OBIT: Lawrence TALIAFERRO, 1871, Bedford, Bedford County, PA

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TALIAFERRO - DEATH OF AN OLD MILITARY OFFICER - Major Lawrence 
Taliaferro died at his residence in Bedford, Pa., on Friday, at the 
advanced age of eighty years. He was born in Virginia in 1790 and 
served in the war of 1812. He was Indian agent at Fort Snelling for 
twenty years, and was military storekeeper in Pittsburg from 1856 to 
1861. Soon after the war broke out he was placed on the retired list, 
and had since resided at his home in Bedford. The Major was a gentleman 
of the old school, a man of kind heart, a friend of everybody, and was 
loved and respected by all acquainted with him. He was buried with 
Masonic honors.

The Register, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, January 25, 1871