James Gilbert Taylor

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 21 Jul 1860, Beaumont (District 4), Jefferson Co, Texas

Notes:

"Not everyone in the Beaumont area was sympathetic to
Confederate cause, James Gilbert Taylor and his wife Elvira
Chase, was a New York Mariner who bought land on Taylor's Bayou and became captain of the schooner Glide, freighting molasses and hides from beaumont to Galveston. He knew all the twists and turns of local waterways.

When the Civil War began, torn by conflict of loyalties, he
nevertheless became the pilot for a Union blockage boat seeking to strangle the movement of ships from southern ports like Sabine Pass. Locals saw Taylor as a traitor, and $10,000 Confederate bounty was offered for his arrest. His son, Walter, joined the Confederacy in Spaight's Battalion.

Taylor piloted the Clifton into Sabine Pass on Sept 8, 1863, only to meet the deadly artillery fire of Dick Dowling's Davis Guards. Its tiller rope severed, the Clifton ran aground and was captured. A fellow defector, Clay Smith of Orange, pilot of the Sachem, suffered a similar fate. Taylor is thought to have escaped to the Union gunboat Arizona, which picked up a few survivors and then fled to open sea. Taylor died under unknown
circumstances in 1864. A number of his descendants live in
Beaumont and the Taylor's Bayou area."
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Census:
21 Jul 1860 Precinct 4, Jefferson Co, Texas

James E Taylor 45 1815 10,000 seaman New York
Elvina Taylor 35 1825 Indiana
Walter B Taylor 19 1841 Louisiana
Sarah S Taylor 15 1845 Texas
Avoline Taylor 13 1847 Texas
James G Taylor 11 1849 Texas
Harvey Taylor 8 1852 Texas
Raymond Taylor 5 1855 Texas
Charles C Taylor 3 1857 Texas
Elvira E Taylor 9/12 1859 Texas

next door:
Carr, William 64 1795 Louisiana 4499 12380, Louisina farmer
Catherine Carr 34 Germany
Alzena Carr 15 student TX
Amele Holt 24 male merchant Germany

next door on other side, Elizabeth Holts, age 54 1806 Germany, seamstress living with the Bartons
Baron William J 37 1823 England farmer 1000
Barton Luiza 21 1839 Germany
Barton Rebecca 1 1859 Texas

James married Elvina Chase about 1844. Elvina was born about 1827 in Indiana; died after 1871 in of, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Walter Brashear Taylor was born in 1842 in Louisiana; died on 04 Oct 1887 in Liberty Co, Texas.
2. Sarah Sophie Taylor was born in Jun 1847 in Jefferson Co, Texas; died in 1891 in of, Taylor Bayou, Jefferson Co, Texas.
3. Evelina Taylor was born in 1848 in Jefferson Co, Texas; died after 1880 in of, Taylor Bayou, Jefferson Co, Texas.
4. James G Taylor was born in 1849 in Jefferson Co, Texas; died after 1860 in of, Taylor Bayou, Jefferson Co, Texas.
5. Harvey Taylor was born in 1852 in Jefferson Co, Texas; died after 1860 in of, Taylor Bayou, Jefferson Co, Texas.
6. Raymond K. Taylor was born in 1855 in New York; died after 1880 in of, Taylor Bayou, Labelle, Jefferson Co, Texas.
7. Charles C Taylor was born on 31 Mar 1857 in Jefferson Co, Texas; died on 08 Aug 1901 in of, Taylor Bayou, Jefferson Co, Texas.
8. Elvira E. Taylor was born on 03 Nov 1858 in Taylor Bayou, Jefferson Co, Texas; died on 01 Jun 1927 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas; was buried on 02 Jun 1927 in Magnolia Cem, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas.