Gen. Hartwell Hill Harrison Tarver 1. HARTWELL HILL HARRISON6 TARVER, GEN. (ANDREW5, ANDREW4, SAMUEL3, THOMAS2, WILLIAM1) was born Abt. 1791 in Brunswick Co., Va1, and died December 23, 1851 in Twiggs Co., Ga2. He married (1) ANN RUTHERFORD WIMBERLY3,4 May 15, 1823 in Edgefield Dist., SC5,6. She was born 1806, and died February 12, 1836. He married (2) HARRIETT BUNN6 1843. She died 1879 in Twiggs Co., Ga6. Notes for HARTWELL HILL HARRISON TARVER, GEN.: : 1820 Census index shows the following TARVER's who headed households: Absalem in Hancock Co.; Andries, Benjamin, Hartwell H. Jacob, John, Richard, and William M. in Wilkes Co. In Richmond Co. were Etheldred, J. M, and S., while Putnam Co. had Benjamin. Jones had Elisha; Washington had Frederick and Robert. there were two Mary's one lived in Jeferson and one in Warrens Co. Finally, there was a Samuel B. Tarver in Burke Co., Ga : A large slaveholder, Hartwell TARVER owned 2,700 acre plantation in District Two of Bakers Co., GA, operated by an overseer. Lived in Twiggs Co., Ga. Given the title General by the Georgia Legislature in 1842 when that body named him General of the Georgia Militia. For many years he maintained a race track in Twiggs Co. for horse enthusiasts of Georgia and nearby states. (History of Twiggs Co., GA) He and Nelson tift are said to have established, in 1836, the trading establishment which later became the town of Albany, Ga. : Death Notice, The Federal Union The death of Gen. Hartwell H. Tarver, of Twiggs Co., has already been announced in the public prints. Born in Brunswick County Va; in 1816 he emigrated to Georgia and located in Wilkes Co., where he resided until 1821 when he removed to Twiggs County; represented people of Twiggs in the Legislature. General Tarver commenced life almost penniless, and died perhaps the richest man in Georgia. His fortune was acquired, not by speculation, but by the gradual accumulations upon previously invested capital. ... (long eulogy) (GGM/Vol.26, No.3(101), Pg.25) : Burial in Twiggs Co., Ga : Military service 1842, elected General of Georgia Militia : Inscription on a historical marker at Tarversville, Twiggs Co., GA (intersection Rts. 23 & 96, abt 20 miles north of Macon) reads: This settlement was named for the Tarver family who settled here more than a century ago. In 1826 a post office was opened as Tarver's Store and in 1831 the name was changed to Tarversville. Hartwill Hill Tarver (1791-1851) was one of the area's wealthiest planters and largest slave owners. One of the community's most noted citizens, in 1831, '34' '35, and '39, he represented Twiggs County in the Georgia House of Representatives. He was elected Brigadier General of the 1st Brigade, 6th division of the Georgia Militia in 1837. Here was located the Ocmulgee Academy. Incorporated by the State of Georgia in 1819 with Benjamin Dupree, Edmund Dupree, William W. Williamson, Henry Bunn and Robert Glenn, Trustees. The school flourished for many years, accepting both local and boarding students. Located near here was Fort Twiggs, one of a series of forts established near the Ocmulgee River during the War of 1812. The nucleus of the "Lafayette Volunteers" of Twiggs County assembled at Tarversville in 1825 to march to Milledgeville to greet General Lafayette on his visit there. Georgia Historical Commission, 1940. >From Georgia Place Names: TARVERSVILLE, Twiggs County. Unincorporated. Named for Hartwell Hill Tarver (1791-1851), a wealthy planter in the community, who was one of the largest slave owners in the South. His name was given to two post offices in the county. The first opened September 29, 1826 as TARVER'S STORE, and the second on September 27, 1876. H.H. Tarver ws the first postmaster at Tarver's Store. The name was changed to Tarversville, May 24, 1831. There is also a community of TARVER in southern Echols County, which was incorporated October 15, 1887, and there was an earlier TARVERSVILLE in northwest Burke County. : Abstract from Memoirs of Georgia, Pg.227 William B. Tarver - His father, General Hartwell Hill Tarver, was born in Brunswick County, Virginia, was a prominent military officer of Georgia during the 1840's. As a young man he settled in Twiggs County and lived there until his death in 1852. is first wife was Miss Ann Wimberly, a sister of Dr. Henry Wimberly of Jeffersonville. Their children: Dolly, who married General Colquitt; Paul; Henry; Fred; and John. His second wife was Harriet, daughter of Henty and Nancy Bunn, who came to Georgia from North Carolina. Their children: William B. and Benjamin M., of Chattanooga, Tennessee. She died in 1879. Both are buried in Twiggs County. William B. Tarver was born May 23, 1844, in Twiggs County. At the age of 17, he joined General Hampton's cavalry in which he served the entire war. In 1863 he married Miss Laura, a daughter of Dr. Henry W. Wimberly. They had one child, Caroline, the wife of G.W. Jordan, Jr. of Pulaski County. The first wife died in 1868 and the second wife was Annie P., daughter of William M. and Lucia F. Weaver of Selma, Alabama. Their children: Lucia H., HArtwell Hill; Benjamin M., Jr.; William B., Jr.; Roseline T. and Ann W. ====== Notes from conversations & correspondence with Cliff Tarver ==== Buzzard's Roost Plantation was the mother plantation of Tarver Plantation & Pinebloom Plantation in Baker and Dougherty Counties, GA. Endnotes 1. Memoirs of Georgia, Abstracts from, Pg.227. 2. "Obituary notice," The Federal Union, 23 Dec 1851, The Souther Genealogists Exchange Quarterly, March 1989, gives the DOD for Hartwell Hill Tarver as 19 Nov. 1851. 3. The Southern Genealogists Exchange Society, Inc., "The Southern Genealogists Exchange Quarterly," PO Box 2801, Jacksonville, Fl, 32203-2801: March 1989, Pg.56. 4. Memoirs of Georgia, Abstracts from, Pg.227. 5. Edgefield, South Carolina Marriage Records. 6. The Southern Genealogists Exchange Society, Inc., "The Southern Genealogists Exchange Quarterly," PO Box 2801, Jacksonville, Fl, 32203-2801: March 1989, Pg.56. 7. History of Baker Co., GA, Pg.105. 8. The Southern Genealogists Exchange Society, Inc., "The Southern Genealogists Exchange Quarterly," PO Box 2801, Jacksonville, Fl, 32203-2801: March 1989, Pg.56. 9. Memoirs of Georgia, Abstracts from, Pg.227. 10. The Southern Genealogists Exchange Society, Inc., "The Southern Genealogists Exchange Quarterly," PO Box 2801, Jacksonville, Fl, 32203-2801: March 1989, Pg.56. #Lotus D. 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