{"id":3348,"date":"2022-01-10T17:39:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:39:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:39:53","slug":"taylor-jarvis-pike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/taylor-jarvis-pike\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor, Jarvis Pike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jarvis Pike Taylor<\/strong>, a successful and energetic farmer of Lauderdale County was<br \/>\nborn in Gibson County July 15, 1834. His father was William Taylor, a native<br \/>\nof North Carolina; he moved to Tennessee when a young man, and spent a few<br \/>\nyears in Middle Tennessee, then moved to Gibson County, where he married Nancy<br \/>\nA. Acuff, a native of Bedford County. They had three sons, our subject being<br \/>\nthe second born, and the only one now living. He was a farmer, and died in<br \/>\nMadison County, February 18, 1875, and the mother died at the homestead in<br \/>\nGibson County, February 6, 1857. Our subject was raised on a farm; when<br \/>\ntwenty-one years of age he commenced business as an overseer, and has since<br \/>\nmanaged large plantations for others. He enlisted in the Confederate Army,<br \/>\nin the Sixth Tennessee Infantry, but was soon assigned to the quartermaster&#8217;s<br \/>\ndepartment, where he served thirteen months. Mr. Taylor was married in Gibson<br \/>\nCounty, Tenn., November 28, 1857, to Margaret J. Wheeler, daughter of Elisha<br \/>\nWheeler, a farmer. Five sons and two daughters were born to this marriage &#8212;<br \/>\nfour now living: Nancy E., James Pike, John M. and George W. Mrs. Taylor was<br \/>\nborn in Rutherford County, January 21, 1839. Our subject was an old line Whig,<br \/>\nbut votes with the Democratic party now, and is a Mason and a member of the K.<br \/>\nof H. He is now managing the Henning plantation, twelve miles north of Ripley<br \/>\nand five miles from the Mississippi River. During the war his brother, John<br \/>\nM. Taylor, was arrested as a citizen and placed in prison, and died from the<br \/>\neffects of the hardships and exposure November 30, 1864. William C. enlisted<br \/>\nin the Confederate Army, and belonged to the Sixth Tennessee Infantry, and<br \/>\nwent all through the war, being in the battles of Chickamaugua, Missionary<br \/>\nRidge, and all of the Georgia campaign, and with Hood&#8217;s command during the<br \/>\nbattles of Franklin and Nashville. Mr. Taylor is a man of progressive ideas<br \/>\nand sound judgment, and, with the proprietor of the plantation, is the first<br \/>\nto adopt all kinds of improved agricultural machinery.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jarvis Pike Taylor, a successful and energetic farmer of Lauderdale County was born in Gibson County July 15, 1834. His father was William Taylor, a native of North Carolina; he moved to Tennessee when a young man, and spent a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/taylor-jarvis-pike\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[144],"class_list":["post-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-taylor"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3351,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/3351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}