"Grove Street Cemetery. A simple rectangular marble gravestone marks the resting place of Thomas L. Taylor, an African American, run away slave, and sailor who served with the U.S. Navy on the Union's ironclad ship U.S.S. Monitor when it fought the Confederate ironclad Merrimac, during the Civil War. Taylor is recorded as being the last survivor of that famous battle. He died on March 7, 1932 at age 84."
No independent evidence or corroboration has ever been located to support Taylor's claims of service on the USS Monitor, made well after most of the iconic battle's participants had died. See, for example, "The Monitor Boys: The Crew of the Union's First Ironclad," by John V. Quarstein, The History Press (2011), at pp. 200, 299-301. Taylor's own affidavits submitted in support of his federal pension application for his wartime service repeatedly deny his twentieth-century claims.
Wife Lillian Elizabeth White Taylor; 1st child - Lillian Honor Taylor, b. May 17, 1878; 2nd child - son William Henry Harrison Taylor, b.Dec 8, 1884. The foregoing was provided by Taylor . The document is posted here.
No independent evidence or corroboration has ever been located to support Taylor's claims of service on the USS Monitor, made well after most of the iconic battle's participants had died. See, for example, "The Monitor Boys: The Crew of the Union's First Ironclad," by John V. Quarstein, The History Press (2011), at pp. 200, 299-301. Taylor's own affidavits submitted in support of his federal pension application for his wartime service repeatedly deny his twentieth-century claims.
Wife Lillian Elizabeth White Taylor; 1st child - Lillian Honor Taylor, b. May 17, 1878; 2nd child - son William Henry Harrison Taylor, b.Dec 8, 1884. The foregoing was provided by Taylor . The document is posted here.
"Grove Street Cemetery. A simple rectangular marble gravestone marks the resting place of Thomas L. Taylor, an African American, run away slave, and sailor who served with the U.S. Navy on the Union's ironclad ship U.S.S. Monitor when it fought the Confederate ironclad Merrimac, during the Civil War. Taylor is recorded as being the last survivor of that famous battle. He died on March 7, 1932 at age 84."
No independent evidence or corroboration has ever been located to support Taylor's claims of service on the USS Monitor, made well after most of the iconic battle's participants had died. See, for example, "The Monitor Boys: The Crew of the Union's First Ironclad," by John V. Quarstein, The History Press (2011), at pp. 200, 299-301. Taylor's own affidavits submitted in support of his federal pension application for his wartime service repeatedly deny his twentieth-century claims.
Wife Lillian Elizabeth White Taylor; 1st child - Lillian Honor Taylor, b. May 17, 1878; 2nd child - son William Henry Harrison Taylor, b.Dec 8, 1884. The foregoing was provided by Taylor . The document is posted here.
No independent evidence or corroboration has ever been located to support Taylor's claims of service on the USS Monitor, made well after most of the iconic battle's participants had died. See, for example, "The Monitor Boys: The Crew of the Union's First Ironclad," by John V. Quarstein, The History Press (2011), at pp. 200, 299-301. Taylor's own affidavits submitted in support of his federal pension application for his wartime service repeatedly deny his twentieth-century claims.
Wife Lillian Elizabeth White Taylor; 1st child - Lillian Honor Taylor, b. May 17, 1878; 2nd child - son William Henry Harrison Taylor, b.Dec 8, 1884. The foregoing was provided by Taylor . The document is posted here.
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