Susan Lucy Taylor

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Susan Barry was endowed with fine talents, and graduated with distinction at the Lafayette Female Academy of Lexington, under the instruction of the eminent teacher Col. Josiah Dunham. When she was fifteen years old she wrote an essay for her annual examination proclaiming the need for women to be educated.

In 1824, at the age of sixteen, she was married to Mr. James Taylor, the eldest son of General James Taylor and Keturah Moss Leitch Taylor, a young man of twenty-two years, and who had just graduated from Transylvania Law School. They settled on the Taylor family estate, BelleVue, in Newport. Mrs. Taylor was noted for her simplicity in dress, gentle and unassuming manners, and for her industry and domestic tastes; she was a lady who was well known for her community service, her attention to her home and the rearing of her children.