Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Taylor, Thomas J. 1829 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  THOMAS J. TAYLOR, Probate Judge of Madison County, Ala., was born at
Maysville, this county, July 2, 1829, and his parents were M. and Nancy J.
(McCartney) Taylor, natives of Georgia. He received a common-school education,
and, at the age of nineteen, began teaching. In 1858, he was elected  County
Surveyor, and held that office until January, 1862, at which time he entered the
army as second lieutenant of Company K, Forty-ninth Alabama Regiment. After the
battle of Shiloh, in which he participated, and at the re-organization of the
regiment, he was elected captain of his company. He was captured at Port Hudson,
and sent to Johnson's Island, at which place, Point Lookout and Fort Delaware,
he was detained until the close of the war. For three years after returning home
he taught school. At the end of that time he was again elected county surveyor,
and held that office until 1871, when he was elected tax assessor for the six
succeeding years. In 1880 he was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court, held that
office six years, and in August, 1880, was elected Probate Judge.

  In his early manhood Judge Taylor married a Miss Douglas, daughter of John and
Catherine (Nowlin) Douglas, who came from Lynchburg, Va., about 1819, and the
children born to this union are: Kate (wife of S. M. Seward); Nannie J. (wife of
William L. Jones); Lillie (wife of W. A. Walls); and Laura L. The judge and his
wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and he is of the orders
of I O. O. F. and K. of H.

  The senior Mr. Taylor was born in Lexington, Ga., in 1801, and his wife in
Madison County, Ala., in 1811. He came with his parents to this county in 1809,
from Winchester, Tenn., whither the family had migrated in 1805. He was a farmer
and merchant by occupation.

  Of his children we are able to make the following notices: (1) The subject of
this sketch. (2) John M., a newspaper man, went to New Orleans in 1852, thence
to Baton Rouge, as editor of the Baton Rouge Advocate; was State printer at the
outbreak of the war; served through the war, rising from the ranks to the
command of a regiment; after the war he was a member of the Louisiana
Legislature, and died while of that body. (3) Grant, was a member of the Twelfth
Alabama Regiment: died in the hospital soon after the battle of Seven Pines. (4)
Charles was a private in the Seventh Alabama Cavalry; now a railroad man in
Louisiana. (5) Felix M. was a member of the Fiftieth Alabama Regiment, and
afterward Major of the Fourth Alabama Cavalry; served through the war: died in
Memphis in 1886. (6) Waverly F. was a member of the Seventh Alabama Infantry,
and afterward of the Second Louisiana Cavalry: was on Gen. Dick Taylor's staff;
now a farmer in Louisiana. (7) George L., at the age of fifteen years, entered
the Seventh Alabama Regiment; became a courier to General Wheeler; was killed at
Murfreesboro (8) Mary, wife of Clinton Hayworth, of Louisiana. (9) Lucy, wife of
Pleas Davison, of Louisiana.

  Mr. Taylor's father, George Taylor, was born near Richmond, Va., in 1762. He
was a lieutenant under Henry Lee, and participated in the battles of Monmouth,
Guilford Court House and King's Mountain. After the war he settled in Georgia,
and was many years captain of militia. He moved to Tennessee in 1805, and to
Madison County, Ala., in 1809. The Taylor family came to America with Lord
Baltimore, and the -McCartney family from Scotland.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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