Christopher Taylor Cemetery
2003
Located behind the Rubber Plant at 250 Old Route 34, Jonesborough, TN. It has an iron fence around it and is kept mowed and clean. Only two markers remain.
Taylor, Christopher, Capt. N. Car., Mil., Rev. War
Miller, Hannah L.
1st Consort of Wm. McCray
2nd of Jacob Miller, Sr.
Also wife of Cyrus Broyles
Born April 27, 1800, Died July 24, 1858
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web June 2002 by Robert D. and Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2013 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part of this work may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
Additional information:
From Washington County Tennessee Tombstone Inscriptions by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists Bulletin, V.II with permission from Loraine B. Rae.
Wm. McCray m. Maria Koontz, 1 Jul 1807
Cyrus Broyles m. Hannah McCray, 25 Sep 1838
Jacob Miller, Sr. m. Hannah Broyles, 28 Jun 1845
NOTE – CMB: by Bedford Co, VA Wills, Dated June 16, 1777, Henry Taylor (Tayler) mentions the “land whereon we Christopher and I now lives” — so he may have been buried in this cemetery. He names his wife Sarah, sons Christopher, Skelton, William and John, and daus. Lannah (Zannah, Sannah ?), Sarah, Sherlot, Rachel Richason, Elizabeth Richason and Cloy Rundfro.
Christopher Taylor m. Mary Edwards; Sarah Cantrell’s will of Nov 4, 1783, Bedford Co. VA, makes it evident that Mary was dau. by her first marriage to an Edwards.
Hannah was the dau. of Christopher’s son Henry, who m. Delilah Demoss. Henry d. ca 1856; Delilah, b. Sept 3, 1776, d. June 16, 1869. It is possible that they are buried in this plot since both his father and their daughter are here. Hannah seems to have had at least two children by Cyrus Broles: Abraham T. b Nov 1, 1839 and Samuel N. b July 22, 1841, as they are mentioned in the Bible of Jacob Miller, Sr. In his will, Henry mentions his wife Delilah and “my four children” – sons, Abraham and Skelton, and daus, Polly Barkley and Hannah Miller.
Abstracted from History of Washington County Tennessee, 1988 by Watauga Association of Genealogists, p.511.
Christopher Taylor, son of Henry and Sarah Taylor, was born 1746 in Bedford County, Virginia. He married 1768 Mary Edwards. The Taylors settled (1774-76) on 205 acres of land on Limestone Creek in Washington County, Tennessee. They built a two-story log house that stands today in the historical district of Jonesborough.
According to Capt. Taylor’s Revolutionary War record, he served (1776) with Capt. Erwin, Col. Christian, and Col. John Sevier against the Cherokee Indians who were in league with the British and he served as Captain under Sevier at the Battle of King’s mountain. Capt. Taylor was present at the surrender of the British Capt. De Peyster. later, Taylor represented Washington County in the first legislature for the State of Franklin.
Capt. Taylor died 10 Sept 1833 in Washington County, Tennessee and was buried at the Taylor homestead. His grave is marked. Mary Edwards Taylor drew a widow’s pension until her death 29 March 1837.