Joseph was the second graduating class in the Law Department of the University of Louisville, where he received his Law Degree in 1848. Soon after graduation he moved to Florida where he worked as a Judge of Probate. He met his wife, Sarah Frierson there and they married. Soon afterward the Civil War began. In 1865 Joseph wrote a letter to then Attorney General Joshua Speed requesting amnesty with the war was over. He describes himself:
"I was a member of the convention that voted Florida out of the Federal and into the Confederate Union; then an aid do camp to General R.F.Floyd, then an aid-de-camp to Governor Chilton; then a Brigadier General commanding state troops, then a senator in Florida Senate, then a private in Confederate states service to repel a raid; then a paroled prisoner of war under the Johnston Serman Capitulation."
After writing this letter Joseph packed up the family, Sarah, two sons, Felix and James and a daughter, Hester, and moved to Texas. He purchased ranch property on the Brazos River another son, William May and a daughter Julia were born. In 1880 Sarah died from an infection contracted during childbirth.
Joseph moved to Oklahoma soon afterwards and lived as a farmer until he died in 1892.
"I was a member of the convention that voted Florida out of the Federal and into the Confederate Union; then an aid do camp to General R.F.Floyd, then an aid-de-camp to Governor Chilton; then a Brigadier General commanding state troops, then a senator in Florida Senate, then a private in Confederate states service to repel a raid; then a paroled prisoner of war under the Johnston Serman Capitulation."
After writing this letter Joseph packed up the family, Sarah, two sons, Felix and James and a daughter, Hester, and moved to Texas. He purchased ranch property on the Brazos River another son, William May and a daughter Julia were born. In 1880 Sarah died from an infection contracted during childbirth.
Joseph moved to Oklahoma soon afterwards and lived as a farmer until he died in 1892.
Joseph was the second graduating class in the Law Department of the University of Louisville, where he received his Law Degree in 1848. Soon after graduation he moved to Florida where he worked as a Judge of Probate. He met his wife, Sarah Frierson there and they married. Soon afterward the Civil War began. In 1865 Joseph wrote a letter to then Attorney General Joshua Speed requesting amnesty with the war was over. He describes himself:
"I was a member of the convention that voted Florida out of the Federal and into the Confederate Union; then an aid do camp to General R.F.Floyd, then an aid-de-camp to Governor Chilton; then a Brigadier General commanding state troops, then a senator in Florida Senate, then a private in Confederate states service to repel a raid; then a paroled prisoner of war under the Johnston Serman Capitulation."
After writing this letter Joseph packed up the family, Sarah, two sons, Felix and James and a daughter, Hester, and moved to Texas. He purchased ranch property on the Brazos River another son, William May and a daughter Julia were born. In 1880 Sarah died from an infection contracted during childbirth.
Joseph moved to Oklahoma soon afterwards and lived as a farmer until he died in 1892.
"I was a member of the convention that voted Florida out of the Federal and into the Confederate Union; then an aid do camp to General R.F.Floyd, then an aid-de-camp to Governor Chilton; then a Brigadier General commanding state troops, then a senator in Florida Senate, then a private in Confederate states service to repel a raid; then a paroled prisoner of war under the Johnston Serman Capitulation."
After writing this letter Joseph packed up the family, Sarah, two sons, Felix and James and a daughter, Hester, and moved to Texas. He purchased ranch property on the Brazos River another son, William May and a daughter Julia were born. In 1880 Sarah died from an infection contracted during childbirth.
Joseph moved to Oklahoma soon afterwards and lived as a farmer until he died in 1892.
Inscription
GEN JOSEPH M
TAYLOR
BORN IN
LOUISVILLE KY
DIED
JAN 2,1892
AGED
65 YRS. 9 MS.
28 DS.
Gravesite Details
a Mason symbol is on the right side of headstone
