FULTON COUNTY, GA -NEWSPAPERS Mrs. Elizabeth Bearden 100th Birthday

Sunday, July 12, 1908, The Atlanta Constitution


Toccoa Woman Celebrates Her 100th Anniversary


Nearly 400 Descendants --


Toccoa, Ga., July 11;  Mrs. Elizabeth Bearden of Oakway, celebrated
her one-hundredth birthday at the home of her son, J. W. Bearden,
last Sunday.  Mrs. Bearden has had a most remarkable career. Born
in Virginia in 1808, Mrs. Bearden can distinctly remember the British
and Americans fighting on Lake Erie, as her father moved to the
shores of Lake Erie when she was but two years of age. Her father
being killed in the battle, her mother married again and they again
moved to the then frontier state of Mississippi.


There Mrs. Bearden grew up a typical frontier girl, braving all dangers
from Indians to wild animals. At the age of nineteen she married
Howard Taliferro, who was a cousin to the famous Colonel Bowie.
When Texas began the war of freedom the martial spirits of Taliaferro
could not be restrained, and leaving his wife and children behind,
he went forth to the war. After distinguishing himself greatly, being
in the party that captured Santa Anna, he brought his family to Texas
and died there eight years later.


Mrs. Taliferro two years later married J. W. Bearden, a Georgian, who
had just come from his native state. They lived quietly on Bearden's
plantation until the civil war broke out. Bearden then brought his
family to Georgia, leaving them to the care of his father, while he
went to fight for the Southland. After reconstruction he settled down
at Oakway and died there in 1874. Since that time Mrs. Bearden has
been living with her youngest son, J. W. Bearden.


Mrs. Bearden is practically of sound health, her only physical falling
being failing eyesight.  From her two marriages sprang thirteen
children, all of whom grew up. Mrs. Bearden has had 361?
descendants, of whom 321 are living.



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