>There are several I would love to have the details on, if I could. I'm >surprized there were no Murray's? Davie, remember, I was printing pages that related to me....therefore, there may have been some Murrays....I just didn't connect to any of those in any way....I was looking for anything that tied me to a Daniel..... >> >>Ruth Taylor> >>Ellen Jane Harrison Currie/curry Dancy....also m. in the >>Taylor Family Taylors of Taylor >>chapel Eliza Mayo HOwe4ll Allen Taylor....more Taylors >>These are various names I found in the printed pages I copied in Fayette >>Co., TN, this past weekend.......If anything looks interesting, let me >>know......time's short, but will try to answer.....BETH Dr. Wm. Vannah Taylor, wife Frances (Henderson)Taylor..child. departed Oxford, NC in l836 for LaGrange TN...sons..Henry Skipwith Taylor and Arthur Kennon Taylor...were attending school at Wm. & Mary, Williamsburg, VA and medicals school, Univ. of PA, and his son, Leonard Henderson Taylor was attend. the Univ. of NC, Chapel Hill, NC at the time of the move and the first years in TN. Henry Skpwith Taylor sett. in Fayette Co., TN and live. remainder of life...a physician as his father and brothers who were: Arthur Kennon Taylor, Wm. Vannah Taylor, Jr., John L. Henderson Taylor, and Richard Henderson Taylor. His other brothers were: Leonard, James Henderson R. Taylor, Archilbald Henderson Taylor, Nathaniel C. and Julius A. and were attorneys. His sisters were Emily and Lucy W. Dr. Henry Skipwith Taylor, called Skip by his family, was b in l8l5, NC and D in Fayette Co. TN in l876. In l846, he married Jane Eliza Mayo, dau. of a NC couple, Frederick Wm. Mayo and Maniza (Sherrod) Mayo. Dr. Skip had four children by a lst marriage and eleven children by his marriage to Jane Eliza..Names of the lst 4 were: Frances Henderson Taylor, Samuel, Wm. V., and Laura Rebecca. Wm. V. was killied in the Civl War. His ll child....Agnes May Taylor was the grandmother of this contributor. She married in Fayette Co. l888 to Don Rich aHankins. Dr. Wm. Vannah Taylor was b. in Yorktown, VA in l790 and was the grandson of our emigrant ancestor, Samuel Taylor, who came to Yorktown in l764. Samuel m. Anne Vanna in l765. Their son Nathaniel taylor, b. l767 m. Lucy White, and they were parents of 4 sons, including Wm. Vannah Taylor. Dr. Wm Vannah Taylor died in Memphis, TN in l872 and his wife Frances in Nashville, TN in l890 in home of her dau. Lucy (Mrs. Joel A. Hayes). Episcopalian.....Henry Skipwith Taylor, Jr. bec. a Methodist minister and his sister Agnes, aft. her marriage was a Methodist. Frances Henderson, wife of Dr. Wm. V. Taylor was the dau. of Judge Leonard Henderson and his wife Frances (Farrar) Henderson. Judge Henderson was the son of Richard Henderson atty., judge, and backer and promoter of the Transylvania Land Co., in efforts to est. settlers in (Nashville) TN. Since he d in l785 at age 50, he did not live long enought ot firmly est. his efforts.....sub. by Marie H. Orrick (Mrs. L. S.) REV. HOWELL TAYLOR five sons came fr. Mecklenburt Co., VA to TN in l820's. Howell and 4 sons settled in Haywood Co. Edmund and his family contin. to Fayette Co. startd Taylor's Chapel. family motto..."He gains what he seeks"..broguht in the l600's from England by James Taylor. They family's lineage has been traced back to Kind EDW. I. The signers of the Magna Charta, Charlemagne, and King Alfred the Great. The Taylor familiews were devout Methodists. Col. Edmund Taylor and his family b4ecame converted by Bishop Asbury, His son, Rev. Howell Taylor, a mem. of the lst Board of Trustees of Randolph-Macon College. Not surprising w/this background that the Taylor family as siad to promote the spirtualy religion of Christ in West TN....more tahn any oth. family. Edmund and his wife, Elizabeth Venable, had 6 child.....Howell, Sarah, Robert, Samuel, Mary, and Elizabeth. They build their home in l832. Edmund's g-g-g-grandsons, Timothy and david Taylor, Robert s descendants, presently reside at Sylvan ridge, the antebellum home in the northeast part of the county. Robt. Venable Taylor was a Methodist minister--circuit rider. m. Sarah Chunn...3 sons: Samuel, Edmund..descendants reside in MS. and Wm. Neilson Taylor mov. Memphis and est. Memphis Machine Wor4ks. I will post more later.....BETH Please overlook typing....in a hurry as usual.......