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- Caleb Taylor's Bible [Philadelphia, Printed by Matthew Carey, no. 121 Chestnut Street, 1815] is inscribed "Caleb Taylor / his book / God give him grace / to look therein / He Was Born In the / year 1799. Wrote in / the year 1820" In the back he lists all his children with his first wife. The children of his second wife are noted in another hand.
Caleb was born in the year of George Washington's death. Caleb was reputed to have said, "One great man died. Another born to take his place."--ABT
Caleb reputedly went to Missouri in about 1820, returned to N.C. to get his father, his brothers and possibly his father-in-law or brother(s)-in -law. to migrate to Missouri with him. He also must have married at this time.--ABT
ABT and JET both recall their father's saying that Caleb, as a lad of about 18, preceded his father, Jeremiah, to Marion County, having arrived there on an exploratory expedition during which the group passed up the fertile Illinois prairies "because the soil was obviously too poor to support trees!" Holcombe. op. cit. notes on p 659, that "in the spring of 1818, came Martin Gash and John Palmer with their families. They were from Buncombe county, North Carolina, and had made a long and toilsome journey to reach the land of promise." Further, Holcombe. op. cit., p 143ff, describes an exploratory party from Kentucky in 1817. Is it possible that Caleb was a member of one of these parties, probably the Gash group, but being so young and not immediately settling, his presence has been disregarded in the descriptions of the original exploration and settlement?
"Mr Taylor was born in Buncombe county, North Carolina, September 23, 1799. He was a son of Rev. Jeremiah and Elizabeth (King) Taylor. He was educated in the subscription schools of his native state. when he was still a young man his father entered the ministry, and he then took charge of the farm, which he conducted successfully, besides running a distillery in connection therewith. In 1820 he was married to Miss Christina King, a native of North Carolina. They had a family of seven children, as follows: Jeremiah, Benjamin (now deceased), Rebecca A. James L., Diar T., John J. (now deceased) and Caleb S. Mrs Taylor died in Kentucky Mr Taylor came to Missouri, and May 4 1837, was married to Miss Margaret G. McKay, daughter of Jeremiah and Ann (Dickerson) McKay, of Virginia. Mrs. Taylor was born in Shenandoah Co Virginia, June 28, 1817. Of this union five children were born: Joshua T., Ann E., Mary E.. Joseph F. and William H. Mr Taylor was during his life a very energetic business man, and one who was successful in all his transactions. He was known throughout the county for his integrity and sterling worth. He died August 15, 1880." --Holcombe, R. I. History of Marion County Missouri 1884; a reprint including a proper name index.... Marceline, Missouri; Walsworth Publishing Co, 1979, p. 798.
Caleb Taylor came to Missouri in 1821--Holcombe. op. cit., p. 774
"Caleb Taylor was born Sept. 23rd, 1799, on French Broad River, Buncombe county, North Carolina. His father was the Rev. Jeremiah Taylor, well known to many of the old settlers of Marion, Ralls, Monroe, Shelby, Knox, and Lewis counties, where he labored in the ministry for twenty-seven years. He emigrated to Missouri in the fall of 1821, and departed this life May 21st, 1848. His grandfather, who was also named Jeremiah [i.e., Caleb] fell upon the battle field in the American revolution, fighting for freedom and our republican institutions, leaving behind him to mourn his loss a widow, and, it is believed, five children--two sons and three daughters. The Rev Jeremiah Taylor, father of the deceased, raised to be grown nine children--six sons and three daughters. The sons were Caleb, Samuel, John, Jeremiah, Joshua, and Joseph, and the daughters were Sarah, Elizabeth, and Patsey. Of these, there is but one survivor (John, proprietor of the Quincy ferry,) and he is in his seventy-fifth year. Caleb was the last to fall asleep in death which he did on the 15th inst., aged eighty years, ten months, and twenty-two days. The last few years of his life were (as might have been expected after the exposure and unremitting toil of half a century) years of infirmity and helplessness. The deceased married Christina King, daughter of Benjamin King in his native state, and came to Missouri, with his wife and one child, in 1823. [Joseph Franklin Taylor said in 1817] He settled in Marion county, not far from Palmyra, and devoted himself to distilling, milling, and farming successively, and I might add successfully. He lost his wife in about '35 or '36 [May 1837] and afterward married Miss Margaret McKay, who now survives him. He had by his first wife eight children; by his last five, three of whom lived to be grown. Four of the first and three of the last sets of his children yet survive. Some thirty years ago Caleb Taylor was, through the mercy of God, made the subject of converting grace, but, for reasons satisfactory to hemself, made no public confession of his Lord until about five years since, when he joined the Bethel Baptist Church and was baptized into her fellowship by the pastor. To God's providences he ever bowed without uttering a complaint we know of. Few possessed and evinced a greater reverence for the Divine Being. To his fellow man he was prompt ,and he exacted of him promptness in return. For this some may have thought him austere. We might afford to let such men be austere. He is now done with earth's toils and cares, and peacefully sleeps in a sacred place--the old church yard--with many, very many of his relatives, awaiting the trumpet voice of the Savior to awake to life and put on the white robe, the shining crown, the waving palm, and march to the blissful inheritance of that 'kingdom prepared for the ransomed from before the foundation of the world,' with shouts of joy and everlasting praise to Him that giveth us the victory through His Son. Amen. "-- Obituary, possibly from the Palmyra Spectator, late August, 1880. Corrections and amplifications by J. Eugene Taylor are in square brackets.
"In 1827 or 1828, Taylor's mill was established on the South Fabius, on the sw, 1/4, nw. 1/4, of section 21_59_6, and thereafter the people were not much inconvenienced for the want of mill privileges. At this mill, some time after it was built, two stores were established by Goodenoe and Eastman, and here the people purchased very many of their supplies for some years. Palmyra was however the chief trading point. The Northern portion of the township resorted to Quincy," --Holcombe. op.cit. p. 777
Was this Caleb's mill? Who was Samuel M. King who was from N.C. and was, according to Holcombe, "engaged in the milling business with the Taylors?" Was he related to Caleb's wife, Cristina King?--LKL
ABT recalled seeing the well-worn mill stones along the bank of the river.
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Taylor Family Genealogy
1799 - 1880 (80 years)