Georgia:  Coweta County:  Biography of DR. J. P. TAYLOR

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DR. J. P. TAYLOR, a prominent physician of Coweta county, is a South 
Carolinian by birth, born in Lexington county, July 26, 1826. His father, 
William Taylor, also a South Carolinian, was a son of William and Catherine 
(Price) Taylor, the former a soldier of the revolution who served under Col. 
Washington and was badly wounded in the battle of Eutaw Springs; he was a 
Virginian who moved to South Carolina and afterward went to Tennessee. Dr. 
Taylor's mother Rebecca (Corley) Taylor, was the daughter of Lawrence and 
Barbara (Derrick) Corley, natives of South Carolina, in which state she too 
was born. In 1839, William Taylor with his wife and family moved to Georgia 
and settled upon a farm. His son, now Dr. Taylor, passed here his later 
boyhood, receiving a part of his education in the old log cabin school house 
of the district, but afterward attended more advanced schools; having 
received a good general education, he applied himself to the study of 
medicine under Dr. Enlow, of Meriwether county; later he pursued his study of 
medicine in the Southern medical college, of Augusta, Ga., from which he 
received his degree in 1850. He at once located for the practice of his 
profession at Haralson, and has devoted himself to it with that assiduity 
that always brings success. His practice is very extensive and lucrative, as 
his fine education, long experience and his faithfulness and skill would 
naturally bring to pass; and he holds a high position in the regard of all 
who know him. He is a well-known member of the masonic fraternity. He 
married in 1853, his wife being Miss Rebecca Hodnett, born in Newton county 
in 1831, and reared at White Sulphur Springs. Her parents, John and 
Elizabeth (Tignor) Hodnett, were among the pioneers of Newton county, and Mr. 
Hodnett was a soldier in the war of 1812. The union of Dr. Taylor and his 
wife was blessed with four children, the eldest, R. H., is following his 
father's honored example, and practicing the profession of medicine. The 
other members of this well-known and esteemed family are William H., Mary R., 
and Sarah P. Mrs. Taylor died in March 17, 1890.

Transcribed from MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA published by the Southern Historical 
Association, 1895.