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- "Dr. Zach's daughter, Emily Virginia, was his oldest child still at home when the [Civil] War started. She was 21 years old when the hostilities began. She was of great help to her father and mother, and assisted Dr. Zach in his care of the wounded. She fell in love with a handsome wounded Yankee from Boston. In a matter of days they became engaged. But his wounds were fatal and he died. Madeline Johnson remembered that Dr. Zach's family felt that 'People from Boston are more like the Virginia folks'" -- From The War Years at Milford by F.B. Compton
The quotation above is quite a concession from died-in-the-wool Southerners!---LKL
After the war, Emily Virginia probably went to Missouri to visit cousins who had settled there. She met Joseph Franklin Taylor whom she married although she was quite a bit older. She died giving birth to their second child, Joshua Booten Taylor.
Obituary from Palmyra Spectator [?]
"Taylor.--Departed this life August 25th, at her residence in Elmwoods neighborhood, in this county, Mrs. E.V. Taylor, wife of Joseph F. Taylor and daughter of J. and E. Compton of Page county, Va. Reared in the Old Dominion, Virginia Taylor possessed in an eminent degree the good qualities and adornments for which the women of theat locality are ntoed. As a wife and mother she was affectionate and faithful, patient and prayerful; as a daughter, loving and dutiful; as a neighbor, no woman was ever more useful or endeared; especially to the aged, afflicted, and bereaved. Those who knew her best, met her most frequent [sic.] in every day life, loved her most. She leaves a husband and two small children here, father and mother, brothers and sisters in Virginia, and a large circle of friends here and there to mourn her loss. But theirs is a peaceful sorrow that looks to a joyful hope, She was truly a pious woman, an honor to religion and an ornament to her profession. Peaceful be her rest."
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Taylor Family Genealogy
1839 - 1876 (36 years)