Telitha (Cook) Byrd (1829 - 1886)

Born 28 May 1829 in Tennessee, United States

Wife of Joseph Byrd — married 2 Apr 1846 in Campbell, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Biography

Talitha (Cook) Byrd was born in Appalachia, in Tennessee.

Talitha was born in 1829. She passed away in 1886.

Telitha was born about 1828, in Tennessee, USA, of parents also born in Tennessee.^[1]

Tilitha (alternate spelling) and Joseph Bird (alternate spelling) married in Campbell, Tennessee, which suggests Telitha's family was from Campbell County.^[2]

By 1870, Telitha, Joseph, and family were living in Scott County, Tennessee.^{[3] [4]}

Telitha died in 1886 and is remembered in the Hutson Cemetery, Scott County, Tennessee, USA.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ 1828 birth and location: Based upon Memorial Stone photograph at findagrave and 1880 census.
2. ↑ "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKH3-BQVP : 16 March 2020), Joseph Bird and Tilitha Cook, 02 Apr 1846; citing Campbell, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. , Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 979,202.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD89-PNF : 4 January 2021), Belitha Byrd in entry for Joseph Byrd, 1870.

   Joseph Byrd Male 44 Tennessee

   Telitha Byrd Female 42 Tennessee

   William Byrd Male 20 Tennessee

   Nancy J Byrd Female 17 Tennessee

   Elizabeth A Byrd Female 17 Tennessee

   Peter Byrd Male 14 Tennessee

   Sherman Byrd Male 3 Tennessee

   John L Cook Male 37 Tennessee

4. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDWH-97M : 14 November 2020), Tilitha Byrd in household of Joseph Byrd, Scott, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district ED 129, sheet 244C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,277.

   Joseph Byrd Self Male 54 Tennessee (NC/VA)

   Tilitha Byrd Wife Female 51 Tennessee (TN/TN)

   Peter Byrd Son Male 23 Tennessee

   Salina Byrd Daughter-in-law Female 21 Tennessee

   Sherman Byrd Son Male 13 Tennessee

   John Cook Brother-in-law Male 50 Tennessee

5. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #24443046, Talitha Cook Byrd (28 May 1829–7 Sep 1886), citing Hutson Cemetery, Scott County, Tennessee, USA; Memorial Stone to replace unreadable-in-photograph stone.