David Taylor Sr.
Photograph is courtesy of Keith Lowrey and Carolyn Ellertson
Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina
Inscription
DAVID TAYLOR SR.BORN
ORANGE CO VA 1791
DIED 1877 CITIZEN OF
CHEROKEE NATION
BEFORE REMOVAL,
CONGRESS IN 1852
PAID HIM FOR LAND
HE LOST BY TREATY
NEW ECHOTA DEC
29, 1835, HIS SONS
JAMES-CAMPBELL H
WERE CAPTAINS \
THOMAS CONFEDERATE
LEGION
Lieutenant Campbell "Cam" Harrison Taylor
Photograph is Courtesy of Keith Lowrey
Born March 1, 1839, North Carolina; Died October 9, 1914, Coffeyville, Oklahoma
James* and Campbell** H. Taylor served in Company B, Infantry Regiment, Thomas' Legion. On May 18, 1862, Colonel Thomas split his Indian company into two groups. James Taylor commanded the
original unit, and Gideon M. Hanks was elected captain of the second. When Hanks was killed in 1863, James Taylor was promoted
to captain. Prior to the reorganization in 1863 it was known as Company D. Campbell H. Taylor was personally recommended
for his gallantry to General Braxton Bragg during the Skirmish in Cherokee County North Carolina - October 27-28, 1863, with Captain Goldman Bryson. It was rare to be recommended by name to one
of the eight generals in the Confederate States Army, and Lt. Campbell H. Taylor received that honor when he
was commended to General Braxton Bragg. There were four general grades
in the Confederate States Army: brigadier-general, major-general, lieutenant-general, and general being the highest attainable
rank. However, during informal communication each may be addressed as general.
*Captain James Taylor enlisted on April 9, 1862; residence Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina; commissioned
1st Lt. May 18, 1862; commissioned captain November 1862, according to Lt. Colonel William Stringfield in Walter Clark's, North Carolina Regiments 1861-1865, Volume III, p. 730. However, Vernon H. Crow, Storm
in the Mountains, pp. 161 and 259, states James was most likely promoted to captain (1863?). Vernon's reason is that
Hanks commanded the company until the summer of 1863.
Campbell Harrison and Stacy E. (Welch) Taylor
(ca. 1869)
Campbell "Cam" Harrison Taylor
Born: March 1, 1839, North Carolina; Died: October
9, 1914, Coffeyville, Kansas
Stacy E. (Welch) Taylor
Born: 1841 Cherokee Co., North Carolina; Died: July 19, 1888,
Coffeyville, Kansas
Seated from left to right are Campbell "Cam" Harrison Taylor
and first wife Stacy E. (Welch) Taylor. Standing between them is their oldest child, Elizabeth "Bettie" Haseltine (Taylor)
Keys. Many thanks to Keith Lowrey of Glen Allan, VA, for the photo of Cam and Stacy (Welch) Taylor and data on his ancestor,
Campbell Harrison Taylor! Keith said, "The photo was taken from the tintype and touched up. The tintype has quite a few smudges
that were removed and I think it came out pretty well."
VINITA CHIEFTAIN, (KS) JULY 19, 1888
"Mrs. Campbell Taylor passed
away at her home, near Coffeyville. Just a few days after her daughter, Polly, was killed. The shock of the death didn't help."
The Coffeyville (KS) Daily Journal, Fri. evening,
Oct. 9, 1914
"Campbell H. Taylor, a Pioneer Indain [sic] Lawyer of this city, died at his home, 504 East Fourth Street,
this afternoon shortly before 3 O'clock. He had been in poor health foe [sic] some time and had not been in the active practice
of law for a number of years. He was the father of Mrs. Shelly Keys."
Notes: Coffeyville, Kansas, is located on the Kansas/Oklahoma line and north of Tulsa. Many Western North
Carolinians relocated to northeast Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas areas after the Civil War.
Special thanks to Sandra Ratledge:
Notes below are courtesy of Ms. Carolyn Ellertson:
James and Campbell were my uncles; to wit: brothers to my great great grandmother Elizabeth Taylor Whitaker
(wife of Captain Stephen Whitaker). David Taylor, Sr. (not to be confused with son David Taylor, Jr.) was married to Mary Ann(a) Bigby/daughter of Catherine
Foreman and James Bigby.
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