
Person Info
Amanda Augusta Taylor: Birth: 21 JUL 1862 in Tazwell, Clairborne County, Tennesee. Death: 24 DEC 1949 in Howard, Elk County, Kansas
William Louis Taylor: Birth: 9 SEP 1864 in Lincoln County, Kentucky. Death: 1881 in Peidmont Cemetary, Peidmont, Kansas
Marion Charles Taylor: Birth: 23 DEC 1866 in Clairborne County, Tennesee. Death: 1881 in Peidmont Cemetary, Peidmont, Kansas
Nancy Elizabeth Taylor: Birth: 9 JUN 1869 in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri. Death: 1881 in Peidmont Cemetary, Peidmont, Kansas
Margaret Elizabeth Taylor: Birth: 1 APR 1871 in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri. Death: 21 APR 1910 in Peidmont Cemetary, Peidmont, Kansas
Sarah Francis Taylor: Birth: 6 MAY 1873 in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri.
Laura Lucetta Taylor: Birth: 21 SEP 1875 in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri.
Susan Edna Taylor: Birth: 20 NOV 1877 in Piedmont, Greenwood Co., Kansas.
James Melvin Taylor: Birth: 28 APR 1880 in Piedmont, Greenwood Co., Kansas.
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Note: DESCENT: SCOTTISH, BLACK DUTCH(Not just Dutch....Source Note: Louie EdwinSmith, Daisy Lenora Smith, Sonnia Kay Smith), FRENCH, IRISH Please Note******************************************************************************************************************************************The Black Dutch were not A separate race as I understand it, rather this term was used to describe those of a slighly darker complexion...ie olive skin, dark hair, and eyes.....as opposed to the High Dutch which tended towards the fair skin, light hair, and eyes. No source on this info just personal info gleaned from reading various books and lots of History studies in college. Paul J. Weikel*********************************** BIOGRAPHY: BIOGRAPHY: Rooting In the Past Entries: 10416 Updated: Thu Jan 10 18:07:11 2002 Contact: Theresa Mann Elliott <[email protected]@mindspring.com> BIOGRAPHY: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIOGRAPHY: ID: I00663 Name: Nathaniel Charles TAYLOR Sex: M Birth: 11 NOV 1838 in Tazwell, Claibourne County, Tennessee Death: 20 OCT 1881 in Piedmont, Greenwood County, Kansas of Typhoid Fever outbreak in 1881. Event: Decent Scottich, Dutch, French, Irish Occupation: Farmer, Boot and Shoe Maker during the Civil War. Burial: 1881 Otter Creek Pioneer Cemetery, Greenwood County, Kansas 1 Census: 1870 Listed as being in the Head of Household of the Gentry family in Pettis Co., Missouri. Note: Nathanial was a very frugal man, he would not go in debt. He would get along and do without before he would go in debt. The abstract says that the land was examined by the land office and entered April 12, 1881 and was patented to Nathanial Charles Taylor. There is a note on page 3 telling about the Taylor farm and why it took time to prove the land. Some of the requirements were living on the land for so long. The farm was appraised and sold April 30, 1883. Also, the personal property appraised for $1,183.45 and was recorded. BIOGRAPHY: "Nathaniel C. Taylor of Greenwood County, Kansas has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Independence, Kansas whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said Nathaniel Taylor - for the lots numbered one and two and the East half of the North-West quarter of section thirty in township twenty-seven south of range ten East of the Sixth Principle Meridian in Kansas containing one hundred and fifty-four acres and sixty-one hundredths of an acre". Simply put: Lots 1 and 2 and E. 1/2 of NW 1/4 Sec. 30 Twsp. 27 South, Range 10 East. BIOGRAPHY: Nathanial was a boot maker and shoe maker and did some farming during the Civil War, just before Lucy Ann and his daughter was born, Amanda, near Tazwell, in Claiborne County. BIOGRAPHY: An article in the Eureka, KS newspaper dated 30 November 1881 reads: "Mr. N.C. Taylor, of Otter Creek, died last Thursday night after a lingering illness of typhoid fever. He is the fifth member of his family who has died in the past three months all being similarly affected. This unusual fatality would naturally suggest a local cause. The sickness we understand is clearly attributed to this. It is reported that the ground about the house and the cellar immediately under it were rank with decaying animal and vegetable matter. The cellar was occupied by chickens, and many dead ones were found there and about the yard, no effort being made to remove them. This should be very serious lesson to all the people of this county". BIOGRAPHY: Daughter Sarah Frances would later relate to her daughter Margaret: "As the Taylor family was being taken to their final resting place in wooden hand made caskets, two dogs tagged along. One dog belonged to William and Amanda Taylor Mann and the other to William Louis Taylor (one of the deceased). The dogs got into a fight and the Mann dog killed the Taylor dog". BIOGRAPHY: Father: James Melvin TAYLOR b: 1799 in Tennessee Mother: Sarah PEOPLES b: 1802 in Tennessee BIOGRAPHY: Marriage 1 Lucy Ann SANDEFUR b: 21 AUG 1840 in Washington County, Virginia Married: BET. 6 - 9 JUN 1861 in Claiborne County, Tennessee Event: Family Photo in Amanda Taylor Mann and sister Lucetta? Poor Quality & came from Richard Smith. Note: Children Susan and Melvin were both born on the Taylor homestead 4 miles northeast of Piedmont, Kansas. When the TAYLOR family died of typhoid fever in 1881, the five youngest children went home to live with a neighbor. A lot of Taylors from this time in history are buried in the Piedmont Cemetery, Kansas. BIOGRAPHY: Mr. George Crail who lived on an adjacent farm to the east was the administrator of their estate. He had a marble gravestone made in a hexagonal shape with Nathaniel, Lucy and the 3 children's names inscribed. There is a small stone at the head of each grave with their initials on them. Mr. Crail was one of the founders of the Methodist Church in Piedmont. In 1990, the family is concerned for the care of the gravesites. Although a fence has been erected around the cemetery plots it is again in disrepair and livestock are free to trample and push the stone over. There is only one other stone on which a name is legible. Several other graves are marked with native stone. This burial ground (referred to by some as the Prairie Cemetery and recorded by the Historical Society as Otter Creek Cemetery), it is approximately 100x200 feet in size. The story goes that a group of soldiers were passing by and one of their members died and were the first to buried there in 1880. BIOGRAPHY: As Nathaniel and Lucy died intestate, the probate court awarded an 1/6 undivided interest in the 160 acres to each of the living children. In 1902, Isaac Mullinax husband of Laura Lucetta Taylor took out a mortgage on the land owned by Laura. In 1903, Isaac purchased the warranty deed the 1/6 share of Margaret Eliza Taylor Miller, Sarah Frances Taylor Fee, Susan Edna Taylor Doughty and James Melvin Taylor. Descendants of Isaac Mullinax, The Rader family, farm the place in 1993 as well as adjacent land. BIOGRAPHY: This biography was received from information from Carl Gwynn and entered November 2000. Nat & Lucy came to Sedalia, Missouri area in the spring of 1869 by covered wagon. In 1876, they moved on to Greenwood County, Kansas near Piedmont. Amanda, the oldest child, helped drive 7 head of cattle all the way, her brothers William and Marion helped also. They camped around camp fires, came by way of Warrensburg, Mo., Paola, KS., and to Burlington, KS. The family rode a raft towed across the Missouri River when it was at flood stage while coming to Kansas. They were several days making the trip from there to Piedmont, KS. They stayed one night at Madison, KS. One night they bought hay for the stock at a house on a high hill south of Madison where they camped. Many other people were there that night, all going to find land. They arrived at the homestead the second night. (Amanda Taylor Mann's by Effie Mann Kerr) Nathaniel bought the improvements on a pre empted 160 acre claim for a team of horses, a wagon and $75.00 from a Mr. James Hervey(Harvey) who was going to Carthage, Mo. Included in this purchase was a house, 40 acres of broken land, and a hedge row surrounding the farm. Nat had to file on this land and live on it the required time before he could get a deed from the government. He paid $1.25 per acre for it when he proved it up. He was a boot and shoe maker and was a very frugal man, would not go in debt, would get along and do without before he would go in debt. Nathanial prospered in farming in 1876. A great flu epidemic (Typhoid Fever) took several in of this family in 1881. Lucy died Sept. 14, 1881 and Nathaniel died Nov. 20, 1881. Both are buried in the old Piedmont Cemetery. Children Amanda Augusta TAYLOR b: 21 JUL 1862 in Tazewell, Claiborne County, Tennessee William Louis TAYLOR b: 9 SEP 1864 in Lincoln County, Kentucky Marion Charles TAYLOR b: 23 DEC 1866 in Claiborne County, Tennessee Nancy Elizabeth TAYLOR b: 9 JUN 1869 in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri Margaret Elizabeth TAYLOR b: 1 APR 1871 in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri Sarah Frances TAYLOR b: 6 MAY 1873 in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri Laura Lucetta TAYLOR b: 21 SEP 1875 in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri Susan Edna TAYLOR b: 20 NOV 1877 in Piedmont, Greenwood County, Kansas James Melvin TAYLOR b: 28 APR 1880 in Piedmont, Greenwood County, Kansas BIOGRAPHY: Sources: Title: Greenwood County Cemetery Index (Kansas) Text: Picture on file. Came from Carl Gwynn. BIOGRAPHY: --------------------------------------------------------------------- misc: don't recall if I have commented on my efforts on behalf of he Otter Creek Cemetery in Greenwood County, Kansas or not. misc: A little background. The Pioneer Otter Creek cemetery is located about 1/2 mile north of the Piedmont, Kansas Cemetery in a farmer's pasture. As you may recall, Nathaniel Taylor, his wife Lucy and three of their children died in 1881 of typhoid fever. They were buried in this cemetery. There is evidence of some twenty graves in this cemetery. One stone marks the deaths of all the family. It is a 5 sided white marble stone with markings on four sides and one end. The problem as was discussed at a reunion, cows keep knocking the stone off of its pedestal. One thought was to move the stone to the Piedmont cemetery which did not seem to be very fitting. There is evidence that the whole cemetery was fenced at one time. It had become nearly non existent. The stone is still on the ground but arrangements to getting it back on the pedestal will be made as soon as the weather allows. misc: A couple years ago, when no consensus could be reached, I decided to proceed on my own with the concurrence of Elliott Mann, Beulah Miller Mast and Margaret Fee Lilley. As the cemetery was not recognized by anyone in authority, it was up to the family to deal with the owner of the land. I first approached the fencing idea of enclosing only the Taylor graves. Estimates were received and then Elliott approached the land owner with the plan. The owner of the land objected to fencing only the Taylor graves, saying if the cemetery was fenced at all he would want all the cemetery fenced. New estimates were received on the revised plan which was accepted by the land owner. misc: The fence decided on is 6 strands of barbed wire, 4 1/2 inch corner posts with 2 inch line posts. A 10 foot stock gate in Southeast corner for access. The project has now been completed. I paid the bill of $741.50, which was lower than the estimate.. misc: Now comes the need for a plan for maintenance of the cemetery. Several plans are being pursued. All seem to be of short term. Need a plan for the long term. I forsee an account set up at a local bank which could pay for mowing a couple times a year and paid the trustee's of this account. Requests for donations would have to made periodically to have enough to take care maintaining the cemetery. This last resort is if all other avenues fail. misc: I should have a picture of the finished product in the next few weeks. Then I will send out this letter to all with notification of the next reunion. misc: Carl Gwynn |
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