Sonoma-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Talbot, Coleman 1809 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Talbot, Coleman, We commence the genealogy of the Talbot family with the
grand-father of the subject of this sketch, who was christened Samuel, and was
born in Virginia on March 17, 1756. He married Constantine Ragen, daughter of
Nicholas Ragen, a native of Virginia, in 1775. Nicholas Talbot was their only
son, and was born November 10, 1776; he married in Bourbon county, Kentucky, on
May 19, 1799, Miss Aria Kennedy. She was born May 11, 1781. Her father, John
Kennedy, was taken prisoner by the British at the battle of Guilford
Court-House, in North Carolina, on the 15th of March, 1781, and died soon after
from the bad treatment he received on board a British prison ship. The letter he
wrote the day before he was summoned into the army, is a very interesting one.
It contains a fervent spirit of patriotism, and a prayer for the success of the
Colonies, and, from its general tone, its author, if the spirits of the departed
are permitted to look upon the scenes of this world, must have looked down with
pride and exultation upon the sturdy and unflinching patriotism of four of his
grand sons, in the late bloody struggle, to maintain what he died to achieve.
Sophia, Louis, Courtney, Tabitha, Coleman, Willis, Charles P., Mariah Louisa,
Helen, Rufus and Nancy, are the names of the children who comprise the family of
Nicholas and Aria Talbot, spoken of above. Mr. Talbot's father, Nicholas, died
May 1, 1828, and his mother, Aria, January, 1862. The subject of this memoir,
whose portrait appears in this work, is a native of Bourbon county, Kentucky,
born July 13, 1809, and there married, April 27, 1830, Drusella daughter of
Jesse Bowles; her mother's maiden name, was Cloe Parker. His wife Drusella was
born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, May 4, 1812. In 1830 they moved to Adams
county, Illinois. During his residence here he enlisted in Captain David Crow's
company, and served in the Black Hawk war of 1832. In 1850 he crossed the plains
to California, and spent a few months at the mines in Hangtown, Coloma, and
Diamond Springs. On April 15, 1851, he came to Sonoma, this county, and made
some farm improvements. The following January he took passage on the steamer
"California," to Panama, and from there on the "El Dorado" to New York; and
thence proceeded to his birth-place, in Kentucky, visiting for the last time his
aged mother. Again, on April  20, 1852, he started across the plains for
California, in company with J. M. Bowles, T. H. Tate, M. Britton, and others,
and arrived in this county in October. In July, 1853, he settled upon his
present estate. Mr. Talbot springs from a family noted for longevity and great
power, and family tradition states that remarkable feats of strength performed
by a great uncle of his are on record in Fairfax county, Virginia. The following
are the names and births of his children: Kennedy Bowles, born May 1, 1831;
America Helen, who married Hon. A. P. Overton, born March 1,1833, (deceased);
Holman, born May 10, 1835; Courtney, born April 7, 1837; Jesse Nicholas, born
August 15, 1840; Aria, born September 17, 1842, and married William Ordway of
Petaluma, February 22, 1860, and died September 1878; Eliza P., born December 6,
1845; Cloe A., born December 29, 1848; Joseph Martin, born November 6, 1854. Mr.
Talbot is one of Sonoma's pioneers, and a more hospitable couple is not to be
fonnd [sic] than Coleman Talbot and his estimable lady. Coleman Talbot is the
author of the following fireside or social play: Some one in the circle speaks a
sentence and it passes around, each one criticising, amending or correcting,
until some one gets tired, when that one must start something new. If the
sentence should pass three times around without change, the last one may change
the sentence or subject. Each one has the right to either approve or amend. This
play is designed to include geography, history, grammar, mental arithmetic or
orthography. The following is a specimen: Number one says, "A Monk when his
rites sacerdotal were o'er." Number two says, "A Monk when his rites sacerdotal
were o'er." Number three says number two is right; number four says number one
is right; number five says the accent shonld [sic] be placed upon sacerdotal,
etc. This play is called by him Criticism.

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Santa Rosa Township

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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