Aaron Tallent Jr. was born about 1760 in Anson County North Carolina. He married Mary Moses. Mary was born about 1760 in Virginia. In 1790 Aaron and Mary were living in Anson County North Carolina. Anson County, which at its formation in 1750 encompassed all of central and western North Carolina and portions of South Carolina, is the parent of the North Carolina counties of Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Richmond, Rowan, and Union. In 1777 the area where the Tallent family lived became Burke County. On June 1, 1777, Burke County was established from parts of Rowan County, receiving its name in respect of Thomas Burke, one of North Carolina’s Continental Congress representatives and governor of the state from 1781 to 1782. At its inception, the county encompassed a large portion of the western part of the state, and subsequent state legislatures annexed Buncombe (1791), Yancey (1833), Caldwell (1841), Catawba (1842), McDowell (1842), Alexander (1847), Madison (1851), and Mitchell (1861) County from the mammoth Burke County.
Aaron Tallent Jr. and Mary Moses Tallent are the Patriarch and Matriach ancestors of almost every single Tallent family in North and South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee to this very day. Aaron had two brothers, Thomas and Moses. And from these three brothers all of the Tallent surname families in America descend. Many Tallents from different lines of the family still reside in the Burke County area of North Carolina. Aaron and Mary's son Aaron "Ned Tallent was born in Burke County, North Carolina in 1804. Ned moved further west to the Iotla section of Macon County North Carolina with his wife Margaret "Madge" Hudson in late 1850 from Burke County NC with his 90 year old mother Mary Moses Tallent, and his 9 children. From this single family about 90 percent of the Macon County North Carolina families descend.
Tallent's wife Madge Hudson had been born in Virginia in 1808 to Thomas Hudson & Nancy Denton Hudson. Their last child and my Great-Great Grandfather, John Logan Tallent, was born in the Iotla Section of Macon County on September 6, 1851. All of Aaron & Madge Tallent's other children were born in Burke County, NC. The graves of Aaron "Ned" Tallent & wife Madge Hudson Tallent are unmarked in the Iotla Methodist Cemetery. I named my oldest son Logan after my G-G-Grandfather John Logan Tallent. My Great-Uncle Norman "Buck" Logan Reese was also named after John Logan Tallent.
Aaron "Ned" Tallent was the only member of his immediate family to remove to Macon County North Carolina. The bulk of the family had lived in Anson County in the 1700s and then Burke County North Carolina thru the 1800s. Many descendants of Aaron's parents Aaron Tallent Jr. & Mary Moses Tallent moved west and to further parts of the country as well in the early 1800s. If you reside in Macon County North Carolina now in 2020/21 or are a descendant of a Tallent from that county then odds are you descend from Aaron "Ned" Tallent and his wife Madge Hudson Tallent or from Ned's parents or two uncles' families.
The descendants of Ell & Nettie Reese Tallent hold a Tallent reunion every other year in Franklin North Carolina. At this time this is the only Tallent reunion I know of that happens on a regular basis in Macon County North Carolina where Aaron "Ned" Tallent and wife Madge Hudson Tallent had their large family in the early 1800s. Ell is a desendant of Aaron. Some interesting facts on the Tallent family in America. Between 1951 and 2004, in the United States, Tallent surname individuals life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1952, and highest in 1988. The average life expectancy for individuals(men and women) with the surname Tallent in 1951 was 47, and 71 in 2004.
Currently the highest percentage of families in America with the surname Tallent live in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and to a lesser extent Virginia, South Carolina and many other states across the country.