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Note: nd death is from the two sources which follow:
Obituary from the Gallipolis Bulletin
Gallipolis Bulletin 9 May 1882 page 2 col. 2
"TO THE MEMORY OF
Mrs. Lucinda Marinda Taylor, who departed this life at her home, the residence of her daughter, Mrs. L. A. Knapp, Bradick, O., Feb. 3, 1882. Deceased was born in the city of New York, March 22 1809, and removed with her parents, when small, to the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, where she was raised, and there married and moved to Fincastle, Vir., and from there to Gallipolis, O., after she was left a widow with three small children, where she lost by death her only boy, leaving her alone in the world with her two daughters, L. A. and B. F Taylor, whom she raised and educated in Gallipolis. L. A., married Chas. W. Knapp of Mason County Va.,; R. F. married Otis Harrison of Cabell County, W. Va. Each daughter is the mother of seven children of whom ten are living."
The obituary continues with data about Lucinda's church affiliation and a poem written to Grandma.
The following data is from the FindaGrave page of the husband of Lucinda's daughter Ruth Francis. While this gives the history of Otis Harrison, it also touches importantly on the family of the Taylor's:
William Henry Harrison (a namesake cousin of the William Henry Harrison who was president) came with his son, Otis, to Cabell County from Franklin County, Virginia, about 1843. Otis Harrison, born 1827, died 1910, married Ruth Frances Taylor, born 1832, died 1918, a teacher in the schools of Cabell and Kanawha County and a daughter of John Taylor, a silversmith, and his wife Miranda Stokes Taylor....Otis Harrison and Ruth Frances Taylor were married at Gallipolis, Ohio, but lived in Cabell County. Some forty years ago Otis Harrison built the house we now know as the old Harrison homestead on 1st Avenue just opposite St. Mary's Hospital. He and his wife spent the rest of their lives there."
[George Selden Wallace, Cabell County Annals and Families (Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1935): 399-400.]
According to the obituary John's place of birth is either North Carolina or Virginia. The 'bef. 1808' date is based on the assumption that John was at least 18 years of age for Lydia Ann's 1826 birth. Not always a guarantee in those days.
There is a John Taylor on the 1830 Botetourt county, Virginia census (the county of Fincastle of the obituary) and then a John Taylor on the 1840 census in Gallia County, Ohio, both places which fit into the timeline of the above obituary. As Lucinda is a widow by 1850 the inferred place of death is Gallia County, Ohio between 1840 and 1850.
Note: The source for the data on John Taylor and the inference of his birth a
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