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John R. Taylor
From Adel, Georgia
John R. Taylor was born to John R. Taylor, Sr. the younger brother of Hiram
Doye Taylor, and Nancy Jo Shaw. John R. was physically abusive to Nancy Jo and
she left him out of fear. Knowing John R. would follow her if she had the baby
she gave John R. Taylor Jr. to Hiram Doye Taylor when the infant was two months
old. Doye kept John and raised him as his own son. He was later adopted by
Doye's wife Helen Holloway Taylor. She had his named changed from John R. Taylor
Jr. to Johnny Ray Taylor, although he was known by John his entire life.
John married Sonya Powers. They had three children, Stephanie, Jacob and
Sarah. The marriage ended in divorce. John married Julie Stubbs Sheppard. There
were no children from the marriage and the marriage ended in
divorce. John married Kristine Gillespie LeMay.
Taylor Family: A Brief History of Adel, Cook County, Georgia
The following is a history written in
1930. It is interesting for the history it presents as well as the insight
it provides into the perspectives the people of that time had.
TERRITORIAL BOUNDARIES In presenting the history of Cook
County, it is essential that we know something of the territory from which
it was created. Irwin County was created in 1818, surveyed in 1818 and 1819
and the people began to draw the land about 1820. Irwin County originally
contained sixteen land districts; four small ones on the north side, nine
large ones in the middle and three small ones on the south side covering to
the Spanish border (or Florida line). The Four small districts on the north
lay broad side to the Ocmulgee River. The nine central districts of original
Irwin contained four thousand seven hundred and sixty one 490 acre lots of
land. "Old Irwin" was surveyed first from east to west by Broodnax and from
north to south by Johnson. Original Irwin cornered northwest of Sylvester,
Ga., on the Flint River. The northeast corner was a little above where the
present town of Ocilla, Ga., now stands, the southeast corner at Irwin Lakes
below Valdosta and the southwest corner is southwest of Thomasville, Ga., on
the Florida line. (Read
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