County:  Copiah
Title: John R. Taylor & Nancy d/o Benjamin F. & Mary E. Garraway Bible Record
Copiah Co., Ms.
Submitter:  Delores Sanders
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(1976) note: The descendants of this family hold a family reunion each Sept.
at Lake Chautauque, Crystal Springs, Ms.
      The M. M. Lee listed under Deaths was Mary M. Taylor Lee, mother of
John R. Taylor; her second marriage was to John Lee.  They had a son, Richard,
born about 1830 in Ala.  They were listed in the 1850 census as farmers in Copiah
Co

Births
John R. Taylor b. 28 Mar, 1824
Nancy Garraway Taylor was b. 14 Feb, 1826
Richard F. Taylor was b. 4 Mar, 1848
William Z. Taylor was b. 14 Jan, 1851
Mary E. Taylor was b. 7 Aug, 1853
M. Saphronia Taylor was b. 11 June, 1855
John R. Taylor Jr. was b. 24 Ap, 1857
Nancy Amanda Taylor was b. 7 Ap, 1859
Lula I. Taylor was b. 22 June, 1861
Robert C. Taylor was b. 17 Oct, 1867

Marriages
John R. Taylor of Copiah Co. & Nancy Garraway of Copiah Co. m. 6 Jan, 1847
at   Mr. John Carraway (Their wedding license was issued in Rankin Co. 6 Jan, 1847
Richard F. Taylor & Mary E. McIntosh m. 23 Oct, 1866
W.Z. Taylor & H.J. Lewis m. 23 Dec, 1874
Elijah W. Sanders & M.S. Taylor m. 23 Ap, 1876
J.R. Taylor & S. Melissie Thornton m. 17 Sept, 1877
S.T. Ponder m. Nancy Amanda Taylor 5 Sept, 1878
L.E. Barnes & Mollie E. Taylor m. 18 Dec, 1879
Lula I. Taylor m. W. Luke Donahoe 18 Nov, 1880

R.C. Taylor & Miss Maggie E. Middleton m. 19 Dec, 1889

Deaths
M. M. Lee d. 6 June, 1879
R. F. Taylor d. 7 Feb, 1900
Mrs. Nancy Taylor - 29 Ap, 1903
John R. Taylor Sr. d. 8 Aug, 1904
Mrs. Lula Donahoe d. (no date given)
Mrs. Mollie E. Barnes d. 8 Ap, 1927
Mrs. Ethel Porter Rogers d. 8 Jy, 1927
Mrs. amanda Ponder d. 28 Oct, 1934
Robert C. Taylor d. 16 Jy, 1936

Note: John Riley Taylor & Nancy Carraway Taylor and many of their relatives
are buried in New Zion Cemetery ,about 5 miles west of Crystal Springs, Copiah
Co., Ms.  T2N R2W
      The last names listed under Deaths were entered by Mrs. Rex (Gena)
Porter, d/o Lewis E. Barnes & Mary Elizabeth Taylor Barnes.  This Bible was
in her possession at the time of her death.  Then it was passed on to Gena's
daughter, Mary Louise Porter Traxler   Ethel Porter Rogers was not a member
of the Taylor family.  She was a younger sister of J. Rex Porter who married to
Eugenia (Gena) Barnes.
 

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