William Richard Taylor
and Alice Taylor Taliaferro
by Margaret Strebel Hartman-Campbell
County Historian and the Taliaferro family files at the Campbell County
Historical & Genealogical Society in Alexandria.
William Richard Taylor Taliaferro, Richard as he is so often referred to in the records of Campbell County, was born November 8, 1802 in Caroline County, Virginia,
the son of Richard Taliaferro and
Anna Hubbard Taylor
and died in Highland Heights January 17, 1893. He moved to Kentucky with
his mother and siblings
in 1812 and settled near Newport. For a time their home was a popular
preaching place for the circuit preacher till the Old Buckeye School house was
built.
On April 21, 1824 he married his cousin, Alice Berry, the daughter of
Washington and
Alice Taylor Berry. A home was built by slaves in 1830 for them in Ft. Thomas which
still stands today. She died March 18, 1838. On April 16, 1840, William Richard
married Harriet Louisa McGrew, daughter of Thomas McGrew. Harriett died 1 Mar 1847. Richard then married Cassandra
(Paulding)
Stiff, a widow, in July of 1850. She was born in 1826 in Kentucky, the daughter
of Elizabeth Paulding, and died 8 Aug 1892 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
Children of William Richard Taliaferro and Alice Berry
1. Hubbard T Taliaferro b-27 Mar 1825 in
Highlands Ky. d-29 Aug 1850; br-Evergreen Cemetery in Southgate Ky.
2. Ann Eliza Taliaferro b-27 Mar 1825 in Highlands; d-24 July 1863 in Highlands;
m-Long; br-Evergreen Cemetery
3. James Richard Taliaferro b-1829 in Highlands Ky. m-Mary A Taliaferro 2 Dec
1851 in Oldham Co Ky.
4. John Taylor Taliaferro b-1830 in Highlands
5. Alice W Taliaferro b-1832 in Highlands; m-Long; d-4 Sep 1872 in Highlands; br-Evergreen
Cemetery
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Children of William Richard Taylor Taliaferro and Harriet McGrew (1817-1847)
1. William Richard Taliaferro Jr. b-1840 in
Highlands Ky. m-Mary Chaut Helm; d-1894 in Winter Park, Orange Fla. br-Evergreen
Cemetery
2. Lydia Belle Taliaferro b-Oct 1843 in Highlands; married William Wright Southgate;
d-April 1931 in Orlando Florida; br-Evergreen Cemetery
3.
Thomas
Franklin Taliaferro b-1 Mar 1847 in Highlands; m-Mary J Summers 30 Oct 1872;
d-9 May 1932 in Frankfort Ky. br-Evergreen Cemetery
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Children of William Richard Taylor and
Cassandra Paulding
1.
Mary Elizabeth Taliaferro b-14 Sep 1850 in
Jamestown; m-Caleb Ives; d-25 Feb 1950 in Ft Thomas; br-Evergreen; m-Caleb Ives
2. Laura E Taliaferro b-1854 in Jamestown
3. Edward Kavanaugh Taliaferro b-17 Oct 1855 in Mt Pleasant; d-26 Apr 1944 in Ft
Thomas; m-Florence Hills 1 Feb 1900
4. Emma M Taliaferro b-1858 in Jamestown; m-Walter R Webster; d-30 July 1888 in
Newport; br-Evergreen Cemetery.
5. Charles Robert Taliaferro b-6 Nov 1861 in Highlands; d-5 Jan 1911 in Dayton
Ky; br-Evergreen
6. Estella Lee Taliaferro b-4 June 1864 in Highland; m-Fred N Gordon; d-23 June
1943 in Ft Thomas; br-Evergreen
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Children of James Richard Taliaferro and Mary Ann Taliaferro (1823-1920)
Julia Taliaferro b-13 Nov 1854 in Ky. d-24 July 1928 in Westport Ky. m-Elbert C Ross; br-27 July Shiloh Cemetery in Skylight, Ky.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Wednesday, 20 January 1864, page 3
NEWPORT NEWS
William R Taliaferro was appointed guardian of Edwin L and James M Southgate, miners over the age of fourteen years, who came into Court and selected the said Taliaferro as their guardians.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Thursday, 6 March 1873, page 7
NEWPORT
WILLIAM TALIAFERRO, of this city, fell from a street care in Covington, yesterday afternoon and was considerably injured.
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Children of Edward Kavanaugh Taliaferro and Florence Hills
1.
Ernestine Elizabeth Taliaferro b-22 Dec 1900 in the Highlands; d-29 July
1982 in Cincinnati; br-Evergreen Cemetery; never married
2. Cassandra Taliaferro b-7 June 1903 in Ft Thomas; m-1 Thornton Sinclair;
2-Charles J Brick; 3-Seaman; d-New York
3. Mary Vaida Taliaferro b-17 Sep 1908; m-John Weber in Ft Thomas
4. William Richard Taliaferro b-26 July 1910 in Ft Thomas
5. Louise Gibson Taliaferro b-5 Feb 1914 in Ft Thomas
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Children of Lydia Belle Taliaferro and William Wright Southgate
1. Eva H Southgate b-1868 in Highland
2. Harriet D Southgate b-Apr 1869 in Highland; m-Weiner; 2-George B Usner
3. Katie Southgate b-1871 in Highland
4. Richard Taylor Southgate b-25 June 1873 in Highland; d-12 May 1930 in Ft
Thomas
5. Gertrude Southgate b-1875 in Highland
6. Lydia Belle Southgate b-June 1877 in Highland
7. Lucia Wilomine Southgate b-17 Nov 1880 in Highland; d-20 Feb 1969 in Orlando
Florida; never married
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William Richard Taliaferro was a charter member of the Mt. Pleasant Church which was organized in his home in the 1830s. Their home was built by slaves in 1830 and still stands today on Ft Thomas Avenue in Ft Thomas.
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler referred to Richard Taliaferro in his autobiography.
"From the many sturdy old men who were about me in my youth, I had many stories of the pioneer stages of the settlement of Northern Kentucky and the neighboring parts of Ohio. I remember best a certain Richard Taliaferro, a remote kinsman, a very gentle giant, who as a lad of fifteen had captained a party of women, children and some slaves from eastern Virginia to their destination on the Kentucky shore just above Cincinnati. They traveled by horse and wagon to the Monongahela River and then built a broad horn on which they floated down the Ohio, seeking for the sign of their landing place, a white flag on a tree-top. They found it and established nearby the home of his long life. When I last saw him about 1888, he showed me over the place. Of his house, which he dearly loved, he said, 'Here were raised eighteen children and there never was a quarrel among them.' He was himself the embodiment of peace."
William Richard Taylor Taliaferro died 17 Jan 1893 in Highland and was buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Southgate.