DOCUMENTATION SOURCES:

1850 Georgia Census, Liberty County, page 318

Research Information provided by Sherry Johnson (email: sherrjoh7@yahoo.com) as of March 2007
Personally surveyed Taylors Creek Cemetery on 6/26/2001 and took photo of tombstone and civil war footmarker
Image of Last Will and Testament of Israel L. Bird (original document located in Liberty County Courthouse, Probate Court Records, Liberty County, Georgia) [page 2] [page 3]
Transcription of Will of Israel L. Bird (transcribed by Sherry Boresen Sullivan)
BOOKS
"Pioneers of Wiregrass", Vol. 5, corrections and additions, page 573, written by Folk Huxford,

Taylors Creek, Story of the Community and Her People Through 200 Years", Bird and Paul Yarbrough, Editors, A Project of Taylors Creek Cemetery Association, Press of The Atkinson County Citizen, Pearson, Georgia, 1963. A copy of this book can be found at the Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia. This book has an updated and revised version printed in 1985.

(page 29)) (page 149) (page 150)

WEBSITES

Taylors Creek Cemetery Plot Map & Website

Israel L. BIRD, son of Captain James BIRD and Mary DANIEL, was born 1 Jun 1839 in Taylors Creek, Georgia. Israel enlisted in Capt. Hughes' Company of the 1st Georgia Cavalry Battalion on 25 Apr 1862. He transferred to Company D of the 5th Georgia Cavalry Regiment on 20 Jan 1863. The roll of 31 Dec 1864 shows he was "absent in Liberty County since 1 Sep 1864. He died 27 Jun 1905, and is buried at Taylors Creek Cemetery, Fort Stewart, Georgia.

He was a Captain in the Civil War. His tombstone reads: "AT REST, In Memory of Capt. I.L. Bird, Born June 1, 1839, Died June 27, 1905 age 66 yrs, A galland and brave confederate soldier A true and loyal christian A tender and loving husband Has gone to his heavenly reward We will meet beyond the river. BIRD"

Apparently he had no issue.
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FROM "Pioneers of Wiregrass", Vol. 5, corrections and additions, page 573, written by Folk Huxford:
He served as a representative from Effingham County in the Legislature in 1785, 1786, 1789-90 and was a member of the Executive Council in 1789. A deed was found in Liberty County, in Book A, page 178, to him was made by Sylvanus Robeson and wife Ann. It was executed in Effingham County November 23, 1791 and conveyed 1,387 acres "in Old St. John's Parish, now Liberty County" and a separate instrument, bill of sale, between the same parties and date, conveyed cattle.
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Research Information provided by Sherry Johnson (email: sherrjoh7@yahoo.com) as of March 2007
Info provided by Sherry Johnson (email: sherrjoh7@yahoo.com) as of March 2007

I'm one of the coordinators for the Byrd DNA Project website. The family below is not my direct Bird/Byrd line, but there is a connection (according to DNA) through Burgoon Bird to my ancestor Andrew Bird of Berks Co., PA.

I've pursued three Bird lines that came out of Berks County, Pennsylvania. My ancester was Andrew Bird, who moved from Berks County, PA, about 1731-1734, to the Shenandoah Valley. DNA shows a relationship to Burgoon Bird (m. Mary Robison, d/o Israel), who moved from Berks Co., PA, to Georgia around 1760. This line is the one that includes the individuals who lived at Taylors Creek. The third line was decended from Marcus Hulings Bird (son of William Bird, founder of Birdsboro, PA), who left Berks County after the Revolutionary War and settled in North Carolina. All of these men had numerous descendants. As a coordinator for the Byrd DNA Project, I get regular requests for information about these related families. William Bird's line are related only by marriage via his wife Bridget Hulings to the other two Bird families.

As I was searching census records yesterday for the Liberty County Birds, I think I saw one elsewhere for a Faith Bird. I did not pursue her because I was trying to fill ot the family data on the children/grandchildren of James Robinson Bird. Below is the 1860 census info for Mary H. who married James.

1860 Census, Liberty Co., Georgia, p. 771, Li. 9 #333, 315.
"17th District 17 July 1860
James R. Bird 48 m GA Planter
Mary " 46 f GA
James " 23 m GA
Israel " 21 m GA
Robinson " 17 m GA
Sarah " 14 f GA
Martha " 11 f GA
Susan " 10 f GA
George " 8 m GA
Mary " 6 f GA
Georgia " 2 f GA

There are 2 other Mary Birds Mary O. vs. Mary R. In 1880, Mary O. 24, was still living at home with her mother. Mary R. was married to George P. Bird and had a 5 month old daughter Birdie. I have also seen the Taylor's Creek history that suggests that Mary Bird married John Stewart. So far, I've not found documentation for this information.

I also looked for the Birdie Bird Darsey mentioned in Sarah Louisa Bird's estate settlement. She signed as Birdie Darsey in Montgomery Co., Alabama in 1911. I didn't find a likely "Darsey" in 1910 Montgomery County, but I did find a "Lulu Dorsey" who was 32 in 1910 (not outside the realm of possibility for Birdie). She was the wife of S.E. Dorsey and they had a daughter Birdie age 6. They lived in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, and had been married 8 years. Since the name Lulu appears in the previous generation of this Bird family, this seems like a possibility.
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• Married: 1868