Taylor, William

TAYLOR, BARNES, WHERRY, KELLEY

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1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

DEEP RIVER TOWNSHIP

Page 747-48

TAYLOR, WILLIAM--P.O. Deep River, and resides in Dresden. Was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, February 21, 1822. In the fall of 1830 his father moved into Belmont county, Ohio, where he bought a farm on which the son remained until his thirty-third year, when he moved to a farm of his own in Guernsey county, Ohio. Here he remained until the spring of 1869, when he immigrated to Iowa, settling on a farm of 378 acres in Lincoln township, this county. In March, 1875, he moved with his family into Dresden. He married on October 19, 1848, Maria Barnes, of Belmont county, Ohio, who was born May 20, 1828. She bore him children as follows: Sarah E. (born September 9, 1849; died July 25, 1871), Francis L. (born January 20, 1852), John W. (born January 20, 1854), Ann Eliza (born March 20, 1856, who died September 29, 1875), Mary A. (born August 16, 1858), and Jennie E. (born December 12, 1860). His wife died November 22, 1863, and on March 27, 1866, he married Harriet Wherry, of Guernsey county, Ohio, who was born August 31, 1835, and she bore him: Maria (born December 29, 1866, who died the following month), James S. (born April 14, 1868, who died November 20, 1876), Adaline C. (born October 27, 1869), Martha E. (born November 11, 1871, who died December 5, 1876), Andrew D. (born September 12, 1873, who died October 27, 1876), Charlotte B. and Cinderella M. (twins, born August 17, 1875). Mr. T.'s second wife died September 29, 1876, and he married a third time, on December 6, 1877. His third wife, formerly Mrs. Kelley, of Dresden, was born October 6, 1841, and had one child by her first husband, Leonard (born June 27, 1865). On one or two occasions Mr. T. has been elected to township offices.