the wrong direction and too far away to fit the setting of the story. Like his father and his brother Alexander he was a farmer, before moving to Alabama in 1818. Mark was, also like Alexander, a Baptist, but he never burned with the same passion as did his brother. Before his marriage, he was, according to his grandson, "something of a rounder." A family version of the Bar story, not much talked about for obvious reasons but revealed to Samuel Asbury by Mark A. Travis in 1925, identifies this foundling as Taliaferro Travis, a natural son of Mark born prior to his marriage to Jemima Stallworth. He did not deny the child; instead he took him into his home and raised him. It is understandable that the eldest child of Mark and Jemima, William B. Travis, should become confused with Uncle Tol, as he was later known to the family.
Marriage 1 Jemima Elizabeth STALLWORTH b: 6 SEP 1783 in Edgefield District, South Carolina
• Married: 1 JAN 1808 in Edgefield District, South Carolina
Children
1. William Barret TRAVIS b: 9 AUG 1809 in Edgefield District, South Carolina
2. Nicholas Stallworth TRAVIS b: 10 SEP 1810 in Near Red Bank, Edgefield District, Saluda County, South Carolina
3. Sarah Ann Jemima TRAVIS b: 12 SEP 1812 in Near Red Bank, Edgefield District, Saluda County, South Carolina
4. Emily Katharine
