♂Jefferson Talley

Jefferson Talley (about 1886 – 19 March 1949) was a man of St. Martin and St. Landry parishes, Louisiana, in whose house at Krotz Springs his elderly mother was living in 1930. A son of Marie Virginia Cottrelle (1858–1937) by her first husband, he was the half-uncle of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his half-brother Jeffrey Delahorne (1899–1929).

Life

He was born in St. Martin Parish, the son of Denis Gédéon Talley and Virginia Cottrell; his death record names his parents as “Vedion” Talley and Virginia. His birth year varies between records: the 1900 census makes him fourteen, his death record gives 1884, and his draft card of 1942 gives 22 December 1885. In 1900 he was living in the second ward of St. Martin Parish in his widowed mother’s household, with his sister Isabelle, his brothers Taylor, Thomas and Zack, and his half-brother Jeffrey, then two.

On 20 June 1907 he married Euphemie Boudreaux in St. Martin Parish, and in 1910 the couple were living in the parish’s second ward with a young son. On 9 December 1914 he married again, to Emma Serret. By 1930 Jefferson and Emma were living at Krotz Springs, where his brother Taylor also lived, with both of their mothers in the household: Emma’s mother, Félicie Steward, then 75, and his own mother, then 72, whom the census taker recorded under the surname Boudreaux.

He registered for the draft at Krotz Springs in 1942 and died there on 19 March 1949.