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Marriage: Children:
  1. Sarah Madison Taylor: Birth: 14 MAR 1844 in Haywood County, Tennessee. Death: 11 JAN 1914 in Brownsville, Haywood County, Tennessee

  2. Emma A. Taylor: Birth: ABT 1845 in Tennessee.

  3. Julia Grouces Taylor: Birth: OCT 1848 in Haywood County, Tennessee.

  4. Amanda Taylor: Birth: ABT 1851 in Haywood County, Tennessee.

  5. Howell Taylor: Birth: JAN 1853 in Haywood County, Tennessee.

  6. Lillie Taylor: Birth: ABT 1854 in Haywood County, Tennessee.

  7. Harriett "Hattie" Taylor: Birth: 5 SEP 1859 in Haywood County, Tennessee. Death: 1933

  8. Ella M. Taylor: Birth: ABT 1862 in Haywood County, Tennessee.

  9. H. Hull Taylor: Birth: ABT 1864 in Haywood County, Tennessee.


Notes
a. Note:   N8695 A NOBLE AND GOOD WOMAN HAS PASSED FROM OUR MIDST
 PARIZADE MERIWETHER TAYLOR
 By Miss Laura Bradford
  At the home of her son-in-law Mr. W. A. Taylor, near Brownsville, Haywood County, Tenn., at the twilight hour of April 2nd, when the earth had just donned its soft green resurrection robe, the spirit of our Mother, Mrs. Parizade Meriwether Taylor, gladly left its interment of clay and was borne to the mansions of bliss, where she was welcomed by host of kindred and friends long since passed from earth on whom, her mind seemed so much to dwell during he last months of her life.
  ... her generation being the last of a family of eleven children. Her father, Mr. Francis Meriwether, came from Georgia to Madison County, Tenn., when she was quite a child, and was one of the early settlers of the old town of Denmark, where she grew to womanhood. About the same time, Mr. Howell Taylor came with his family from the Old Dominion State and made his home near Brownsville, where he reared a family of sons and daughters. At the age of twenty, on March 28, 1843, to a worthy son of this family, Dr, Edmund Allen Taylor, she gave her heart and hand in marriage. To his father's home he brought his young bride and in and near Brownsville she spent the remainder of her long life. On the twenty-seventh anniversary of her marriage, the death angel entered the home, and the husband and father was taken. As the earth is torn and lacerated when a mighty oak is wrested from its bosom, so her heart was left sore and bleeding and her home desolate, but she meekly said, "Thy will be done".  Afterwards, when bereavements came she said, I have had my heaviest stroke, now I can bear anything. With great practical sense and unwavering trust in the guiding hand of her Heavenly Father, dreading responsibility, yet knowing her duty, she gathered up the broken threads of her life, and conscientiously and with the energy of a strong moral and physical nature met the issues.
  A lifelong Methodist she was familiar with many of the preachers of the long ago.  For more than two years when was almost helpless, being confined to an invalid's chair, and at times suffering much, and though naturally very active and fond of exercise, she was cheerful and uncomplaining, always welcoming her friends with a smile, being willing to suffer if it be the will of her Lord. During the greater part of these two years, she was most tenderly cared for, by her daughter, Mrs. Taylor, and her family. At the last, she went peacefully to sleep and "the golden bowl was broken and the silver cord was loosed."
  We laid the dear body by the side of the companion of her youth in the sacred dust of the old Tabernacle cemetery under the shade of the trees, which have sung their sad, sweet requiem above the graves of her loved ones, for generations. And her rest is now glorious.
  Original source and date unknown. Reprinted in The Taylors of Tabernacle   The History of a Family   Volume I


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