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I HAVE JUST RECEIVED AN EDIT REQUEST AND AFTER REVIEWING THE INFORMATION, WHICH I MIGHT ADD CONCURS WITH MY OWN RESEARCH, I WILL BE REMOVING WILLIAM TAYLOR ( 54856301) AS THE FATHER OF THIS WILLIAM TAYLOR, WHOM MY MEMORIAL WAS ESTABLISHED. THE EDIT REQUEST IS AS FOLLOWS:

Find A Grave contributor, RON TAYLOR has made the following suggested edits.

William Taylor (12476823)

Suggested edit: William Taylor III is not the son of William Taylor (1775) of Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church. The post states that William III was born in Lexington, SC. and his parents were from Germany. William Taylor (1775) was born in Laurens County, SC and he was Scotch-Irish because his parents were born in Northern Ireland. William (1775) only had one child who was William I. Taylor (1795). The family legend is that William (1775) left with a wagon train in 1804 and became sick and returned to die and be buried in RSPC. He had no other children.

Contributor: RON TAYLOR (47598912)
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William Taylor, III was a half brother of Jacob Rall/Rawl/Rawls.

Their mother, Catherine Price married first, Jacob Rall, Sr. after his death she married William Taylor, Jr.

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William Taylor, III and wife Rebecca moved from South Carolina to Coweta Co., GA about the year 1845.

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Will of Catherine Price 1)Rall 2)Taylor - 9 November, 1835

I, CATHERINE RALL do make and ordain this my last will and testament in words following to wit:

1st -- I do order and direct my afternamed executor, as soon as convient after my decease, to sell at auction on a credit of one year my two negro slaves Amy and Mima at the sale of which slaves I order and direct that the bidder or bids of the bidder person or persons whatsoever be received, except the legatees in this my will mentioned in as such as I desire my said slaves to be purchased by some of my family, I therefore direct that no person except my legatees be premitted to bid for or purchase the servants.

2nd -- As to all and singular the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, property, effects whatsoever, except money, notes and other securities for money, I desire and do hereby order and direct my afternamed executors to sell the same at public auction at the same time and place, and upon a like credit with my said slaves, but all persons shall be at liberty to bid for and purchase any and all that they be offered for sale, except slaves as before excepted, and the purchaser or purchasers shall give notes for and sureties for the purchase money, for the solvency of which surities my executor shall be personally responaible.

3rd -- The proceeds of the sale of the said negros, and of all singular and other property before mentioned and ordered and directed to be sold by my executors, together with all and singular any money, notes and other securties for money, and in short of my estate and effects whatsoever I give and bequeath unto my sons GEORGE RALL, JACOB RALL, DANIEL RALL, WILLIAM TAYLOR, and CHRISTIAN RALL, my daughter CATHERINE BOOZER, and the children of deceased son FREDERIC RALL, their heirs and assigns forever, in the following manner and proportions, that is to say; I give and bequeath unto my son Christian Rall, his heirs& assigns one seventh less by one hundred and twenty dollars; that is, one hundred and twenty dollars less than one seventh of my estate. I having already advanced that amount to him. One sixth of the balance, after deducting the share of my said son CHRISTIAN RALL, I give and beqeath unto the children of my deceased son FREDERIC RALL, to wit JEREMIAH RALL, NANCY RALL, CHRISTIAN RALL JUNIOR, SARAH SHEALY, and CAROLINE RALL, their heirs and assigns forever, equally share and share alike. I desire, and I do hereby order and direct the remaining five sixths of my whole estate to be equally divided between and among my sons GEORGE RALL, JACOB RALL, DANIEL RALL, and WILLIAM TAYLOR, and my daughter CATHERINE BOOZER share and share alike and I give and bequeath the same same to them, and their heirs and assigns forever.

4th -- I order and direct my afore said executors to pay over the above legacies as soon as practicable after my decease. And lastly I nominate and appoint my said sons Jacob Rall and William Taylor executors of this my will: and I do hereby revoke and annull all other wills heretofore made by me, ratifying and confirming this my only true will and testament.

Catherine ( X ) Rall

Signed, Sealed, published and declared by the said Catherine Rall as and for her last will and testament in the presence of each other and in her presence at her request have set our names as witnesses hereunto, this the ninth day of November in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five.

Lemuel Boozer
Jacob Addy
Tolliver Thornton

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Biography of William Taylor in "Memoirs of Georgia" published by the Southern Historical Association in 1895:

WILLIAM TAYLOR, one of Georgia's pioneers, was of German ancestry, his two grandfathers, William Taylor and Jacob Price, being both natives of that country; the latter came to America in his boyhood, and settled in South Carolina, where he died in 1804; he was in many ways a remarkable man -- especially given the reading, and delighted in the study of the Scripture; his death was extremely sudden, and his last earthly action was the perusal of the sacred page -- while reading which he suddenly fell forward upon the fire, and was so badly burned that death ensued. His grandson, William Taylor, had in his possession the Bible which the aged man had been reading at the moment of his sudden demise. Mr. Taylor's parents were William and Catherine (Price) Taylor; the father, who served in the war of the revolution in which he was severely wounded in the thigh, was born in Virginia but settled in South Carolina, afterward removing to Tennessee. The youngest son, William, was born in South Carolina in 1801, and here spent the years of his youth and early manhood, with such privileges of education as the country schools of his day could afford. He was thirty-eight years of age when he removed to Georgia, where he remained during life, and lived to be one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Coweta county. He was a member of the masonic fraternity. In 1819, Mr. Taylor married Rebecca Corley, a daughter of Lawrence and Barbara (Derrick) Corley, of South Carolina, where Mrs. Taylor was born in 1800. Ten children were the offspring of this union: Eliza (deceased); Louisa, Mrs. Sibley; Mary, Mrs. Hardison; Dr. J. P., killed in the late war; Rebecca, Mrs. Franck; and W. L. Mrs. Taylor also died in 1863, and in 1864 Mr. Taylor married Miss Mary Hodnett, who was born in Troupe county, Ga., in 1832, and was a daughter of William and Caroline (Findley) Hodnett, Virginians, who came to Georgia in the early days; Mr. Hodnett was a soldier in the war of 1812. This union was blessed with seven children: Thomas, George (deceased), Carrie, Benjamin, Henry, John and Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are members of the Lutheran church, and the family is one widely known and esteemed. Wm. Taylor died March 31, 1895, wanting one week of being ninety-four years of age.