Israel S. Taylor

MCCARTY, TAYLOR

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/13/2004 at 22:58:12

I. S. Taylor, South twp., farmer, Sec. 7; P.O. Patterson; was born in Erie county,
Pennsylvania, January 6, 1876; when about eight years of age, his parents moved to Genesee and Erie counties, New York; they lived there about four yeas and then returned to Pennsylvania; in 1836 he went to Lake county, Indiana, where he lived until 1858, with the exception of three years; in 1852 he went to California by wagon; started March 23, and reached there in September, where re remained three years; he married Hanna McCarty, in 1840; she was born in Wayne county, Indiana, February 21, 1819; he came to this county in 1858; they came by wagon, and was eighteen days on the road; owns a farm of 147 acres; also owns a farm in Pottawattamie county, Kansas; has a family of one son and one daughter: Fayette and Catharine, now Mrs. G. B. Davis.

Typed as printed. Mr. Taylor's birthdate is probably not correct.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 579