Walter Brashear Taylor

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 21 Jul 1860, Beaumont (District 4), Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 21 Jun 1880, Liberty, Liberty Co, Texas

Notes:

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





Census:
Taylor, Walter 32 1848 LA NY Indiana farm laborer
Cilema 25 1855 wife LA LA LA
Alice M dau 7 1873 TX
Hiester C 3 1877 TX
Edmond m 2 1878 TX
Cecelia May 22/30(?) TX
Carroll, Alfred 14 1866 adopt son LA LA LA
Duprey, Thomas black 19, farm laborer, LA LA LA

Walter married Zelema Dugat about 1875. Zelema was born on 16 Sep 1856 in Louisiana; died on 10 Jan 1940 in of, Liberty, Liberty Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Alfred Carroll was born in 1866 in Louisiana.
2. Alice Mandana Taylor was born on 27 Mar 1873 in Liberty, Liberty Co, Texas; died on 20 Apr 1961 in Fredericksburg, Gillespie Co, Texas; was buried on 21 Apr 1961 in Magnolia Cem, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas.
3. Albert M Taylor was born in 1875 in Texas; died after 1880 in of, Liberty, Liberty Co, Texas.
4. Hiester C Taylor was born in 1877 in Texas; died after 1880 in of, Liberty, Liberty Co, Texas.
5. Edmond M Taylor was born in 1878 in Texas; died after 1880 in of, Liberty, Liberty Co, Texas.
6. Cecelia Taylor was born in May 1880 in Texas; died after 1880 in of, Liberty, Liberty Co, Texas.
7. Hubert Taylor was born on 30 Mar 1884 in Hull, Liberty Co, Texas; died after 1919 in of, Liberty Co, Texas.

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]