“I found your blog posts on line,” he said. “If you don’t mind, I’d like to talk to you some more about them. Kinchen Taylor was my ancestor.”
It took a little while, but we finally caught up as I sat waiting for a flight to Philadelphia. I’ll call him “Cal.” He goes by a different nickname, but he bears — with pride, but some chagrin — the same name as his forebear. It’s been passed down generation after generation after generation and, in spite of himself, he passed it on, too.
Cal grew up within shouting distance of the Kinchen C. Taylor house that I wrote about, and his father and uncle are among the last of Kinchen Taylor’s descendants holding property passed down from him. He’s a few years younger than I am, and he thinks Kinchen Senior’s house was already in shambles during his childhood. He was aware that Kinchen had accumulated vast tracts of farm and woodland in northern Nash County, but dismayed that he had owned so many slaves. That he had owned any at all, really. Without them, of course, his great-great-great-grandfather’s thousands of acres would have been a wilderness of swamp and impenetrable forest. Cal also wondered if we were perhaps related, but I have no reason to believe that we are.
Many thanks to “Cal” for reaching out and for sharing his connection to Taylor Crossroads.
Hey Lisa,
Kinchen Taylor,1851 will…
Bequeathed to daughter Winniferd Taylor Rosser:Daniel Taylor.And,in the1870 census there is a 12 year old”Patty Rosser” in the household of Daniel Taylor as a domestic servant.Whitakers twnship.
Hope to hear from you.
Avery Taylor
Hey, Avery! I’ll look into that. Thanks for the heads up!
I can’t find an entry in 1870 for Daniel Taylor or Patty Rosser. Can you email me a link? lisayhenderson at gmail dot com.
Hello I find it very interested that a Taylor Married a Harrison out of Nash County. I took a dna and connected to the harrisons out of nash county and i believe the taylors also. I have a Relative named Kincham Taylor born in NC living in georgia in 1870
my Kincham Taylor was born in NC in 1814