FYI - The bio I posted for our John Kaylor on the Cambria County PA GenConnect Query Board Mary Ann >Subject: PML Search Result matching KAYLOR >X-Loop: pmlbounce@rootsweb.com > >============================================================ >A result of your requested PML search. To refine or cancel this >search, please visit http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >============================================================ >Source: GC-Cambria County, Pa Biographies >URL: >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Pa/CambriaBios?read=141 >Subject: John Kaylor Bio > > >Surname: KAYLOR, ICKES, EKIS, VAN NORMAN, ROBERTS, BOYD >------------------------- > >1912 HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS > >AND HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS > >Volume II, Part Two, Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago > >Page 1358: > >KAYLOR, John - a retired farmer and prominent citizen of Illiopolis, Ill., >is an honored veteran of the Civil War,in which he served with credit for >three years. Mr.Kaylor is a native of Johnstown, Pa., born March 8, 1836, >a son of DANIEL and MARGARET(EKIS) KAYLOR, the former a native of >Pennsylvania, >and the latter of Hagerstown, Md. The paternal great-grandfather was a >Revolutionary War soldier. A relic of him and Revolutionary days is a sugar >bowl over 200 years old, owned by Mr. Kaylor, but now in the possession >of his daughter, Mrs. Clark of Illiopolis, Ill. > >DANIEL KAYLOR was a farmer, who in 1860, moved to Edgar County, Ill., where >he lived on a farm until his death in 1882, his wife having died two years >previously. The family were originally from Germany, and the grandfather >DANIEL KAYLOR also served in the Revolutionary War. There were eight children >born in the family to which John Kaylor belongs: William; John and Theodore, >the sons, and Mary A.; Louise; Ellen and Malinda, the daughters in addition >to one >who died in infancy. William enlisted in Company H, Fourth Indiana Cavalry >during the Civil War and died in >Andersonville prison. > >John Kaylor received his education in Pennsylvania, spending his boyhood >on a farm. As a young man he drove a >stage, being in the employ of the Ohio State Company, along the Erie and >Pittsburg turnpike, beginning this work in 1853. He drove a coach-and-six >from Mercer, Pa., to Iowa City, and after the company moved their outfit >of 200 horses and twenty-four stage coaches, he drove two years for the >Western Stage Coach Company operating between Des Moines to Adel, Iowa. >He then moved to Edgar County, Ill., and took up farming which he continued >from 1858 to 1862, meeting with very gratifying success. On August 1, 1862, >he enlisted in >Company H, Fourth Indiana Cavalry, serving during the remainder of the >war, receiving his discharge August 1, 1865. He enlisted at Terre Haute, >Ind., and was mustered out at Nashville, Tenn. > >Mr. Kaylor under the command of General Cook and George H. Purdy, was Captain >of his company. He participated in the engagement at Perryville, with his >divison helping in the taking of Nashville; fought at Murfreesboro and >Tullahoma, Tenn.; Huntsville, Ala.; Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, and >in the last named battle, this divison co-operated with General Grant. >Mr. Kaylor took part in the forced march to >Knoxville, helped to drive the Confederates to Bulls Gap, Va., then returned >to Cleveland, Tenn. May 2, 1864, the cavalry marched to Dalton, Ga., where >the company was almost annihilated, only three of them surviving the conflict. >May 11, 1864, he was detailed for courier duty, which he continued until >September 2, after the capture of Atlanta, when he was returned to his >company and regiment. Mr. Kaylor participated in the second battle of >Nashville, >marching with his company to Eastport, Miss. thence. March 6, 1865 to Jackson, >where he took part in the engagement at Selma and Montgomery, and after >the surrender of the latter city to General Wilson, who was commanding >the regiment, marched to Columbus, and West Point, Ga., both of which cities >were captured. He helped to capture Macon, and soon thereafter peace was >declared. Mr. Kaylor having served much of the time as courier, a position >similar to that of Veterinary officer. He is now a prominent member of >Morgan Post, No. 208, G. A. R., of which he is Quartermaster. During his >term of service, his wife and three children, after being left behind, >went to live with her parents. There they remained until the close of the >conflict restored the brave husband and father to them. Mrs. Kaylor had >two brothers, who also responded to the call of their country,and served >in the Civil War. > >For the past eighteen years, Mr. Kaylor has served as Assessor of his township >and city and in 1920, was elected >to another two year term. He has lived in his present home for the past >ten years, and is retired from active life. He >spent many years in hard work, being fairly successful in all his >undertakings. >Much of his effort was directed along agricultural lines, as he has always >loved farming. At the close of the war, he located on a farm near Illiopolis, >which he cultivated for thirty eight years. In politics, he is a staunch >Republican, and actively interested in public affairs and issues. He has >many warm friends in the community, and is universally esteemed. A devout >member of the Christian Church, he is willing to further any worthy cause. > >Mr. Kaylor was married at Redfield, Dallas County, Iowa, August 16, 1857, >to CERILLA VAN NORMAN, born in KNox County, O., May 16, 1837, being a daughter >of THEODORE VAN NORMAN, a farmer, who died in Buffalo, Dallas County, Mo., >where he had located. The mother of Mrs. Kaylor died in Jacksonville, Ill, >in 1880. Mrs. Kaylor died April 13, 1907, having borne her husband nine >children of whom are now living: Theodore, a farmer of Christian County; >William J., a farmer of Illiopolis township; Amanda, married J. C. Noried, >a veterinary surgeon, and they reside at Greenville, Ill.; Mary Alice Guyton, >of Spirngfield; Edna, wife of A. A. Clark, a stock-buyer; Charles in the >employ of the Sattley Manufacturing Company of Springfield; Eva, married >Frank Correll, a retired farmer of Illiopolis. There are twenty-nine >grandchildren >and three great-grandchildren in the family. > >Revered by all who know him, resting assured of a happy future, undisturbed >by any regrets for his well spent past, Mr. Kaylor is now enjoying his >leisure, and giving close >attention to civic matters, for he aims to secure improvements where he >believes they are needed. > >Link: My Family Genealogy > URL: <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~makaylor/index.html>