Dorothy Elizabeth Colquitt

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Dorothy Elizabeth Colquitt (Tarver)

Also Known As: "Dolly"
Birthdate:
Death: April 18, 1855 (26)
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Daughter of Hartwell Hill Harrison Tarver and Ann Rutherford Tarver
Wife of Maj. Gen. Alfred Holt Colquitt (CSA), Governor, U.S. Senator
Mother of Ann Lane Newell (Colquitt); Dorothy Tarver and Walter T. Colquitt
Sister of Paul E Tarver; Henry Andrew Tarver; Frederick Robert Tarver; John Hartwell Tarver and Ann Rebecca Tarver
Half sister of William Bunn Tarver and Benjamin Marcus Tarver

Managed by: Jill Chesler
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About Dorothy Elizabeth Colquitt

In 1848 Henry Tarver gave land as a wedding gift where his slaves built the Colquitt Plantation.


General Tarver gave Dorothy and Alfred Colquitt lands adjacent to his own in Baker County, where slaves built the Colquitt Plantation. It was renamed Pinebloom Plantation by new owner in 1946

one source (Memoirs of Judge Richard Clark on Google Bookshttp://books.google.com/books?id=QEgUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA339&lpg=PA339&dq=walter+t.+colquitt,+son+of+alfred&source=bl&ots=uePR7hmE6-&sig=-jPKuzHEFZENELhxaVIRkZbK3SM&hl=en&ei=WikMTJVDmbIxlPrdtQQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CD8Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=walter%20t.%20colquitt%2C%20son%20of%20alfred&f=false)

has "mother of Judge Colquitt left as widow married to father of Hartwell H Tarver" Alfred met her when he visited teh home of his father's step brother.

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