Cawfield Taylor Tillery (1806 - 1881)

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Biography

Cawfield Tillery was born on December 01, 1806 in Tennessee, United States. His parents were Henry Samuel Tillery and Jane Taylor.

He married Irena Brooks on August 24, 1830.^[1] Together they had 3 children:

1. Leonard Tillery
2. Samuel Matthews Tillery
3. John Tillery

He married Nancy Fuller on July 14, 1838.^[2] Together they had 6 children, including:

1. Margaret Tillery
2. Sampson Tillery
3. Hugh Tillery

He married Martha Dunn née Geurin on January 08, 1852.^[3] Together they had 4 children, including:

1. Cawfield Tillery

He died on November 20, 1881 in Marble Township, Saline, Arkansas, United States.

Burial: Antioch Cemetery, Saline Co, AR, USA. Headstone: C. T. Tillery, Died Nov. 20, 1881, Aged 74 year 11 months 19 days. ^[4]

General Notes: "He is buried near the foot of Gosepond Mountain in a beautiful little valley of the Middle Fork of the Saline River. James Cawfield Tillery, grandson, and one of a committee to establish a permanet fund to assure perpetual care for this historic burrying ground, wrote (1972): 'We the heirs of this legacy, hold this to be sacred ground -- not because these dead lie buried here, but because they, while they yet lived, came here to bury their dead and to comfort the living. They brought in their hands the written word of the Living God, the sure promise of the resurrection to eternal life after the order of Christ Jesus.'" "Cawfield Taylor Tillery's tombstone bears the inscription 'Lived respected; died regrettiflly.'" (from the writing of Mrs. Tauscher, Merriott, Knox and Andrus dated July 4,1973) From the studies of Mrs. Tauscher, Merriott, Knox and Andrus dated July 4, 1973: "Cawfield Taylor Tillery drove a team of matched black oxen from Meigs County, Tennessee, to Saline County, Arkansas, for which he was offered the block of ground where the Arkansas National Bank was later built in downtown Hot springs, Arkansas. Years later Walter Benjamin Lanning, MD, who married Cawfield Taylor Tillery's granddaughter medora Elizabeth tillery, had his first offices in the building." ...

"Cawfield had four sons and a stepson to serve in the Confederate Army; two sons were killed. Both armies marched along the Middle Fork of the Saline, sometimes making camp at the foot of the Goosepond Mountain, and there were a number of 'bush-whacking incidents.' The story is told that Cawfield hid his gold in the harness room, placing the chins behind the pegs on which the harness was hung."<p>

Sources

1. ↑ "Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8YH-5M5 : 16 March 2020), Cawfield Tillery, 1830.
2. ↑ "Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDSY-74B : 16 March 2020), Coffield Tillery, 1839.
3. ↑ "Arkansas Marriages, 1837-1944", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQYK-LMG : 11 January 2020), Cawfield T. Tillery, 1852.
4. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 January 2019), memorial page for Cawfield Taylor Tillery (1 Dec 1806–20 Nov 1881), Find A Grave: Memorial #59730411, citing Antioch Cemetery, Owensville, Saline County, Arkansas, USA ; Maintained by P. V. Hays (contributor 46588659) .

• Diana Tillery, firsthand knowledge. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Diana and others.
• Unsourced family tree handed down to Marv Tillery Jr..