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Note: Jean Taylor Thompson [Edit Name] Birth: �Ctab�DJul. 8, 1798 Colchester Nova Scotia, Canada Death: �Ctab�DApr. 24, 1824 Truro Franklin County Ohio, USA [Edit Dates] Daughter of Robert and Mehetable Taylor, married John M. Thompson. The verse on her stone reads: Blessed be the Lord that sent his Son To take our flesh and make it his. He for our lives gave up his own To make our peace with God. [Edit Bio] Family links: [Edit] Parents: Robert Taylor (1759 - 1828) Mehetable Willson Taylor (1765 - 1857) [Add Marker Transcription] [Add Note] Burial: [Edit] Madison Truro Cemetery Franklin County Ohio, USA [Add Plot] Edit Virtual Cemetery info [?] Created by: Pat Taylor Record added: Jul 29, 2013 Find A Grave Memorial# 114605739 Not many persons settled in this township between 1815 and 1825. Several causes might be mentioned why so few came. The principal one was the lack of a profitable market for the surplus produce; the streams furnished the only available means of transportation. Only one attempt was made to reach New Orleans from this township, when "in 1824 or 1825 George H. Stevenson built a flatboat and loaded it at Sharp's Mill, on Big Walnut creek, with flour, meal and pork. Daniel Ross too the cargo down, arriving safely, but took the yellow fever and died there." Judge John Chaney assisted in loading this boat. During the War of 1812 prices had run up and times were good, but after peace had been declared and the government's purchases ceased, prices soon declined and no market could be found even at the extremely low prices which prevailed. Corn was 10 to 12 cents per bushel, wheat 20 to 25 cents, pork $1.50 per hundred. Many who had gone in debt could not meet back payments, so forced sales were the order of the day. Often not enough cash could be obtained to pay the taxes. Then a great deal of sickness prevailed, especially in 1823 and 1824, when a terrible epidemic of fevers and ague and chills raged. Nearly everybody was sick; often not enough well persons could be found in a neighborhood to care for the sick and bury the dead. The pioneers of those days referred especially to the summer and fall of 1823 as a most discouraging one. Among those who died in the township during these two seasons were: Billingsly Bull( prominent citizen), Wm. Wright, Nicholas Hopkins, Edward Hathaway, John Todd, Henry Longwell, Elizabeth Bowman, Mrs. Adam Kramer, Greazy Harrison, Mrs. Thomas Featheringgill, Aaron Michael, Mrs. Wm. Seymour, Mrs. Elias Decker, Thomas Blakely, Mrs. Morgan Belford, Mrs. John Moore, Mrs. Daniel Rainier, Mrs. Isaac Lanning, Mrs. Isaac Decker, George A. Kelly, Mrs. John M. Thompson, Rebecca Rainier, and many others.
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