Samuel Taylor, Jr.

Samuel Taylor Jr. was the son of Samuel Taylor Sr. and Rebecca Patterson. He was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, April 5, 1787. He married Nancy (Phoebe) Sword, daughter of Michael Sword and Hannah Richardson. They were married in Russell County, Virginia, June 26, 1806.

While still living with Nancy, Samuel brought his step mother into their home, and started living with her too. She was a Cherokee Indian, named Mary Preese, Cherokee name, Mary TA-KE-LA_NOME. They had at least one child. No doubt this is the reason his father, Samuel Taylor Sr., later made the statement in his pension files, that Samuel wasn't worth anything.

After Stephen was born in 1816, Nancy took the children and divorced Samuel in 1817. Where upon, Samuel then moved a Nancy Vermillion into the house, and put Mary into another house nearby on the farm. He later married Nancy Vermillion. Samuel Taylor Jr. was charged with bigamy by the Russell County Court at Lebanon, Virginia.

The Taylors always referred to Mary Preese as "That old squaw".

Carrie Cathern Carte had further research done by Starr Genealogical of Utah, which she accepted, and which shows that this Samuel Taylor did not descend from the Zachary Taylor family.

The fact that Samuel Taylor had two wives named Nancy , as well as living with Mary Polly Price, and the number of Williams and Samuel in several generations of the family, makes sorting them out very confusing. Samuel Taylor, Sr., was also married to a Mary (Preese) Price, who was born in 1760, according to his Revolutionary War pension application. Carte and Starr concluded that she was married to both father and son. Notes from Kriss Godfrey: While still married to Nancy Phebe Sword, Samuel Jr. brought his step-mother (Mary Ann Price-Taylor) into their home and they had at least one child together (name unknown). Mary Ann was half Cherokee Indian. No doubt this was one of the reasons that Samuel Taylor Sr. made the statement in his Revolutionary War pension files that his "son, Samuel Jr., wasn't worth anything". After their son, Stephen Taylor, was born in 1816, Nancy Sword-Taylor took their children and divorced Samuel in 1817. In their divorce papers from Russell county circuit court, Nancy sued Samuel and Mary Ann Price to get the court to force them to "sell or remove all buildings, improvements, and chattel property from the Real property of Nancy Sword-Taylor" ( Nancy had inherited the land herself from her father.) After the divorce in 1817, Samuel still remained in the house on Nancy's land and moved another woman, Nancy Vermillion, into the house. He moved Mary Ann Price to live in another house nearby on the property. Nancy Sword-Taylor continued to fight for her property. Another section of the circuit court records states that she wants "her former husband, Samuel Taylor, Jr., and all his co-habitating companions, Indians, bastard and stepchildren removed from the property and the (previous) Court decree enforced". The defendant, Samuel Jr., states that he "built the houses, sheds, farmed the land for 12 years, and does not wish to be removed or sell anything." Mary Ann Price Taylor states that she "has no other house to live in at the present time, and sees no reason to move since her child was fathered by Samuel Taylor, Jr. after a proper marriage ceremony conducted after the order of the Cherokee Nation." The Court order was upheld and a writ of evacuation was executed. Samuel then married Nancy Vermillion around 1818. Nancy had previously been married to Caleb Browning. Soon after that, Samuel Jr was charged with bigamy by the Russell County Court at Lebanon, VA. Samuel Jr. also had one illegitimate son named Samuel Morrison. Samuel Taylor Jr., his second (or third if you count his stepmother Mary Ann) wife Nancy Vermillion, and their son Lilborn Taylor are all buried on the old Morrison farm belonging to his son, Samuel Morrison, near Lebanon, VA.