U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Talbot, Homer O. (1868-1944) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Page 580, TALBOT FAMILY. H. O. TALBOT, the founder of this family on English soil, emigrated from Normandy at the time of William the Conquerer. This branch, which had set led in England, multiplied, and early in the history of Virginia, William Talbot, the seventh in line of ascent from the subject of this sketch, came to America and settled in Fairfax County, Virginia. His children were: Richard, Cottrell and Charily. Cottrell married Elizabeth Reger, the daughter of Jacob Reger, in 1788. Richard, the younger son, was born November 16, 1764, and emigrated to what is now Barbour County, in 1780, escaping from his master. In 1788 he married Margaret Dowden, who was born December 25, 1776, and to this union 13 children were born: Samuel, born December 13, 1790; Mary Ann, born November 7, 1792; Jacob, born September 3, 1794; Abraham, born October 16, 1796; Isaac, born September 2, 1798; Robert, born February 3, 1801; Elisha, born January 7, 1804; Silas, born June 11, 1806; Absalom, born September 22, 1807; Elam, born July 6, 1810; Zachariah, born April 13, 1813; Margaret, born October 27, 1815; Elizabeth, born December 15, 1819. Elisha married a Miss Stevens and their oldest son, born September 12, 1821, was Edward S. Talbot. He married Margaret E. Capito, January 20, 1842, and their oldest son, born April 1, 1843, was Lewis Creed Talbot, who married Margaret S. Johnson, February 21, 1867. Their son, Homer O. Talbot, was born May 24, 1868, and he married Edna Shipman, August 29, 1899. Lewis Creed Talbot was a Confederate soldier, enlisting in the year 1862, in Captain Hill's Company, 62nd Mounted Infantry, in General Imboden's brigade. He served until the war closed. Margaret S. Johnson, the mother of the subject of this sketch, was a daughter of John N. Johnson and Margaret Alexander of Albemarle County, Virginia, who emigrated to what is now Upshur County, in 1844, and the granddaughter of Elijah Johnson and Martha Carter. Elijah Johnson was a soldier in the war of 1812. Children of Lewis Creed Talbot: Jerusha, born January 30, 1874 (dead): John E., born August 8, 1870, and Homer O. Children of Homer O. Talbot: Freda, born June 14, 1900 (dead): Guy N., born March 22, 1902, and Lois, born March 9, 1904, and Samuel Creed, born September 25, 1906. Edna Shipman Talbot, the wife of the subject of this sketch, is the daughter of Samuel W. Shipman and Cora A. Tallman and the granddaughter of John B. Shipman, and the great granddaughter of Nathaniel Shipman, of New London county, Conn., on her father's side, and the granddaughter of James C. Tallman and the great granddaughter of Benjamin Tallman, a nephew of Daniel Boone, and a soldier in the War of 1812. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Upshur County, WV #12951 FULL-NAME: Homer O. Talbott BIRTH-DATE: May 24, 1868 BIRTH-PLACE: Upshur County, W.Va. DEATH-DATE: October 20, 1944 (at age 76y-4m-26d) DEATH-PLACE: 86 Pocantas St., Buckhannon, Upshur County, WV USUAL-RESIDENCE: 86 Pocantas St., Buckhannon, Upshur County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married (Edna Shipman Talbott) OCCUPATION: Retired Rural Mail Carrier FATHER: Creed L. Talbott (born in Randolph County, W.Va.) MOTHER: Margaret Johnson (born in Va.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Myocarditis INFORMANT: Guy Talbott (of 32 N. Locust St., Buckhannon) BURIAL: Kesling Cemetery, Upshur County, W.Va. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Upshur County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/upshur/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------