TALLEY, William D., St. Martin Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ WILLIAM D. TALLEY, BREAUX BRIDGE.--Mr. Talley is a native of St. Martin parish, and was born October 3, 1827. He is the son of John and Mary (Hartach) Talley, the former a native of Georgia and the latter of Havana. William D. Talley was reared in St. Martin parish, where he received an excellent education in the French language. He has since acquired a good English education and speaks it in preference to his native tongue. Mr. Talley began the mercantile business at the age of twenty-one years, on the Atchafalaya river, in this parish, in which he was engaged for about nine years. He then engaged in cutting and selling timber from the swamps for about ten years. Since that time he has devoted his full attention to planting. His plantation is six miles northeast of Breaux Bridge, and consists of one hundred and fifty-six acres of valuable land, upon which he raises cotton and cane. In 1861 Mr. Talley enlisted in the Confederate service, and served in the engineer corps until the close of the war. He was in the battles of Fort Bisland, Fort Donelson, Mansfield, Yellow Bayou and Bayou Fordoche. Mr. Talley has twice married. January 19, 1849, he married Miss Anais Guilbeau. They became the parents of four children,: viz: Gideon, John, Mary and Hyacinth. Mrs. Talley died in 1863, and Mr. Talley married the second time, Miss Mary Hill, of West Baton Rouge. They are the parents of two sons and four daughters, viz: Julia, Ida, Ahda, Emma, Wilfred and David. Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp. 348-349. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.