MY TARRANT
ANCESTORSLeonard TARRANT's first wife's name is unknown, the children listed below are all assumed to be this first Mrs. TARRANT's. Leonard married Mrs. Mary HARGROVE ca 1771 (bond date) in Amherst Co, VA. He received credit for Personal Service to the Revolutionary War effort through his supplying 375 lbs of beef for the troops for the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. He died in Greenville Co, SC. ca 1791 after moving there by 1787 along with his sons John, Reuben, James, and Benjamin
Leonard TARRANT and his first wife had 8 children:
1) Benjamin (ca 1735) md Martha DALTON
2) Elizabeth (ca 1736) md
David KIRBY
3) Leonard Jr (aft 1735)
md Mary TANKERSLY
4) Samuel (aft
1732)
5) Nelly md Mr. DANIEL
6) James (1753) md 1) Jane
BIRCH 2) Kissiah TERRY
7) Reuben (1743)
8) John (ca 1742) md Tabitha
TANKERSLY
Leonard TARRANT Jr and his wife Mary (TANKERSLY) lived in VA. Leonard died in 1777 in Henry Co, VA. They had 6 children:
1) Larkin (ca 1756) md Mary
COUCHER
2) Reuben (1763)
3) Carter md Catherine
4) Winifred md Daniel MCKENZIE
5) Terry (ca 1772) md
1) Ann STEPHENSON 2) Mary PATRICK
6) Rachel (ca 1772) md Robert
BOLLING
The families of Larkin TARRANT, Rachel (TARRANT) BOLLING, along with their grandfather Leonard Sr. also settled in Greenville Co, SC.
Larkin and Mary (COUCHER) TARRANT were in Greenville Co, SC when he died in 1804. Mary remarried to Obadiah WOOD. Larkin and Mary raised 8 children:
1) Thomas (1772)
2) Martha
"Patsy" ( 1787) md William C. WILSON
3) Carter (1789)
4) Stella "Neally" (1794)
md Edmund WOOD
5) Henry M (1800/1810)
6) Lattira
7) William C. (1819) md Frances
L. WALKER
8) Larkin ?
At least 6 of the above children
and their families moved to Alabama ca 1819.
Some remained in Birmingham area
while Martha and her husband William
WILSON settled in Talladega Co, AL , which
is where my line continues.
