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From: Mary Ann Kaylor <>
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:38:41 -0600


FYI - The bio I posted for our John Kaylor on the Cambria County PA
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Mary Ann



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>Source: GC-Cambria County, Pa Biographies
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>Subject: John Kaylor Bio
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>Surname: KAYLOR, ICKES, EKIS, VAN NORMAN, ROBERTS, BOYD
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>1912 HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS
>
>AND HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
>
>Volume II, Part Two, Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago
>
>Page 1358:
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>KAYLOR, John - a retired farmer and prominent citizen of Illiopolis, Ill.,
>is an honored veteran of the Civil War,in which he served with credit for
>three years. Mr.Kaylor is a native of Johnstown, Pa., born March 8, 1836,
>a son of DANIEL and MARGARET(EKIS) KAYLOR, the former a native of
>Pennsylvania,
>and the latter of Hagerstown, Md. The paternal great-grandfather was a
>Revolutionary War soldier. A relic of him and Revolutionary days is a sugar
>bowl over 200 years old, owned by Mr. Kaylor, but now in the possession
>of his daughter, Mrs. Clark of Illiopolis, Ill.
>
>DANIEL KAYLOR was a farmer, who in 1860, moved to Edgar County, Ill., where
>he lived on a farm until his death in 1882, his wife having died two years
>previously. The family were originally from Germany, and the grandfather
>DANIEL KAYLOR also served in the Revolutionary War. There were eight children
>born in the family to which John Kaylor belongs: William; John and Theodore,
>the sons, and Mary A.; Louise; Ellen and Malinda, the daughters in addition
>to one
>who died in infancy. William enlisted in Company H, Fourth Indiana Cavalry
>during the Civil War and died in
>Andersonville prison.
>
>John Kaylor received his education in Pennsylvania, spending his boyhood
>on a farm. As a young man he drove a
>stage, being in the employ of the Ohio State Company, along the Erie and
>Pittsburg turnpike, beginning this work in 1853. He drove a coach-and-six
>from Mercer, Pa., to Iowa City, and after the company moved their outfit
>of 200 horses and twenty-four stage coaches, he drove two years for the
>Western Stage Coach Company operating between Des Moines to Adel, Iowa.
>He then moved to Edgar County, Ill., and took up farming which he continued
>from 1858 to 1862, meeting with very gratifying success. On August 1, 1862,
>he enlisted in
>Company H, Fourth Indiana Cavalry, serving during the remainder of the
>war, receiving his discharge August 1, 1865. He enlisted at Terre Haute,
>Ind., and was mustered out at Nashville, Tenn.
>
>Mr. Kaylor under the command of General Cook and George H. Purdy, was Captain
>of his company. He participated in the engagement at Perryville, with his
>divison helping in the taking of Nashville; fought at Murfreesboro and
>Tullahoma, Tenn.; Huntsville, Ala.; Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, and
>in the last named battle, this divison co-operated with General Grant.
>Mr. Kaylor took part in the forced march to
>Knoxville, helped to drive the Confederates to Bulls Gap, Va., then returned
>to Cleveland, Tenn. May 2, 1864, the cavalry marched to Dalton, Ga., where
>the company was almost annihilated, only three of them surviving the conflict.
>May 11, 1864, he was detailed for courier duty, which he continued until
>September 2, after the capture of Atlanta, when he was returned to his
>company and regiment. Mr. Kaylor participated in the second battle of
>Nashville,
>marching with his company to Eastport, Miss. thence. March 6, 1865 to Jackson,
>where he took part in the engagement at Selma and Montgomery, and after
>the surrender of the latter city to General Wilson, who was commanding
>the regiment, marched to Columbus, and West Point, Ga., both of which cities
>were captured. He helped to capture Macon, and soon thereafter peace was
>declared. Mr. Kaylor having served much of the time as courier, a position
>similar to that of Veterinary officer. He is now a prominent member of
>Morgan Post, No. 208, G. A. R., of which he is Quartermaster. During his
>term of service, his wife and three children, after being left behind,
>went to live with her parents. There they remained until the close of the
>conflict restored the brave husband and father to them. Mrs. Kaylor had
>two brothers, who also responded to the call of their country,and served
>in the Civil War.
>
>For the past eighteen years, Mr. Kaylor has served as Assessor of his township
>and city and in 1920, was elected
>to another two year term. He has lived in his present home for the past
>ten years, and is retired from active life. He
>spent many years in hard work, being fairly successful in all his
>undertakings.
>Much of his effort was directed along agricultural lines, as he has always
>loved farming. At the close of the war, he located on a farm near Illiopolis,
>which he cultivated for thirty eight years. In politics, he is a staunch
>Republican, and actively interested in public affairs and issues. He has
>many warm friends in the community, and is universally esteemed. A devout
>member of the Christian Church, he is willing to further any worthy cause.
>
>Mr. Kaylor was married at Redfield, Dallas County, Iowa, August 16, 1857,
>to CERILLA VAN NORMAN, born in KNox County, O., May 16, 1837, being a daughter
>of THEODORE VAN NORMAN, a farmer, who died in Buffalo, Dallas County, Mo.,
>where he had located. The mother of Mrs. Kaylor died in Jacksonville, Ill,
>in 1880. Mrs. Kaylor died April 13, 1907, having borne her husband nine
>children of whom are now living: Theodore, a farmer of Christian County;
>William J., a farmer of Illiopolis township; Amanda, married J. C. Noried,
>a veterinary surgeon, and they reside at Greenville, Ill.; Mary Alice Guyton,
>of Spirngfield; Edna, wife of A. A. Clark, a stock-buyer; Charles in the
>employ of the Sattley Manufacturing Company of Springfield; Eva, married
>Frank Correll, a retired farmer of Illiopolis. There are twenty-nine
>grandchildren
>and three great-grandchildren in the family.
>
>Revered by all who know him, resting assured of a happy future, undisturbed
>by any regrets for his well spent past, Mr. Kaylor is now enjoying his
>leisure, and giving close
>attention to civic matters, for he aims to secure improvements where he
>believes they are needed.
>
>Link: My Family Genealogy
> URL: <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~makaylor/index.html&g

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