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The Taylor Family Cemetery is a very small burying ground also known as the Hickory Grove Cemetery. This cemetery is the eternal home for a portion of family members of William and Elizabeth Taylor. Its grounds are located on PRIVATE PROPERTY.

Hickory Grove is located about 4.3 miles west of Susquehanna, PA, and about 4.6 miles east of Great Bend, PA. It is also less than 2 miles west of the McKune Cemetery and LDS Restoration site.

David Taylor, father of William, is credited as who settled Taylortown, about 1815, known today as Hickory Grove, within Susquehanna County, PA. David came to Gibson in 1804, and ten years thereafter removed to Great Bend and settled at the place which afterwards bore his name, Taylortown, where he died and was interred.

- David and Mary Taylor
- William's parents
- Children of William & Elizabeth: Charles, Josiah and William,
- Alice Thomas, a granddaughter
are interred in the Taylor Family Cemetery.

William Taylor died 1851, and wife, Elizabeth died 1864. They, along with a number of their children, and their children's children, are interred in the Lanesboro Cemetery.

The Taylor Family Cemetery is positioned alongside Rt. 171, about 2/10 mile east of road #1025. It is located close to the railroad tracks, and is between the tracks and the Susquehanna River. It is located on private property and accessible WITH the land owner's permission.

In 1846-1848, when the New York and Erie Railroad was under construction, its road was laid directly alongside the cemetery. Only one more burial occurred after the railroad was opened for use.

As to the hamlet's name, about 1872 it was changed from Taylortown to Hickory Grove. A name to describe its beauty within a grove of hickory trees. Its school house was located on a picturesque small hillock covered with a growth of hickory trees. Samuel Wright taught at their school for 17 years and was said that he possessed great enthusiasm as a teacher, and a very successful instructor.

The Hickory Grove post office, located within the Erie Railroad Depot, was established November 22, 1872, with James F. Blessing, an Oak Hill resident, was their first postmaster. His successors were Albert O. Fox in 1875, Charles N. Van Antwerp in 1876, John Lane in 1879; Charles D. Smith in 1881; and Edwin R. Waterman in 1886.

Msrs. Blessing, Van Antwerp, Lane, Waterman, and their families, are interred nearby within the McKune Cemetery.
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The below text was extracted from "Centennial History of Susquehanna County", by Rhamanthus M. Stocker 1887, Chapter XXXV, Great Bend Twp, Page 533:

HICKORY GROVE or TAYLORTOWN. -- Almon Munson, in 1800, settled at this place. It was at his hotel that Jason Treadwell was arrested after having been identified by Joel Welton as the man he saw in the woods with a gun, of whom he was afraid. The whole neighborhood were assembled, and Welton selected Treadwell from the crowd. William Taylor came here in 1815, an erected saw mills, and carried on lumbering and farming. He died in 1851. He was succeeded in the lumbering business by the Daytons, and ex-Sheriff McKune has the mill now. Samuel Wright bought the farm in 1867, and their son, Samuel S. Wright, has the farm, and is station agent on the Erie Railroad at Hickory Grove. Robert Colwell bought the Almon Munson farm of Jonathan Taylor in 1844. Almon Munson Jr., and William Taylor were his neighbors at that time. About 1848 Nathan Skinner erected a store here, and has been succeeded in business by L. Tiel, Burton Fox, Daniel W. Van Antwerp, who sold to Charles D. Smith in 1879. Irwin Hawkins built the store that Charles Stockholm occupies.

Almon Munson's children were Ashbel, who moved to Lenox and died there; Almon, who lived and died here (his sons are Chester, Levi, Thomas, Daniel and Edward and daughter Mercy Ann, wife of Elias McCoy); Phila, of the old family, was the wife of Silas Buck; Sheldon resided on the homestead for many years and finally removed to Michigan, where he died; Benajah removed to Wisconsin.

Hickory Grove is so named because the school house is beautifully located (something unusual) on a little hillock that is covered with a growth of hickory trees. Samuel Wright, who taught in the common schools of New York and Pennsylvania for forty-seven years, taught here seventeen years and really died in the harness; for he had a stroke of paralysis one night after he had taught school, from which he never recovered. He possessed great enthusiasm as a teacher, and was a very successful instructor.

Hickory Grove post office was established November 22 1872, with James F. Blessing, first postmaster. His successors have been Albert O. Fox, 1875, Chas. N. Van Antwerp, 1876, John Lane, 1879; Chas D. Smith, 1881; Edwin R. Waterman, 1886.
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