TROUP COUNTY, GA - BIOS John H. Traylor Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Typed by Carla Miles Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/troup.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., pages 931-932 Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895 TROUP COUNTY John H. Traylor, farmer, Lovelace, Troup Co., Ga., son of Rev. John C. and Tabitha (Bailey) Traylor, was born in Virginia in 1824. His paternal great-grandparents, William C. and Elizabeth Traylor, were natives of England, and came to America before the revolutionary war. He had a crown grant for 6,000 acres of land near where Petersburg, Va., now stands. He was born in England in 1674 and died in Virginia in 1753. His grandparents were Humphrey and Sarah (Pegram) Traylor. He was a large planter, and was a soldier in the patriot army during the revolutionary war. In religion he was a pronounced and devout Episcopalian. Mr. Traylor’s father was born in Dinwiddie and his mother in Henry county, Va. He was well educated, and was a soldier in the last war with Great Britain. When he joined the Methodist church, in which he afterward became an able and useful ordained preacher, his father, who was, as already stated, an uncompromising Episcopalian, manifested great indignation, and declared he had disgraced the family. He came with his family to Georgia in 1842 and settled in Troup county, where he lived until his death, which occurred in 1855. Mr. Traylor’s maternal great-grandparents were Parks and Mary (Cabaniss) Bailey, who were native Virginians, and he was a soldier in the revolutionary war. Her father, Charles Cabaniss, was the first man who put up a package (plug) of manufactured tobacco. His maternal grandparents were John and Sarah (Allen nee Smith) Bailey. She was a widow Allen, and great-grandmother of Private John Allen, the distinguished ex- representative in congress from Mississippi. John Bailey served as a soldier during the war of 1812. Mr. Traylor was reared in Virginia, and received a very good primary education in the common schools taught in the old-time log house, and then went a year to Emory and Henry college. In 1842 he came with his parents to Georgia, and settled in Troup county, where he has lived and been engaged in farming ever since. In 1884 he was elected to represent Troup county in the general assembly, and served one term. Mr. Traylor inherits more than usual intellectual capacity and business ability from an ancestry distinguished for love of independence and progressive characteristics, and is himself a progressive man, keeps abreast with the advanced thought and improvements of the times, and takes an active and prominent part in all movements promising development and advancement of resources and people along all the lines of human endeavor. Col. Traylor was married in 1844 to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Charles C. and Martha H. (Roland) Bailey. Her father was born in Tennessee, and was the son of Parks and Mary (Cabaniss) Bailey, who were natives of Virginia. Parks Bailey was a soldier in the revolutionary army, and Charles C. Bailey was with Gen. Jackson at New Orleans, in 1815, a soldier in the Tennessee volunteers. Her mother was a daughter of Baldwin Roland, of Virginia. Of nine children born to Col. and Mrs. Traylor seven survive: Robert, married Miss Virginia, daughter of Eulam and Sarah A. (Traylor) McDonald; George, married Mary H., daughter of William and Eudora (Harper) Couper; [Correction: James Maxwell Couper - m. to Eurora - he was son of James Hamilton Couper and Georgia Caroline Wylly. Her mother was a daughter of Baldwin Roland, of Virginia. Of nine children born to Col. and Mrs. Traylor seven survive:Robert, married Miss Virginia, daughter of Eulam and Sarah A.(Traylor) McDonald; George, married Mary H., daughter of William and Eudora (Harper) Couper Mary H. refers to Mary Harper Couper / and whose dau. Mary, married a Mr. Thiessen; and we refered to my cousin Mary as Mary T. aka Mary Traylor Thiessen. Researcher: Ms. F.A. Dnaiel/Athens Globaldome@aol.com Thomas H.; Jerry R.; Elizabeth; Martha T.; Mrs. Thomas H. Northen (son of ex-Gov. W.J. Northen), and Marshall E. Col. and Mrs. Traylor are prominent and influential members of the Methodist church.