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Elijah L Tarver CemeterySummit, Pike Co., Mississippi
Located in Summit, Pike Co., Mississippi, north of McComb. From I-55 take Hwy 98 west towards Meadville. Turn north on Liberty-Jackson Rd. SW and then turn right onto paved road past Adams United Methodist Church. Folow it to cemetery, about .4 miles.
There are five graves in this family cemetery, enclosed in a wrought iron fence in a wooded area on the roadside. Photos, courtesy courtesy of B G Butler, g s/o George Harrison Butler & Mary Elizabeth Tarver, are online.
Go to slideshow / photos of Elijah L Tarver Cemetery gravestones.
Elijah L Tarver
b. Dec. 8, 1811, d. June 10, 1890,
Aged 78 Yr's 6 Mo's 2D's.
Inscription: In Memory Of
Elizabeth, wife of Elijah L Tarver
b. Aug. 2, 1808, d. Mar. 11, 1883,
Aged 74 Ys, 7 Ms, 9 Ds.
Inscription: In Memory Of
Josiah P.
Son of E L & E Tarver
b. Feb. 1, 1849, d. Feb. 2, 1878
Aged 29 Yrs. & 1 Day.
Inscription: In Memory Of At Rest In Heaven
Lillian Jane
Daughter of M E & G H Butler
b. Nov. 23, 1884, d. Dec. 17, 1884
Inscription: Budded on earth to bloom in heaven
Octavia Muse
Daughter of Julia & W A Tarver
b. July 9, 1870, d. May 07, 1886
Inscription: Sacred To The Memory Of
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Notes
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Elijah Lovett Tarver was the son of Allen Tarver and Elizabeth Cockerham, who were
married on Jul 30, 1809 in Amite Co., Mississippi. His brother, Elisha Lott Tarver,
married Hannah French Hamilton on Dec 30, 1847 in Amite county, Mississippi. His
sister, Elizabeth Ann Tarver, married William Richmond on May 11, 1836 in Amite Co.
See Records | Probate section for will of Allen Tarver with notes. See Wicker Cem.,
Amite Co., Ms for additional on Elisha Lott Tarver.
Family of Elijah Lovett Tarver
1 Elijah Lovett Tarver, b. Dec 08, 1811 Lincoln Co., or Franklin Co., Mississippi
.. +Elizabeth Powell, b. Aug 02, 1808 Madison, Georgia
..... 2 Katie Tarver
..... 2 Elisha Tarver, b. Mar Mar ???, 18??
..... 2 Elzara Jane Tarver, b. Apr 04, 1833 Pike Co., Mississippi
......... +William Bethea Raiford, b. Nov 01, 1820 Goldsboro, Wayne Co., NC
..... 2 William Allen Tarver I, b. Mar 16, 1838 Summit, Pike Co., Mississippi
......... +Julia Elizabeth Muse, b. Nov 12, 1845 East Feliciana Par., Louisiana
..... 2 Thomas Pitkin Tarver, b. 1841 Pike Co., Mississippi
..... 2 Melissa Ann Tarver, b. Oct 22, 1844 Pike Co., Mississippi
......... +Joseph Enoch Carruth, b. Apr 18, 1841
..... 2 Mary Elizabeth Tarver, b. Feb 02, 1847 Pike Co., Mississippi
......... +George Harrison Butler, b. May 03, 1843 Amite Co., Mississippi
..... 2 Josiah Powell Tarver, b. Feb 01, 1849 Pike Co., Mississippi
..... 2 Georgia Mona Washington Tarver, b. Apr 26, 1852 Mississippi
......... +Elijah Cain Harvey, b. Jul 24, 1848 Amite Co., Mississippi
*2nd Wife of Elijah Lovett Tarver:
.. +Elizabeth Lamkin, b. Feb 13, 1835 Columbus, Muscogee Co., Georgia
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Reference
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1850 Mississippi Slave Schedule, 475, Tarver ELIJAH L Pike County MS
No Township Listed.
Bible record of George Harrison Butler, (Ms Cem & Bible Records, vol.
13: 47-48, Mississippi Geneal. Society).
Butler, Jill , Cemetery survey, Coker Cem.,
Lincoln Co., Mississippi, ([online]
www.mindspring.com/~butlerlj/genehome/), "Electronic."
Casey, Albert Eugene, Amite Co., Mississippi 1699-1890, vol. 3,
(Birmingham, Alabama, 1957).
Cirilo, Lotus D., Cemetery survey, Gloster Cem., Amite Co.,
Mississippi, Surveyed, photographs, July 1999.
CSA Military Service and Pension Records, George Harrison Butler,
(Mississippi Rosters). CSA, Co. K, 44th Ms Regiment, Blythe's
Brigade, Hood's Corp, wounded 4 times.
Death certificate, Mary Elizabeth Butler, (Franklin Co., Mississippi,
cert. no.6812, 4 Mar 1929, informant D.P. Butler, MD of McCall Creek,
Ms.).
Doughtie, Beatrice Mackie, The Mackeys and Allied Families, (Decatur,
GA: Bowen Press, Inc., 1957), 613.
Federal Population Schedule MS, Elijah L Tarver household, 1850,
(Pike Co., Mississippi, hh 343, lns 20-28), Tarver, Elijah L, 38M,
Farmer, 2000, Mississippi.
Federal Population Schedule MS, Elijah L Tarver household, 1860,
(Amite Co., MS, reel no. M653-577, p.522-523, hh 9-9, lns 34-40, 1-3,
enum 5 Jun 1860), Tarver, Elijah L, 48, MW, Planter $13000, $71000,
MS.
Harvey-Tarver marriage, 1873, (Amite Co, MS, bondsman Van W.
Robinson, 7 January 1873).
Mogan, J Paul, Jr., Kathryn Mogan, and Glenn Huff, Amite County
Mississippi Cemeteries, (Osyka, MS: Armadillo Books, 1982), Gloster
Cem., Amite Co., Mississippi, 775, Cemetery book states E Jane w/o Wm
B. Raiford is the dau/of Wilson and Malinda.
Magnolia Gazette, "Obituary, Rev. E L Tarver," Pike Co., Mississippi,
reel no. MG-4, 21 June 1890, Rev. E L Tarver died at his Lincoln
County home on 10 June.
Probate & Succession, Will of Mary Elizabeth Butler, [online]
http://www.tarver-genealogy.net/records/probate/ms/ms_metarv.html
Probate file, Allen Tarver, 1837, (Amite Co., MS WB 1, p. 165, file
no. 183, case no. 4462, will of Allen Tarver /s/ 05 Jan 1837, /p/ 28
Aug 1837).
Tarver-Muse marriage, 1867, Louisiana marriages, East Feliciana Par.,
William Allen Tarver to Julia E Muse 17 Dec 1867.
Wilkinson, M M, compiler, Genealogy of Wilkinson and Kindred
Families, (Shelby, Mississippi, no publ: 1949).
Williams, E Russ, Jr. and Luke Ward Conerly, Source Records From Pike
Co., Mississippi. 1798-1910, (Greenville, SC: Southern Hist. Press,
1978. Reprint, 1989.), 77, Obits from Bogue Chitto Bapt. Assoc., 5 Jul
1888 Raiford, Wm. B., d. at Gloster, Amite Co., Mississippi., 24 May
1888, on his 59th yr.; b. Goldsboro, Wayne Co., NC; moved to Pike Co.,
Mississippi., in 1850; md. Jane Tarver, dau. of Elijah Tarver of Amite
Co., on 27 Dec 1853; became merchant in Amite Co. (long article about
his career).
How to cite a tombstone from one of these slideshow pages:
Gravestone inscription for [Name of Gravestone], Liberty Cemetery, Amite Co., MS. Photograph, July 1999 by Lotus Cirilo. [Online]: , Tarver-Gen.
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