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Note: !MILITARY: In 1862, 1/2 brother Cal went into the army. He was in for 2 years, and was sick for a spell. He was taken prisoner and sent to Tyler Texas where
he stayed for 10 months and was exchanged and came home in the summer of
1965.In Sep of 1865, they moved to kansas and bought a home of 80 acres and a
log house. Mary Wilson's brother and 2 sisters went along. There were 3 teams,
one of oxen. Father and John Wilson bought a large place. When John Wilson
bought this place, the Taylor family moved to a place 3-4 miles south. It was
seven miles from Garnett, and three from Greeley, Kansas. When Stewart Taylor
got married in 1881, he bought back the first place which
his father had bought before they moved to Kansas. he farmed there as long as
he was able.(This account is from the memories of Margaret Angeline Taylor
Foster.)
!SOURCE-BIRTH-DEATH-FAMILY: From the book:INDIA, DR. JOHN TAYLOR REMEMBERS, THE
PERIOD
FROM 1914 TO 1967, World Presbyterian Missions Inc. the Foreign Missions Board
of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod, 901 N. Broom St.
Wilmington, Delaware, 1986. My father was a Civil War veteran who spent some
time in a prison in Texas where he got scurvy. He died of skin cancer in 1902
when I was 16 years old. He was a farmer of English background. My mother was
Scotch Irish and a school teacher, sunday School superintendent, and W.C.T.U.
leacturer. p. 10. Father owned land in 1879 along the Pottawatomi Creek
between Garnett and Greely, Kansas. In 1909, I in heritated enough to buy 160
acres in Minneola, Kansas. p. 9.
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