NINE SONS: The Tolar Brothers & The Civil War
Robert Tolar and Mary Frances Autry
(Robert Tolar My 1st Cousin 5X Removed)
Robert Tolar and my 4th Great Grandmother (Sarah Toler - married Revolutionary War Patriot John Allison JR) were brother and sister. ROBERT TOLAR was born November 03, 1804 in Cumberland Co., NC, and died October 10, 1887 in North Carolina. He married MARY FRANCES AUTRY May 24, 1826 in Cumberland Co., NC, daughter of THEOPHLIS AUTRY and ELIZABETH CRUMPLER. She was born August 25, 1805 in North Carolina, and died March 29, 1887 in NC.
Robert Toler (1804 - 1887)
is your 1st cousin 5x removed
father of Robert Toler
father of John Toler JR
daughter of John Nehemiah Toler
son of Sarah Toler
son of Joseph "Mine Lick Joe" Allison
son of William Herbert Allison
son of William Carter Allison
son of William Luther Allison
You are the daughter of Ernest Haywood Allison
Robert & Frances were the parents of 'NINE' Tolar sons. All nine were born in Cumberland County, NC, and all volunteered to serve the Confederacy at the beginning of the Civil War. 
Seven of the nine were killed, wounded, or captured
during the war. John was killed in battle, Haynes was
killed accidentally, and Thomas was wounded in 1862 and died in a hospital in 1863. William was seriously wounded leading a charge, but returned to battle. Sampson and Alfred were wounded, Alfred three times, and were unable to return to battle. Robert was captured at the surrender of Fort Fisher, NC. | |
All nine brothers are buried in the Cross Creek Cemetery
in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Cross Creek meanders for more than a mile from downtown Fayetteville to the Cape Fear River. The Cemetery was established in 1785 and is organized into five numbered sections.
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After the Civil War ended, the Memorial Association of Fayetteville had all soldiers who had been killed in battle—along with those who had died and been buried in various nearby locations—interred (or re-interred) in Cross Creek Cemetery. The group then raised the funds to erect a Confederate Soldiers Monument in Cross Creek, the first Confederate monument in North Carolina; it was dedicated on December 30, 1868.
In 1915, the Cross Creek Cemetery Commission was created via an act of the North Carolina General Assembly, providing for the maintenance of the cemetery.
This is the oldest public cemetery in Fayetteville, begun in 1785. Mrs. Anna K. Kyle, who served as a nurse in the hospital here during the Civil War, established the Confederate Burial Ground soon after Union General William T. Sherman and his army left Fayetteville in March 1865. She and Fayetteville Mayor Archbald McLean selected a spot in the back section of the cemetery overlooking Cross Creek to inter the soldiers. The Rev. Joseph C. Huske of St. John's Episcopal Church officiated at a mass burial here later in the spring.
This monument was erected in 1868 and is the oldest Confederate Monument in NC.
(A handmade quilt was raffled to pay for the monument)
The monument is the work of George Lauder, the most productive stonecutter in North Carolina during the nineteenth century. Lauder, a native of Scotland, also worked on the State Capitol in Raleigh and the Fayetteville Arsenal, before opening his own marble yard in Fayetteville in 1845.
THE TOLAR MONUMENT
This monument was dedicated to nine brothers of the Tolar family from Cumberland County
who died as Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. The column is made of stone and tapers
upward to a pyramidal cap. It sits on a three tier base. The front is inscribed with a
dedication to the brothers, and the sides are inscribed with their names, regiments, and
battles where they died. Front, on column: In Memory of / Nine Tolar Brothers / Sons of /
ROBERT & FRANCES TOLAR / All Born in Cumberland County, N.C. / All Volunteered
in 1861. / They gave their best service / to this county / as Confederate Soldiers.
John Tolar dedicated the monument in 1913 to honor his father,
Captain William J. Tolar and his brothers, all who joined up with
the Confederate Army in 1861.
John tolar was the President of Tolar-Hart Cotton Mills in Fayetteville
and at one time a businessman in New York City. The memorial sits in
Cross Creek Cemetery near the Cumberland County
Confederate Monument which is believed to be the first
Confederate monument erected in North Carolina.
The NINE TOLAR BROTHERS
1. William James Tolar - Seriously wounded leading a charge, at the
Battle of Atlanta, GA on July 22, 1864. Died on January 20, 1896
2. John Henry Tolar ~
The following information was found in the Fayetteville Observer, Monday, May 6, 1864
Died, at the battle near Chancellorsville, Va., on the 8th May, 1864,
Lt. John H. Tolar (of Bladen Co., N.C.), Company H, Orr’s Rifle Regiment, S.C. Volunteers. He fell while bravely leading forward the company (the command of which devolved on him) when the remainder of the regiment (one other company excepted) had given back, unsupported and under a galling fire. He led and encouraged his men until he fell pierced through the head with a minie ball. He died not as a man without hope in the Lord—his life was exemplary and Christian; his daily practice was to teach his men to serve God. He was among the first to respond to his country’s first call for volunteers in 1861. He served as sergeant until the battles around Richmond in 1862, immediately after which he was elevated to the rank of 2nd Lt. for meritorious conduct and served in that capacity
until, after the Battle of Fredericksburg in Dec. 1862 he was promoted to 1st Lt.
He commanded his company in nearly every engagement and has been
complimented by his colonel and brigade commander on several occasions.
He was one of nine brothers that entered in the service at the commencement
of the war and is the third that has fallen. He has led his company in eighteen
bloody battles and new sleeps beneath the blood stained soil of Virginia
where the rattle of cannon and musketry does not disturb him.
A.H.T.
3. Robert Monroe Tolar ~ Private in Munn's Artillery: Captured at
surrender of Fort Fisher, NC ~ (Died July 22, 1912)
4. Matthew Autry Tolar ~ Sergeant in Cumming's Battery
North Carolina Volunteers (death date unknown)
5. Thomas Bunyon Tolar - Wounded in Battle at Murfreesboro, TN,
on Dec.31, 1862/ Died August 1863 in Hospital Union Point, Georgia
6. Sampson Boone Tolar - Wounded in Hanover, VA - He served as a Private
in Company K, 18th North Carolina Volunteers. Disabled for later service (Died July 31, 1909)
7. Alfred Hamilton Hayes Tolar Wounded three times - last time at Gettysburg -
July 2, 1863 (disabled for later service)
He was a Captain in Company K, 18th North Carolina Volunteers.
He was wounded three times, the last at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863 which disabled him from further duty. (Died July 21, 1927)
8. Haynes L. Tolar - Killed accidentally during Seven Days Battles around
Richmond (Died June 1862) He was a Private in Company K, 18th North Carolina Volunteers. He was killed accidentally during seven days of battle around Richmond, Virginia in June of 1862.
9. Joseph Marshall Tolar - Buglar in Cumming's Battery
North Carolina Volunteers ~ (death date unknown)
Minie Ball
  
Robert and Mary Francis Tolar are buried 16 miles away from
the Cross Creek Cemetery at Bladen Union Baptist Church Cemetery
in Tobermory, Bladen County, North Carolina.
 
'Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees'
Last words spoken by Stonewall Jackson
May 10, 1863
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