ELIZABETH TALLEY
December 23, 1834-May 3, 1901 "A loving wife a mother dear lies buried here"
Second view
J T TALLEY May 26, 1832-January 23, 1899 "An honest man, the noblest work of God"
Elizabeth Neal's parents seem to be one of two possibilities. Either
she was the daughter of Claborn Wesley Neal (also buried here)
and Amy
(Moore) Neal of Alexandria, District 13, Wilson Co., TN, or she was the
daughter of Dennis and Sarah (MNU) Neal of Alexandria, DeKalb Co., TN.
Both had a daughter named Elizabeth, but the scant evidence seems to
favor Claborn and Amy as parents. Elizabeth married James Thomas
Talley on November 16, 1858 in Wilson Co., TN. The death
certificates that exist for some of those buried here list this
cemetery as Talley Cemetery. One death certificate listed this cemetery
as "Jim Talley Cemetery", evidently meaning that Elizabeth's husband
had owned this land on which the cemetery was started. It might be that
the reason that Claborn Wesley Neal and his second wife Margaret are
buried here is because of a relationship to Elizabeth. Claborn had a
daughter with Amy Moore named Elizabeth who was age 16 in the 1850
Wilson Co., TN census who perfectly fits this Elizabeth (Neal) Talley.
The other possible parents, Dennis and Sarah, had an Elizabeth born in
abt. 1833, but that whole family disappeared from TN, it seems, before
the 1860 census. The only marriage record of an Elizabeth Neal to
anyone in either DeKalb or Wilson Co., TN in the 1850's was the
marriage of Elizabeth Neal to James Talley in Wilson Co. Since it was
customary for marriages at the time to occur in the bride's county of
residence, this also seems to indicate that Elizabeth's father was
Claborn.
James Thomas Talley was the son of Lawrence Epps and Jane (Williams) Talley.
Their children were:
(1) Ellen (b. abt. 1862)
(2) John Wesley (b. 1865) buried here
(3) James L. (b. July 1869)
(4) Robert Mandell (b. abt. 1872)
In the 1900 census of Wilson Co., TN Elizabeth was living with her sons
John W. and James L. Talley. Sally Clayburn was listed as a servant in
the household. John married her, and he and his wife are buried here.
