BIO:  BARRY, Susan Lucy, Campbell Co., KY
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Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 
1887, Campbell Co.

SUSAN LUCY BARRY was born in Fayette County, near Lexington, Ky., on the
27th of September, 1807.  Her father was the Hon. William T. Barry, then
a rising young lawyer, who afterward became one of the distinguished
Democratic statesmen of Kentucky.  Her mother was Lucy Overton, a
daughter of Mr. Waller Overton, who was a daughter of Mr. Waller 
Overton, who was one of the earliest pioneers of Fayette County.  Her 
mother dying when Susan was but two years of age, her father married 
Miss Catherine Mason, of Virginia, who reared the child with the 
tenderness of an own mother.  Miss Barry was endowed with fine talents, 
and graduated with distinction at the Lafayette Female Academy of 
Lexington, under the instruction of the eminent teacher Col. Josiah 
Dunham.  In 1824, at the age of sixteen, she was married to Mr. James 
Taylor, who was a young man of twenty-two years, and who had just 
graduated at the Transylvania Law School.  They settled in Newport.  
Mrs. Taylor was noted for her simplicity in dress, for gentle and 
unassuming manners, and for her industry and domestic tastes; she was
a lady who looked well to the ways of her household.  She reared six
children, who were Mrs. Thomas L. Jones, Mrs. Col. James W. Abert, James
Taylor, Col. John B. Taylor, Barry Taylor and Mrs. Dr. R. W. Saunders.
In her infancy Mrs. Taylor had been baptized in the Protestant Episcopal
Church, but after her marriage she embraced the Baptist religion, and
was immersed in the Ohio River at Cincinnati by the Rev. Mr. Vardeman. 
In later years she was confirmed in the Protestant Episcopal Church, to 
which she adhered with a zealous faith.  She was a useful member of 
society, participating in all enterprises for the benefit of the 
churches, and for general charities.  At the age of seventy-four years 
she died, on the 8th of December, 1881, beloved and lamented by all who
knew her.

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