Welcome to the Tolliver Family!
This web site is for all Tollivers whether the name is spelled Toliver or Tolliver.
2008 TOLLIVER REUNION
June 27-28, 2008
Carl D. Perkins Community Center
Route 32/Flemingsburg Road
Morehead, KY
Friday, June 27, 2008 - 1:00 p.m. Registration and gather at the Perkins Community Center to set up tables and chairs; display and share family information; and renew friendships.
5:30 p.m. Dinner at Ponderosa
7:30 p.m. Family Talent Show and Enterainment by Tony Pence, Local Singer and Songwriter
Saturday, June 28, 2008 9:00 a.m. Registration at Perkins Community Center
10:30 a.m. Meet in family groups to meet cousins and share stories
12:00 Potluck Lunch
1:00 Announce Silent Auction Buyers
1:30 Music entertainment; Sharing from morning groups; Video of Feud Story Vignettes from 2007 program at the Old Courthouse
6:00 p.m. Dinner at Ponderosa
Housing: The Quality Inn (606-784-2220) is holding 50 rooms until June 1st. They also own Days Inn. There is an indoor pool; hi-speed wireless internet; continental breakfast; and a shuttle if needed. Tell them you are with the Tolliver Reunion to receive the rate of $62.96.
Questions: See contact below.
Country Music Duo "Halfway to Hazard"
David Tolliver and Chad Warrix
Credit: www.HalfwaytoHazard.com
David and Chad have been nominated for an Academy of Country Music Award.
The ACM awards show will be in Las Vegas on May 18, 2008.
Country superstar Tim McGraw took them on his tour last year with his wife, Faith Hill.
They will tour with them again this summer.
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.
Notice: For the descendants of John Toliver b. 1760 who married Tabitha Howell
The September issue of the Common Patriot magazine, Issue VI Volumb II, has a four-page article on John Toliver b. 1760. It is basically the speech given at John's Memorial Service October 21, 2006. It includes a picture of his new military stone and a group picture of the descendants who were present at the Grave-Marking Ceremony by the SAR. The cost is $6.00. You may purchase it at: www.commonpatriot.com
Some of you will remember Speedy Tolliver from the Reunion a couple of years ago. There is a wonderful video of Speedy and his band on the Kennedy Center website.
Speedy Tolliver
Click on Speedy Tolliver to go to the website at
http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium
Then click on Archives on the right hand side; search for Speedy. Enjoy!
You must have Real Player installed on your computer to see this.
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.
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 27-28, 2008
Questions: Please contact:
Emma Lee and Bill Tolliver Dr. J. D. Reeder
472 E. Torrence Rd. Columbus, OH 43214 230 Lyons Ave., Morehead, KY 40351
ELT1000@aol.com jdreeder2003@yahoo.com
Home 614-267-6556; Cell 614-620-6556 606-784-5669
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