Taylor, Thomas H.

TAYLOR

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 21:57:32

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.624

TAYLOR, THOMAS H., farmer, Liberty Township, Sec. 2; P. O. Liberty Center; he owns a fine farm of 160 acres; born May 8, 1837, in Sharpshire, England; parents came to the United States, and settled in Peoria, Illinois, in the winter of 1848 and 1849; came to this county in the fall of 1870, and settled where he now lives, in the spring of 1872; he enlisted in Co. B, Eighty-sixth Illinois Infantry, August 27, 1862, and served to the close of the war, and was honorably discharged June 22, 1865; he was in the battles of Champlin Hills, Kentucky, Chickahominy, Buzzards' Roost, Wilson's Creek, Georgia, Mission Ridge, Silver Creek; he was crippled at Gordon's Mills by the falling of a building while on picket duty; he was married December 4, 1865, to Mary M., daughter of James Richardson, of Peoria county, Illinois; he has five children: Ira J., Thaddeus E., Mary E., Goodie and Walter, all living.