TAYLOR of Monroe County, Georgia

Job Taylor was born in Virginia and came to Georgia with his brothers, George and Robert. In 1824 he settled in Monroe County, a few miles east of Forsyth. He was known as the largest land-owner in the county, having 10,000 acres in Monroe and adjoining counties, as well as 30,000 acres of land in Alabama. He married Miss Mary Warthen of Washington County when she was only sixteen years old, who became blind in her latter years, dying in 1880, aged 82 years of age. Job Taylor, Sr. died in 1856, Monroe Co., his LWT dated 2/2/1854, probated 3/3/1856, wherein he named his three youngest children: Eaton, Elijah and Rebecca. Other children named were: Benjamin F. and William W. Also, named a son-in-law, Charles F. Carden, and his sister, Mary Douglas. Children:

• William W. Taylor married Mary A. Pope, June 8, 1841, Monroe County.
• Sarah M. Taylor married Colonel William H. Long on August 16, 1842 in Monroe County.
• Benjamin F. Taylor married Mary F. Durham August 20, 1844, Monroe County. Benjamin made his LWT dated 4/5/1856, probated 6/2/1856 in Monroe County, naming his wife, Mary, and his oldest son, Kosciusko. He also named as executors his brothers, Job and Eden Taylor.
• Frank Taylor.
• George Taylor, his LWT dated 3/12/1837, probated 4/1837 Monroe County naming Ellenson Taylor, and grandchildren, Robert and Thomas Baldwin, the children of Anderson and Sarah Baldwin.
• Mary Taylor.
• Job E. Taylor. Monroe County Deed Book B, p. 177-178, dated December 27, 1823. Green D. Brantley to Job Taylor of Jones County for $550.00, Lot No. 68 in the Fifth District of Monroe County, being 202-1/2 acres.
• Eden Taylor was born November 8, 1834 in Monroe County. He owned a plantation in Monroe County. He first married in Houston County, 1859, Miss Georgia V. Tharp, by whom he had four children. She died in 1872 and he married (1874) in Houston County, Miss Sallie H. Brown, by whom he had four more children. Issue:

  1. Guy Taylor, farmer in Bibb County.
  2. Maud Taylor.
  3. Claudia Taylor married Will G. Bass of Bibb Co.
  4. Georgia E. Taylor, died June 1, 1894.
  5. Rosa Taylor.
  6. Odille Taylor.
  7. Brown Taylor.
  8. Eden Taylor, Jr.

• Eaton Taylor.
• Elijah Taylor.
• Rebecca Taylor.

Last Will and Testament of Eden Taylor
Job Taylor deed

Sources: Memoirs of Georgia; Monroe County Wills & Marriages; Monroe County Deeds.