Believed to be the mother of Mary Lee Vaughn, the declared illegitimate daughter of the infamous Daniel Vaughn who rode with Quantrill's Raiders during the Civil War.
The offspring of Mary Lee Vaughn have extremely high DNA matches to known Taylor DNA from this direct line that do not have connections to the paternal Riner line, and this is the only daughter who was unaccounted for and in the geographical proximity of the conception.
Rachel then disappears and is believed to have died during or shortly after Mary Lee's birth, and Rachel Taylor's mother raises the baby. (Dan is otherwise occupied with his legal family in Texas, where they had their hide-out during the Civil War in-between making the raids up north to the Union troops and towns.)
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Rachel M. Taylor's family was already settled in Jackson County, Missouri when she was conceived, but I suspect her mom was in Kentucky visiting relatives when she gave birth to her. The 1850 Federal Census that was taken when both of her parents were still alive to tell it, is quite specific in stating where each child was born.
Rachel's father Thomas Taylor passed away in January of 1860, and the eldest son William disappears too, though nothing proves what happened to him. There is more than one William Taylor of the right age in 1860 that could be him, or he could have died. Rachel's mom Lydia was left to try to raise the remaining children and farm the land, when the Civil War broke out.
The young men in their circle sympathized with the rebel cause, of not wanting the government to poke their noses into their business. They didn't have slaves, and were on good terms with the blacks living in their area, which was also held against them by the Union Army.
The Taylor women and children were arrested as "rebel sympathizers", as well as their neighbors the Vaughn women and children, (one Vaughn son having already been hung and another riding with Quantrill's Raiders), and many others in their area. Their homes were burned and the ones that didn't die right away were removed from the area until after the war. It was/is commonly believed the harassment of the women and children was meant to flush out the rebel men in "the bush" and riding with Quantrill. The last we see on paper of Rachel Taylor is when she is being sent to the Gratiot Street Prison in Saint Louis. One of the Vaughn women died the next day after she got there, and no more is heard of Rachel after the decision was made by the Provost Marshal to remove them from the area on April 26, 1865.
However, by 1870 Lydia Taylor is back in Jackson County with 4 yr. old Mary Lee Vaughn, who on her Death Certificate was admittedly Daniel Vaughn's child, is raised by Lydia Taylor until Lydia passes away, and is still supervised by family until she marries Rachel's sister Hannah's young brother-in-law and migrates to Kansas with the family. There were plenty of Daniel Vaughn's relatives in the area that could have taken her in, but instead she is raised by Lydia, who was almost certainly her grandmother. Rachel Taylor was most likely her mother, since that is the one Taylor girl who would have been the right age and who wasn't already married to someone else. DNA matches show Mary's descendants were tied to this Taylor family, apart from the known pairing of Hannah Taylor and Sylvester Riner.
Rachel may have even died in childbirth with Mary Lee, but what with the connection to the notorious Daniel Vaughn that rode with Quantrill, the illegitimacy, and Dan's legal wife being the sister of Rachel's sister Virginia's husband William Hall, the "scandal" was left out of any family oral histories told to later generations and her mother's name even left off her D/C.
Recently I found an old Missouri newspaper story written much later, looking back on wartime stories, that bungled and merged the old story of a Vaughn son's hanging, with other gossip of a Vaughn son having put himself in danger to sneak back into the area to be with the girl he loved. Family members knowing the back story easily recognize that the author used poetic license to make a good story, but that it was based on the hanging of Jim Vaughn and the scandal of Dan Vaughn's sneaking back up to Jackson County to see Rachel after he already had his family moved to safety in Texas.
- by Lila Cole
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Here be our women:
http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/Gratiot/Listwomen.htm
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The offspring of Mary Lee Vaughn have extremely high DNA matches to known Taylor DNA from this direct line that do not have connections to the paternal Riner line, and this is the only daughter who was unaccounted for and in the geographical proximity of the conception.
Rachel then disappears and is believed to have died during or shortly after Mary Lee's birth, and Rachel Taylor's mother raises the baby. (Dan is otherwise occupied with his legal family in Texas, where they had their hide-out during the Civil War in-between making the raids up north to the Union troops and towns.)
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Rachel M. Taylor's family was already settled in Jackson County, Missouri when she was conceived, but I suspect her mom was in Kentucky visiting relatives when she gave birth to her. The 1850 Federal Census that was taken when both of her parents were still alive to tell it, is quite specific in stating where each child was born.
Rachel's father Thomas Taylor passed away in January of 1860, and the eldest son William disappears too, though nothing proves what happened to him. There is more than one William Taylor of the right age in 1860 that could be him, or he could have died. Rachel's mom Lydia was left to try to raise the remaining children and farm the land, when the Civil War broke out.
The young men in their circle sympathized with the rebel cause, of not wanting the government to poke their noses into their business. They didn't have slaves, and were on good terms with the blacks living in their area, which was also held against them by the Union Army.
The Taylor women and children were arrested as "rebel sympathizers", as well as their neighbors the Vaughn women and children, (one Vaughn son having already been hung and another riding with Quantrill's Raiders), and many others in their area. Their homes were burned and the ones that didn't die right away were removed from the area until after the war. It was/is commonly believed the harassment of the women and children was meant to flush out the rebel men in "the bush" and riding with Quantrill. The last we see on paper of Rachel Taylor is when she is being sent to the Gratiot Street Prison in Saint Louis. One of the Vaughn women died the next day after she got there, and no more is heard of Rachel after the decision was made by the Provost Marshal to remove them from the area on April 26, 1865.
However, by 1870 Lydia Taylor is back in Jackson County with 4 yr. old Mary Lee Vaughn, who on her Death Certificate was admittedly Daniel Vaughn's child, is raised by Lydia Taylor until Lydia passes away, and is still supervised by family until she marries Rachel's sister Hannah's young brother-in-law and migrates to Kansas with the family. There were plenty of Daniel Vaughn's relatives in the area that could have taken her in, but instead she is raised by Lydia, who was almost certainly her grandmother. Rachel Taylor was most likely her mother, since that is the one Taylor girl who would have been the right age and who wasn't already married to someone else. DNA matches show Mary's descendants were tied to this Taylor family, apart from the known pairing of Hannah Taylor and Sylvester Riner.
Rachel may have even died in childbirth with Mary Lee, but what with the connection to the notorious Daniel Vaughn that rode with Quantrill, the illegitimacy, and Dan's legal wife being the sister of Rachel's sister Virginia's husband William Hall, the "scandal" was left out of any family oral histories told to later generations and her mother's name even left off her D/C.
Recently I found an old Missouri newspaper story written much later, looking back on wartime stories, that bungled and merged the old story of a Vaughn son's hanging, with other gossip of a Vaughn son having put himself in danger to sneak back into the area to be with the girl he loved. Family members knowing the back story easily recognize that the author used poetic license to make a good story, but that it was based on the hanging of Jim Vaughn and the scandal of Dan Vaughn's sneaking back up to Jackson County to see Rachel after he already had his family moved to safety in Texas.
- by Lila Cole
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Here be our women:
http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/Gratiot/Listwomen.htm
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Believed to be the mother of Mary Lee Vaughn, the declared illegitimate daughter of the infamous Daniel Vaughn who rode with Quantrill's Raiders during the Civil War.
The offspring of Mary Lee Vaughn have extremely high DNA matches to known Taylor DNA from this direct line that do not have connections to the paternal Riner line, and this is the only daughter who was unaccounted for and in the geographical proximity of the conception.
Rachel then disappears and is believed to have died during or shortly after Mary Lee's birth, and Rachel Taylor's mother raises the baby. (Dan is otherwise occupied with his legal family in Texas, where they had their hide-out during the Civil War in-between making the raids up north to the Union troops and towns.)
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Rachel M. Taylor's family was already settled in Jackson County, Missouri when she was conceived, but I suspect her mom was in Kentucky visiting relatives when she gave birth to her. The 1850 Federal Census that was taken when both of her parents were still alive to tell it, is quite specific in stating where each child was born.
Rachel's father Thomas Taylor passed away in January of 1860, and the eldest son William disappears too, though nothing proves what happened to him. There is more than one William Taylor of the right age in 1860 that could be him, or he could have died. Rachel's mom Lydia was left to try to raise the remaining children and farm the land, when the Civil War broke out.
The young men in their circle sympathized with the rebel cause, of not wanting the government to poke their noses into their business. They didn't have slaves, and were on good terms with the blacks living in their area, which was also held against them by the Union Army.
The Taylor women and children were arrested as "rebel sympathizers", as well as their neighbors the Vaughn women and children, (one Vaughn son having already been hung and another riding with Quantrill's Raiders), and many others in their area. Their homes were burned and the ones that didn't die right away were removed from the area until after the war. It was/is commonly believed the harassment of the women and children was meant to flush out the rebel men in "the bush" and riding with Quantrill. The last we see on paper of Rachel Taylor is when she is being sent to the Gratiot Street Prison in Saint Louis. One of the Vaughn women died the next day after she got there, and no more is heard of Rachel after the decision was made by the Provost Marshal to remove them from the area on April 26, 1865.
However, by 1870 Lydia Taylor is back in Jackson County with 4 yr. old Mary Lee Vaughn, who on her Death Certificate was admittedly Daniel Vaughn's child, is raised by Lydia Taylor until Lydia passes away, and is still supervised by family until she marries Rachel's sister Hannah's young brother-in-law and migrates to Kansas with the family. There were plenty of Daniel Vaughn's relatives in the area that could have taken her in, but instead she is raised by Lydia, who was almost certainly her grandmother. Rachel Taylor was most likely her mother, since that is the one Taylor girl who would have been the right age and who wasn't already married to someone else. DNA matches show Mary's descendants were tied to this Taylor family, apart from the known pairing of Hannah Taylor and Sylvester Riner.
Rachel may have even died in childbirth with Mary Lee, but what with the connection to the notorious Daniel Vaughn that rode with Quantrill, the illegitimacy, and Dan's legal wife being the sister of Rachel's sister Virginia's husband William Hall, the "scandal" was left out of any family oral histories told to later generations and her mother's name even left off her D/C.
Recently I found an old Missouri newspaper story written much later, looking back on wartime stories, that bungled and merged the old story of a Vaughn son's hanging, with other gossip of a Vaughn son having put himself in danger to sneak back into the area to be with the girl he loved. Family members knowing the back story easily recognize that the author used poetic license to make a good story, but that it was based on the hanging of Jim Vaughn and the scandal of Dan Vaughn's sneaking back up to Jackson County to see Rachel after he already had his family moved to safety in Texas.
- by Lila Cole
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Here be our women:
http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/Gratiot/Listwomen.htm
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The offspring of Mary Lee Vaughn have extremely high DNA matches to known Taylor DNA from this direct line that do not have connections to the paternal Riner line, and this is the only daughter who was unaccounted for and in the geographical proximity of the conception.
Rachel then disappears and is believed to have died during or shortly after Mary Lee's birth, and Rachel Taylor's mother raises the baby. (Dan is otherwise occupied with his legal family in Texas, where they had their hide-out during the Civil War in-between making the raids up north to the Union troops and towns.)
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Rachel M. Taylor's family was already settled in Jackson County, Missouri when she was conceived, but I suspect her mom was in Kentucky visiting relatives when she gave birth to her. The 1850 Federal Census that was taken when both of her parents were still alive to tell it, is quite specific in stating where each child was born.
Rachel's father Thomas Taylor passed away in January of 1860, and the eldest son William disappears too, though nothing proves what happened to him. There is more than one William Taylor of the right age in 1860 that could be him, or he could have died. Rachel's mom Lydia was left to try to raise the remaining children and farm the land, when the Civil War broke out.
The young men in their circle sympathized with the rebel cause, of not wanting the government to poke their noses into their business. They didn't have slaves, and were on good terms with the blacks living in their area, which was also held against them by the Union Army.
The Taylor women and children were arrested as "rebel sympathizers", as well as their neighbors the Vaughn women and children, (one Vaughn son having already been hung and another riding with Quantrill's Raiders), and many others in their area. Their homes were burned and the ones that didn't die right away were removed from the area until after the war. It was/is commonly believed the harassment of the women and children was meant to flush out the rebel men in "the bush" and riding with Quantrill. The last we see on paper of Rachel Taylor is when she is being sent to the Gratiot Street Prison in Saint Louis. One of the Vaughn women died the next day after she got there, and no more is heard of Rachel after the decision was made by the Provost Marshal to remove them from the area on April 26, 1865.
However, by 1870 Lydia Taylor is back in Jackson County with 4 yr. old Mary Lee Vaughn, who on her Death Certificate was admittedly Daniel Vaughn's child, is raised by Lydia Taylor until Lydia passes away, and is still supervised by family until she marries Rachel's sister Hannah's young brother-in-law and migrates to Kansas with the family. There were plenty of Daniel Vaughn's relatives in the area that could have taken her in, but instead she is raised by Lydia, who was almost certainly her grandmother. Rachel Taylor was most likely her mother, since that is the one Taylor girl who would have been the right age and who wasn't already married to someone else. DNA matches show Mary's descendants were tied to this Taylor family, apart from the known pairing of Hannah Taylor and Sylvester Riner.
Rachel may have even died in childbirth with Mary Lee, but what with the connection to the notorious Daniel Vaughn that rode with Quantrill, the illegitimacy, and Dan's legal wife being the sister of Rachel's sister Virginia's husband William Hall, the "scandal" was left out of any family oral histories told to later generations and her mother's name even left off her D/C.
Recently I found an old Missouri newspaper story written much later, looking back on wartime stories, that bungled and merged the old story of a Vaughn son's hanging, with other gossip of a Vaughn son having put himself in danger to sneak back into the area to be with the girl he loved. Family members knowing the back story easily recognize that the author used poetic license to make a good story, but that it was based on the hanging of Jim Vaughn and the scandal of Dan Vaughn's sneaking back up to Jackson County to see Rachel after he already had his family moved to safety in Texas.
- by Lila Cole
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Here be our women:
http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/Gratiot/Listwomen.htm
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