Conecuh County AlArchives Biographies.....Taliaferro, Charles T. March 15 1833 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   DR. CHARLES T. TALIAFERRO, one of the oldest physicians and surgeons of
Conecuh county, was born in the county of Caroline, Va., on the 15th day of
March, 1833. As is indicated by the name, the Taliaferro family is of Italian
origin, but the American branch is descended from an early resident of Virginia
who immigrated to that state from England in the time of the colonies. The
doctor's grandfather, William T. Taliaferro, was a native of Caroline county,
Va., and had five children: Hay, William, Charles, Lucy and Robert. The third
named, the doctor's father, was a native of Virginia, born in Caroline county
about the year 1780. He was a planter and stood high in his county, where he was
especially noted for his zeal in religious work, having been prominently
identified with the Baptist church in his native state. He served as a private
in the war of 1812, and by his marriage with Susan Moxley became the father of
four children: Lucy, William, Robert and Charles T., the doctor being the only
member of the family now living. At the early age of seven years the doctor
suffered an irreparable loss in the death of his father, and the widowed mother,
shortly after the sad event, moved with her family to southern Alabama, settling
in Conecuh county. Here Charles T. Taliaferro attended the common schools, and
at the age of twenty-three began the study of medicine at Brooklyn, under Dr.
John Scott, with whom he remained one year, after which he attended a course of
lectures at the Louisiana university, at New Orleans. Subsequently he pursued
his medical studies at the Atlanta medical college, Georgia, from which
institution he received his degree in the summer of 1859. Actuated by a laudable
desire to increase his knowledge of medicine, the doctor afterward entered the
Jefferson medical college, at Philadelphia, but owing to the excitement caused
by the John Brown raid, did not complete the course, but went to Richmond, Va.,
in the medical college, of which city he pursued his studies some time longer.
Leaving college, he returned to Alabama and opened an office in the town of
Sparta, Conecuh county, where he practiced one year, and then, April, 1861,
entered the Confederate service as member of the Conecuh Guards, in which he was
promoted to the lieutenantcy in 1862. The following year he was appointed
assistant surgeon and in 1864 was promoted to be full surgeon, and as such
served until the close of the war. Returning to Conecuh county on severing his
connection with the army, the doctor resumed his practice, opening an office in
Evergreen, where he also engaged in the drug business, which he carried on in
connection with his profession for a period of two years. At the end of that
time he moved to a farm several miles from the town, which he had previously
purchased, where, until 1885, he was engaged in the pursuit of agriculture. He
left the farm that year and returned to Evergreen and again embarked in the drug
business, which he still carries on, though giving part of his attention to his
fine farm of 2,300 acres, one of the best cultivated places in Conecuh county.
The doctor entered into the marriage relation, January 12, 1866, with Mary
Ashley, daughter of Capt. Wilson Ashley, one of the pioneers of Conecuh county.
Capt. Ashley was a native of Barnwell district, S. C., served as captain in the
war of 1812, and became a citizen of Alabama in 1820, settling in Conecuh
county, of which he served as sheriff in 1832 and representative in the general
assembly in 1835, and was also one of the presidential electors for Alabama in
1860. Capt. Ashley was noted for his suavity of manners, his penetrating
discrimination and clear judgment. To the doctor and Mrs. Taliaferro have been
born four children, namely: Mamie, Charles R., bookkeeper for C. P. Dennis,
Evergreen; William A., assisting his father in the drug business, and Katy. In
politics Dr. Taliaferro is a democrat; and fraternally a member of Dean lodge,
F. & A. M., at Brooklyn. He was elected mayor of Evergreen in 1889 and probate
judge of Conecuh county in 1892.




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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 720-721

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