Municipal Cemetery
Selected Graves - Albany, Georgia

Photographed May 2002. Location: Downtown Albany.

Henry Andrew Tarver March 26, 1826 - February 10, 1897

Henry Andrew Tarver Tombstone at Municipal Cem., Albany, Georgia

Born in Twiggs Co., Georgia, Henry Andrew Tarver was the second son of Gen. Hartwell Hill Harrison Tarver and Ann Rutherford Wimberly. He married in 1850 to Eliabeth Griffin, also of Twiggs county.

Henry A. Tarver was a prominent citizen in Baker Co., Georgia, a plantation owner and slaveholder with 87 slaves in his household at the time fo the 1850 census.

It was about this time that the Tarver Plantation of Baker Co., GA was built, and many believe it was a wedding gift from Gen. Hartwell Tarver for his son and new bridE Henry and Elizabeth moved onto the plantation and most of their children are thought to have been born on the 3,700 acre plnation, which the family call the "HomeplacE " Operated with slave labor, the Tarver Plantation provided the Conferate Army with food and other supplies during the Civil War, aftwerwards converting to sharecropping.

After the War, Henry Tarver served one term in the Georgia House of Representatives from Baker County in 1871-72. Following this term, he and his family moved from their plantation to Atlanta, where the family remained until 1887. That year, they returned to Albany.

Upon his death in Albany, on 10 Feb 1897, Henry deeded the plantation to his wife and their eight children jointly.

Elizabeth Griffin Solomon September 06, 1831 - June 07, 1909

Elizabeth Solomon Tarver Tombstone at Municipal Cem., Albany, Georgia

Elizabeth Griffen Solomon was the d/o William Solomon and Sarah L. Smith, and the wife of Henry Andrew Tarver.

It is unclear to me why she was enumerated as the head of her household in 1880, given that her husband, Henry Andrew Tarver, was still living.

What follows is the enumeration for her household.

Elizabeth Tarver family.
1880 Census Dougherty Co Ga hh 278
Elizabeth Tarver, 48F, marr Ga-Ga-Ga.
Hartwell H Tarver 27M son grocer Ga-Ga-Ga.
Mamie Tarver 21F dau.
Paul 20M dau.
Henry A 14M son.
Fort 13M son.
Also Benj Dunlap 19M single clerk in store, Ga-Ga-Ga. East Doughterty Dist p 93. [family of Elizabeth Griffin Solomon w/o Henry Andrew Tarver]

Owen Fort Tarver May 26, 1867 - October 24, 1944

Owen Fort Tarver Tarver Tombstone at Municipal Cem., Albany, Georgia

Sheriff of Dougherty Co., Georgia for many years.

In 1840, Fort sold the plantation to Russell A. Alger. Alger restored Henry Tarver's plantation and renamed it "Placida." Resold in 1947, the new owners, Mr. & Mrs. Don Hunter of Montana, renamed the old Tarver Plantation as TARVA Plantation, as they believed it more closely reflected the southern pronunciation of the original family's name. On 27 Nov 1989, Tarver Plantation was officially registered in the National Register of Historic Places (Hist of Baker Co., Georgia)

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The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Vol.155: 118
DAR Lineage

Mrs. Paul Tarver Weston.
DAR ID Number: 154370
Born in Baker Co., Georgia
Wife of Jessie D. Weston.
Descendant of Sergt. Henry Slappey, as follows:

1. Henry Andrew Tarver (1826-97) m. 1848 Elizabeth Griffin Solomon (1833-1909).
2. Hartwell Tarver (b. 1784) m. 1823 Anne Wimberly.
3. Ezekiel Wimberly (1781-1825) m. Dorothy Brooks Slappey (1789-1817).
4. Henry Slappey m. 1788 Anne Rutherford (1768-1855). Henry Slappey (1758-1820) served as sergeant in the South Carolina Line. He was born in South Carolina; died in Twiggs Co., Georgia

NOTES

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Sources

History of Dougherty Co., Georgia.
History of Baker Co., Georgia.
Photos submitted by Jill Chessler.