatever happened to the Benjamin Tarver that got the GA passport and came
to MS Terr.about the same time that the Cockerhams and Tarvers arrived.
Could this have been Dempsey's Father.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Smith" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 3:54 PM
Subject: RE: [TARVER-L] tarver immigrants - early lineages


> Lotus,
>
> I have a feeling that Judith Cockerham married Thomas Tarver, not Benjamin
> and that Benjamin (like you said below) married someone else. All I can
say
> is that my grandfather, who gave me a lot of genealogical information,
said
> that he saw the old Wactor Bible and that Bible stated that Dempsey was
the
> son of Benjamin Taver who died in the 1820s. I have no idea of where that
> Bible is today. My great-grandfather was named William Dempsey Wactor (he
> died when I was 11) and he was named for his maternal grandfather.
Dempsey
> married Rachel Bunch in 1821, Wilkinson County, so I believe that
Benjamin
> died in Mississippi. I also believe that Allen, Westley who married Mary
> Bunch, and James Jennings Tarver were Dempsey's brothers. There is a John
> Bunch who was the bondsman for Dempsey's marriage license.
>
> In the 1820 Amite County, Census are the following Tarver men: Jenkins,
> Allen, and Benjamin. This can't be our Benjamin because the oldest male
is
> age 16 to 26 and the only female is in the same category. In Franklin Co.
> 1820 census there is a John Taver who has 2 males under age 10, 1 male to
> age 45, 3 females to 10, and 1 female to age 45. In Wilkinson County,
> Westley Tarver is listed on page 131, 1 male 16 to 18 and 1 female to age
45
> (his mother?).
>
> We're getting a thunderstorm here, so I'll close this one for now.
>
> Sharon
>
>
> >From: Lotus Cirilo <>
> >Reply-To:
> >To:
> >Subject: RE: [TARVER-L] tarver immigrants - early lineages
> >Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:34:19 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >lol. you are way funny. everytime i think i have figured out that
> >lineage i decide to look again.
> >
> >what i would appreciate is seeing a copy of the bible record that names
> >dempsey's daddy as benjamin ... and maybe then i could see if it gives
any
> >more clues to which benjamin.
> >
> >my idea, also without a shred of proof, is that judith's husband was
> >married twice and the franklin county bunch is of his first marriage
while
> >the amite county bunch is of his second.
> >
> >that would explain why the amite county bunch gets named among the heirs
> >of judith's daddy, john cockerham. also why the two groups seem so
> >twightly woven in terms of naming guardian's for children and relocating
> >from one area to another and all such.
> >
> >they are closely related, i'm sure of that. especially judith's kids and
> >the franklin county tarver lines ... more so than any of the other amite
> >county lines, i think.
> >
> >but the fact that john cockerham died intestate and all descendants are
> >named, leaving out the dempsey bunch and the sterling bunch, and their
> >several siblings ... this makes it impossible for them to be descended
> >from judith and her husband's marriage.
> >
> >but the quandary can be resolved and i'm sure one of us will do it!
> >
> >On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Terri G. Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Lotus,
> > >
> > > Since you are so well-versed in piecing together all these Tarvers',
> > > when are you going to get around to telling us who Dempsey's father
was?
> > > (TEEHEE)
> > > I am patiently waiting on you!
> > >
> > > Terri
> >
> >
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