Col. Alexander W. Taylor and Cynthia Adams

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Husband Col. Alexander W. Taylor ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 31 Mar 1836 - near Enon Valley, Beaver (later Lawrence) Co, PA 1 3
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         Father: William Taylor (1808-1885) 5
         Mother: Mary Ann Smith (1807-1881) 5

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Wife Cynthia Adams ^{2 4}

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         Father: Dr. Milo Adams (1790-1846) 2 6
         Mother: Cynthia B. Darragh (      -      ) 2 7

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Children

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1 F Olive Taylor ⁴

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2 F Laura Taylor ⁴

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         Spouse: [Unk] Gobble (      -      ) 8

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3 M Charles Taylor ⁴

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4 F Mary Taylor ⁴

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5 M George Taylor ⁴

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         Spouse: Luetta Gregg (      -      ) 8

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General Notes: Husband - Col. Alexander W. Taylor

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He taught school when a young man and became an itinerant preacher in the M. E. church, Pittsburgh conference. When the Civil war broke out he raised a company, H, of which he was commissioned captain, in the 101st Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry. He was in the following engagements: siege of Yorktown, Apr. 17-May 4, 1862; Williamsburg, Va., May 5; Fair Oaks, May 31; Seven days' battle before Richmond, June 26; Kingston, N. C., Dec. 14; Whitehall, Dec. 16; Goldsboro, Dec. 17; skirmishes, Blackwater, Va., Oct. 31, 1862, Nov. 18 and Dec. 2; Southwest Creek, N. C., Dec. 13, 1862; Blounte Creek, Apr. 9, 1863; Williamston, July 7, and Foster's Mills, July 27, 1863. He was captured and was in Charleston, South Carolina, prison. He was promoted to the rank of major Nov. 13, 1862, and then to lieutenant-colonel May 31, 1863. On his return from the army he entered politics and was elected to the state senate for three years. Then, after a varied experience of several years, he joined the Presbyterian church and was preaching in Greenville, Tennessee. He died at his home in Greenville, being the last of his father's family and the last surviving commissioned officer of his regiment.

He was educated in the common schools, and at a select school (known locally as " Tansy Hill."
In the Civil War Mr. Taylor served as captain of Co. H, 101st Regiment, P. V. I. This position he held for about one year, when (November 13, 1862) he was promoted to the rank of major. He was subsequently (July 1, 1863) made lieutenant-colonel of that regiment, and its colonel (David B. Morris), having been wounded at Fair Oaks and afterwards detailed for duty at Pittsburgh, where he had charge of a drafted camp, Taylor was in command of the regiment for perhaps eighteen months.
Colonel Taylor was captured with his whole brigade at Plymouth, North Carolina, on the Roanoke River, April 20, 1864, and imprisoned, first at Macon, Georgia, and subsequently in the city jail in Charleston, South Carolina, where fifty officers of the highest rank were transferred, ostensibly for safe-keeping, but really, as was believed, to prevent the Union forces from continuing to fire on the city of Charleston. Colonel Taylor served over three years and was mustered out November 20, 1864.
In 1866 he was elected from Beaver County to the State Senate for a period of three years. In 1871-72 he was the owner and editor of the Alliance Monitor, Alliance, Stark County, Ohio. In 1872 Mr. Taylor entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but on account of ill health, soon abandoned that and all other active duties. In 1883 he re-entered the ministry in the Presbyterian Church (Holston Presbytery) in East Tennessee, but owing to rheumatic trouble was for many years unable to perform any active duties, and later served as postmaster at Tusculum, Tennessee.

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General Notes: Wife - Cynthia Adams

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from Beaver, Beaver Co, PA

1 Rev. Joseph A. Bausman, A.M, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York, NY: The Knickerbocker Press, 1904), Pg 231.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 364.

3 Thomas M. Stewart, History of the Taylor Family (Filley, NE: George Thomas Edson, 1925), Pg 18.

4 Thomas M. Stewart, History of the Taylor Family (Filley, NE: George Thomas Edson, 1925), Pg 19.

5 Thomas M. Stewart, History of the Taylor Family (Filley, NE: George Thomas Edson, 1925), Pg 7.

6 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 771.

7 Rev. Joseph A. Bausman, A.M, History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York, NY: The Knickerbocker Press, 1904), Pg 229.

8 Thomas M. Stewart, History of the Taylor Family (Filley, NE: George Thomas Edson, 1925), Pg 43.