Sarah Tarver Colquitt

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Sarah Tarver Colquitt (Bunn)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Twiggs Georgia
Death: May 02, 1898 (65-66)
Edgewood (DeKalb County) DeKalb County Georgia, USA
Place of Burial: Rose Hill Cemetery Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, USA MEMORIAL ID 46178603
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Rev. Henry Bunn and Nancy Bunn
Wife of Frederick Robert Tarver and Alfred H. Colquitt, 49th Governor of Georgia
Mother of Elizabeth Hill Marshall; Harriet Bunn Colquitt; Laura Warren Howard; Dorothy Tarver Arkwright and Walter Terry Colquitt, II
Sister of Harriet Maria Tarver; Thad "Thad" Bunn; Henry H Bunn; William Bunn; Judson S. Bunn and 5 others

Managed by: Jill Chesler
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About Sarah Tarver Colquitt

Alfred's second wife was Sarah Bunn Tarver, the widow of Fred Tarver (Dolly's brother) and they had 6 children.

"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVJ-B55Q : 16 December 2021), Nancy Thorpe Bunn, ; Burial, , Twiggs, Georgia, United States of America, Richland Baptist Church Cemetery; citing record ID 20327128, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

Sarah Colquitt was a daughter of Henry and Nancy (Thorpe) Bunn, and her siblings were Marcus Henry, Hugh Lawson, William, Thaddeus, Henry, Jr., Judson, Portia, Harriet (married Gen. Henry Tarver), and Martha. Sarah's first husband was Frederick Tarver, who died soon after they were married. With her second husband, Alfred Holt Colquitt, she had two children, Walter T. Colquitt and Elizabeth Hill Colquitt (married Major William Louis Marshall).

From the Atlanta Constitution, 4 May 1898, p. 9:

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Sarah Tarver Colquitt's Timeline

1832
1832
Twiggs Georgia
1861
1861
1866
November 18, 1866
Georgia, USA
1869
November 1869
Georgia
1871
June 27, 1871
Georgia, USA
1874
March 5, 1874
Georgia, United States
1898
May 2, 1898
Age 66
Edgewood (DeKalb County) DeKalb County Georgia, USA
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Rose Hill Cemetery Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, USA MEMORIAL ID 46178603