{"id":1978,"date":"2013-06-24T09:51:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T16:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2016-05-11T13:30:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:30:52","slug":"taylor-thomas-jones-1829-1894","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1978","title":{"rendered":"TAYLOR, THOMAS JONES, 1829-1894"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Educator; elected official. Born&#8211; July 2, 1829 in Talladega. Parents&#8211; Mai and Ann Johnston (McCartney) Taylor. Married&#8211; Lockey Thompson Douglass, December 10, 1850. Children&#8211;six.\u00a0\u00a0Commissioned as a captain\u00a0in Company K, 9th Alabama Infantry, CSA. Captured at Port Hudson, Mississippi, 1863; held as a prisoner of War at Johnson&#8217;s Island, Ohio. Madison County surveyor, 1858-62 and 1868-71; taught school, 1865-68;\u00a0 tax assessor; , clerk of county court, 1880-1886; probate judge, 1886-1894. Died November 12, 1894.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Introduction&#8221; to The Early History of Madison County; \u00a0Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Early History of Madison County and Incidentally of Northern Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1976.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of letters written by Thomas Jones Taylor to his family during his service in the Civil War\u00a0is held by the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Educator; elected official. Born&#8211; July 2, 1829 in Talladega. Parents&#8211; Mai and Ann Johnston (McCartney) Taylor. Married&#8211; Lockey Thompson Douglass, December 10, 1850. Children&#8211;six.\u00a0\u00a0Commissioned as a captain\u00a0in Company K, 9th Alabama Infantry, CSA. Captured at Port Hudson, Mississippi, 1863; held as a prisoner of War at Johnson&#8217;s Island, Ohio. Madison County surveyor, 1858-62 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-t-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5484,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}