Re: I never knew there were so many tigner's
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Re: I never knew there were so many tigner's
Mark Byington 2/07/05
Hello,
The following is a letter written in 1926 by William Alabama Tigner of Jonesboro, offering comments on the 1881 letter his grandfather, Young Fletcher Tigner, sent him (transcribed in the previous posting). As before, I have tried to retain the exact spelling.
Mark Byington
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Notes on the statement of Rev. Young F. Tigner by his grandson William A. Tigner (1926)
At the time Y. F. Tigner sent me this statement he was within a month of being 76 years old. He wrote in a little note that records had been mislaid or lost and that he would have to give the best he could from memory. His memory seems to have been at fault in a few particulars.
The tradition in our branch of the family is that it was George who remained in America, as Y. F. states, but members of Hope Hull’s family have it that it was Thomas who remained. There is an old family Bible which was in possession of cousin Sarah Gray, went from her to her daughter Ida who married a man named Burch (I think) who lives in Fayette county. George, son of Benson, told me this Bible was obtained and was at the home of his father, Benson. Probably Dr. E. A. Tigner of Milledgeville can furnish information from this Bible. According to Y. F.’s children the original settlement was in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, where original settler remained and died. His son, Philip, falling out with his step-mother, paddled across Chesapeake Bay to Virginia, and when his father died and he was notified that he had left some property sent word back that the others could have it, -- that he would not look at his step-mother again for all the property. If my recollection hasn’t gone wrong, Philip was a Class-leader in the Methodist Church. But there seems to be a streak of positiveness in our family that even religion does not soften very much. As Philip raised two families, and sent one son through college, he must have been quite a man of action and intelligence, or luck must have favored him greatly. I guess he was some pumpkins, judging from what little I know of his son, my grandfather, Y. F., who raised quite a family; had quite a good sized farm, and sent two of his sons, W. A. and Wesley F., through Emory College. Y. F. was a large man. I do not recall having heard how tall he was, but heard that his regular weight was 240 pounds. I do not think I ever heard that he was what is called a fat man; my recollection of him as I saw him when a little boy was that he was not fat. He was said to have a voice that would not disturb one sitting in the amen corner of a small church, but that could be heard a mile off. He was not an educated man; didn’t go to college. I have heard that he was much of a man physically, and he must have had brains and business ability, or he could not have acquired property and raised his family as he did. I never heard that he inherited anything from his father; if he did, the amount must have been small, as there were ten other children for any property to be divided amongst, -- his brothers and sisters.
As to what part any of the Tigners had in the Revolutionary War, the only thing I can recall having heard is the bald statement “Their ship was captured by the British.” I grew up after the Civil War; the South had been badly whipped, devastated, impoverished, and its governments in the hands of carpetbaggers and scalawags; so we Southerners were not interested much in what our forefathers had done towards the making of the United States.
Uncles WESLEY and SAM fought through the Civil War from beginning to end; uncle James was in for a short while before the end; father (W. A.) was not in physical condition to be a soldier.
W. A. Tigner
Jonesboro, Ga., July, 1926
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