Thomas Hart Taylor
Born: July 31, 1825
Birth Place: Frankfort, Kentucky
Father: Edmund Taylor 1799 – 1873
(Buried: Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky)
Mother: Louisa Hart 1808 -
1st Wife: Sarah Elizabeth Blandford 1825 – 1858
(Buried: Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky)
2nd Wife: Sarah A. Moreland
3rd Wife: Eliza Adair Monroe 1852 – 1902
(Buried: Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky)
Children:
Adeline Crittenden Taylor Meriwether Unknown – 1884
(Buried: Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky)
Edmund Haynes Taylor 1845 – 1921
(Buried: Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky)
Marie Louise Taylor Zimmerman 1880 – 1959
(Buried: Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky)
John Adair Monroe Taylor 1881 – 1887
(Buried: Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky)
Adair Monroe Taylor Aiken 1885 – 1974
(Buried: Melrose Cemetery, Abbeville, South Carolina)
Thomas Hart Taylor Jr.
Education:
Attended Kenyon College in Ohio
1843: Graduated from Centre College
Occupation before War:
1846 – 1848: Served in the Mexican War, rising to 1st Lt.
Cattle Driver, Farmer, and Lawyer in Kentucky
Civil War Career:
1861: Captain in the Confederate Army Cavalry
1861: Lt. Colonel of 1st Kentucky Infantry
1861 – 1862: Colonel of 1st Kentucky Infantry
1862 – 1865: Brigadier General of Confederate Army Infantry
1862 – 1863: Provost Marshal & Inspector General, Army of Mississippi
1863: Captured during the Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi
1863: Exchanged in Montgomery, Alabama
1864: Commander of District of Mississippi, and East Louisiana
1864 – 1865: Provost Marshal for Department of Alabama & East Mississippi
1865: Paroled in Jackson, Mississippi
Occupation after War:
1865 – 1870: Businessman in Mobile, Alabama
Deputy United States Marshal in Kentucky
1881 – 1892: Chief of Police for Louisville, Kentucky
1886 – 1889: Superintendent of Louisville and Portland Canal
Died: April 12, 1901
Place of Death: Louisville, Kentucky
Cause of Death: Typhoid Fever
Age at time of Death: 75 years old
Burial Place: Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky
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