Re: parents, place of burial
TAYLOR, RANEY
Posted By: Jim Stuber (email) In Response To: parents, place of burial (Robin Hamilton)
Date: 3/22/2010 at 08:56:50
This could be the father of your George W. Taylor since it mentions he has a son also named Geroge W. This bio is from the Biographical and Historical Record of Wayne and Appanoose Counties, Iowa, published in 1886.
GEORGE W. TAYLOR, one of the early settlers of Appanoose County, Iowa, is a native of North Carolina, born near the town of Salem, Stokes County, September 19, 1825, a son of George W. and Elizabeth (Harrell) Taylor, the former a native of Virginia and the latter born near Albemarle Sound, North Carolina. The father died in Stokes County, and the mother afterward moved to Indiana. Our subject was reared a farmer, and in his boyhood had very little opportunity to attend school. After getting old enough to earn money he worked and paid for four months' tuition at a select school, and subsequently taught thirteen months in Tennessee. He was married in 1849, in North Carolina, to Anna J. Hiatt, who died December 23, 1874. After his marriage he moved to Iowa, and located four miles south of Moravia, where he engaged in farming, and the winter of 1850 taught a three months' school in Unionville, and in the spring of 1851 moved to that village and taught the school ten months. He then returned to his farm, where he lived until 1883, making of it one of the pleasantest homes in the county. He continued teaching during the winter months until 1879, and became one of the most successful and popular instructors of Appanoose County. In the spring of 1883 he sold his farm, and purchased the one where he now lives, near the Wabash depot, which contains eighty acres if choice land. In September, 1884, he erected a small store building and opened a grocery, and has now a good trade, it being a convenient point for his neighboring farmers. Mr. Taylor has been a prominent and influential citizen of the township, and has held several public positions of trust. His life as a teacher has made him particularly interested in educational matters, and since 1853 he has been a member of the School Board. He has been surveyor of Appanoose County two years, assessor of Taylor Township two terms, justice of the peace one term, and in 1885 was elected assessor of the village of Moravia. In his early life he was a Democrat politically, but was an abolitionist and after its formation affiliated with the Republican party. He has a family of seven children: George W.; Atlas P.; Susan E., wife of Carroll Miller; Andrew J.; Florida C., wife of Clark Masterson, of Nebraska; Charles V. and William M. March 13, 1886. He married Mrs. Isabella T. Irwin, of North Carolina.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iabiog/appanoose/bwa1886/bwa1886-rv.htm
And if you go to this link and do a search for Taylor, you find several references to George W. Taylor. Unfortunately there is also a township named Taylor so you'll have to skip by those.
If you have access to the 1900 census, both the person in the above Bio and his presumed son are still alive and living in Appanoose county.
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