Haralson County GaArchives News.....Hurst, Mrs. Mary Ann Tolleson attends Tolleson Reunion .
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"The Cleburne News" .
Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, SEPTEMBER 7, 1939

TOLLESON REUNION HELD AUGUST 27th

Many descendants of William Tolleson, a pioneer citizen of Cleburne county, 
Alabama, near Edwardsville, met at Oxford Lake on Sunday, August 27th near 
Anniston, for the first gathering in honor of that invincible and worthy 
hero of the Alabama wilderness of that part of Alabama. He was born in 1812 
and was buried at Cane Creek Primitive Baptist church during the year 1889. 
Of his several sons and daughter who have passed to the great beyond, only 
descendants of Jesse, Bill, John and Green B. Tolleson were present. There 
were around 300 persons at the gathering among them being a great-great 
granddaughter Miss Leila Tolleson of Duncan, Oregon and a great 
granddaughter Miss Marie Tolleson of Stroud, Oklahoma, their visit being the 
inspiration for the occasion. They are descendants of Jesse Tolleson.

A very notable part of the gathering was the presence of all the immediate 
family of Green B. Tolleson, most of their children and grandchildren. They 
were:

Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Tolleson of Dutton

Mr. and Mrs. O.L. Tolleson of Crossville

Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Tolleson of Choccolocco

Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Barker of Boonville, Miss.

Mr. and Mrs. J.O. Tolleson of Heflin

Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Liner of Dutton

Mr. and Mrs. S.L. Tolleson of Birmingham

Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Owen of Leeds

Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Tolleson of Tallapoosa, Ga.

Mr. and Mrs. N.H. Tolleson of Anniston

The oldest person present was Mrs. Mary Ann Tolleson Hurst of Bremen, Ga., 
daughter of Jesse Tolleson, she being 78 years of age.

It was suggested by J.O. Tolleson, a retired rural mail carrier of Heflin, 
that a regular reunion of the family be established, there being many 
hundred who could not be notified of this meeting in time, and who are 
scattered into several states of the union. The decendants of William 
Tolleson will meet at Oxford Lake on the second Sunday in August, 1940 for 
their annual reunion.


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