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Jesse Shocklett Taylor (Meade County, Kentucky, lawyer)

b. 1820-01-10 d. 1888-01-31

Meade County, Kentucky, lawyer. Meade County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Hayden Taylor and Hannah Shocklett Taylor. Married to Sophia Harlan Taylor in Henderson County, Kentucky, on January 15, 1852. Father of Emma Belle Taylor, Sally Atlanta Taylor, Kate "Kitty" Annette Taylor, Lizzie Taylor, and J. Harlan Taylor. Lawyer in Meade County, Kentucky, in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Brandenberg, p. 377.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Morganfield, p. 349A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Henderson County Marriages, Film #000576460, p. 133.

Alpheus H. Harlan, The History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family: and Particularly of the descendants of George and Michael Harlan, who Settled in Chester County, PA, 1687 (Baltimore, MD: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1914) 657.

Citation

Taylor, Jesse Shocklett. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280758 (November 12, 2026).

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