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Note: Matthew Taylor Birth: �Ctab�DJun. 12, 1812 New Brunswick, Canada Death: �Ctab�DNov. 8, 1856 Hazleton Buchanan County Iowa, USA Family links: Spouse: Amerett E. Hunter Miller (1835 - 1912)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Fontana Cemetery Hazleton Buchanan County Iowa, USA Edit Virtual Cemetery info [?] Created by: Charlotte Record added: Mar 12, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 34719969 Sarah E. Harding was born at the Long Reach 24Jun1811; she married her cousin, 4882. Matthew Taylor born probably at Maugerville about 1814, son of 488. Amelia Flewwelling and Richard Bartlett Taylor. Sarah (Harding) Taylor died at Saint John in 1850, leaving Matthew with four small children, all deaf and dumb. This family is described in detail below under Amelia Flewwelling. 4882. Matthew Taylor born between about 1811 and 1815, married his cousin (4829.) Sarah H. Harding, born at Harding's Point, Westfield Parish on the Kingston Peninsula, 24 June 1811, daughter of William Harding, Jr. and Elizabeth Flewwelling, Amelia's sister. Matthew and Sarah may have had as many as eight children, four of whom were born deaf: 48821. James B. Taylor b.1836 48822. George Taylor b. 1838 48823. Amelia Sarah Taylor b. 1845 48824. Matthew Taylor, Jr. b. 1849 Sarah (Harding) Taylor died at Saint John in 1850, leaving her husband with the newborn Matthew, and his siblings, four young children who were deaf and dumb. He would have had only his sister to turn to, and she herself had given birth to her last child at Springfield the year before. The widower Matthew may have led the way for his sister's family on their western migration; two years before their 1855 departure from Springfield, in 1853, Matthew was already in Wisconsin, where he met and married Amerette Elizabeth Hunter, who had a daughter, Emily Taylor, in 1854. Matthew Taylor died just four years later, in 1858, leaving his children in the care of his young wife, who was the mother of only the youngest. The widow Amerette (Hunter) Taylor evidently joined her husband's family in Iowa, where she became the wife of Charles Spragg, her late husband's nephew. In the 1860 Census of Hazelton, Iowa, is Charles Spragg, 26, eldest son of John and Amelia, his wife Amerette E. Taylor, 24, their son Caleb Spragg, 2, and daughter Clara, almost one, and in the household are Sarah Taylor 15, and Matthew Taylor 10, both born in New Brunswick, and Emma Taylor 7, born in Wisconsin; Sarah and Matthew were both deaf and dumb. Charles and Amerette also had John Edward Spragg in 1862. Charles Spragg joined the army that same year, and was killed in the Civil War in June 1863, and buried at Vicksburg National Cemetery in Mississippi, leaving Amerette widowed a second time. She later married a Rollin Milles and remained at Hazelton, Iowa. In 1870 Matthew Jr. was a student at a state school, which he had begun at age 7 and continued for 13 years; he married a woman who was deaf as a result of childhood illness, and they had at least two children on the farm they kept at Hazelton, next door to his cousin George E. Spragg. As per the 1880 Census, John Spragg and his wife, Amelia (Taylor) Spragg, were living on their own f
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