Robert Belt Taylor

Birth Date

1832

Death Date

1888

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Franklin County, Kentucky, telegraph operator, clerk, bank teller, and soldier. Kentucky native. Telegraph operator in Franklin County in 1850. Clerk in Franklin County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860. Household owned an additional seven enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860. Served in the 32nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as captain from September 4, 1862, to November 15, 1862. Wounded in Boyle County, Kentucky, on October 8, 1862. Bank teller in Franklin County in 1863. Notary public in Franklin County in 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, p. 35A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, pp. 240-241.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 1, p. 489A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Court House, p. 70A.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Franklin County, KY, July 1863, p. 26.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p9. 314-315.
"CPT Robert Belt Taylor, Sr (1832-1888)," Find A Grave, Memorial 66968919, accessed January 31, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66968919.
KYR-0002-222-0065.

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