♂Thomas Talley

Thomas Talley (born February 1884) was a son of Denis Gédéon Talley (1850–1894) and Marie Virginia Cottrelle (1858–1937) of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, and so a half-brother of Jeffrey Delahorne (1899–1929), his mother’s son by her second husband, and a half-uncle of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014). He was the third of the five Talley children known to have survived childhood, after Isabelle and Taylor and before Jefferson and Zack.

His father had died by 1894. At the census of June 1900 Thomas was sixteen and single, living in the second ward of St. Martin Parish in the household of his widowed mother, who was recorded there as “Mrs. Justin Dillion”, with his brothers and sister and his two-year-old half-brother, Jeffrey. That census gives his birth as February 1884. No later record of him has been found: he does not appear in the indexed censuses of 1910 to 1950, among the draft registrations of 1917–1918, or in the Louisiana death records under any form of the surname.

Notes

A Thomas Samuel Talley who died at Opelousas in 1965 is a different man: he was born in Arkansas in 1886 and grew up in north Louisiana.