Biography of Albert F. Taylor - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 359

Albert F. Taylor, one of the most extensive farmers and stock
dealers of Craighead County, was born in Henderson County, Tenn., in
1824. His parents, Abner and Mary (Baker) Taylor, were natives of East
Tennessee, where the father was a prosperous and successful farmer. About
1820 they moved to Western Tennessee, where, being owner of a number of
slaves, he engaged extensively in farming. The father died in the “Old
Volunteer State,” and the mother came with her family to Arkansas, where
she died a few years thereafter. They were the parents of four children,
Albert F. being the second child, and the only one now living. He came
with his mother to Arkansas in 1838, and located on Crowley's Ridge, now
in this county, where he remained for six years, and then moved to
Maumelle Prairie, near where he is now living. There he purchased and
improved a large farm, and remained on it for sixteen years, and then
came to his present location. Since coming to this county he has put in
cultivation over 600 acres of land, and now owns over 3,000 acres, with
about 500 on the home place, where there are forty acres in clover and
timothy meadow, good residence, tenant house, orchards and barns. He has
150 head of cattle, and in connection with his farm operates a cotton-
gin. He was married in 1852 to Elizabeth Snodderly, born in Tennessee,
who is the mother of seven children, one, Jennie, deceased. Those living
are Alanson L., Fergus W., William, Albert F., Jr., John P. and Thomas W.
Mr. Taylor is a member of the A. F. & A. M., is a Democrat in polities,
and in the late war served eighteen months in the Confederate army.