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Source:
History of Morrow County, Ohio
by A. J. Baughman
Vol. II
1911

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  NEHEMIAH TAYLOR was the son of James and Charlotte (Smith) Taylor, born September, 1919, married Lucy Hicks, Sep. 17, 1843, who was born in NY in 1827 and died 1850. He married his second wife, on July 12, 1852, who was born July 12, 1852 and died Aug. 27, 1902. Nehemiah died July 15, 1909.
     JAMES W. TAYLOR (Nehemiah's father) was born 1780/1790, married Nancy Charlotte Smith, daughter of David Smith. James W. was in the war of 1812 (marker on his grave at Westfield, Ohio) and he died Jan. 21, 1859. He was found in the 1840 census of Marlboro Twp., Delaware Co., Ohio living beside David Smith. It is not known if James came to America with his parents as a young child, or if he was already grown and came by himself. We do know that he married in America and that his wife was born in New York State. James may have had a son born in California in March, 1780 and died Oct. 14th, 1855 age the age of 75 years, 7 months. He was buried in the Westfield Cemetery. He may be brother of James, both are sons of D. H. & G. M.
   Nancy Charlotte Smith's family was prominent in Delaware county, Ohio from 1840 through the 1850's. Quite a bit of information is also known for the Smith Family. According to Nehemiah's death record, he was born in Ohio, and his father was born in Scotland. His father may have been in Hagerstown, Maryland, and possibly from Maine before that (sea port town). Nehemiah's son, George, told his grandchildren the family came from Virginia! The earliest information found for Nehemiah is where he married his first wife, Lucy M. Hicks, daughter of Nehemiah Hamilton Hicks and Margaret Whitbeck, at Westfield in what was then Northern Delaware County, Ohio. Nehemiah and Lucy M. were married by A. Patee at Westfield, Ohio which later became part of Morrow County. By this marriage, two children were born: Samantha J. Taylor, born in 1846, Ohio (Lived at Colby, Wisconsin in 1865); and George Washington Taylor, born on the 4th of February, 1848 in Sandusky (according to death certificate), Ohio.
     The family is listed on the 1850 Census of Morrow County, Ohio. Lucy died ca 1851 probably in childbirth. Nehemiah married his second wife, Betsey Ann Miller, in the town of Westfield, Morrow County, Ohio. She was born in Windsor, Broome County, New York. Betsey was previously married Aug. 5, 1838 to Joshua Travis and had five children by that marriage. Henry Hamlet, born 1839 and Jane Ann, born 1849 were both living with Nehemiah and Betsey on the 1855 and 1860 census in Sauk County, Wisconsin.
     In 1880, Henry (Betsey's son) was living in Marathon County, Moisinee, Wisconsin as a laborer and was married to V. A. Getchal, 33 years old. She was born in Main and her father was born in Maine. Her Mother was born in New Hampshire. Henrys wife had a brother, Frank, born in 1853 in Wisconsin. Hamlet's children are: Manniss, Elnaxa, Gavin Bert, Arthur, Willie, and Leon. Hamlet was living in Hancock, Wisconsin in 1902 and was the only living child from Betsey's previous marriage at that time. Henry, for a while, used the name Henry Taylor while in the U. S. Navy in the early 1860's. One of our ancestors is reported to have been in one of the wars as a water boy. This may have been Nehemiah's father in the war of 1812, with the British.
     Nehemiah left Morrow County, Ohio, and came to Marston, in Washington Township (then Northern Sauk County, Wisconsin, about April of 1853, His family traveled by wagon, with the Felt E. Wheeler and sons, Nelson, Almon, Henry and John and other families. One of the Wheeler families continued on West to California, while Nehemiah and Felt E. Wheeler and his other children traveled into Sauk county, Wisconsin. In 1860, Nehemiah lived in Washington Township, Sandusky (Hillpoint). The postoffice was in "Humbolt" where they lived at least until 1863.
     Nehemiah came to Clark county in the fall of 1865 as stated by him in his letter, telling about his step-son's health, to the pension department. Nehemiah's family lived near Loyal in 1869, in Loyal Township, Clark County, Wisconsin, where Nehemiah was farming. The value of his personal estate was $400.00 and his total estate was worth $600.00. In 1878, Nehemiah homesteaded 160 acres of land in Township 26, Section 22, just a little east and south of Loyal. On the 1850 Morrow Census, Betsey is listed with John Festien and Elizabeth (probably Betsey's mother) and Betsey's daughter, Jane Ann. She probably lived at home with her mother after her first husband, Joshua Travis, died, but before she married Nehemiah.
     In 1874, Nehemiah's wife Betsey, left him and moved to Colby, Wisconsin, where she is described as a pioneer settler. In 1880, Betsey and her daughter, Nancy, were in Colby along with Betsey's grandson, Clarence Andrews, first son of Nehemiah and Betsey's first daughter, Henrietta, who was then nine years old. Betsey took in washing to support herself and lived on Main Street. She died on Aug. 27, 1902, and is buried in Colby, Wisconsin.
     In 1880, Nehemiah lived in Jackson County, near Alma Center, with his daughter, Samantha, his son George's wife Nancy, and their daughter, Mary. They lived there until about 1894 and were near Humbird, Wisconsin in Calrk County in 1895. In 1900, Nehemiah was living with Henry Young, son of Chauncy Young. According to the family, Nehemiah's son George, hated Nehemiah and the family states that Nehemiah was a scoundrel.
     Some of Nehemiah's siblings may be Martha, Catherine and William.
     Nehemiah and Betsey's children are as follows (second marriage): Henrietta, born 1853; Henry L., born May 14, 1855; James B., born July/Aug., 1858; Malcom David, born May 1860; and Nancy Charlotte, born Jan. 16, 1863.

George Washington Taylor
(Scottish name)

In his later years probably holding one of his grandchildren.
George lived on Hickman road, Humbird, until 1931 when his wife, Nancy, died.

George Washington Taylor & wife, Nancy Margaret Young. (Scottish name)

In his later years probably holding one of his grandchildren
George lived on Hickman road, Humbird, until 1931 when his wife, Nancy, died

Nehemiah B. Taylor & wife, Elizabeth (Betsey) Ann Travis Miller.

This photo was taken at Colby, Wisconsin in 1901 and their daughter, Nancy Charlotte Taylor & Edgar Wilkins, son Oscar Wilkins and his child.

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