ISAAC B. TAYLOR
October 1832 (Lunenburg County, Virginia) – Unknown

The 1850 census shows Isaac living in Rutherford Co., Tennessee with his parents, Henry B. & Francis H. Steagall Ewing, and two younger brothers, Thomas Richard & Miles Graham. (1850 US Federal Census)

By 1856, Isaac B. Taylor was living in Precinct #6 and had lived in the state, county and precinct for 12 years, as shown on Isaac B. Taylor's voter registration on July 16, 1867.  (Texas US Voter Registration Lists, 1866-1869)
Isaac enlisted in 1862, serving with his father in the same unit, in Company C, 16^th Texas Cavalry, Fitzhugh’s regiment, organized in Collin Co., Texas in spring 1862, about 1,000 strong (The Civil War - Battle Unit Details; Confederate Troops, 16th Regiment, Texas Calvary (Fitzhugh’s Regiment); the unit was later dismounted and assigned to other regiments.  The regiment served in the Confederate Trans-Mississippi department and was engaged in battles of Cotton Plant (Round Hill), Arkansas; Milliken’s Bend, Mansfield (Sabine Crossroads) and Pleasant Hill. The regiment was attached to Walker’s Texas Division from winter 1862 until close of the war.  It was disbanded at Camp Groce, near Hempstead, Texas. (Fitzhugh's Regiment - the 16th Texas Calvary)

Mary E. Shipp was born in 1833 in Saloma, Taylor Co., Kentucky, daughter of Carter Henry Shipp and Jane Sullivan Shipp.  Mary married William T. Ewing ( on July 2, 1851, in Grayson County, Texas officiated by Justice of the Peace, Hiram Savage, minister. Five children were born to this union.  William and Mary Ewing were living in Sherman, Texas in 1860 with the 4 older children.  (1860 U.S. Federal Census)  

CHILDREN OF WILLIAM T. EWING AND MARY E. SHIPP EWING
John Henry Ewing, born 1851, Grayson County, Texas; died August 13, 1883, Dallas, Webster Co., Missouri
Carter E. Ewing, born 1853, Grayson Co., Texas; died January 14, 1940, in Washington Co., Arkansas;
William T. Ewing, Jr., born 1854. Grayson County, Texas
Mary Alice Ewing, born 1857, Grayson Co., Texas; died February 1880, Brown County, Texas; wed Robert Matthew Keith (1851-1880)
Charles Jefferson Ewing, born March 6, 1861, Tioga, in Grayson Co., Texas; died February 15, 1938 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

William & Mary Ewing were living in Martin Co., Texas at the time of the 1860 census.  William T. Ewing was drafted during the Civil War, serving in the Union Army, Co. D, 10th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry as a musician from November 2, 1861 - September 1, 1862.  At that time he was given the rank of Private.  Prior the weather conditions had been hot and dry but during the night of September 17, 1863 the weather turned suddenly cold with a howling north wind blowing through the creek bottom.  Without their blankets, many soldiers shivered and huddled for warmth while temperature dropped into the 40s  The weather continued cold during the next 2 day battle to a high of 54 degrees during the day and dropping again into the 40s.  The soldiers battles on frosty morning ground under a cold, clear sky; at nights the water in the canteens froze.  Despite orders, many soldiers built fires to keep the wounded from freezing to death.  (Noe, Kenneth.  Readex Report: Fields of Fire and Frost - The Battle of Chickaumanga and Weather in Early American Newspapers, October 2018. viewed August 18, 2021).  During the battle of Chickamauga (northern Georgia) September 19-20, 1863 the Union force by Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee.  Bragg called for reinforcements and launched a counterattack on the banks of nearby Chickamauga in a 2 day battle. Early on the morning of September 19, the Union and Confederate armies met in the woods lining the banks of Chickamauga Creek.  The Union forces proceeded to Chattanooga, Tennessee, a key railroad center, where it was stationed in October.   The Confederate Army  put the city under seige but General Ulysses S. Grant arrived with reinforcements and took over the Union command. (History: Battle of Chickamauga)  William T. Ewing was killed at Chickamauga, Georgia Thursday, September 19, 1863; he was buried in Wesleyan Cemetery in St. Louis Co., Missouri.  The Regiment lost a total of 221 men during service; 2 officers and 704 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 5 officers and 144 enlisted men died of disease. (MILITARY: 10th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry)  

Mary E. Shipp Ewing, widow of William T. Ewing (1830-1864), and Isaac Taylor wed October 13, 1864 in Grayson Co., Texas; they were living in Precinct #1, Grayson Co. at the time the 1870 census was taken.  In the household were six sons and one daughter.  Three sons and one daughter were children of William T. Ewing and Mary E. Shipp.  The other three were children of Isaac B. Taylor and Mary E. Shipp Taylor (Thomas H., James L. and Miles Berry “Perry”).  The census lists all family members with the surname “Taylor”. The household includes the 4 oldest Ewing children and three sons of Mary and Isaac - Thomas, James, and Miles.     

On November 7, 1882 Isaac purchased 27 acres from H.H. Allen and wife.  (Grayson Co., Texas Land Records, Vol. 53, page 357) 
                        
CHILDREN OF ISAAC B. TAYLOR & MARY E. SHIPP EWING TAYLOR
Thomas H. Taylor, 1866, Grayson Co., Texas – 1879, Grayson Co., Texas
James L. Ewing, born 1868, Grayson Co., Texas - 1880, Grayson Co., Texas

Mary Alice Ewing, born 1857, Grayson Co., Texas; died February 1880, Brown, Texas; wed Robert Charles Jefferson Ewing, born 1851, Tioga, Grayson Co., Texas

Miles Perry “Dutch” Taylor, born June 10, 1866 in Grayson Co., Texas; died March 29, 1931 in Denton Co., Texas

Mary died before June 1880 in Burnet, Burnet Co., Texas, located in central Texas.  Isaac’s married Martha J. Shipp, sister of Mary E. Shipp, in Montague Co., Texas. She was born March 1853 in Texas. Both were daughters of Carter Henry Shipp and Jane Sullivan Shipp.

CHILDREN OF ISAAC B. TAYLOR & MARTHA J. SHIPP TAYLOR
Madison F. Taylor, born 1877                        
James M. Taylor, born 1877
William W. Taylor, born 1891

The 1880 U.S. Census does not list James M., but does list Madison F. 1900 U. S. Census for Grayson County, Texas does not list Madison F., but does list James M. as age 23.  On eight (8) Family Trees on ancestry.com for Isaac B. Taylor, only one tree list Madison F. and two trees list James M.  They are not listed on the same tree.  It may be possible that there is only one person.  Seems strange that James M. is not listed on the 1880 census if he was born in 1877.  It is very probably that that Madison F. and James M. were twins or the same person.