FOURTH GENERATION

23. Mary Ann TAYLOR was born in 1791 in , Martin, North Carolina. She was buried in 1852 in Taylor Fam Cmtry, nr Richardsville, Warren, Kentucky. She died on 30 Aug 1852 in nr Richardsville, Warren, Kentucky. !Info from "History of the Taylor Family, given at Taylor
Reunion,1909.
"Taylor Family Record" by Joseph Bowyer, 1927.
L.D.S. Archive F.G.S.
Info from early Warren Co, KY genealogist, Nora Young
Ferguson,Bowling Green,
KY (now deceased.)
Marriage date from Marriage Records of Warren Co, KY for Marr. #1
and#2.
Marriage Record for #1 states that Mary Ann was under 21 at time ofher
marriage, and she needed her father Joseph Taylor's consent.
Samueland Mary
Ann were md by Robert Daugherty.
Info from 1850 Census, Warren Co, KY, Mary Upton, age 58 yrs, born
inNC,
residing with husband Elijah and stepson, Absalom Upton at
Household#225,
Dist. 1.
Info from Death Certif. from Warren Co, KY which says Mary Ann died
ofa
"hemorrage of the lungs--very sudden", and she was age 61 yrs.
Mary Ann was also listed on her father's Will, dtd 1 Dec. 1815,
asMaryan
Cherry.
Note: In 1959, Warren Co., KY genealogist Nora Young Ferguson,
copieddown the
info from tombstones at the Taylor Cmtry nr Richardsville, and
shesaid that
Mary Ann Taylor Cherry Upton and her first husband, Samuel
Cherry,were both
buried at the Taylor Cemetery. The tombstones are
apparentlydestroyed at this
time (1995).

She was married to Samuel CHERRY on 2 Feb 1813 in , Warren, Kentucky. Samuel CHERRY was born in 1792 in , Edgecombe, North Carolina. He was buried in 1823 in Taylor Fam Cmtry, nr Richardsville, Warren, Kentucky. He died about Jun 1823 in nr Richardsville, Warren, Kentucky. !Info from LDS Archive sheet by Jesse Warner.
Info from "History of the Taylor Family" given at Taylor Reunion,1909.
Marriage date from Marriage Records of Warren Co, KY. Samuel and
MaryAnn
were md by Robert Daugherty.
"Taylor Family Record" by Joseph Bowyer, 1927.
Info from Cherry Family file by Cherry Ebeling, Port Arthur, TX,
inWestern
Ky Univ Lib, Bowling Green, Ky.
Info from Settlement of Estate of Samuel Cherry, Oct. Term Court
1828,Warren
Co, KY, furnished by Helen Cherry Fisher Greene, Pinehurst, NC
(nowdeceased).
Warren Co, KY Court Record 1822, Mary Ann Cherry & Allen
Taylor,Administrators
of Estate of Samuel Cherry, $2,000. bond with William Taylor & Meshack
Burchfield, Sureties. Elijah Upton, James Hudnall, William
White,Ephraim
Blackford & Mathew Young, appointed Appraisers of Estate.
Info from Warren Co, KY Deed Book K-10, p. 26:
"Indenture made May 6, 1821 between Jonathan Hobson, Clerk of
WarrenCt, and
Samuel Cherry of Warren, in obedience to an order of Warren Ct
attheir Oct
Term 1819, witnesses they he hereby binds Elizabeth Goodman,
infantorphan of
Samuel Goodman decd, abt age 7 yrs, to Samuel Cherry, until
shearrives to age
18 yrs, to learn the business of housekeeping. Cherry agrees that
hewill
teach her the business and that he will cause her to be taught
readingand
writing and will also furnish and provide her with good,
wholesomediet,
lodging, and clothing suitable for an apprentice, and at the end
ofher term,
pay her 4 lbs, 10 shillings and a new and decent suit of
clothes.Signed
Jon E. Hobson, Samuel Cherry. Acknowledged at May Court 1821."
Info from Nora Young Ferguson, Bowling Green, KY, (now deceased)
whocopied down
the tombstones at the Taylor Family Cemetery, nr
Richardsville,Warren, KY in
1959.

!Note: According to his 2nd GG-dau, Helen Cherry Fisher Greene
ofPinehurst,
NC, Samuel died in 1823, killed by lightning. (Many other death
datesand
causes for death have been given by descendants of Samuel Cherry).
According to an old ltr written in 1959 in my possess, written by
NoraYoung
Ferguson, early genealogist of Warren County who was raised
inRichardsville on
the old Allen Taylor place, Samuel and Mary Ann Cherry were
bothburied at the
Taylor Family Cemetery, near Richardsville, Warren, KY. She made
alist of
burials there and they were on the list. (The tombstones could
havebeen
knocked down now in 1995.) Mary Ann TAYLOR and Samuel CHERRY had the following children:

child+129 i. Alfred CHERRY.

She was married to Elijah UPTON on 29 Aug 1826 in , Warren, Kentucky. Elijah UPTON was born on 31 Aug 1782 in , Montgomery, Virginia. He was buried in Aug 1862 in Taylor Fam Cmtry, nr Richardsville, Warren, Kentucky. He died on 28 Aug 1862 in , Warren, Kentucky. !Info from "History of the Taylor Family", given at Taylor
Reunion,1909.
"Taylor Family Record" by Joseph Bowyer, 1927.
L.D.S. Archive F.G.S.
Info from Nora Young Ferguson, Bowling Green, KY, early Warren Co, KY
genealogist (now deceased).
Info from tombstone at Taylor Family Cmtry, nr Richardsville,
Warren,KY for
birthdate and death date.
The birth date of 31 Aug 1783 from direct desc. Sara
Sherwood,Muskogee, OK.
Marriage date for #1 and #2 from Marriage Records of Warren Co,
KY.Marr. date
for #2 also listed as 31 Aug 1824, Warren Co. If that is
true,Elizabeth Ford
would have died in 1824.
Info from Will dtd 30 May 1857, Warren Co, KY.
Info from 1850 Census, Warren Co, KY, Elijah Upton, age 65
yrs,farmer, born in
VA, residing with wife Mary Ann and son Absalom at Household
#225,Dist. #1.
Info from 1860 Census, Warren Co, KY, Elijah Upton, age 75
yrs,farmer, born in
VA, residing with grandson William Upton at Household #495, Dist. #2.
Note: If the census birth dates are correct, he probably was born
31Aug 1784.
Note: "Elijah Upton was a very enterprising man in the Richardsville
Community. He has the Masonic emblem on his gravestone. The
MasonicLodge at
Richardsville is named for him. He is one of the original Board
ofTrustees of
the Green River Union Meeting House, the first church founded."
(NoraYoung
Ferguson.) In my study of this family, it appears to me that
Elijahwas
greatly respected by our Taylor family. Elijah was also in the War
of1812.
Elijah and Mary Ann had no children together.

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