Anna Pendleton Taliaferro was born around 1845 in Virginia to Edmund Pendleton Taliaferro and Octavia Robinson. Her father was a physician who owned $1,000 of real estate in 1850. She grew up and attended school in Orange County, Virginia, and she married John Lord Boatwright on August 25, 1863. They had at least five children: Edmund Pendleton, born around 1864; John Henry, born around 1866; Mary Lord, born around 1869; V. T., born around 1878; and Octavia, born around 1880. They settled in Wilmington, North Carolina, and her husband worked as a clerk at a wholesale firm. He eventually opened his own business. She died in Wilmington on March 22, 1908.

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