Catherine (Gray) Taylor (abt. 1770 - 1833)

Biography

Catherine Gray was born in the early 1770s. She married William Taylor around 1790, and the lived in Hancock County Georgia between 1794 and 1804. They were members of the Island Creek Baptist Church. About 1805, they moved across the Oconee River into what was originally Baldwin County, but later Putnam County. In 1817, Catherine and William began making plans to move west into Alabama. They bought land in Alabama in 1817, but apparently did not make the move until 1820. They settled in Butler County on a farm located a few miles west of modern Greenville, the county seat.

On 9 August 1823, Catherine and William Taylor joined the Pigeon Creek Baptist Church. Their sons Jesse, James, Alexander, and William Bullock Taylor and daughter Mary Futch already belonged to the church.

William Taylor died in January 1830, and over the next few years, the church began to dissolve over conflict surrounding missions (a divisive issue for Baptists of that era). Catherine's son Alexander withdrew from the church on 4 February 1832, with James Taylor and his wife withdrawing the next month, on March 3. Catherine's son Jesse and his wife, Mary, along with her daughter, Mary Futch Miller, all withdrew on October 27th of that same year. The final church conference was held on 17 November 1832, and at that conference William Bullock Taylor applied for a letter of dismissal for himself, Catherine, and for Catherine's slave, Julius.

Catherine died two months later, on 28 January 1833. The church reformed the next year, on 3 October 1834 as Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist Church. There were nine founding members of Mt. Zion Church, including Catherine's son Jesse and his wife, Mary, and her servant, Julius.

It is believed that Catherine and William Taylor are buried in the Mt. Zion Church Cemetery. ^[1]

Catherine Gray. ^[2]

Died 28 Jan 1833. Greenville, Butler, Alabama, USA. ^[3]

Buried Mashville, Butler County, Alabama, USA. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Source will be added by Tim Hudson by 26 Dec 2020.
2. ↑ Source: #S-216766240
3. ↑ Source: #S-216766240
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