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David Taylor

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David Taylor

Birth
USA
Death
7 Sep 1846 (aged 42)
Moss Run, Washington County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Washington County, Ohio, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.4785772, Longitude: -81.2779355
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David Taylor is not buried with his tombstone in this cemetery -- but he DID live near by.

A local farmer had found this tombstone along the side of a road, near Fifteen Creek Road (Washington County 12) and Ohio 26, near this cemetery in Lawrence Township. The farmer first kept it for a while by his farm woodpile. Later, in 2008, he gave the tombstone to Washington County Genealogy Society member Millie Covey Fry while she was interviewing area farmers about small farm cemeteries that might contain unreported graves that might contain her near by Covey ancestors.

The connection makes sense for apt clues, because this David's brother, Richard Taylor Jr. married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Treadway, whose mother was Harriet Hoff. And this David's loose tombstone was found, many years later, stored on or by a Hoff farm. Exact locations and journey details remain unclear, but associations are "clear" on patterns to pursue.

Because Millie Covey Fry had other ancestors in this also-nearby Rake Cemetery and already had scheduled a monument company to do work on those Rake Cemetery graves, she asked the monument company if it would also assist in protecting the unusually detailed but "homeless" David Taylor stone by erecting it in Rake at the same time. (That is the same cemetery that contains David's nephew, William Henning, whose mother was David's sister, Lavina Taylor. So, the monument company installed the tombstone in the dog-leg field that is to the left of the cemetery gate, on the flat, in the far lower corner by the fencing.

Millie Covey Fry describes the initial rescue effort within her Elijah Rake (Rake Cemetery) memorial # 24694053 and in the genealogy society's project list for 2008 (http://www.washogs.org/projects.html )

David's rescued tombstone inscription says David, son of R&F Taylor, died Sep. 7, 1846, aged 42 yrs, 1 mo, 25 d's.

Separate sources show his parents were Richard (Sr.) and Freedom Carpenter Taylor.

The only time Freedom's name appears in local records, so far, is the 1850 census, which shows Richard Sr. and Freedom living in Lawrence Township with their grandson William Henning, 21, by daughter Lavina, and with a grandson or great-grandson, Isaiah Davis, 5, through Lavina and David's sister Phoebe who married an Isaiah Davis.

William Henning is buried atop the hill in Rake Cemetery, surrounded by other inter-related stones (memorial # 80771232 ). More on the Hennings, below.

According to genealogy notes passed down by Richard Sr.'s 2x-great-granddaughter Eliza Brooks, "Richard Taylor [ Sr. ] married Freedom Carpenter. She was from Oswego Co., NY and was a missionary to the Indians and disowned by her parents." ..." Richard Taylor was living here with the Indians. Lived here on the Dye farm and made whiskey. "

Eliza Brooks was a genealogist who had primary sources, including original or copied church records explicitly reporting names and dates of this Taylor family -- from "Lawrence church," believed to be the same as for Moss Run church. The pastors of Moss Run of Lawrence married Dye, Taylor and Henning members of this extended family, according to other records, and the Moss Run church yard is where Eliza and David's brother Richard Jr. are buried (memorials 42659013 and # 95406001).

Eliza also had records and lore from descendants of David Taylor's other sister Maria and her husband Amos Dye, with whose daughter, Saphronia Dye Champelin/Chamberlin, Richard Taylor Sr. lived for the 1860 Lawrence Township census. Maria and Amos' memorials giving some of that connection are at Oak Grove Cemetery, memorials # 15135891 and # 30299485.

Eliza's Taylor-Dye genealogy work informed that of cousin genealogists Lillian Root Emerick (the Washington County Genealogy Society member assisting tombstone rescuer Millie Covey Fry) and Nancy Brooks Runta, whose extensive descent chart about Richard Taylor Sr. and excerpts of Eliza's notes are now added to the family files and church files at the Washington County Public Library genealogy department (library site: http://www.wcplib.info/content/local-history-genealogy ).

David Taylor's name did not appear in Eliza Brooks' excerpts of Moss Run church records about Taylors or in any other local marriage and probate record collections, and it is not clear where he was buried originally, but it does not seem to have been at the Moss Run church. His tombstone, however, is ornately elaborate, implying something other than just an impromptu do-it-yourself farm burial. That was the era before formal death records by the state.

David's father, Richard Sr., first shows in the 1820 Ludlow census. Then, in 1824, he bought Ludlow Township land (Washington County deed Vol. 18, pages 428-9, with preceding deeds also related). That location first was known as Taylor's Mill, for his grist and saw mill on the Little Muskingum, and then as the Flints Mill post office area, then as the village of Bloomfield. By the 1850 and 1860 census, he shows living in Lawrence Township. Richard and Freedom had 11 children, according to Eliza Brooks' family records.

Meanwhile, David's other sister, Lavina Taylor Hening Aplin, was mother of William Henning (Rake memorial # 80771232. He and his father spelled their last name with different numbers of N's.)

Lavina was first married as a young teen-ager to a person of unknown name, then re-married in 1828 in Washington County, by the Moss Run church pastor, to Matthew Hening, who died in 1828, and then remarried again in 1831 in Tyler County WV to Godfrey Aplin, with whom she had eight more children. While Lavina's son William was living with her father in Lawrence Township, Lavina and Godfrey and family lived in Ludlow Township, Washington County, and then moved to the Harmar village, last appearing in the 1880 census there, in their 70s.

Lavina Taylor Hening Aplin is at Memorial # 95908919. Her husband's grave is not yet documented, but several of her children by him are linked to Lavina/Lovina's memorial.

An H.H. Hardesty history book profile on David Taylor's nephew William Henning cited that William had a fellow Civil War veteran half-brother named Joseph "Appleton." More accurately, Lavina and Godfrey Aplin's son Joseph was that fellow veteran half-brother, who is buried near Toledo (Willow Cemetery memorial #42550822).

David's brother Richard Jr., died in the Civil war (see Moss Run Cemetery, memorial #95406001).

Oliver Aplin, father of sister Lavina's husband Godfrey, was a New England pioneer to Grandview Township. His wife, Elizabeth, is buried in Rinard Mills cemetery next to an unusual hard-to-read stone that might be Oliver's. The Aplins intermarried a lot with the Porters and same Flints related to Taylors Mill area. Those Porters and Flints descended from Marietta's first New England pioneers. But the list of burials gives no clues to the missing Aplins or Taylors.

Work is under way to solve the mysteries of David's original burial place and those of his parents and remaining siblings.

In the meantime, David's homeless tombstone has an adoptive home in Rake Cemetery and part of a story.












David Taylor is not buried with his tombstone in this cemetery -- but he DID live near by.

A local farmer had found this tombstone along the side of a road, near Fifteen Creek Road (Washington County 12) and Ohio 26, near this cemetery in Lawrence Township. The farmer first kept it for a while by his farm woodpile. Later, in 2008, he gave the tombstone to Washington County Genealogy Society member Millie Covey Fry while she was interviewing area farmers about small farm cemeteries that might contain unreported graves that might contain her near by Covey ancestors.

The connection makes sense for apt clues, because this David's brother, Richard Taylor Jr. married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Treadway, whose mother was Harriet Hoff. And this David's loose tombstone was found, many years later, stored on or by a Hoff farm. Exact locations and journey details remain unclear, but associations are "clear" on patterns to pursue.

Because Millie Covey Fry had other ancestors in this also-nearby Rake Cemetery and already had scheduled a monument company to do work on those Rake Cemetery graves, she asked the monument company if it would also assist in protecting the unusually detailed but "homeless" David Taylor stone by erecting it in Rake at the same time. (That is the same cemetery that contains David's nephew, William Henning, whose mother was David's sister, Lavina Taylor. So, the monument company installed the tombstone in the dog-leg field that is to the left of the cemetery gate, on the flat, in the far lower corner by the fencing.

Millie Covey Fry describes the initial rescue effort within her Elijah Rake (Rake Cemetery) memorial # 24694053 and in the genealogy society's project list for 2008 (http://www.washogs.org/projects.html )

David's rescued tombstone inscription says David, son of R&F Taylor, died Sep. 7, 1846, aged 42 yrs, 1 mo, 25 d's.

Separate sources show his parents were Richard (Sr.) and Freedom Carpenter Taylor.

The only time Freedom's name appears in local records, so far, is the 1850 census, which shows Richard Sr. and Freedom living in Lawrence Township with their grandson William Henning, 21, by daughter Lavina, and with a grandson or great-grandson, Isaiah Davis, 5, through Lavina and David's sister Phoebe who married an Isaiah Davis.

William Henning is buried atop the hill in Rake Cemetery, surrounded by other inter-related stones (memorial # 80771232 ). More on the Hennings, below.

According to genealogy notes passed down by Richard Sr.'s 2x-great-granddaughter Eliza Brooks, "Richard Taylor [ Sr. ] married Freedom Carpenter. She was from Oswego Co., NY and was a missionary to the Indians and disowned by her parents." ..." Richard Taylor was living here with the Indians. Lived here on the Dye farm and made whiskey. "

Eliza Brooks was a genealogist who had primary sources, including original or copied church records explicitly reporting names and dates of this Taylor family -- from "Lawrence church," believed to be the same as for Moss Run church. The pastors of Moss Run of Lawrence married Dye, Taylor and Henning members of this extended family, according to other records, and the Moss Run church yard is where Eliza and David's brother Richard Jr. are buried (memorials 42659013 and # 95406001).

Eliza also had records and lore from descendants of David Taylor's other sister Maria and her husband Amos Dye, with whose daughter, Saphronia Dye Champelin/Chamberlin, Richard Taylor Sr. lived for the 1860 Lawrence Township census. Maria and Amos' memorials giving some of that connection are at Oak Grove Cemetery, memorials # 15135891 and # 30299485.

Eliza's Taylor-Dye genealogy work informed that of cousin genealogists Lillian Root Emerick (the Washington County Genealogy Society member assisting tombstone rescuer Millie Covey Fry) and Nancy Brooks Runta, whose extensive descent chart about Richard Taylor Sr. and excerpts of Eliza's notes are now added to the family files and church files at the Washington County Public Library genealogy department (library site: http://www.wcplib.info/content/local-history-genealogy ).

David Taylor's name did not appear in Eliza Brooks' excerpts of Moss Run church records about Taylors or in any other local marriage and probate record collections, and it is not clear where he was buried originally, but it does not seem to have been at the Moss Run church. His tombstone, however, is ornately elaborate, implying something other than just an impromptu do-it-yourself farm burial. That was the era before formal death records by the state.

David's father, Richard Sr., first shows in the 1820 Ludlow census. Then, in 1824, he bought Ludlow Township land (Washington County deed Vol. 18, pages 428-9, with preceding deeds also related). That location first was known as Taylor's Mill, for his grist and saw mill on the Little Muskingum, and then as the Flints Mill post office area, then as the village of Bloomfield. By the 1850 and 1860 census, he shows living in Lawrence Township. Richard and Freedom had 11 children, according to Eliza Brooks' family records.

Meanwhile, David's other sister, Lavina Taylor Hening Aplin, was mother of William Henning (Rake memorial # 80771232. He and his father spelled their last name with different numbers of N's.)

Lavina was first married as a young teen-ager to a person of unknown name, then re-married in 1828 in Washington County, by the Moss Run church pastor, to Matthew Hening, who died in 1828, and then remarried again in 1831 in Tyler County WV to Godfrey Aplin, with whom she had eight more children. While Lavina's son William was living with her father in Lawrence Township, Lavina and Godfrey and family lived in Ludlow Township, Washington County, and then moved to the Harmar village, last appearing in the 1880 census there, in their 70s.

Lavina Taylor Hening Aplin is at Memorial # 95908919. Her husband's grave is not yet documented, but several of her children by him are linked to Lavina/Lovina's memorial.

An H.H. Hardesty history book profile on David Taylor's nephew William Henning cited that William had a fellow Civil War veteran half-brother named Joseph "Appleton." More accurately, Lavina and Godfrey Aplin's son Joseph was that fellow veteran half-brother, who is buried near Toledo (Willow Cemetery memorial #42550822).

David's brother Richard Jr., died in the Civil war (see Moss Run Cemetery, memorial #95406001).

Oliver Aplin, father of sister Lavina's husband Godfrey, was a New England pioneer to Grandview Township. His wife, Elizabeth, is buried in Rinard Mills cemetery next to an unusual hard-to-read stone that might be Oliver's. The Aplins intermarried a lot with the Porters and same Flints related to Taylors Mill area. Those Porters and Flints descended from Marietta's first New England pioneers. But the list of burials gives no clues to the missing Aplins or Taylors.

Work is under way to solve the mysteries of David's original burial place and those of his parents and remaining siblings.

In the meantime, David's homeless tombstone has an adoptive home in Rake Cemetery and part of a story.













Inscription

David
son of R&F Taylor
died Sep. 7, 1846
aged
42 yrs, 1 mo, 25 d's


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