Caleb Taylor From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 943 - 944.

TOWN OF POTOSI

CALEB TAYLOR, farmer, Secs. 4 and 5; P. O. Lancaster; born near Morgantown, Va.; son of John and Susan (Dustin) Taylor; came to Grant Co., in 1836; farming, burning lime, etc. In 1842, he was married by Rev. Darius Bainbridge, to Nancy, daughter of Edward Pindle Coombs and Rachael (Pindle) Coombs; Mrs. T. was born June 20, 1826; has fourteen children living - Clarisa, born May 18, 1845, wife of S. A. Kaley; John F., born May 30, 1846, married Emeline Walker, has two children - Frankie and Mattie, three deceased; George E., born Feb. 16, 1848, married Charlotte Salnave, and has five children - Lillie M., Edna E., Anna L., Harry E. and Delbert O.; Timothy D., born July 11, 1849; Hiram H., born Oct. 15, 1850, married Ardeska, daughter of Stephen B. Chase; one son - Eddie; William A., minister U. B. Church, born May 18, 1852; married Katie Baker - has three children - William, Alice May and Eddie; Caleb P., born April 25, 1854, married Arzella Shanley, had two children, one (Florence) still living; Thomas O., born April 22, 1856, in Iowa; Henry A., born July 5, 1858, in Lancaster; Alice M., born March 8, 1860, wife of Joseph Mont Pleasure, whose house was destroyed by fire in 1880, they have one child - Raymond P.; Samuel E., born Oct. 2, 1862; Eugene M. born May 20, 1863; Joseph A., born July 23, 1865; Ida F., born Oct. 17, 1869. Mr. Taylor was ten months in Co. H, 25th W. V. I., and his son, John F., was in Co. C, 2d W. V. C. ten months. The great grandmother of Mr. Taylor's mother (Susan Dustin) was somewhat noted in early times, having killed several Indians. Mrs. Taylor states that at the time she came here it was wild and unsettled, there being but few cabins at Potosi and three or four at Lancaster, and they endured many hardships, she being obliged to go to a little hand-mill set on a post in the cabin of Thomas Shandley, and grind corn to make the noonday meal. They could get flour at Platteville, eighteen miles away, through the woods, at $20 per barrel, and pork at $40. They depended largely on wild game, of which there was an abundance, Mr. Taylor having killed four bears in one afternoon - had a running fight with one and killed it with his hunting knife. Owns 200 acres of land.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.