Taylor's Creek: A Story of the Community and Her People

Location: Liberty, Georgia, United States
Surnames/tags: source ghost_town taylors_creek

Contents 1 Book Information 2 Research Notes 3 Repositories and Links 4 WikiTree Citations 5 WikiTree Usage 6 Relevant Links

Book Information

Taylor's Creek: A Story of the Community and Her People Bird Yarbrough and Paul Yarbrough, editors. A Project of the Taylor's Creek Cemetery Association.

This is a compiled community history and crowd-sourced local genealogy about families that lived in and around the now extinct community of Taylors Creek, Georgia. The unincorporated community was formerly located in Liberty County, Georgia on land that is now part of the military base of Fort Stewart.

There are two editions of this book. The first was published in 1963 through Press of the Atkinson County Citizen in Pearson, Georgia (278 pages). It covered area history for the years 1760-1960 and contained a significantly smaller amount of genealogical information. The second much revised and expanded edition was published in 1986 through A Press from Greenville, SC (761 pages). It covered area history for the years 1760-1986 and significantly added the number of family surnames and descendants included. The first edition was printed via a subscription model and the second edition was printed on a small scale print run so physical editions are challenging to find. Use Worldcat, AbeBooks, or eBay to locate one.

Research Notes

This book has interesting stories about the community, especially well told is the reporting about the Methodist Church there, as well as many genealogical family profiles. That said, it should not be taken as genealogical proof. Bev Diaz exchanged emails with a descendent of one compiler who told me that they didn't research any of the facts mentioned in the genealogical sections of the book. The members of the Taylors Creek Cemetery Association purportedly sent out surveys to family members and let them self-report. Some responses were more accurate than others. For example, the entire Bradley family "origin story" presented on page 151 is family folklore at best.

Repositories and Links

First Edition:

• Ancestry.com https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/22936/ (Searchable)
• FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/752252?availability=Family%20History%20Library
• Geneanet https://en.geneanet.org/library/doc/5594992/taylors-creek-story-of-the-community-and-her-people-through-200-years (Surname List Available)
• Google Books https://www.google.com/books/edition/Taylor_s_Creek/6MLASgAACAAJ?hl=en&kptab=overview
• HathiTrust https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100947541? (U.S. Access Only)
• Worldcat https://search.worldcat.org/title/9071978

Second Edition:

• Google Books https://www.google.com/books/edition/Taylors_Creek/OV_dGAAACAAJ?hl=en&kptab=overview
• Worldcat https://search.worldcat.org/title/14151376

WikiTree Citations

First Edition - Reference Note Style:

• <ref name="Yarbrough">Bird and Paul Yarbrough, eds., ''[[Space:Taylor%27s_Creek:_A_Story_of_the_Community_and_Her_People|Taylor's Creek: A Story of the Community and Her People]]'' (Greenville, South Carolina: A Press, 1963), page.</ref>
• <ref>[[#Yarbrough|Yarbrough]]: Page #.</ref>
• Don't forget to put the page number in the page number spot!

First Edition - Bibliography Style:

• <span id='Yarbrough'></span>Yarbrough, Bird and Paul, eds. ''[[Space:Taylor%27s_Creek:_A_Story_of_the_Community_and_Her_People|Taylor's Creek: A Story of the Community and Her People]]''. Greenville, South Carolina: A Press, 1963. Page #.
• [[#Yarbrough|Yarbrough]]: p. #.
• Don't forget to put the page number in the page number spot!

Second Edition - Reference Note Style:

• <ref name="Yarbrough">Bird and Paul Yarbrough, eds., ''[[Space:Taylor%27s_Creek:_A_Story_of_the_Community_and_Her_People|Taylor's Creek: A Story of the Community and Her People]]'' (Greenville, South Carolina: A Press, 1986), page.</ref>
• <ref>[[#Yarbrough|Yarbrough]]: Page #.</ref>
• Don't forget to put the page number in the page number spot!

Second Edition - Bibliography Style:

• <span id='Yarbrough'></span>Yarbrough, Bird and Paul, eds. ''[[Space:Taylor%27s_Creek:_A_Story_of_the_Community_and_Her_People|Taylor's Creek: A Story of the Community and Her People]]''. Greenville, South Carolina: A Press, 1986. Page #.
• [[#Yarbrough|Yarbrough]]: p. #.
• Don't forget to put the page number in the page number spot!

WikiTree Usage

What links here? WikiTree Profiles that Reference this Source

Relevant Links

• Brief history with links to maps from Rootsweb https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~conn/genealogy/photos/allen/tombstone/abtcem.html
• Liberty County entry at the FamilySearch Wiki https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Liberty_County,_Georgia_Genealogy
• Taylor's Creek Cemetery burials list at Genealogy Trails https://genealogytrails.com/geo/liberty/taylorcreek-cem.html
• Wikipedia Entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylors_Creek,_Georgia