Biography:

Educator, surveyor, elected official. Born– July 2, 1829 in Talladega. Parents– Mai and Ann Johnston (McCartney) Taylor. Married– Lockey Thompson Douglas.  Commissioned as a captain in Company K, 9th Alabama Infantry, CSA. Captured at Port Hudson, Mississippi, 1863; held as a prisoner of War at Johnsons Island, Ohio. Madison County surveyor, 1658-62 and 1868-71; taught school, 1865-68;  tax assessor; , clerk of county court, 1880-1886; probate judge, 1886-1894.

Papers;

Letters written by Thomas Jones Taylor to his family during his service in the Civil War are held in the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.

Source:

From introduction to The Early History of Madison County and Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors.

Publication(s):

The Early History of Madison County and Incidentally of Northern Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1976.