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Photographs, Wills and Such
Lemuel and Betsy The original is a very faded tintype of Henry Taylor, Sr.'s father and mother, Henry Taylor and Elizabeth Phillips from his Bible. The tintype, invented in 1853 in France and introduce to America in 1860, was produced on sheets of enameled tinplate. Tintypes were immediately popular in America from the time of the Civil War. Itinerate photographers traveled around the towns and countryside and would take a family photograph for about two and a half pence. Despite the reversed image - like a mirror, the tintype remained popular until the mid-20th century in some parts of the world. The images from on this site are a combination of daguerreotypes, tintypes and photographs. The Mary Taylor Album are photographs and tintypes from an album believed to have belonged to Mary Taylor, born 1833, daughter of Lemuel Taylor and wife of John Pickney. There is no proof of this identification other than the album was in the Henry Taylor, Sr. effects inherited by John Marion Taylor from his father, Henry Taylor, Jr., grandson of Lemuel and Betsy.
The tinted photograph of David Alexander Taylor and his wife Claricy Jan Pitman were provided by Terrell Johnson
Henry Taylor, Sr. The daguerreotype of Henry Taylor, Sr. is very faded, in a gilt frame under very nice convex glass. No attempt was made to remove the original and recopy it for fear of damage. Daguerreotypes, invented in 1839, were the only photographic process available in America before 1860, so this is likely a pre-Civil War portrait. Henry Taylor and Susan Ivey were married in 1857 and had eleven children. Two were born before the War, one during the war - eleven months after Henry's release from service due to deafness, and the remainder after the end of the war. This image is a copy of a black and white photocopy made by John Marion Taylor in the 1950s.
This is a hinged framed set of studio portraits of Henry Taylor, Jr. and his wife Rosa Lee McPhail. The Wills and Deeds found in the North Carolina records all are scanned versions of second or later generation copies of the record pages. The copies are low quality, so were scanned with as much detail as possible to decipher the script. The resulting files are huge. The images shown here have been reduced in quality to allow a "reasonable" load time, but are still very large.
John D. McPhail and Family Very uncertain as to the accuracy of these names. Married names included for the women, although most were still unmarried at the time of this picture.
The photo on the left is Mary, called Polly Ann, Pitman, the widow of John Pinckney Taylor. Photo provided by Terrell Johnson. Click HERE to see the papers relating to her Confederate widow claim for pension.
Mary Taylor's Album is a mystery. Please email if you can help identify any of the subjects or if you can help us positively identify Mary Taylor. |
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