DAVIE COUNTY, NC - LETTERS - Wilhelmina E. Beard, Taylor Family
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Sept. 19, 1974
 
Dear Mr. Taylor,
 
I received your interesting letter concerning the Taylor family this morning. 
I am glad to share with you what I have.
I happen to be the last of my family in this small town and have fallen heir 
to many old family papers etc. Among them was this memorandum sent my Aunt by 
my Great-great Aunt Jenny Taylor McHenry [McHorney]. It may well supply some 
of the information you want, but it is incomplete. I have copied it, for it is 
too fragile and dim to make you a good photostactic copy.
 
The youngest child, James born April 1, 1790 was my Great-great Grandfather. 
He was well known in this part of Kentucky where he served the Methodist 
Church as a Circuit Rider. I have his marriage book which I permitted Lynn 
Bolin to copy last summer. I gave him a "Memoir" of Rev. James Taylor which he 
used in a preface to the "Marriage Journal"
 
The name "Mariam, Miriam", or as you have it "Meriam" has been handed down it 
the family as has "White" so your supposition must be correct.
 
I do not have the name Bethiah or Molly Bible. There is no doubt that we are 
dealing with the same family, for the "Memoir" begins, "The Rev. James Taylor, 
son of Thos. and Mariam Taylor, was born in Currituck County, North Carolina, 
in the year 1790. He migrated to Clark County, Kentucky in 1809 and there 
married Sarah (Sally) Morris, the daughter of William and Sallie Godfrey 
Morris, in 1811.
 
I have the children of Grandfather Taylor and the ancestry of his wife Sally 
Morris. If you are interested I will be glad to send it to you.
 
Sincerely,
 
Wilhelmina E. Beard (Mrs. George A. Beard)
 
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EDMUND* TAYLOR, son of Thomas Taylor senior died December 25, 1760 in the 46 
year of his age.
 
BENJAMIN TAYLOR, son of Edward** Taylor was born August 12, 1719.
ESTHER - August 15, 1727.
 
JOHN - March 3, 1730
 
BRIDGET, October 1, 1732
 
THOMAS - March 21, 1738
 
The children of THOMAS TAYLOR were:
 
LEMUEL, born February 1767
LOVEY, " February 3, 1769
EDWARD " October 15, 1771
WILLIAM " February 23, 1774
JESSE " October 23, 1776
MARIAM " July 20, 1779
NANCY " November 1782
ELIZABETH " December 19, 1785
JAMES " April 1, 1790
 
*The name is spelled Edmund here.
**It seems to be clearly Edward in the second notation. "It must have been a 
slip of the pen." by Wilhelmina E. Beard.
 
[Transcribed from hand written letter]

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