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Hugh Taylor

In no part of Louisiana is agriculture in a more flourishing condition than in Claiborne Parish, and here Mr. Taylor is considered one of the leading tillers of the soil. He has resided here ever since his birth, which occurred July 3, 1859, to William and Ann (Brown) Taylor, who were born in Alabama and Georgia, respectively, their union taking place in this State, whither Mr. Taylor had come when a young man find his wife when fifteen years of age. After residing on a farm in Ward 7 for several years, Mr. Taylor sold out and bought land in Ward 2, on which he made his home until his death, in 1860, his widow surviving him at this writing. Three of their children grew to mature years, the immediate subject of this sketch and his sister, who is single, being the survivors.

Hugh grew to manhood in this parish, and received a good education in the Arizona High School. After completing his studies he took charge of the old home farm, which consists of 520 acres, with about 250 acres under cultivation, of which place he is now the owner on this plantation he raises on an average of seventy bales of cotton annually, but besides this he owns 220 more acres of land in two different tracts in Ward 2, each place being partly under cultivation in the summer of 1889 he erected a saw mill and cotton gin on his place, in which Mr. Cleveland has been a half owner since 1890.

He was married in this parish November 12, 1888, to Miss Mollie Collier, a native of this parish, who was reared and educated here, a daughter of Ples Collier, now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have one daughter. Mary Anna, an infant, aged ten months.

Biographical Sketches| Claiborne Parish

Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, Southern Publishing Company, 1890