At 10:12 AM 5/28/99 -0400, AMcLane101@aol.com wrote: >Who knows of TARVERs in Alabama? ... probably in some eastern counties: Mildred Tarver of Alabama was married in 1854 to Hamilton P. Bee, Confederate brigadier general, the son of Anne and Bernard E. Bee. Gen. Hamilton Bee was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on July 22, 1822. He was the brother of Gen. Bernard Elliott Bee, Jr. Beeville and Bee Co., Tx were named for Gen. Bee. Mildred Tarver and Hamilton Bee had six children. Mildred Tarver was a sister to Edward Tarver, General Bee's Aide-de-Camp. Mildred and her mother Mary Fields Tarver came to Texas to join her brother after their father John Tarver, a wealthy landowner of Lowndes County, AL died. John served in the Alabama Legislature. There is a bit on this family online at: http://www.tarver-genealogy.net/MiscRecords/b-hamilton-bee.html I'm not sure if I have additional on them in my files. Are they you Tarvers? #Lotus D. Cirilo, Executive Director <lotusc@tyler.net> #Tyler Independent School District Foundation #PO Box 2035 Tyler TX 75710 Ph.(903) 531-3543 #******************************************************** #Tarver-Gen <http://www.tarver-genealogy.net/> #Genealogy. Collaborative family research. Tarver Welch #Lee Cockerham Rogers Reeves others. Searchable gedcom, #queries, transcribed records, message forum, mail list.