Levina Hartley b. 24 Jan 1811 Dickson County, Tennessee, USA d. 7 Nov 1870 Benton County, Oregon, USA: Our Family History

1811 - 1870 (59 years)

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Name	Levina Hartley [1, 2]
	Also seen as Luvina, Lavinia, etc. Her cemetery marker and Oregon Donation Lands file name her, however, as "Levina."
Nickname	Libby
Born	24 Jan 1811	Dickson County, Tennessee, USA [1, 2, 3, 4]
Gender	Female
Census	1820	Dickson County, Tennessee, USA [5]
	James Hartley 2 males under 10 [Willis abt 2, James abt 6] 1 male 26 to 45 [James Hartley abt 41] 2 females under 10 [Mary abt 7, Luvina abt 9] 1 female 26 to 45 [Elizabeth Walker abt 30] 1 female 45 and up 0 slaves
Census	1830	Bond County, Illinois, USA [6]
	Richard Tatom household 1 male under 5 [James Tatom abt 3] 1 male 20 to 30 [Richard Tatom abt 25] 1 female under 5 [?] 1 female 15 to 20 [Luvina Hartley abt 19]
Residence	1831-1837	Bond County, Illinois, USA [4]
	The James Hartley family moved from Dickson County, Tennessee, to Bond County, Illinois, about 1831. In 1837, following the death of Elizabeth Hartley in 1835, James moved with his children to Polk County, Missouri.
Census	1840	Polk County, Missouri, USA [7]
	Richard Tatum 1 male under 5 [Isaac abt 3] 1 male 5 to 10 [William abt 9] 1 male 10 to 15 [James abt 13] 1 male 30 to 40 [Richard Tatum abt 35] 2 females 5 to 10 [Elizabeth abt 7, Luvina abt 5] 1 female 10 to 15 [?] 1 female 20 to 30 [Luvina Walker Tatum abt 29]
Census	24 Sep 1850	District 17, Cedar County, Missouri, USA [8]
	1. Tatum, Richard, 45, male, farmer, real estate $75, North Carolina 2. _____, Luvina, 39, female, Tennessee, cannot read or write 3. _____, James, 23, m,ale, labor, Tennessee 4. _____, Wm, 19, male, labor, Illinois, attended school within the year 5. _____, Elizabeth, 17, female, Illinois, attended school within the year 6. _____, Luvina, 14, female, Illinois, attended school within the year 7. _____, Isaac, 11, male, Missouri 8. _____, Carolina, 9, female, Missouri, attended school within the year 9. _____, George, 6, male, Missouri 10. _____, Solomon, 2, male, Missouri
Emigration	18 Oct 1853	Salem, Oregon Territory, USA [9]
	From an address by the Hon. John Hailey, librarian for the State Historical Society of Idaho, at the 1906 reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association: "I came across the plains from Dade County, Missouri, to Oregon in 1853 in James Tatom's company. He and his father had four ox teams and about one hundred head of loose cattle. We arrived and stopped at Salem, Oregon, on the evening of October 18, 1853. Salem was a nice little village at that time, consisting of perhaps three hundred people. The country looked nice, but there did not seem to be much doing, and the show for poor emigrant boys to get work was slim. There were seven of us youngsters who had worked our passage across the plains, helping Mr. Tatom, some driving loose cattle, others driving the ox teams. As I had had some experience driven ox teams in Missouri, it fell to my lot to drive what was called the big team of five yoke of oxen to a large wagon. The other teams consisted of only two yoke each. "We all remained at Salem the next day after our arrival, looking around for work, but failed to find any. When we passed Oregon City a few days before, we heard that some company was working quite a number of men there on a kind of breakwater or dam across the Willamette River, so three of us, John S. McBride, James Wilson and myself, concluded to go back to Oregon City and try and get work there. But before we started, Mr. Tatom said that he wanted me to stay with him a few days and help him get his stock located on good range. So it was agreed that McBride and Wilson should go on to Oregon City and try and get work, and as soon as Mr. Tatom's stock was properly located on the range, I would come. Those two boys left for Oregon City and the other four struck for different parts. Tatom and I went out to what was called the Waldo Hills, about eight miles from Salem. Here we found splendid range for stock. The grass was fine and no stock there. We returned to camp and next day, with the assistance of Mr. Tatom's younger brother Isaac, we moved the cattle and the big wagon out there, with a supply of provisions. They returned to Salem to get the family located in a house, and left me alone to look after the cattle. The cattle were well contented and I had an easy, lonesome time for ten days before he returned to relieve me."
Migration	26 Oct 1854	Kings Valley, Benton County, Oregon, USA [10]
	Arrive in Oregon on this date.
Land	16 Nov 1854	Benton County, Oregon, USA [11]
	Richard Tatom filed for Oregon Donation Lands on this date. The 322.63 acres was located in T10S, R6W, Sections 8 and 17, "the North half to the said Richard Tatom, and the South half to his wife, the said Levina Tatom."
Census	11 Jul 1860	Kings Valley, Benton County, Oregon, USA [12]
	1. Tatom, Richard, 55, male, farmer, real estate value $1,500, personal $1280, North Carolina 2. _____, Lavina, 50, female, Tennessee 3. _____, George, 16, male, Missouri, attending school 4. _____, Solomon, 12, male, Missouri, attending school 5. Wood, Irena, 1, female, Oregon
Death	23 Jul 1869	Benton County, Oregon, USA [13]
	Death of husband, Richard Tatum.
Census	9 Jun 1870	Benton County, Oregon, USA [14]
	1. Clark, Wm E., 36, male, white, farmer, Missouri 2. _____, Lavina, 35, female, white, keeping house, Illinois 3. _____, Louisa, 13, female, white, Oregon 4. _____, Clark, 12, male, white, Oregon 5. _____, Sarah, 11, female, white, Oregon 6. _____, Hester, 8, female, white, Oregon 7. _____, Willie, 6, male, white, Oregon 8. _____, Amanda, 4, female, white, Oregon 9. _____, Jesse, 1, male, white, Oregon 10. _____, Georgia, one month, female, white, Oregon, born in May 11. _____, Lavina, 59, female, white, Tennessee 12. Wood, Irene, 11, female, white, Oregon
Died	7 Nov 1870	Benton County, Oregon, USA [1, 15, 16]
Buried	Dallas Cemetery, Polk County, Oregon, USA [1, 15, 16]
Person ID	I1075	Full \| ProgenitorWalker
Last Modified	2 Jan 2013

Father	James Hartley, b. Abt 1779, Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia , d. 16 Oct 1855, Cedar County, Missouri, USA (Age ~ 76 years)
Mother	Elizabeth Walker, b. Abt 1790, d. 23 Oct 1834, Bond County, Illinois, USA (Age ~ 44 years)
Married	Abt 1810	Dickson County, Tennessee, USA [17, 18]
Family ID	F288	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Richard Tatom, b. 12 May 1805, Orange County, North Carolina, USA , d. 23 Jul 1869, Oregon, USA (Age 64 years)

Married 26 Mar 1826 Dickson County, Tennessee, USA [11]

Richard's Oregon Donation Lands file states that he and his wife Levina were married in "Dixon" County, Tennessee, on this date. Many of the early Dickson County marriage records are missing, due to a tornado that destroyed the courthouse in 1830, explaining why no record has been located.

Children

+	1. James Tatum, b. 1827, Dickson County, Tennessee, USA , d. After 1880 (Age 54 years)
	2. William Tatum, b. Abt 1831, Illinois, USA , d. 1888, Polk County, Oregon, USA (Age ~ 57 years)
+	3. Elizabeth Tatum, b. Abt 1833, Illinois, USA , d. 1859, Oregon, USA (Age ~ 26 years)
	4. Levina Tatum, b. Abt 1836, Illinois, USA , d. 11 Sep 1913, Polk County, Oregon, USA (Age ~ 77 years)
+	5. Isaac Tatom, b. Abt 1837, Missouri, USA , d. 7 Nov 1872, Oregon, USA (Age ~ 35 years)
+	6. Caroline Tatom, b. 28 May 1841, Missouri, USA , d. 11 Mar 1926, Independence, Polk County, Oregon, USA (Age 84 years)
	7. George Tatom, b. Abt 1844, Missouri, USA , d. After 1910 (Age ~ 67 years)
	8. Solomon Tatom, b. Abt 1848, Missouri, USA , d. 2 Nov 1928, Benton County, Oregon, USA (Age ~ 80 years)

Last Modified 27 Dec 2012

Family ID F460 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Documents		James Hartley and wife Elizabeth Walker, 1820 Dickson County, Tennessee, census 1820 U.S. census, Dickson County, Tennessee, population schedule, p. 12 (stamped, lower right), line 7, James Hartley household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 September 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication M33, roll 123.
Documents		Lavina (nee Hartley) Tatom, 1870 Benton County, Oregon, census; in the home of her daughter Lavina (nee Tatom) Clark. 1870 U. S. census, Benton County, Oregon, population schedule, [no township stated], p. 14 (penned), p. 284 (stamped, verso), dwelling 104, family 112, Wm E. Clark household, detail for Lavina Tatum; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 September 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1287.

Headstones

Headstone, Luvina (Hartley) Tatum, Dallas Cemetery, Benton County, Oregon.
“Russell-Burrous-Bussell-Bennett Family Tree,” family trees, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 28 Mary 2011), for Luvina (Hartley) Tatum (1811-1870), digital image of headstone, Dallas Cemetery, Benton County, Oregon.

Histories		WPA Interview of H. Clay Tatum, grandson of Richard Tatom and Lavinia Hartley. “WPA Records,” transcriptions, Benton County, Oregon, GenWeb Page (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~orbenton/ : accessed 7 September 2011), interview with H. Clay Tatom, grandson of Benton County pioneers Richard Tatum and Lavinia Hartley; citing WPA records held by the Oregon State Library, Salem
Histories		Biography of John E. Hartley, Goodspeed; offering information on his parents, James Hartley and Elizabeth Walker of Dickson County, Tennessee. “Cedar County Biographies Published by Goodspeed,” transcriptions, Welcome to Cedar County, Missouri (http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocedar/ : accessed 12 March 2008), entry for John E. Hartley; citing History of Barton, Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade, and Barton Counties, Missouri (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889), 734-735.

Sources

[S1339] Diane Erwin (address unknown) to Janis Walker Gilmore, email, 2 June 1999; informal descendant sheet for the James Hartley-Elizabeth Walker family; digital copy in possession of Janis Walker Gilmore (2011).
[S1390] John E. Hartley Bible, The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, translated out of The Original Greek. . . (stereotyped by E. White, New York [n.p.], [n.d.]), privately held by Debra Seaton, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], 2000; digital copies from Hartley descendant Diana Erwin, in the possession of Janis Walker Gilmore (2011). Family data from 1811-1876. In addition to entries on family data pages of the Bible it held several loose sheets of data written in different inks and hands. The earliest data includes the birthdates of children of James and Elizabeth (Walker) Hartley.
[S1491] 1820 U.S. census, Dickson County, Tennessee, population schedule, p. 12 (stamped, lower right), line 7, James Hartley household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 September 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication M33, roll 123. .
[S1360] “Cedar County Biographies Published by Goodspeed,” transcriptions, Welcome to Cedar County, Missouri (http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocedar/ : accessed 12 March 2008), entry for John E. Hartley; citing History of Barton, Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade, and Barton Counties, Missouri (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889), 734-735.
[S1389] 1820 U.S. census, Dickson County, Tennessee, population schedule, Dickson County, Tennessee, p. 11, line 7, James Hartley household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.Ancestry.com); citing NARA microfilm publication M33, roll 123. .
[S1393] 1830 U.S. census, Bond County, Illinois, population schedule, [no township stated], p. 214 (penned), p. 426 (penned) , line 4, Richard Tatom [Tatum] household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 5 Feb 2008); citing NARA microfilm publication M19, roll 25. .
[S1420] 1840 U.S. Census, Polk County, Missouri, population schedule, [no township stated], p. 193 (stamped), line 3, Richard Tatum household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 May 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication M704, roll 228; from FHL microfilm 014,857.
[S1421] 1850 U.S. census, Cedar County, Missouri, population schedule, district 17, p. 160 (stamped, recto), p. 319 (penned), dwelling 472, family 472, Richard Tatum household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 Sep 2009); citing NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 395.
[S2986] Hon. John Hailey, "My First Experience in Oregon in 1853," Transactions of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association (Portland, Or.: Peasies Bros. and Chause Printers, 1907), 180-185, particularly 180-181. The author Mr. Hailey was librarian for the State Historical Society of Idaho, in Boise.
[S1423] “Russell-Burrous-Bussell-Bennett Family Tree,” family trees, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 28 Mary 2011); citing Genealogical Material in Oregon Donation Land Claims, 5 vols. (Portland, Or.: Genealogical Forum of Portland, 1957-1975), 2: [page not stated], for Richard Tatem [Tatom], no. 4667.
[S2957] Richard Tatom (Benton County), donation lands, final certificate no. 4667, Oregon City, Oregon, Land Office; Oregon and Washington Donation Land Files, 1851.

[S1422] 1860 U.S. census, Benton County, Oregon, population schedule, Kings Valley precinct (Kings Valley post office), p. [57?] (penned), p. 24 (stamped, recto), dwelling 477, family 477, Richard Tatom household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 28 May); citing NARA microfilm publication M653m roll 1055.

[S1425] “Russell-Burrous-Bussell-Bennett Family Tree,” family trees, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 28 Mary 2011), for Richard Tatum (1805-1869); citing Polk County, Oregon, Tombstone Inscriptions of Dallas Cemetery (Dallas, Or.: Polk County Genealogical Society, Dallas Public Library, 1986).

[S1493] 1870 U. S. census, Benton County, Oregon, population schedule, [no township stated], p. 14 (penned), p. 284 (stamped, verso), dwelling 104, family 112, Wm E. Clark household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 September 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1287. .

[S1424] “Russell-Burrous-Bussell-Bennett Family Tree,” family trees, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 28 Mary 2011), for Levina “Libby” (Hartley) Tatum (1811-1870; citing Polk County, Oregon, Tombstone Inscriptions of Dallas Cemetery (Dallas, Or.: Polk County Genealogical Society, Dallas Public Library, 1986).

[S2958] Shiela, transcriber (Sweetpea59ml@ao.com), "Cemeteries: Surnames M-W Dallas Cemetery, Polk County, Oregon, Established 1847," database, USGenWeb Archives (http://files.usgwarchives.net : accessed 27 December 2012), entry for Levina Tatom (7 November 1870); citing a 1986 book published by the Polk County Genealogical Society (name of publication not stated), transcribed from the book and published on USGenWeb by their permission.

[S99] Esther Pratt (6408 Worchester Drive; Nashville, Tennessee) to Sandra Johnston (Oklahoma), letter, 13 May 1997, regarding the Elijah Walker family of Dickson County, Tennessee. Privately held by Ms. Johnston. The author has lost contact with Ms. Johnston and no longer knows her whereabouts.

[S2956] History of Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties, Missouri (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889), 739-740, for John E. Hartley, Stockton, Missouri.