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[Tilford.FBK]Farmer and minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Among the first of this family to move to Itawamba County, Mississippi. He is also listed as being a Mason (on his tombstone).
December 22, 1840 - commissioned as a lieutenant in the 46th Regiment of Company K of the Army of Mississippi. Previously served in the Creek Indian uprising in Alabama for which he was given a bounty land grant in Jefferson County, Alabama.
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[Tilford.FBK]Farmer and minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Among the first of this family to move to Itawamba County, Mississippi. He is also listed as being a Mason (on his tombstone).
December 22, 1840 - commissioned as a lieutenant in the 46th Regiment of Company K of the Army of Mississippi. Previously served in the Creek Indian uprising in Alabama for which he was given a bounty land grant in Jefferson County, Alabama.
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[Tilford.FBK]Married by bride's Uncle Reubin Clayton. Riley died during the Civil War. The two younger children moved to Kaufman County, Texas with their aunt, Sarah Stephenson.
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Martha Catherine "Kate" Clayton
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[Tilford.FBK]June 9, 1812 - commissioned as a lieutenant in the 49th Regiment of the Tennessee Militia.
1820 - Justice of the peace in St. Claire County, Tennessee.
October 8, 1821 - purchased land in Jefferson County, Tennessee.
Census lists him as farmer, but was also Justice of peace in Jefferson County from 1828 until 1837 and served as county commissioner in 1835.
Blackwater Baptist Church