WILLIAM C. TADLOCK,
Now one of the farming residents of Washington county, Virginia, his
home near Abingdon, is a native of Tennessee, born in Green county,
that State, October 7, 1827. His parents were Sevier and Mary Tadlock,
the former the son of Lewis Tadlock who came from England to
Tucaho, Virginia, in colonial days, and the latter a daughter of John
Blair of Washington county, Tennessee, the Blair family also of English
extraction.
The first wife of William C. Tadlock was born in East Tennessee, July
23, 1826, Emily S., daughter of Samuel Miller, of Washington county,
Tennessee, who married Mary Hornbarger, of the same county. She
became the wife of Mr. Tadlock at Jonesboro, Tennessee, April 11, 1850,
and departed this life on April 2, 1864, having been the mother of seven
children. Of these two are now deceased, Mary E. and Samuel A. The
living children are: James W., Sevier N., Laura A., William A., John
B. February 22, 1866, Mr. Tadlock married Catharine E., daughter of
Henry and Catharine Snavely, of Smyth county, Virginia, and widow
of Umberson Miller.
Mr. Tadlock entered the Confederate States army in August, 1862, in
the 61st East Tennessee regiment. In June, 1863, he was transferred
to the 5th East Tennessee Cavalry. The following October he was made
prisoner, but paroled in a short time, and discharged for disability in
March, 1864. He had two brothers in service, one an enrolling officer,
the other in the Reserves.
