U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Talbott, Robert M. (1840-1917) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Page 475 Robert M. Talbott, born 1840, son of Robert and Mary (Woodford) Talbott, was married December 29, 1869, to Mary Florence, daughter of John R. and Lucinda (Sinsel) Williamson. Children, Anna Laura, Susan A., Maggie, James Guy, Alba Ray, Lucinda, Patrick G. and Emma. Mr. Talbott is a Missionary Baptist, and is a farmer, living near Arden. He was educated at the Morgantown Academy, and at a Commercial College in Philadelphia, and has taught twenty-four schools, and spent seven years as a merchant at Vannoy's Mill and at Flora, on Sugar Creek. He owns 120 acres in Barbour and owns a half interest in 900 acres in Randolph. Alba Ray, his son, was a soldier in the Spanish War of 1898. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Barbour County, WV #5394 FULL-NAME: Robert M. Talbott DEATH-DATE: Apr 1917 (at age 77-years) DEATH-PLACE: Philippi District, Barbour County, WV OCCUPATION: Retired (Invalid) BURIAL: Silent Grove (wife of Robert M. Talbott) From Death Certificate, Barbour County, WV #7 FULL-NAME: Mary Florance Talbott BIRTH-PLACE: West Va. DEATH-DATE: Jan 4, 1922 at age 73y-10m-5d DEATH-PLACE: Philippi, Philippi District, Barbour County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Wid. OCCUPATION: FATHER: J. R. Williamson (West Va.) MOTHER: Lucindy Sinsel (born in West Va.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Partial Paralysis INFORMANT: BURIAL: Silent Grove There's a tombstone in Silent Grove Cemetery, Barbour County, WV with both names on the shared stone Robert M. Talbott Mary F., his wife Mar. 30, 1840 Feb. 11, 1848 Apr. 16, 1917 Jan. 4, 1922 ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------