BROWN COUNTY OHIO - BIO: TAYLOR, James (published 1882)
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1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA
F.A. Battey & Co., 1882

        JAMES TAYLOR, deceased, son of James and Margaret Taylor, was a
native of Maryland, where he was born November 16, 1802. His father died in
Maryland, and shortly succeeding his mother's second marriage he came with
her and his step-father to Brown County, Ohio. He returned to Maryland, and
was there married, August 4, 1825, to Eliza Gillcree; they lived in Ohio
about twelve years, then accompanied by Mr. Taylor's mother and step-father
came to this county and located on a farm in Eden Township. His first
wife's death occurred September 17, 1854, and Mr. Taylor was remarried in
1855, February 5, to Elizabeth Shrinkley, who survived him, and is living
on the above mentioned farm in this township. She was born in Brown County,
Ohio, January 10, 1835, and has four children by Mr. Taylor -Theodore
(deceased), Mary O., Wynona and Norman. Mr. Taylor, by his first marriage,
had nine children -Margaret I. (deceased), Elizabeth A., Mary J.
(deceased), William T., Lydia A., Ellen T., James L., Milton M. and Eliza
J. Mr. Taylor was a man of good standing, was a member of the M.E. Church,
and, at the time of his death, had served as Trustee a number of years. For
about fifty years he was a class leader, and he left his family in
comfortable circumstances. Besides the farm of 140 acres, on which they
live, they own 182 acres of land in Iowa.


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