Keturah Taylor
Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, January 31, 1866 page 2
On the 23rd instant, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. K L Harris, in Newport, Ky. Mrs. Keturah M Taylor, widow of the late General James Taylor, in the 92nd year of her age.
Mrs. Taylor was one of the early pioneers of the West, having emigrated to Kentucky from Virginia in the year 1784 and settled near Lexington. In the year 1790 she married Major David Leitch; in 1791 moved to Leitch's Station where there was a stockade fort; but the Indians being troublesome in this vicinity, she returned with her husband to Lexington.
In April 1792 Major Leitch again returned to Leitch's Station where they lived until his death. In 1795 the subject of this obituary was married to General James Taylor and has resided either at Belleview, Kentucky, the family residence, or with her daughter, Mrs. Harris, until her death.
Mrs. T was for many years a member of the
Baptist Church and was remarkable for her generous hospitality and kindness to
the poor, which will be long remembered by those who knew her.