Wesley Carter Taylor
and Martha Combs

Martha Combs and Wesley Taylor

Wesley Carter Taylor and Son, Wesley French Taylor Photos Submitted by Lisa Drobot

L-R: Dora Taylor, Husband, John Sims and John's Father, Felix Sims

Wesley Carter Taylor b 1846 d 1931 s/o Gideon Taylor and Faney Phipps. Wesley Taylor m. Martha Combs b 1847 d 2 Jul 1922, d/o Robert Combs and Eliza Godsey. Wesley Carter Taylor was mayor at East Stone Gap, VA in 1896 and postmaster at Kingsport TN. Children of Wesley Carter Taylor and Martha Combs;

I. Robert Combs Taylor b 15 Mar 1870 Hazard, KY d 1 Oct 1878.

II. Mary Ellen "Sister" Taylor b 19 Mar 1872 Hazard, KY m. 12 Dec 1890 to Frank Polly

III. John W Taylor b 29 Aug 1874 Hazard, KY d 15 Oct 1891

IV. Kathaline "Katie" Taylor b 6 Oct 1878 Hazard, KY d 29 Aug 1962 m. 24 Mar 1896 Wise Co VA to Tipton C "Tip" Kilbourne b 26 Jun 1871 Wise Co VA d 25 Dec 1909 Wise Co VA buried Kilbourne Cemetery, Wise Co VA s/o Peter Kilbourne and Mary Polly Unknown. Kathaline "Katie" Taylor m. John "WL"  William Litten Parsons, b 27 May 1857 (alternate source states b 25 May 1857), KY d May 29, 1943 Letcher Co KY (alternate source states 29 Apr 1951, s/o David Parsons and Derinda Emeline Privett.  John "W L" William Litten Parsons  m. 1901 Letcher Co KY to 2nd Elizabeth Mullins b 2 Sept 1862 d 26 Jan 1919 Letcher Co KY. John "W L" William Litten Parsons m. 7/9 Feb 1882 Letcher Co KY to Elizabeth Maggard b 10 Apr 1862 d 25 Dec 1900, d/o William Billy Maggard and Elizabeth Jane Adams.

V. Snooks Taylor (male) b 1879

VI. George B "Babe" Taylor b 13 Feb 1880 Hazard, KY m. 21 May 1905 Wise Co VA to Bessie L Wampler d/o William Henry Wampler and Lydia Jane Skeen.

VII. Eliza "Lizzie" Taylor b 18 Aug 1882 Hazard, KY d 11 Sept 1968 TN m. James Calvin Fuller

VIII. Wesley French Taylor b 2 Mar 1886 Hazard, KY d 13 Dec 1965 Corbin, KY; Baptized 28 Apr 1946 in Corbin, KY by M. C. Yates, m. 3 Jan 1907 Pineville, KY Beatrice Wallace

IX. Dora Taylor b 1885 Wise Co VA (adopted daughter) m. 19 Aug 1910 Wise Co VA to John Sims (aka Simms) s/o Felix Sims and Retty Unknown. Family stories indicates that Dora Taylor was left in a container after a circus came to town and left. A gentlemen who found her went to get a shovel to bury her from one of the nearby neighbors and as he was digging, he heard sounds from the container and found her alive. Wesley Taylor and Martha Combs adopted her. Dora's marriage to John Sims came to an end when he would not correct her sons. She went to another place, remarried and found happiness there with another husband. (Her son went to visit her later in life and found her happy and doing well with her new husband). Submitted by Lisa Drobot.

Thanks to Lisa Drobot for submitting information and updates to this family.