This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
Surnames: Taylor, Hall, Graham, Gay, Grieve, Reed,
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi.2ADI/2507
Message Board Post:
This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the
insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just
thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE:
I don‘t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no
index.
Typed by Lora Radiches: 3-24-2005
Surnames in this biography are: Taylor, Hall, Graham, Gay, Grieve, Reed,
JOHN H. TAYLOR, farmer and business man of Tippecanoe County, whose home is at
Taylor's Station in Union Township, represents a family that came to Tippecanoe County
more than a century ago. His own life, of more than seventy years, has been spent almost
entirely within that county. Mr. Taylor was born August 21, 1857, son of John and
Elizabeth (Hall) Taylor, grandson of William and Florence (Graham) Taylor, and
great-grandson of a John Taylor who served as a Virginia soldier in the Revolutionary war.
William Taylor and wife were married May 3, 1808. The record of their children, with names
and dates of birth, is as follows: James G., May 27, 1809; Mary, November 11, 1810;
Elizabeth, January 9, 1812; Hiram, September 30, 1813; John, August 27, 1816; William,
June 19, 1818; Joseph, October 22, 1820; Samuel, September 14, 1822; Virginia, February
14, 1824; Christopher, January 30, 1826; Sylvester, January 14, 1829; and Florence, July
16, 1831. In 1828 William Taylor brought h!
is family from Virginia, making the trip with wagons and teams and entered land in
Tippecanoe County. He built a log house, later burned brick on the farm and constructed
one of the early brick houses in the county. La Fayette was only a settlement of log
houses when the Taylor family arrived. William Taylor died August 19, 1839, when
fifty-five years of age. His son, John Taylor, Sr., was a boy when the family came across
the country from Virginia to Indiana. He attended schools in both states. He became one of
the prosperous farmers of Tippecanoe County and he and his sons did an extensive business
as cattle buyers and drovers. There were four children in the family: Mary F., Virginia,
Julia and John H. John H. Taylor, only son of his parents, was educated in country
schools and in the schools of La Fayette, attended Wabash College one year, and at the age
of nineteen began farming, which has been his life work. After the family estate was
divided he took his share a!
nd has since increased his holdings to 403 acres, one of the well impr
oved farms of Union Township. Mr. Taylor married, December 29, 1909, Miss Mabel M. Gay,
daughter of James Madison and Nine (Grieve) Gay. Her grandparents were Samuel and Eliza
(Reed) Gay. Samuel Gay came from Hardy County, Virginia, lived near Circleville, Ohio, for
several years, and in 1834 brought his family to Tippecanoe County, settling in Wayne
Township. Samuel Gay's grandfather, James Gay, was in the Revolutionary army and was
wounded in the battle of Monmouth Courthouse, where Molly Pitcher made herself famous. A
brother of this Revolutionary soldier was one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence. Mrs. Taylor's grandmother, Eliza Reed, was a granddaughter of Col. James
Reed, whose father, John Reed, was a first lieutenant in the Continental army and was
promoted to colonel for gallantry in the battles of Princeton, Brandywine, Trenton and
Germantown. He was with Washington when the army crossed the Delaware River. Mr. Taylor
has lived a busy life with ma!
ny interests. He has been successful as a farmer, has interested himself in local
affairs, and has also traveled widely. He is a member of the Elks Lodge. Mrs. Taylor is a
vice regent of the General De Lafayette Chapter of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, member of the Literary Club, and is a Methodist.