Born and raised in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Tally is a graduate of Spartanburg Methodist College and Wofford College with degrees in history. He attended graduate school in history at Winthrop.  He is currently the Special Services Manager at the Chester County Library focusing on IT and local history/ genealogy. He is the author of four books on South Carolina ghosts; Ghosts of the South Carolina Upcountry (2005), Ghosts of the South Carolina Midlands (2007), and Ghosts of the Pee Dee (2009), all for the History Press and Civil War Ghosts of South Carolina (2013) for Post Mortem Press. He is a member of the State Paranormal Investigations team serving as lead researcher. He is working on other topics at present, both fiction and non-fiction. Married to Alexandra Christian.