James Gilbert Taylor

1815 - Abt 1864  (49 years)

• Name	James Gilbert Taylor
  Birth	1815	New York
  Gender	Male
  Census	21 Jul 1860	Beaumont (District 4), Jefferson Co, Texas
  	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
  Death	Abt 1864	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." http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dlacp&id=I55
  Person ID	I21594	Roots
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2011

  
  

  Family	Elvina Chase,   b. Abt 1827, Indiana d. Aft 1871, of, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas (Age ~ 45 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1844
  Children	+ 1. Walter Brashear Taylor,   b. 1842, Louisiana d. 04 Oct 1887, Liberty Co, Texas (Age 45 years) + 2. Sarah Sophie Taylor,   b. Jun 1847, Jefferson Co, Texas d. 1891, of, Taylor Bayou, Jefferson Co, Texas (Age ~ 43 years) + 3. Evelina Taylor,   b. 1848, Jefferson Co, Texas d. Aft 1880, of, Taylor Bayou, Jefferson Co, Texas (Age 33 years)   4. James G Taylor,   b. 1849, Jefferson Co, Texas d. Aft 1860, of, Taylor Bayou, Jefferson Co, Texas (Age 12 years)   5. Harvey Taylor,   b. 1852, Jefferson Co, Texas d. Aft 1860, of, Taylor Bayou, Jefferson Co, Texas (Age 9 years)   6. Raymond K. Taylor,   b. 1855, New York d. Aft 1880, of, Taylor Bayou, Labelle, Jefferson Co, Texas (Age 26 years) + 7. Charles C Taylor,   b. 31 Mar 1857, Jefferson Co, Texas d. 08 Aug 1901, of, Taylor Bayou, Jefferson Co, Texas (Age 44 years) + 8. Elvira E. Taylor,   b. 03 Nov 1858, Taylor Bayou, Jefferson Co, Texas d. 01 Jun 1927, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F7928	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2011

  
  

• Event Map

  Census - 21 Jul 1860 - Beaumont (District 4), Jefferson Co, Texas Death - Abt 1864 - Jefferson Co, Texas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Taylor, James and Elvira Chase

  
  

  Documents

  James Gilbert Taylor and Elvina Sophia Chase Abolitionist Area resident rallied behind Union cause By W. T. BlockReprinted from Beaumont Enterprise, Saturday August 14, 1999. (d)