Rev. John Taylor was a man of many talents and worked as an attorney, carpenter, minister, a circuit rider and missionary.
His beloved wife, Sally, deceased in 1910 leaving him with five adult children. He was called to travel to the Thomaston area where he lived in the bottom of the old Masonic Hall, which was across from Valley Grove Baptist Church, when he was in that area. The Masonic Hall was in the same neighborhood as Moses White. We assume that he met Martha Caroline, who was essentially an old maid at the age of 39, at church.
They were married in 1911 and had no children.
Rev. Taylor eventually became minister of Valley Grove Baptist Church in 1918. He remained minister for 15 years until his retirement in 1933. During his 15 year tenure as minister, he is noted for bringing 200 souls into the church. Talking to older members of Valley Grove Baptist Church who remember John, it is reported that he was a fine preacher. In fact, he would get so enthusiastic about his preaching that he would spit out his false teeth, catch them with his hand and put them back in and continue with his sermon. It is said that John was distraught when Martha Caroline preceded him in death, and that it was difficult to get him to leave her casket so she could be buried.
John lived only two years after the death of Martha Caroline.
There are many church minutes and other records of John's tenure at Valley Grove Baptist Church in Thomaston, Georgia. John and Martha Caroline are buried in Valley Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Thomaston, Georgia.
Notes from family members as well as notes from John L. White Descendants (Revised Edition) 1800-2001, by Howard and Mary L. White of Jacksonville, Alabama.
His beloved wife, Sally, deceased in 1910 leaving him with five adult children. He was called to travel to the Thomaston area where he lived in the bottom of the old Masonic Hall, which was across from Valley Grove Baptist Church, when he was in that area. The Masonic Hall was in the same neighborhood as Moses White. We assume that he met Martha Caroline, who was essentially an old maid at the age of 39, at church.
They were married in 1911 and had no children.
Rev. Taylor eventually became minister of Valley Grove Baptist Church in 1918. He remained minister for 15 years until his retirement in 1933. During his 15 year tenure as minister, he is noted for bringing 200 souls into the church. Talking to older members of Valley Grove Baptist Church who remember John, it is reported that he was a fine preacher. In fact, he would get so enthusiastic about his preaching that he would spit out his false teeth, catch them with his hand and put them back in and continue with his sermon. It is said that John was distraught when Martha Caroline preceded him in death, and that it was difficult to get him to leave her casket so she could be buried.
John lived only two years after the death of Martha Caroline.
There are many church minutes and other records of John's tenure at Valley Grove Baptist Church in Thomaston, Georgia. John and Martha Caroline are buried in Valley Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Thomaston, Georgia.
Notes from family members as well as notes from John L. White Descendants (Revised Edition) 1800-2001, by Howard and Mary L. White of Jacksonville, Alabama.
Rev. John Taylor was a man of many talents and worked as an attorney, carpenter, minister, a circuit rider and missionary.
His beloved wife, Sally, deceased in 1910 leaving him with five adult children. He was called to travel to the Thomaston area where he lived in the bottom of the old Masonic Hall, which was across from Valley Grove Baptist Church, when he was in that area. The Masonic Hall was in the same neighborhood as Moses White. We assume that he met Martha Caroline, who was essentially an old maid at the age of 39, at church.
They were married in 1911 and had no children.
Rev. Taylor eventually became minister of Valley Grove Baptist Church in 1918. He remained minister for 15 years until his retirement in 1933. During his 15 year tenure as minister, he is noted for bringing 200 souls into the church. Talking to older members of Valley Grove Baptist Church who remember John, it is reported that he was a fine preacher. In fact, he would get so enthusiastic about his preaching that he would spit out his false teeth, catch them with his hand and put them back in and continue with his sermon. It is said that John was distraught when Martha Caroline preceded him in death, and that it was difficult to get him to leave her casket so she could be buried.
John lived only two years after the death of Martha Caroline.
There are many church minutes and other records of John's tenure at Valley Grove Baptist Church in Thomaston, Georgia. John and Martha Caroline are buried in Valley Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Thomaston, Georgia.
Notes from family members as well as notes from John L. White Descendants (Revised Edition) 1800-2001, by Howard and Mary L. White of Jacksonville, Alabama.
His beloved wife, Sally, deceased in 1910 leaving him with five adult children. He was called to travel to the Thomaston area where he lived in the bottom of the old Masonic Hall, which was across from Valley Grove Baptist Church, when he was in that area. The Masonic Hall was in the same neighborhood as Moses White. We assume that he met Martha Caroline, who was essentially an old maid at the age of 39, at church.
They were married in 1911 and had no children.
Rev. Taylor eventually became minister of Valley Grove Baptist Church in 1918. He remained minister for 15 years until his retirement in 1933. During his 15 year tenure as minister, he is noted for bringing 200 souls into the church. Talking to older members of Valley Grove Baptist Church who remember John, it is reported that he was a fine preacher. In fact, he would get so enthusiastic about his preaching that he would spit out his false teeth, catch them with his hand and put them back in and continue with his sermon. It is said that John was distraught when Martha Caroline preceded him in death, and that it was difficult to get him to leave her casket so she could be buried.
John lived only two years after the death of Martha Caroline.
There are many church minutes and other records of John's tenure at Valley Grove Baptist Church in Thomaston, Georgia. John and Martha Caroline are buried in Valley Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Thomaston, Georgia.
Notes from family members as well as notes from John L. White Descendants (Revised Edition) 1800-2001, by Howard and Mary L. White of Jacksonville, Alabama.
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