Elijah Jasper Tolliver

1855 - 1925  (69 years)

• Name	Elijah Jasper Tolliver
  Birth	22 Dec 1855	Union Co, TN
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Apr 1925	Harlan Co, KY
  Burial	Harlan Co, KY
  	FindAGrave Memorial 178986494
  Person ID	I6147	RidingsHale
  Last Modified	11 Aug 2025

  
  

  Father	Terry Tolliver,   b. 26 Oct 1826, Grainger Co, TN d. 15 Feb 1896, Harlan Co, KY (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Lucinda Evans,   b. 24 Sep 1824, Union Co, TN d. Abt 1900, Harlan Co, KY (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	27 Dec 1854	Grainger Co, TN
  Family ID	F2146	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Elijah Jasper Tolliver b 1855

  
  

• Notes

  Son of Terry Toliver and Lucinda Evans Toliver. Husband of Polly Bailey Tolliver, nicknamed "Pop." Brother of Malkijah J. Tolliver, nicknamed "Kige." The two brothers, Lige and Kige, lived near each other lifelong. That fact has often caused people to think of them as twins,with their rhyming names and similar appearance in photographs. Their cemetery markers show two different birth dates, and U.S. Census records show different ages for Lige and Kige. Lige died 10 years before his brother. A brief death notice for Lige in the Lexington paper ran under the title, "Farmer Drops Dead." It says he was in the Post Office near home when he suddenly died (age 69). It describes Elijah as one of the early settlers of Bledsoe, KY and says he was related to most of his neighbors. Several marriage records of weddings performed in Bledsoe, Harlan County, KY list Elijah J. Tolliver as the Justice of the Peace who performed the wedding. A written family story says that in 1862 Terry and Lucinda Toliver along with Lige and their other children settled on the right fork of Rubin's Branch (near the area now known as Bledsoe). It says they came via the Cumberland Gap from Tennessee. The Tollivers previously lived in Union County, TN and Grainger County, TN.