Christiana (Lackey) Taylor (abt. 1788 - aft. 1860)

Born about 1788 in Scotland

Wife of Thomas Taylor — married about 1809 in Scotland

Descendants

Died after 1860 after about age 72 in Jefferson, Indiana, United States

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Biography

Name

Name: Christiana /LACKEY/

Given Name: Christiana

Surname: LACKEY^[1]

Birth

Birth Date: Abt 1788

Place: Scotland^[2]

Death

Death Date: Aft 1860

Place: Jefferson Co., IN^[3]

Marriage

Husband: Thomas Taylor

Wife: Christiana Lackey

Marriage Date: Abt 1809

Place: Scotland^[4]

Child: James Taylor

Child: UNKNOWN Taylor

Child: John Taylor

Child: UNKNOWN Taylor

Child: UNKNOWN Taylor

Child: UNKNOWN Taylor

Child: UNKNOWN Taylor

Child: Thomas Taylor

Child: UNKNOWN Taylor

Child: Robert Lackey Taylor

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S521
2. ↑ Source: #S521
3. ↑ Source: #S521
4. ↑ Source: #S521

• Source: S520 Media: Family Abbreviation: TAYLOR family - O'NEAL Title: TAYLOR family - O'NEAL Author: Agnes O'NEAL Publication: 13-Nov-1994 Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
• Source: S521 Media: Family Abbreviation: TAYLOR family lineage - TAYLOR Title: History of Thomas TAYLOR Family Author: Jessie TAYLOR Publication: 1978 Text: History of Thomas Taylor Family CONT CONT Researched and written by his great grandson Jesse Everett Taylor who will in this year of 1978 be 80 years old. CONT In 1818 Thomas Taylor and his wife Christiana Lack Taylor, with three sons and two daughters came to Indiana from Scotland with a group of other Scottish families. The Caledonia church history tells that a Scottish immigrant had come to this area and wrote back to his friends and relatives that the country reminded him of Scotland and urged them to come and settle there. Hey were Scottish Presbyterians and organized the Caledonia church in 1818, named for their Caledonia church in Scotland. This church is still active and is located about four miles northwest of Moorefield, Indiana. Other Scottish families coming about the same time were Weir, Neil, Ralston, Sterrett, Storie, Tait, Dow, Spencer, Graham, Glenn, Malcom, Culbertson, Gunnion, Bradshaw, Scott and others. The area became known as the Scottish settlement. Most of these came directly from Scotland landing at New York and making their way across land to Pittsburgh, then by boat down the Ohio River. They could leave the river at Vevay, Brooksburg or Madison to reach their destination. Brooksburg seemed the most logical choice since they could follow the valley of the Indian-Kentuck river to Manville then take the Brushy Fork branch to the Caledonia area. Brooksburg was an early day river port equal in size to Madison. CONT Records received from the National Archives and Records Service show that on Sept. 30, 1818 Thomas Taylor purchased the E1/2NW1/4 Section 5-T4N-R12E from the Land Office at Jeffersonville, Indiana, containing 78.56 acres at .00 per acre. The total price of 7.12 to be paid on terms of one fourth down payment of .28 and three annual installments of equal amounts. Like the majority of other purchasers of public lands, they defaulted on the installment payments until an act of Congress was passed in 1828 making provision for clearing the debts due the United States on Land Sales. One June 23, 1829 Thomas Taylor acquired an assignment from Samuel Cocke to the NW qtr Sec 19-T4-R12 for value received. Six days later on June 29, 1829 he made final settlement with the Land Office at Jeffersonville whereby he received cretid of .00 by assigning the above NW qtr plus paying .65 in cash and was granted a discount of .19, which cleared his indebtedness and he received a patent deed to the land. It was 10 years and 10 months after making the original purchase agreement. This original Taylor farm is located ½ mile south and ½ mile west of the Caledonia church. The land was heavily wooded and had to be cleared for farming. They first built a log cabin and added ot it as the family grew. In the County Auditors office at the Courthouse in Madison we found four old books listing the taxpayers for the years 1828 to 1834. In 1828 Thomas Taylor paid taxes of .52 on his land plus 2 oxen. In 1822 he had 2 horses in addition to the two oxen. In 1834 his son James was also assessed for personal property. We were unable to find a record of their naturalization as most of those records were lost. When James married in 1838 (?) the two families lived together in the same house. The census records indicate that as both families are always listed one after the other. This arrangement may have been a contributing factor in Thomas's mental breakdown in his later years. CONT In our research we have studied the microfilm records of the U.S. census which is taken every ten years. In the early census only the head of the household is named. All members of the household are checked in columns according to ages. In the 1820 census of Jefferson County, Indiana, Thomas and his wife are check in the 26 to 45 age column. The five children are in the under age 10 column. All seven members are checked as aliens, which shows that they recently arrived from Scotland. In the 1830 census the family had increased with three more daughters and two more sons. All ten children are living at home. Two sons and one daughter are checked in age 15-26 columns, one son and one daughter are 5 to 10 column. These are the five Scottish born children. The younger children were two daughters age 5 to 10, and one daughter and two sons under age 5. Grandfather Robert Lackey Taylor, born Jan. 16, 1829, was the youngest of the family since he would be about 1 ½ years old. The 1840 census shows only the three youngest children still at home. These 1840 films were very incomplete. We should have found James and Jane (Sterrett) Taylor who were married in 1838 and William and Lucinda (Taylor) Bradshaw who were married around 1835. CONT The census of 1850 was the first year that all members of the family were named giving their age and place of birth. Here we find Thomas Taylor age 63 and Christiana age 62, both native of Scotland. No children were listed in their household but living with them in a separate household was the sone James age 38 and his wife Jane age 29. There children were Christiana, age 10, David 8, Nancy 6, Robert 2 and James 1. The mother, Jane was the daughter of James Sterrett whose farm cornered the Taylor farm to the Northwest. James Sterrett had purchased his land from the Land Office in Jeffersonville and received his patent deed on Oct. 28, 1829 the same year Thomas Taylor received his deed. The farm is now owned by graham Ralston, the great great grandson of both James Sterrett and Thomas Taylor. In doing our research in Indiana in June 1978 we first went up to the Caledonia church hoping to find church and cemetery records of Thomas Taylor and family. It was suggested that we visit Graham Ralston who lives a mile west of the church and cemetery. We were surprised and excited to learn that his mother was Flora Taylor the daughter of David W. Taylor, the son of James, the eldest son of Thomas Taylor. Graham acquired his 80 acre farm from his mother who had inherited from her father as will be explained later in this narrative. CONT Graham built his house and barn in 1916 when he was 20 years old. Lumber for the framework was sawn from Poplar trees that had been cut off the farm. His total cost including labor and other lumber and material purchased was less than 00. He has lived on his farm continuously ever since. Graham was born in 1896 which makes him two years older than this writer although he is in the next younger generation. His great grandfather James was 18 years older than my grandfather Robert Lackey Taylor. As far as we could find out the early church and cemetery records have been lost. Graham went with us to the Caledonia Cemetery and we identified the graves of many members of the family. CONT Returning to the census of 1850 we found Wm. Bradshaw age 35 and his wife Lucinda age 34 and children John (14) Thomas (12) Abner (10) Sarah (9) and the youngest Lackey Taylor age 2. It seems logical that they named him using the surnames of Lucinda's parents, Lucinda's age is right for her to be the younger of the two girls coming with the Thomas Taylor family from Scotland. We concluded that Lucinda's mother's maiden name was Christiana Lackey. The name Lackey is the clue that grandfather Robert Lackey Taylor was the son of Thomas and Christiana (Lackey) Taylor. Wm. Bradshaw fits into the family of Pleasant Bradshaw listed in the 1820 and 1830 censuses as a close neighbor of Thomas Taylor family. CONT In the 1850 census of Switzerland county which borders Jefferson County on the east we find John Taylor age 35, his wife Lucinda(?) age 27 both born in Scotland. Their children Christiana (9) Harriet (7) Elizabeth (5) William (3) and Thomas (1). John's age is right for him to be one of Thomas Taylor's sons. The childrens' names Christiana and Thomas also ties into the family. In the marriage records at the Courthouse in Madison, John Taylor and Lydia Weir were married Sept. 10, 1840. We know that Lydia Weir is the older sister of Jennie Weir, my grandmother, the wife of Robert Lackey Taylor. Their father was William Weir and Harriet (Weir) Neil was their aunt. The children named Harriet and William indicates the wife of John Taylor in the census should be Lydia instead of Lucinda. So far in our research we have been unable to identify the other six children of Thomas and Christiana Taylor. CONT Robert L. Taylor and Jennie (Jane) Weir were married Dec. 27, 1849. My father James was the fifth of eleven children born to their family. They lived on the Wm. Weir farm which was 1 ½ miles south and ¾ miles west of the Thomas Taylor farm. They sold this farm in 1864 and bought a larger one on Ryker Ridge west of Manville. In 1868 they decided to sell that farm and go west to homestead on the western plains. They homesteaded in Butler County, Kansas in 1870. Robert L. died Jan. 26, 1878 at the age of 49. The history of his family will be another story. CONT In the 1860 census we find Christiana Taylor listed separately living with her son James and family. James and Jane now have three more children, twin daughters Mary and Jane age 5 and Indiana age 3. James listed in the 1850 census had died Aug. 10, 1850 at the age of 1 yr and 6 mo. A gravestone is in the Caledonia cemetery. In our research at the Madison Library we found an interesting item that appeared in the Madison Courier dated Nov. 16, 1852: Quote - "Thomas Taylor has left home in a deranged state of mind, about 65 years of age. Any information will be thankfully received by Mr. James Taylor, Moorefield, Switzerland County, Indiana." Evidently he had died prior to the 1860 census. We think they are buried in the Caledonia cemetery. Decayed headstones are beside their son James' stone. Christiana not listed in 1870 census. CONT By the time James and Jane were married James had taken over the farming from his father who was about 55 years old. On Nov. 13, 1841 about three years after their marriage James and Jane bought the adjoining 80 acres on the east from James Culbertson for 0 or per acre. The legal description is the W1/2NE1/4 Sec 5-T4-R12. The deed was not recorded until Mar 11 1850. Fifteen years after buying this 80 acres, on Feb 8, 1856 they purchased the adjoining 80 acres on the west from Wm. Dow for 00 which was .50 per acre, legally described as W1/2NW1/4 5-4-12. This deed wasn't recorded till Dec 27, 1865. We didn't find any recorded deed for the transfer of the original 80 acres deeded to Thomas Taylor but it was undoubtedly given to James as his birthright for caring for his parents in their declining years. Non of the other heirs questioned his ownership. James and Jane owned this 240 acres at the time of his death Oct 15, 1865. Indiana state law provided that when a man died without leaving a will, the widow inherited one third and the children share equally in the remaining two thirds of the estate. Nancy was the only one married at the time of her father's death. She and her husband John F. Pommerehn asked the Court of Common Pleas in Madison to set aside here inheritance which was done June 22, 1866 giving them 30 acres on the north end of the west 80 acres. This court order is recorded in Order book F pages 267 to 270. Nothing more was doen about settling the estate until the Widow Jane died Jan 3, 1875. In the meantime David W. had married Mary Spencer in 1868 and was living on his grandfather Sterrett's farm. He had purchaed it when they settled James Sterretts estate. James Sterrett's will is recorded in Will Book A pages 261-262. James Taylor and Christopher Whitten were named his executors. In Deed Book 22 page 254 an executor's deed was issued to David W. Taylor De. 29, 1863 for a purchase price of 25 for the west ½ DSW quarter Sec 32-T5-R12. This transaction was two years before James Taylor's death and five years before David married. In the 1870 census we find David and Mary with one month old Rufus living on this farm. We didn't find John F and Nancy Pommerhn listed in either Milton or Shelby Townships in 1870. We did find Jane Taylor, the widow of David, and the children still living with her; Christiana (29) Robert (23) Mary and Jane, the twins (14) and Indiana (12). She had real estate valued at 00 and personal property at 00. This real estate was the remaining 210 acres after Nancy was awarded the 30 acres in 1866. The personal property would be mostly livestock and some farm equipment. Robert was doing the farming and provided for his mother and sisters. It was about this time that Robert and Frances Culbertson were married for their son James Franklin was born Dec 15, 1872. We think that Robert built the house on the north side of the public road that crosses the farm diagonally from the southwest to northeast known as the Dow Ridge road. When Jane died in 1875 John F Pommerehn was appointed administrator of her estate. A disagreement arose among the heirs and Robert filed a lawsuit for partition in which he stated that his mother had sold him her one third of the estate in April of 1871 but the deed had become lost or destroyed before he had taken it to be recorded. The judge approved his claim and appointed three commissioners to appraise the land and divide and set aside a partition for each heir. The completed record of this court proceeding is recorded on pages 388 to 401 Book W, Complete Record of the Court of Common Pleas, Jefferson County. A photostatic copy of the map on page 400 showing how the land was divided is enclosed with this story. David sold his allotted 30 acres for 0 to Wm. Storie whose farm boarded it on the south. He then bought Roberts 72.4 acres which included the new house for 00 plus assuming two mortgages one for 0 and the other for 0. This deed was recorded in Oct. 1877. Robert and his family moved to Moorefield and David moved from the Sterrett farm to the original Taylor farm occupying the new house. In the 1880 census we find David W Taylor (38) his wife Mary F (36) and their two children Flora (8) and Marcus S (2). The next following household lists Christiana Taylor a single person age 40 with Jane Taylor (25) and Indiana Taylor (22). Jane's twin sister Mary had married Wm. Storie by this time. The three sisters were living in the old house. CONT In July of 1887 David bought the northwest 30 acres which Nancy and John F Pommerehn had inherited. The Pommerehns had sold it to J. Jameson in 1870 who in turn sold it to Robert Storie in 1872 who sold to Ann-Bell Barton in 1882 from whom David purchased it for 0. This gave David and Mary the 102.4 acres that later became Marcus Taylor's farm. When David died in 1908, Marcus, Flora and their mother Mary agreed to a partition of the land. Deed were drawn that Flora would have the Sterrett 80 acres, Marcus would have the home place of 102.4 acres subject to a life estate of his mother. He provided a home for her until her death in 1933. Marcus married Mamie Gunnion and they had three children. Edward S. born in 1900 and died in 1922 Fannie born in 1902 who married charles Jackson and is now a widow living in Madison, Indiana David Marcus, born in 1905, married Maude Harper in 1929. Their home and farm is adjacent to the south side of the city of Canaan, Indiana. In 1912 Marcus Taylor decided to quit farming and moved to Canaan where he went into the feed milling and trucking business. They rented the farm a few years finally selling to Oscar Burress in 1919. In June 1978 we visited with David M. Taylor and wife Maude and their son Marcus Edward who lives next door and farms in partnership with his father. Edward is also a Junior High councilor in the Madison School System. They are the only decendents of Thomas Taylor we found in Indiana carrying the Taylor name. CONT Getting back to the three sisters living in the old homestead house, Christiana, better known as Aunt Anna never married and died in the "flu" epidemic of 1918 at the age of 78. Jane, one of the twins, married Thomas Francis. In the Caledonia Cemetery we found two gravestones. One was the grave of Jamie, infant son of Thomas and Jane Francis dated July 25, 1890. The other engraved "Jennie, wife of Thomas Francis Aug 1, 1890 age 35 years 3 mo 20 days. A kind and loving wife and sister." Jamie died at birth and his mother seven days later of complications following childbirth. Indiana married Newt Hall who had a son Dale Hall by a pervious marriage. They and Anna and Thomas Francis all lived together in the old house on the Taylor farm. A common gravestone in Caledonia cemetery indicates that Richard Newton Hall and Indiana Hall died the same year of 1937. After their death Marcus Taylor was appointed administrator to settle the estates of Christiana, Jane and Indiana. Pursuant to a court order a public auction was held Apr 26 1938 at which Tomas Pommerehn, son of Nancy and John F. Pommerehn bought all three parcels of land allotted to the girls in the settlement of James and Jane Taylor's estate. In February o f1943, Thos Pommerehn sold this 72+ acres to Chester Burress, son of Oscar Burress, who had bought the 102.4 acres from Marcus Taylor in 1919. The farm became known as the Burress place, as the Burress family owned it until 1968, a total of 49 years. Chester Burress sold the 72+ acres to the present owner, Geo Lucas in 1968. Hazel Burress inherited the 102.4 acres and she sold to Rodney Sage in 1968 who sold to Geo Abplanalp in 1969. In 1970 Geo Lucas bought 19 acres from Abplanalp that included the improvements and cultivated land. The remaining 83.4 acres Abplanalp sold to Robert Wells the present owner. We visited with Geo Lucas and took pictures of the farm in 1978. We didn't research what happened to the 24.45 acres allotted to Mary (Taylor) Storie or what happened to her and her family. When Robert and Francis Taylor moved to Moorefield in 1877, he followed the carpenter trade. They lived there the rest of their lives. Robert died in 1915 and Frances in 1935. They are buried in Caledonia Cemetery. Besides the James Franklin previously mentioned Robert and Frances had a daughter, Pearl M. born Oct. 24 1882. Pearl married Harry Kern in 1907. Their farm was ½ mile east and about 1 ½ miles south of Moorefield. In 1962 when I first became interested in researching the Taylor family history I visited Pearl Kern when I came through Indiana on my way to New York. She was a widow living alone in her farm house a short distance should of her son James Franklin Kern. We were unable to determine if we were related although I could see a family resemblance. She gave me some clues that proved valuable in this later research. It turns out that our fathers were first cousins. James Franklin is the only child of Harry and Parl Kern. We visited with him and his wife, Mary, while researching in Indiana in 1978. He is a prominent farmer and mechanic. Pearl and Harry Kern are buried in the Ebenezer Cemetery one half mile east of Moorefield. CONT In summary there are many unanswered questions about the family of Thomas Taylor. There may be some inaccuracies in what we have written, but we are pleased with our success in finding all that we have so far. In beginning this research the only facts we had were that great grandfather came from Scotland by way of New York and settled near Madison, Indiana. Father also mentioned that they were Presbyterians. He could have given the answers to many facts if we had been interested enough to make any record. It is our hope to go to Scotland in late summer 1979 and do more research on our ancestry. My wife, Etta Mary, has supported and helped in this research. Let me identify myself as Jesse Everett Taylor, born Dec 21 1898 in Benton, Butler Co., Kansas. The eight child of eleven born to James and Minerva (Metz) Taylor. James was the fifth of eleven children born to Robert Lackey and Jane (Weir) Taylor. Robert was the tenth of ten children born ot Thomas and Christiana Taylor. I graduated from high school in 1917, had two years of college at Kansas State University, taught school for six years, then started farming in 1927 and was a farmer for thirty years. Married Opal McDonald Aug 17, 1924 and we had one daughter and three sons. She died of cancer Apr 5, 1950. Married Etta Mary Hanes Feb 23, 1962 and we lived in Alameda, California till we moved to Mesa, Ariz in September 1976 where we enjoy retirement in a mobile home park. CONT CONT Abstract Summary CONT Thomas Taylor and James Taylor Land CONT CONT 1. Original purchase certificate issued at U.S. Land Sales Office Jeffersonville, Indiana Sept. 30, 1818 E1/2NW1/4 Section 5-T4-R12 78.56 ac @ .00 total price 7.12 dwn. Pmt. .58 paid by Thomas Taylor. CONT 2. Final certificate and patent deed issued to Thomas Taylor June 27, 1829. CONT 3. Deed - Samuel Culbertson to James Taylor W1/2NE1/4 Sec 5-T4-R12 80 acres more or less Nov. 13, 1841 price 0.00. CONT 4. Deed - Wm. Dow to James Taylor W1/2NW1/4 Sec. 5-T4-R12 80 acres more or less Feb. 8 1856 price 00.00. CONT 5. Awarded by court to John F. and Nancy Pommerhen N. 30 ac W1/2NW1/4 Sec 5-T4-R12 June 22, 1866. CONT 6. Deed - John F. and Nancy Pommerhen to John Jamison N. 30 ac W1/2NW1/4 Sec. 5-T5-R12 Aug 24 1870. CONT 7. Deed - John Jamison to robert Storrie N 30 ac W1/2NW1/4 Sec 5-T4-R12 Apr. 2 1872 0.00. CONT 8. Deed - Robert Storrie to Anna Bell Burton N 30 ac W1/2NW1/4 Sec 5-T4-R12 Sept. 2, 1882 0.00 CONT 9. Deed - Anna Bell Burton to David W. Taylor N 30 ac W1/2NW1/4 Sec 5-T4-R12 July 20 1887 0.00. CONT 10. Awarded by court to David W. Taylor S 30 ac W1/2NW1/4 Sec 5-T4-R12 May 10 1875 CONT 11. Deed - David W. Taylor to Wm Storrie S 30 ac W1/2NW1/4 Sec 5-T4-R12 Oct 28, 1876. CONT 12. Awarded by Court to Robert Taylor 20 ac Middle W1/2NW1/4 Sec 5-T4-R12 plus 52.4 ac N. pt. Of E1/2NW1/4 Sec 5-T4-R12 May 10, 1875. CONT 13. Deed - Robert Taylor to David W. Taylor 72.4 ac as above described Oct. 2 1877 price 00.00 plus 1 mtg 0 and 1 mtg 0. CONT 14. Awarded by Court to Christiana Taylor 34.80 ac s. pt. E1/2NW1/4 Sec 5-T4-R12 May 10, 1875. CONT 15. Awarded by Court to Jane Taylor 26.9 ac sw. pt. W1/2NE1/4 Sec 5-T4-R12 May 10, 1875. CONT 16. Awarded by Court to Mary Taylor 24.45 ac e. pt. W1/2NE1/4 Sec 5-T4-R12 May 10, 1875. CONT 17. Awarded by Court to Indiana Taylor 10.50 ac nw. pt. W1/2NE1/4 Sec 5-T4-R12 May 10, 1875. CONT 18. Deed - Thos. Francis heir of Jane Taylor Francis to Thos. Pommerhn 26.90 ac as above Oct 19, 1938. CONT 19. Deed - Marcus Taylor, Adm. Indiana Taylor Hall, est. to Thos Pommerehn 10.50 ac as above Nov. 4, 1938. CONT 20. Deed - Marcus Taylor, Adm. Christiana Taylor, est. to Thos Pommerehn 34.80 ac as above Nov. 4, 1938. CONT 21. Deed - Thos. Pommerehn to Chester Burress 72.2 ac as above combined Feb. 25, 1943. CONT 22. Deed - Chester Burress to Geo. Lucas 72.2 ac 1968 present owner 1978. CONT 23. Deed - Mary F. Taylor, widow of David W. Taylor to Marcus S. Taylor 102.4 ac pt NW1/4 Sec 5-T4-R12 subject to life estate. Apr. 16, 1908. CONT 24. Deed - Marcus S. Taylor to Oscar Burress 102.4 pt. NW1/4 Sec 5-T4-R12 Mar 7, 1919. CONT 25. Quit Claim Deed - Chester Burress to Hazel Burress (heirs of Oscar Burress) 102.4 acres as above Aug. 30, 1945. CONT 26. Deed - Hazel Burress to Rodney Sage 102.4 as above Feb. 21, 1968. CONT 27. Deed - Rodney Sage to Geo. Apblanalp 102.4 as above Nov. 5 1969. CONT 28. Deed - Geo. Abplanalp to George Lucas 19 ac with improvements - part of 102.4 June 23, 1970 present owner 1978. Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y