I4246: William Wallace Smith BLISS Col. (17 Aug 1815

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1st husband of Betty Taylor. Educated at West Point; Adjutant-General to his father-in-law Gen. Zachary Taylor, then private secretary when Taylor became President.

"Brevet Lieutenant colonel W.W.S. Bliss was son of Captain John Bliss and his wife Olive Hall Simonds of NY and Alabama. He was born 17th August 1815 and graduated from West Point in 1833.
During the Mexican War 1846-8, he became Adjutant and Military Secretary to Major General Zachary Taylor.
He married the general's youngest daughter, Mary Elizabeth Taylor, in 1848 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The following year General Taylor became President of the United States of America and he appointed his son in law, Col. Bliss, as his private secretary. Bliss's ability and pesonality won the esteem of men of all parties.
His wife, affectionately known as 'Miss Betty', was, in effect, the First Lady at the White House at the age of 22. The popular young couple seemed destined to become powerful figures in Washington when tragedies overwhelmed them.
The President died suddenly in 1850. Col. Bliss accompanied the widow to Pascagoula, Mississippi, where she too died in 1852. Colonel Bliss took up the post of Inspector in the army. Following a visit to plague-ridden New Orleans on behalf of the University of Louisiana, Colonel Bliss died of Yellow Fever at Pascagoula Aug. 5th 1853. Thus 'Miss Betty' lost her father, mother and husband in a little over 3 years.
A 20 foot memorial of Italian marble was raised to the memory of Colonel Bliss, 'a finished scholar, an accomplished gentleman and a gallant soldier', in Girod Street Cemetery, New Orleans. In 1955, the cemetery being condemned, Colonel Bliss's remains and monument were removed to Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. The Fort had been named in honour of Colonel Bliss in 1854. It remains a vital part of the US Defence Training and Developement Programme to this day.
(courtesy of The Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America by Aaron Tyler Bliss)"
http://members.aol.com/blissfhstestsite/eminent.htm#wwsb

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b. Near, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky

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yellow fever plague after a visit in NO, LA

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reinterred 1955 at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas

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grmother of Chief Justice Agnew of Supreme Court of PA..of an excellent Quaker.

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Father: Thomas Dillard spouse unknown; p. 10 of an article by Mrs. Stacy, sent by Bartina Peoples, Walters, OK.

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A Brief Narative of Colonel Paremas Taylor of 1776 Period and Later, by his Grandson, Paremas Taylor Turnley, 1909. Article said they had 7 children, 3 daughters and 4 sons, They remained on their farm in the Dutch Bottoms, on the French Broad river in Cocke County, TN until the close of the Civil War. LaRue having been a Confederate Soldier was not permitted to live at his home after the Civil War. They went to Indiana and then to Bowie, Texas where he died.

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The eldest sister of Judith Micou, who married Lunsford Lomax, married Moore Fauntleroy. One of her daughters married the Rev. Mr. Giberne, of Richmond county. Another of this connection, who was the grandmother of Mr. Micou, the present Clerk of Essex, married the Rev. Mr. Mathews, one of the ministers of St. Anne's parish, Essex.
Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia. Article XXXVI.

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Thomas M. Pendleton((5)). Married Miss Jackson, b. 1804.

Louisa Jackson (Wife)
Children:
1. William James Pendleton
2. DescendantsElisha Henry Pendleton
Children:
1. Charles W. Pendleton
2. Louisa A. Pendleton
3. Elizabeth B. Pendleton
4. Ada E. Pendleton

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My Southern Family

Col. William Wallace Smith BLISS

17 Aug 1815 - 4 Aug 1853

ID Number: I4246

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Kezia BURR

19 Nov 1758 - 9 Aug 1835

ID Number: I58861

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Anne DILLARD

ABT 1727 - ____

ID Number: I75381

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Mary GOGGINS

ABT 1820 - ____

ID Number: I25032

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George LARUE

ABT 1820 - ____

ID Number: I21711

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Elizabeth MEYNARD

12 Sep 1829 - 4 Jun 1889

ID Number: I96669

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Margaret MICOU

ABT 1718 - ____

ID Number: I73011

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Thomas Madison PENDLETON

9 Nov 1804 - 4 Mar 1835

ID Number: I50236

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