SCHLEY COUNTY, GA - BIOS  Charles A. Taylor

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Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., pages 823-824
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895


SCHLEY COUNTY

Charles A. Taylor, planter, Schley county, Ga., son of James N.
and Eliza Coleman (Jones) Taylor, was born in Macon county,
Ga., March 15, 1835.  His paternal grandparents, James L. and
Mary Taylor, were natives of Georgia, and the grandfather was a
major in the patriot army during the revolutionary war.  Mr.
Taylor’s father was born in what is now Pulaski county, Aug.
22, 1804, where he grew to manhood, and then removed, first to
Macon county, and afterward, in 1859, to Schley county, where
he raised his family, consisting of eight children: Mary A.E.,
Charles A., Artie C, Julia F., James N., John J., Anna C. and
Phillip E., dying in 1865.  Mr. Taylor like his father, was
raised a farmer, and received a collegiate education.  Early in
the war he enlisted in the Macon county volunteers, Capt.
Prothro, which afterward became Company I, Fourth Georgia
regiment.  (With this company Phil Cook went into the service
as second sergeant, became Brig.-Gen. Phil Cook, of the
Confederate army, and died in 1894 as secretary of state of
Georgia.)  Mr. Taylor was in the battles of Chancellorsville -
where he was wounded severely - Fredericksburg, Malvern Hill
and Spottsylvania courthouse.  At this last named battle he
received some very serious wounds, was taken prisoner and sent
to Washington.  Here he was imprisoned until March, 1865, when
he was exchanged and returned to his father’s plantation in
Schley county.  Soon after reaching home he had to undergo a
surgical operation, the removal of five or six inches of bone
from the left arm.  Mr. Taylor was married Oct. 17, 1867, to
Miss Antoinette Hart, by whom he had six children: James N.,
deceased; Mary E, Nettie R., Lizzie L., Charlie E., and Artie
C.  Their mother died in August, 1885.  In December, 1889, he
married Sarah Alice, daughter of John S. and Mary H. Smith.
Mr. Smith is a large planter, and a veteran of the late war.
By this marriage he has had three children: Annie Alice, Mary
H., and Finis E.  Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are members of the
Methodist church, and he is a master Mason.