Biography of J H Taylor, St Francis County, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Paul V Isbell Date: 22 Jan 2009 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** J. H. Taylor started life as a farmer at the age of twenty, on a farm in this county, which he rented for about five years, when he purchased 40 acres some three miles east of Wynne. In 1878 he traded for this land on which he now lives, consisting of 160 acres with ten acres under cultivation. At this time he has forty acres under cultivation. In 1862, Mr. Taylor embraced the principles which he believed right, enlisting in the Twenty-third Arkansas Infantry in which he served only 18 months, being captured at Ft. Hudson, then he was paroled and never exchanged. He has been married twice: first in October, 1864, to Miss L. C. Pulley, who died in May 1887, having been the mother of nine children, four of whom are still living: Mary I. (wife of A. May, a resident of St. Francis county), A. S., A. M., and George (who are at home. ) Mr. Taylor was married the second time in 1888, to Mrs. Ellen Ramsey (nee Griffin). She is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also Mr. Taylor's first wife. Mr. Taylor belongs to the A. F. & A. M., and is a popular citizen of Wynne township. His parents, Adolford and Martha A. (Brown) Taylor, were natives of Tennessee, the former of whom moved to this state in 1842 and first settled in Jackson County, where he remained two years, then finding a home in St. Francis County. After two or three years there he came to Cross County and settled at the foot of Crowley's Ridge, where he rented a farm. In 1847 Mr. Taylor entered a quarter section of land, one mile from where the town of Wynne is now located. Afterward selling out, in 1854 he bought the farm on which he resided till his death, in March, 1881, having survived his wife by twenty-two years. They were members of the Methodist Church, and were the parents of nine children, two of whom are living. Goodspeed Memoirs and Biograhies-1890