Saturday, June 8, 2013
My Great-Great Grandfather Benjamin Franklin Taylor was Franklin Taylor to his Friends and Family (B. Franklin Taylor)
Early Taylor Roots in Ohio go back to 1817 (just 14 years after it became a state in 1803)!
Lorain County, Ohio Government Records Transcription in the Elyria
Independent Democrat (Aug. 6, 1873)
The August 6, 1873 Elyria
Independent Democrat newspaper printed a transcription of early county
government documents listing the “adult white males” living in Lorain County,
Ohio in 1827. Benjamin Franklin Taylor's name is listed as
"Franklin Tailor" and his name is listed together with "Josiah
Tailor" and "Crispen Mennel." For many years I have suspected
that our great grandfather Benjamin Franklin Taylor must have gone by his
middle name, Franklin -- I take this as proof of that proposition. Remember that Jesse and
Lucy Parker Taylor died in 1824 so Jesse's name is not listed here. Further research
revealed that the listed "Josiah Tailor" is the younger brother of
Jesse Taylor (also of Pittsfield, Mass.) who is buried in the Belden/Old
Grafton Cemetery (I visited the graveyard in 2008 and saw their gravestones personally still in fair condition). So now we can piece together that the Taylor migration into northern Ohio at least included two families. Below is a copy of my transcription of the headstone: TAYLOR Josiah W., d Mar 28, 1863, 69y, GAR Emeline JONES,
wife, dau Eliphalet & Polly, d Dec 8, 1866, 61y J. M., d July 1, 1862, 20y
Harriet Ingersoll Nesbett, History of Lorain County Ohio with Illustrations & Biographical Sketches of
Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Philadelphia: Williams Brothers, 1879.
To view the entire e-book visit OpenLibrary.org:
Nesbett was an original settler of Grafton, Lorain Co., Ohio. She lays out the chronology of the arrival of the first settlers to Grafton Township in 1817 of which the Taylor's were one of a dozen families to migrate from Pittsfield, Mass., arriving in November of that year. She refers to Benjamin Franklin Taylor as "oldest son, Franklin, twelve years old." She also explains that she was sister-in-law to Franklin's sister Sarah Ann, who married Marshall Ingersoll (Harriet's brother). Finally, Nesbett is the source for some outstanding biographical information about the Mennel Family.
To view the entire e-book visit OpenLibrary.org:
Nesbett was an original settler of Grafton, Lorain Co., Ohio. She lays out the chronology of the arrival of the first settlers to Grafton Township in 1817 of which the Taylor's were one of a dozen families to migrate from Pittsfield, Mass., arriving in November of that year. She refers to Benjamin Franklin Taylor as "oldest son, Franklin, twelve years old." She also explains that she was sister-in-law to Franklin's sister Sarah Ann, who married Marshall Ingersoll (Harriet's brother). Finally, Nesbett is the source for some outstanding biographical information about the Mennel Family.
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