Scott County KyArchives Biographies.....Taylor, James May 15 1818 - unknown
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Author: History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, ed. by William Henry Perrin, 1882
p. 632. [Scott County] [Stamping Ground Precinct] JAMES TAYLOR, farmer, P.
O. Skinnersburg; was born in Scott County, May 15, 1818. John Taylor, his
father was born in Culpepper [sic] County, Va., in 1783, and died in 1823;
he was a farmer, and first settled in Scott County in 1805; Fanny (Stanton)
Taylor was born in Culpepper [sic] County, Va., in 1786; came to Scott
County with her husband where she died in 1826. They were the parents of
seven children, our subject being the youngest child. He was thrown upon
his own resources at the age of eight years by the death of his parents; at
ten years of age he apprenticed himself at the shoemaker's trade for five
years; at the expiration of that time he hired out as a farm hand; from his
small earnings he succeeded in saving a little sum of money, with which he
bought a small piece of land--and by his studied economy and business has
succeeded in adding to it, and is now the owner of 213 acres. At the time
of the war he was taken prisoner by the federal army as a citizen; after
being confined for six months, and being removed several times to different
prisons, was released and allowed to return home; he has been twice
married--the first time in Scott County, in 1837, to Miss Margaret
Stockdell, who was born in Scott County, Sept. 26, 1814, and died March 23,
1855; by this marriage he had eight children, two of whom are now living,
viz: John M. and Milton M. In 1858 he married a second time, Mrs. Burrows,
a native of Bath County, born May 30, 1814; she is the daughter of Robert
and Mary (Odell) Whitton, who are natives of Virginia. Mr. Taylor is united
with the Democratic party, and with his wife are members of the Christian
Church. 


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