Organ Tatum
Information on this page furnished by Ed Tatum
Born: 27 August 1793
Wilkes County, Georgia
Died: 8 March 1857
Marion, Union Parish, Louisiana
Married: Alcy Vardeman
19 December 1814 Jasper County, Georgia
Born: 10 March 1798 Greene County,
Georgia
Died: 31 January 1866 Union
County, Arkansas
Parents: William Vardeman and Rachel Walker
Parents: Howell Tatum and Henrica Organ
CHILDREN
Born:
11 December 1815 Jasper
County, Georgia
Died: 18 January 1896
Eldorado, Union County, Arkansas
Married: 1. Ellen M. Lawson
20 October 1835 Tallapoosa
County, Alabama
Born: ca 1817
Morgan County, Georgia
Died: before 31 October 1843 in
Alabama
2. Martha Traylor 31
October 1843 Troup County, Georgia
Born: 17 March
1817 Oglethorpe County, Georgia
Died: 1889
El Dorado, Union County, Arkansas
Howell Tatum
Born: 4 August 1818
Alabama
Died: 1 November 1819
Lowndes
County, Alabama
Born: 23 June 1820
Alabama
Died: after 1910
Union
County, Arkansas
Married: Lucinda Amanda Bussey
View
Picture of Eliza Jane Tatum
Born: 26 June 1822
Autauga County, Alabama
Died: 10 March 1882
Union County, Arkansas
Married: 1. Edmund Pearce Tatum
2. Sylvanus Walker Scroggins
29 March 1863 Union County, Arkansas
John Burney Tatum (Physician)
Born: 18
September 1824 Autauga County, Alabama
Died: 28 April 1917
Union
County, Arkansas
Married: 1. Emily Newton
19 Nov 1846 Union County, Arkansas
2. Fanny Leonora Aiken
25 July 1850 Union County, Arkansas
Born: 30 June 1826
Autauga County, Alabama
Died: 29 March 1873
Married: Milana D. Simmons
16 Dec 1846 Autauga County,
Alabama
Born: 13
February 1829 Alabama
Died: 18 July 1865
Lawsonville, Rusk County, Texas
Married: Benjamin Franklin Miles
6 May 1847 Autauga County, Alabama
Born: 1830
Alabama
Died: 1868
Autauga County, Alabama
Married: Frances
Jeanette Hogan 15 November 1849
Born: 9 May 1831
Alabama
Died: 1892
Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
Married: 1. John T. Simmons
12 January 1848 Autauga County, Alabama
2. Alexander Lazare
18 December 1871 Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
Born: 26 November 1833
Died: after 29 March 1858
Mary Ann Tatum
Born: 26 April
1836 Alabama
Died: 26 May 1836
Alabama
These are some quotes about Organ Tatum (b. 1793) from various
sources. These quotes were supplied by Ed Tatum.
From Woodward's Reminiscences of the Creek or Muscogee Indians (1859):
[These are the personal recollections of Gen. Thomas W. Woodward, adventurer and soldier,
who lived much of his life with the Indians. He knew personally the great-great grandsons
of Indians who had seen DeSoto on his march through Alabama in 1540, and was also well
acquainted with the Tatums]. "Organ Tatum and Ben Ward had the first fist-fight I
ever heard of in Montgomery county. Tatum bit off a piece of Ward's nose."
From Pioneer Days in Autauga County:
"Another name I would mention...is that of Col. Organ Tatum, who at the age of sixty
still lives amongst us, a fine specimen of health and comfort. The Colonel's children have
all left him and gone to the west, save one daughter [Sarah Albertine Miles]."
From the Autauga Citizen, July 7, 1859:
"Col. Organ Tatum, who was for many years a good and industrious citizen of the
county, resided till a few years ago, about eight miles South West of Prattville, when he
removed to Louisiana, and died a few months after his arrival at his new home.—He had
a large family, and they all emigrated to the Western country. Berry Tatum, the only one
of his sons now remaining, resides about five miles West of Prattville. Recently a sad
misfortune has befallen him in the loss of his estimable
consort.—That loss will be felt by him till death, that final quietus, closes the
scene."