Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., pages 931-932
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895
TROUP COUNTY
John H. Traylor, farmer, Lovelace, Troup Co., Ga., son of Rev.
John C. and Tabitha (Bailey) Traylor, was born in Virginia in
1824. His paternal great-grandparents, William C. and
Elizabeth Traylor, were natives of England, and came to America
before the revolutionary war. He had a crown grant for 6,000
acres of land near where Petersburg, Va., now stands. He was
born in England in 1674 and died in Virginia in 1753. His
grandparents were Humphrey and Sarah (Pegram) Traylor. He was
a large planter, and was a soldier in the patriot army during
the revolutionary war. In religion he was a pronounced and
devout Episcopalian. Mr. Traylor�s father was born in
Dinwiddie and his mother in Henry county, Va. He was well
educated, and was a soldier in the last war with Great Britain.
When he joined the Methodist church, in which he afterward
became an able and useful ordained preacher, his father, who
was, as already stated, an uncompromising Episcopalian,
manifested great indignation, and declared he had disgraced the
family. He came with his family to Georgia in 1842 and settled
in Troup county, where he lived until his death, which occurred
in 1855. Mr. Traylor�s maternal great-grandparents were Parks
and Mary (Cabaniss) Bailey, who were native Virginians, and he
was a soldier in the revolutionary war. Her father, Charles
Cabaniss, was the first man who put up a package (plug) of
manufactured tobacco. His maternal grandparents were John and
Sarah (Allen nee Smith) Bailey. She was a widow Allen, and
great-grandmother of Private John Allen, the distinguished ex-
representative in congress from Mississippi. John Bailey
served as a soldier during the war of 1812. Mr. Traylor was
reared in Virginia, and received a very good primary education
in the common schools taught in the old-time log house, and
then went a year to Emory and Henry college. In 1842 he came
with his parents to Georgia, and settled in Troup county, where
he has lived and been engaged in farming ever since. In 1884
he was elected to represent Troup county in the general
assembly, and served one term. Mr. Traylor inherits more than
usual intellectual capacity and business ability from an
ancestry distinguished for love of independence and progressive
characteristics, and is himself a progressive man, keeps
abreast with the advanced thought and improvements of the
times, and takes an active and prominent part in all movements
promising development and advancement of resources and people
along all the lines of human endeavor. Col. Traylor was
married in 1844 to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Charles C. and
Martha H. (Roland) Bailey. Her father was born in Tennessee,
and was the son of Parks and Mary (Cabaniss) Bailey, who were
natives of Virginia. Parks Bailey was a soldier in the
revolutionary army, and Charles C. Bailey was with Gen. Jackson
at New Orleans, in 1815, a soldier in the Tennessee volunteers.
Her mother was a daughter of Baldwin Roland, of Virginia. Of
nine children born to Col. and Mrs. Traylor seven survive:
Robert, married Miss Virginia, daughter of Eulam and Sarah A.
(Traylor) McDonald;
George, married Mary H., daughter of
William and Eudora (Harper) Couper;
[Correction: James Maxwell Couper - m. to Eurora - he was son of
James Hamilton Couper and Georgia Caroline Wylly. Her mother was a
daughter of Baldwin Roland, of Virginia. Of nine children born to
Col. and Mrs. Traylor seven survive:Robert, married Miss Virginia,
daughter of Eulam and Sarah A.(Traylor) McDonald; George, married
Mary H., daughter of William and Eudora (Harper) Couper Mary H.
refers to Mary Harper Couper / and whose dau. Mary, married a Mr.
Thiessen; and we refered to my cousin Mary as Mary T. aka Mary
Traylor Thiessen. Researcher: Ms. F.A. Dnaiel/Athens
Thomas H.; Jerry R.;
Elizabeth; Martha T.; Mrs. Thomas H. Northen (son of ex-Gov.
W.J. Northen), and Marshall E. Col. and Mrs. Traylor are
prominent and influential members of the Methodist church.
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