History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 693. [Harrison County] [Sylvan Dell Precinct] JACOB TAYLOR, farmer, P. O. Oddville, was born in Harrison County, June 15, 1818, his grandfather, Jacob Maybrier, was a foreigner, and weaver by trade; he came to Kentucky very early and enlisted while here in the war of 1812-15; he was in one engagement. His father, Jacob Taylor, came to Kentucky from Ohio, and died in Harrison County in 1818, aged about thirty-five; his son Jacob, whose sketch is here recorded, passed his youth as a farmer's boy; he married Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin and Rebecca (Padgett) Allen, of Mason County, by whom he was the father of six children, four of whom are living: Benjamin, aged forty-two; William, forty; John, thirty-three; Rebecca Ellen, thirty-five; he has fourteen living grandchildren. Mr. Taylor has been a widower since Feb. 18, 1848; is a member of Salem Christian Church and Democratic in politics. About the year 1840 he was thrown from a horse and suffered a fracture of the left thigh bone, which, from having been improperly set by the attending physician, has never united and now presents the peculiar feature of a joint between the knee and hip; being unable to sustain his weight upon that limb it has rendered him a cripple for life. During the war he was arrested for the crime of being a Southern sympathizer. Two of his sons were in the Confederate army; one returned, the other died at Harper's Ferry of small-pox, near the beginning of the war. Taylor Maybrier Padgett Allen = Mason-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/harrison/taylor.j.txt