Hello, Do you have any information that these families may have been related to any of these surnames, YORK, HUTCHINSON, HUFF, MCMILLIAN STUBBLEFIELD, ??? Thanks, Barbara ==== In a message dated 5/5/02 6:23:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Hello, > > Being the GGGrandson of Eli Byron Meador and Celia Jackson Glover and an > avid researcher of the Meador/Glover/Turner/Walton families, I have > recently discovered some information that may not be widely known and > would like to pass it along. > > One of the many challenges I have had is to look at the 1850 through > 1870 Macon County census records and attempt to figure out who is who in > the Edward Glover household. Edward was first married to Mary "Polly" > Walton, but by the 1850 census Polly is dead and the census reads as > follows: > > Edward Glover, age 60 > Hettie, age 27 > Archy, age 26 > Agnes, age 23 > Joseph, age 1 > Delila, age 5 > Taylor, age 3 > > My assumption was that Hettie was Edward's daughter as most researchers > seem to believe, Archy was Archibald Glover, who entered into the 9th > Ky. Inf. during the Civil War and died in 1862, Agnes would be Archy's > wife and the three children belonged to Archy and Agnes. Assuming this, > I started to look for information on each of the children, concentrating > on "Taylor". > > Unable to locate a "Taylor" Glover and figuring that he may have been > named for "Zachary Taylor", I hit the jackpot. There was a "Zachariah > Glover appearing on the 1870 and 1880 Allen County, Ky. census. > Zachariah had married Arminta Cole, daughter of Amos Cole and Elizabeth > Alexander in Allen County on September 6, 1867. Finding this, I started > looking for additional information and much to my surprise, found that > this same Zachariah Glover had served in the 1st Tenn. Mtd. Inf. (Union) > during the Civil War under the alias of "John G. Glover" and had later > applied for a pension. I immediately sent for the full pension file, > still under the assumption that Zachariah was the son of Archibald > Glover and had probably joined the Army using the name of his uncle, > John Green Glover. So much for assumptions. > > When I finally received the pension file, there was a copy of a two page > letter that Zachariah had written in 1918. I have used Zachariah's > spelling. > > Plant City, Fla. > Aug 9, 1918 > > "in answer to your inquiring letter of my history I give you the nearest > and best answer that I can now. my father and mother never kept any > record of there famley they both all ways said that I was born September > the 19th, 1845 in macon Co. Tennessee near Lafayette Tennessee. My > father and mother came from Virginia and I am the only child that was > born to there union. They are both dead. I lived with them in the > years 1850 1860 and I inlisted in the civil war division Sec. D in 1863 > Ctp. No. 810.688. Company E. 1st. Tenn, mtd inf. my officers are all > dead as far as I know. My fathers name was Edward Glover and my mothers > name was Hester Glover. So I cannot furnish the famley record for they > did notkeep any so you see that I cant comply with your request hope you > will get some information out of what I have rote. Yours truly, > Zachariah T. Glover" > > Also included in the file was a transcript of the 1850 Edward Glover > household in Macon County that the Pensions office took as proof of > birth. So this would seem to suggest that "Hettie" was Hester and not a > daughter, but Edward's second wife. This would mean that Edward was > married three times, first to Polly Walton, second to Hester, and third > to Nancy. > > I hope this information is of interest to my fellow researchers. > > Owen Howard >