History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 682.
[Harrison County]   [Cynthiana City and Precinct]

WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, farmer; P. O. Robertson's Station; was born in
Robertson County, Ky., Jan. 15, 1814, son of Tapley and Lavina (Duncan)
Taylor; he, a native of Virginia, a farmer of occupation and dying in
1846, aged fifty-seven years; his wife having preceded him in 1832, they
had fourteen children.  Our subject received his education in the schools
of Harrison County, and began life as a farmer, in which occupation he
has continued, owning a splendid farm of 290 acres of the best land in
Kentucky.  In 1834 he married Nancy Shanks; born in Bourbon County in
1810, daughter of David and Nancy Shanks, natives of Delaware; and from
this union there were born ten children, seven of whom are living:
Tapley A., Frances A., Elizabeth, Arbell, David W., Martha and Susan.
Mrs. Taylor died in 1864, and after remaining a widower ten years, Mr.
Taylor in 1874, married Elizabeth; born March 19, 1844; daughter of
Joseph and Catharine King, and by this union there have been born two
children: Ada H. and Sally E.  Mrs. Taylor is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church and her husband is a Democrat.

Taylor Duncan Shanks King
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Robertson-KY Bourbon-KY VA DE

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