RICHARD TAYLOR
Richard Taylor was born in Virginia, learned the tailors trade in that State and removed to Kentucky. He there married Mary Murray, near Cynthiana, and followed farming and tailoring until he came with his family to Darby Creek about 1802. He purchased and settled on the land in Survey 5,238, located on the west banks of Big Darby, about one-half mile north of Plain City, and now known as the Jones farm. Only a few families were then living on the creek. His nearest neighbor was Jonathan Alder, who lived in a little cabin a little farther down the stream. Mr. Taylor's family was troubled with ague, owing to the low, wet lands in the vicinity, and in a few years he disposed of his place and returned to near Cynthiana, Ky. He there bought land, but in a few years the validity of his title was questioned, and under the fear that it might prove defective, hearing encouraging reports from his friends in Ohio, he abandoned his land and returned to Darby. He purchased a farm situated immediately east of the site of Plain City, and located partly in Union and partly in Madison County. His cabin, however, was built in Madison, and he lived there to the day of his death. He was a Whig, and a member of the Christian and New Light Church. Of his six children, two died young. Two sons, William and Jeptha, live in Jerome Township. The former has occupied his present farm since 1831. Of the two daughters, Susanna, the older, is deceased; Nancy, who was born in Union County in 1803, married Samuel Mason, and now lives in Madison County.