Some Things About Members Of The Descendants Of The Taylors Of Carlisle, England

    The writer grew up not knowing much about his Taylors, in part because his grandmother, Adelia Marie Barrow, divorced his grandfather, John Riley Taylor, before their only child together, Eldie Silas Taylor, was born.  That happened on September 11, 1903.  He died February 22, 1978.
    Shortly afterward, the writer's mother, Ottie Mae Ragland Taylor, showed him a card John Riley had sent Delia.  It was postmarked Bremen, Kentucky.  Shortly afterward he was in the Muhlenberg County Courthouse looking at records of John Riley.  He found a record of his marriage to Nancy Ann Noffsinger in January, 1904.
    The writer and his wife rode a Honda Goldwing to the Bremen neighborhood and looked up Noffsingers and asked a lot of questions.  Some of the interviewees were a little nervous seeing the then young couple pull up on a motorcycle.  They talked to one Noffsinger gentleman who was bedridden who sent them to talk to someone named Howard and his wife.   Someone finally said, "Oh yes!  Aunt Nanny!"
    Eventually they were given a phone number to a cousin of the children of 'Riley' and 'Nanny.'
We were told Lloyd was dead and was given the number of Lelia, a daughter who had never married and was living in Nashville, Tennessee.  They called the number to arrange a visit and Lloyd answered the phone.
    They were shocked but told him to tell Aunt Lelia they would come and meet them at a certain date and time.  They showed up and it was Aunt Lelia's turn to be shocked.  Uncle Lloyd hadn't told her they had called.  She grabbed her chest and fell up against the wall like she was having a heart attack.  Aunt Lelia recovered in a few minutes, grabbed the phone and started calling her other brother, sisters, and nieces and nephews.  Soon there was a houseful of Taylors and relatives.
    The writer learned he had twentynine half first cousins he hadn't known about before.  Riley had nine children by his first wife and six by his third wife, though one died as a baby.  The writers father had never met any of his half brothers and sisters and didn't know of most of them.
    The writer eventually found his grandfather had grown up in DeKalb County, Tennessee and his first set of children had been born in Warren County, Tennessee.