Welcome to the Tolliver Family!
This web site is for all Tollivers whether the name is spelled Toliver or Tolliver.
2010 TOLLIVER REUNION
June 25-26, 2010
Carl D. Perkins Community Center
Route 32/Flemingsburg Road
Morehead, KY
Purpose - To meet and share information with other Tollivers and to learn more about our family as well as to have fellowship.
This is for all Toliver/Tolliver families. Most who attend go back to John Toliver b. 1760. We also have persons attend who descend from Joel Toliver b. 1776, Wade Hampton Toliver b. 1815, Jane Toliver b. 1830, Jesse Toliver b. 1756, Charles b. 1789, Zachariah b. 1792, and others. All are welcome. This can be a time of sharing information and pictures and making connections.
Friday, June 25 - 1:00 Registration; set up tables and chairs; display and share family information; visit and renew friendships at the Community Center. Continue our recognition of veterans by adding photos and information to our posters.
5:00 Dinner at Ponderosa (near Quality Inn)
7:00 Family Talent-Hobby Show at the Community Center. Share your hobby or talent.
"Bluebird" also known as Jim Oxford, a descendant of Remington, James, and John 1760, will share an exhibit of hand-carved Native American style pipes that he has created with hand tools. He is a member of the Shawnee Nation as well as "Keepers of the Sacred Tradition of Pipe Making."
Saturday, June 26 - 9:00 Registration begins at the Community Center: informal sharing and visiting.
11:00 Divide into family groups to share information and meet cousins. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet and greet cousins in your family line.
12:00 Potluck Lunch
1:15 Welcome and introductions.
Representatives from the morning groups will share interesting tidbits learned in their small group. If you have an old relic, bring it and tell us about it. An old hand-woven blanket made by Lytte Tolliver (b. 1825) will be shown.
"Bluebird" (see above) will talk about his pipes. Please bring your stories to share.
Louella Tolliver Hugenard will give some history of her line that goes back to Joel and Moses. Three possible children of Moses are Joel, Jesse who married Hannah and was in TN and AL, and John who married Saloma Miller.
3:00 Announce winning bids from the Silent Auctions.
Tour cememteries and feud sites on your own.
6:00 Dinner at Ponderosa.
Housing Quality Inn is holding 50 rooms until June 1st. Call 1-606-784-2220 to make your reservation. Tell them you are part of the Tolliver Reunion. Cost is $62.96 plus tax per night. There is an indoor pool, hi-speed wireless internet, and a continental breakfast.
The Community Center is easily accessible and air-conditioned. Share old family relics, pictures, and family information on tables or the wall. A scanner and digital camera will be available to copy photos. If we do not have your information or you have new information, please bring us a copy.
The Community Center, Quality Inn, and Ponderosa are all near Exit 137 off of Interstate 64. The road is Route 32 or the Flemingsburg Road. Turn toward Morehead. All three are on the right side of the road less than a mile from the Interstate.
Tolliver Cemetery, Letcher Co., KY
Lytte Toliver b. 1827 in NC, son of James Toliver b. 1795 NC, grandson of John Toliver b. 1760, is buried in this cemetery. Donald B. Tolliver has recently used a bulldozer to grade the road to this cemetery. He also keeps the area clean and neat. If anyone would like to visit this area, let me know and I will connect you with Don. He would be happy to show you where it is located.
Country Music Duo "Halfway to Hazard"
David Tolliver and Chad Warrix
Credit: www.HalfwaytoHazard.com
David and Chad have toured with
Country superstar Tim McGraw and his wife, Faith Hill.
David is the great great great great great grandson of John Toliver b. 1760 and Tabitha Howell.
He is the son of Jackie Tolliver from Knott Co., KY.
The Tollivers are very proud of David. Check their website for their music and tour dates.
Dedication of Monument
October 27, 2007
Morehead, KY
The Tolliver Family Association dedicated a monument, featuring the names of those killed during the Rowan County War, also known as the Tolliver-Martin Feud, at the old passenger depot (Chamber of Commerce Office) on Railroad Street. Taking place from 1884-1887, the bloody conflict earned Rowan County a reputation for violence that was international in its scope. Beginning with an election day riot on the Courthouse lawn, the Feud claimed a steady stream of victims for nearly three years, ending at last in a two hour shootout on Railroad Street involving at least sixty gunman, that added four names to the dead list. Remarkably, only one murder resulted in a successful prosecution. County officials, themselves partisan, made only a token effort to staunch the bloodshed. The Feud's most lasting legacy was a school so small it opened its doors on its first day to only one student, then doubled its enrollment the second day. Over the years it grew in scope and influence, until today it literally reaches out to the stars. Yes, Morehead State University traces its roots directly back to those dark and violent times, when it was founded in an effort to educate and civilize a people mired in conflict. If any of your ancestors were surnamed Day, Stewart, Young, Hargis, Alderson,Goodan, Bowling, Keeton, Wilson, McKenzie, Nickel, Trumbo, Humphrey, Martin, Tolliver or Logan or any of a host of others, they may have found themselves in the thick of this conflict. The idea for the monument originated with Tolliver family descendant and feud researcher J. D. Reeder. Its placement near an official Kentucky Historical Society Highway Marker commemorating events in the Rowan County War will provide a permanent record of the names of those who died and serve to educate future generations about this important event in local history.
Names on the monument are: 1884 Solomon Bradley, John G. Hughes, Floyd Tolliver, John P. Martin; 1885 Ben Rayburn, John Marlow, Stewart Bumgardner, Stewart Caudill; 1886 Whit Pelfrey, John C. Day, William O. Logan; 1887 H. M. (Mason) Keeton, John B. Logan, William H. Logan, Hiram Cooper, Craig Tolliver, Jacob F. (Jay) Tolliver, Jr., John R. (Budd) Tolliver, Wylie V. Tolliver, John N. Witcher.
Family members from the families of Bradley, Martin, Tolliver, Logan, and Cooper attended the dedication.
If you would like to help us pay for the monument, please send a check to Dr. J. D. Reeder, 230 Lyons Ave., Morehead, KY 40351.
Byron Crawford wrote a nice article in the Courier-Journal about the dedication Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007.
Janie Strunk, great-great granddaughter of John Martin stands between Jim and Harry Tolliver, great grandsons of Craig Tolliver. It was John Martin who killed Craig's brother, Floyd, and Craig and his friends who killed John Martin. After the dedication, time was spent sharing stories. Janie was quoted as saying, "Everybody was just sharing hugs." It was an emotional time, a time for healing.
Days of Anger, Days of Tears
by Fred Brown and Juanita Blair
The History of the Rowan County War, available for the first time in hardcover, was released at a book signing Saturday, October 27, at the Pine Grove Gallery on Bridge Street in Morehead, Kentucky.
To order the book by mail, send a check for $27.32 to Fred Brown, 211 Rogers Ave., Mt. Sterling, KY 40353. Cost includes postage.
The cover of the book is by Chris Barker. A copy of the print can be ordered at www.pinegroveart.com. She has a gallery in Morehead, KY.
THE TOLLIVER FAMILY
Tolliver
researchers have long talked about 5 Tolliver/Toliver brothers
from North Carolina. In 1916 Florence Wilson Houston wrote
a book titled Maxwell History and Genealogy, in which she stated
that "Charles Toliver lived in Ashe Co., North Carolina
and about the year 1816 he moved to Lawrence County, Indiana,
where he entered land in 1817. He had four brothers and
two sisters: John;
Moses (who) lived in North Carolina and died on the way to Indiana;
Jesse; William; Lucy, (who) married William Maxwell;...(and)
Sarah, (who) lived in North Carolina; Charles Toliver married
Susan Edwards." From this book, we can talk about
the five Tolliver bothers from North Carolina in the 1700s. Moses
was born before 1755 and died after 1812 on the way to Indiana. Jesse
was born in 1756 in Fauquier County, Virginia and died in Ashe
County, North Carolina. John was born in 1760 and
died in 1863 in Alleghany County, North Carolina. Charles
was born in 1765 and died in Lawrence County, Indiana. Sarah
was born in 1766 and died in 1836 in Coffee County, Tennessee. Lucy
was born in 1770 and died between 1844 and 1850 in Lawrence County
Indiana.
Information found in military pension
files indicates that about 1770, or five or six years before
the Revolutionary War began, John, Jesse, and Moses (and probably
Charles and William) moved from Virginia to Surry (later named
Wilkes) County, North Carolina, east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The
father was still living and was involved in this move, but he
is not named in any of the pension records of Jesse or John.
According to Revolutionary War Pension Records transcribed
by John C. Tolliver, Jr. at the National Archives, John's family
was in Prince William Co., VA (named Fauquier Co. in 1759) in
1756. Frankey, the widow of his brother, Jesse, stated that her
husband had been born in 1756 on the Rappahannock River in Fauquier
Co., VA and that the family moved shortly thereafter to the James
River, 30 miles above Richmond, VA, and that they came to Wilkes
Co., NC about 5 or 6 years before the Rev. War which started
in 1776 and ended in 1783. The Tolivers bought and were granted
many acres of land in what is now Wilkes Co. along Roaring River,
Mulberry Creek and the Yadkin River. Eventually they moved over
the Blue Ridge to what is now Alleghany Co., NC. Here they acquired
vast acreage along the New River and its tributaries. In the
above record John states that some time after the Battle of King's
Mountain (1780) he moved with his mother to the west side of
the Blue Ridge. This raises the question of what happened to
his father. To add to the confusion in the late 1770's Dr. John
and Mary Hardin Taliferro moved from VA into Surry Co., NC and
settled on Stewart's Creek.
DNA PROJECT
If you are interesting in participating in the Tolliver/Toliver/Taliaferro DNA Project, click on the following link. DNA Test
Click
here for restoration work on the Old Toliver cemetery in NC .
TOLLIVER REUNION
Carl D. Perkins Community Center
Route 32/Flemingsburg Road
Morehead, KY
June 26-27, 2009
Questions: Please contact:
Emma Lee and Bill Tolliver Dr. J. D. Reeder
472 E. Torrence Rd. Columbus, OH 43214 121 Blackberry, Morehead, KY 40351
ELT1000@aol.com jdreeder2003@yahoo.com
Home 614-267-6556; Cell 614-620-6556 606-784-5669
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