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Elizabeth Tallent, born March 1st, 1814 in Roane County, Tennessee. She married Elijah Mizer, born 25 November 1811 in McMinn County, Tennessee, son of John Miser and Elizabeth Hale. They moved to Benton County, Arkansas between 1850 and 1860 where on l March 1854 Elijah obtained land in the Southwest quarter of the South East quarter Sec. 21, Twp. 20, North of Range 31 West, in the District of Land subject to sale at Fayette, Arkansas, containing 40 acres, "under Federal Act granting Bounty Land to certain officers and soldiers who had engaged in military service of the Unite States. The document was signed by M.O.H. Wheeler, Assistant Secretary. Based on the above. Elijah probably served in the Indian Removal or Mexican War (1846-1845) According to Bammie Mizer, Elijah served in the Civil War. He was ill with tuberculosis the latter part of the war, thus stayed home with his family. Being a Northern sympathizer, the "rebels" tormented him so much that he moved his family from Bentonville, Arkansas to near Joplin, Missouri where he stayed with his oldest son, William P. Mizer. On one occasion, Elijah was taken from his home by "bushwhackers". His two oldest daughters, Rebecca and Rachael, followed the men. A neighbor woman stopped the girls and told them not to go farther as their father would not be hurt. A man in the group stepped up and said Elijah was an old man and very sick so there wasn't any reason to harm him and if they did, the first man to touch Elijah would be shot. Elijah was released and unharmed. Elijah died in September 1865, at his son's (William P. Mizer) home near Joplin, Missouri. His wife and son, Henry L. Mizer (Bammie's father), buried Elijah during the night in an unmarked grave. The reason given for this strange burial was that his body would have been dug up by the "rebels".
Following Elijah's death, George Mizer and his mother returned to Arkansas and tried to eke out a living for the orphaned children. George was planning to get married in January of 1867 but while returning home with his girlfriend, the rebels caught him and took George to his brother, William's home in Missouri. The "bushwhackers" surrounded the house and called for William and his brother, James to come out with their hands up or they would kill everyone. To save the life of William's wife and children the boys, along with their brother-in-law, John Edwards surrendered. The men were marched many miles in the snow without shoes and finally shot or hung. They were murdered, perhaps along with others, somewhere in Arkansas.
The above account of the murders of William Mizer, James Mizer, George Mizer and John Edwards was sworn to by Phoebe T. Mizer Fulton on 22 September 1923 in a veteran's pension application on behalf of Elizabeth C. Mizer Edwards Jameson, widow of John Edwards.
In 1883, Elizabeth Tallent Mizer left Arkansas with her son, Henry Lot Mizer and his family. They crossed the plains in covered wagons, arriving at Milton, Oregon in time for the fall harvest. Following the harvest, they moved to Latah, Washington Territory and rented a farm until 1887, only to return to the Arkansas homestead. In 1890, she sold the homestead and moved to near Spokane, Washington where they farmed until 1893. Elizabeth Tallent Mizer died 27 August 1903 on the Camas Prairie near Nez Perce, Idaho. The tragedies and hardships she endured must be preserved as a memorial to the women pioneers of the 19th century.
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