Georgia:  Coweta County:  Biography of WILLIAM TAYLOR 

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WILLIAM TAYLOR, one of Georgia's pioneers, was of German ancestry, his two 
grandfathers, William Taylor and Jacob Price, being both natives of that 
country; the latter came to America in his boyhood, and settled in South 
Carolina, where he died in 1804; he was in many ways a remarkable man -- 
especially given the reading, and delighted in the study of the Scripture; 
his death was extremely sudden, and his last earthly action was the perusal 
of the sacred page -- while reading which he suddenly fell forward upon the 
fire, and was so badly burned that death ensued. His grandson, William 
Taylor, had in his possession the Bible which the aged man had been reading 
at the moment of his sudden demise. Mr. Taylor's parents were William and 
Catherine (Price) Taylor; the father, who served in the war of the revolution 
in which he was severely wounded in the thigh, was born in Virginia but 
settled in South Carolina, afterward removing to Tennessee. The youngest 
son, William, was born in South Carolina in 1801, and here spent the years of 
his youth and early manhood, with such privileges of education as the country 
schools of his day could afford. He was thirty-eight years of age when he 
removed to Georgia, where he remained during life, and lived to be one of the 
oldest and most respected citizens of Coweta county. He was a member of the 
masonic fraternity. In 1819, Mr. Taylor married Rebecca Corley, a daughter 
of Lawrence and Barbara (Derrick) Corley, of South Carolina, where Mrs. 
Taylor was born in 1800. Ten children were the offspring of this union: 
Eliza (deceased); Louisa, Mrs. Sibley; Mary, Mrs. Hardison; Dr. J. P., killed 
in the late war; Rebecca, Mrs. Franck; and W. L. Mrs. Taylor also died in 
1863, and in 1864 Mr. Taylor married Miss Mary Hodnett, who was born in 
Troupe county, Ga., in 1832, and was a daughter of William and Caroline 
(Findley) Hodnett, Virginians, who came to Georgia in the early days; Mr. 
Hodnett was a soldier in the war of 1812. This union was blessed with seven 
children: Thomas, George (deceased), Carrie, Benjamin, Henry, John and Louis. 
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are members of the Lutheran church, and the family is 
one widely known and esteemed. Wm. Taylor died March 31, 1895, wanting one 
week of being ninety-four years of age.

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