These are my great-great grandparents, John G. Taylor and Margaret Catherwood-Taylor. They were married for 60 years and had 6 children. They lived together on their farm in Putnam County, Indiana for almost 50 years.

John was born on April 26th, 1816 in Lewis County, Kentucky. He was the 4th of 12 children. He was bound out at an early age to learn the cabinet trade and took 7 years to learn it. He evidently didn’t like it very much because he then served in the trade for only about 2 years, although he continued in it off and on until he married. After that, he devoted his time to farming. His father, Joseph, moved the family to Indiana and bought a farm where part of the town of Carpentersville is now located in about 1834 or ’35, and it is likely that John, being at the time around 17 years old, went with them.

Margaret was the 9th of 11 children and was born May 24th, 1814. Samuel Catherwood Sr., Margaret’s father, was an immigrant from Ireland and lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania for a time, then moved to Harrison County, Kentucky. At some time, the Catherwood family moved to Putnam County, Indiana. According to other family histories of the time, many families moved north into Indiana because Indian attacks in Kentucky were still quite common.

John and Margaret were married on December 20th, 1838 near Carpentersville, Indiana, about 3 miles north of Bainsbridge.

(Ed. Note: I have pieced this history together from notes on the backs of photos, from dates found in the Taylor Bible, from an historical chronicle written by Uncle Albert H. Taylor, one of the sons of John and Margaret, and from correspondence written by John G. Taylor. -Ch)