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A Boy from Barnhart: Times Remembered
By: Herbie R. TayloreBook Publisher: AuthorSolutions
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Everyone has a story to tell, a legacy to leave to both living family and future generations. In his memoir, A Boy from Barnhart: Times Remembered, author Herb Taylor shares his life story and legacy, from his coming of age on large ranches and small towns in West Texas to his subsequent career as a professional army officer. Taylor writes of life and its realities during the drought years of the 1950s. He chronicles the people, places, ideas, and incidents he encountered during a twenty-eight year army career, as well as his struggle with a lifelong alcohol addiction and the death of his childhood sweetheart after a thirty-five year marriage. He writes of the good times and the not so good, the ordinary and the unusual, in a casual, personal, and informative way that captures the times and his life experiences. Equal parts genealogy, history, travelogue, and memoir, Taylor's memories are the emotional account of a life well-lived, as well as an interesting and intricate record of times gone by.
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| Title of eBook: A Boy from Barnhart: Times Remembered | |
| Release Date: 11-07-2011 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse.com |
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A Boy from Barnhart: Times Remembered
Chapter One
The Clan of TaylorIf you don't know your family's history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. —Michael Crichton
The name Taylor was as common in the seventeenth century as it is now. This makes tracing one's ancestry difficult. Fortunately, my branch of the Taylor family has a lineage that has been well researched and documented by a distant cousin, Nathaniel Lane Taylor. Dr. Taylor, a native of New England and holder of a PhD in medieval European history from Harvard University (1995), has graciously allowed me to use material from his unpublished work titled An American Taylor Family: Descendants of Richard Taylor (d. 1679) of North Farnham Parish in the Northern Neck of Virginia. This work is on the Internet at http://www.nltaylor.net/Taylorgen. Dr. Taylor's research is based on an exhaustive search of the paper trail, and today, it is being substantiated by DNA testing, of which I am a participant.
My twig of the Taylor tree may be characterized as hardworking "tillers of the soil." They were referred to by some as the "salt of the earth." They were neither presidents, captains of industry, educators, noted authors nor orators, physicians, or politicians. Primarily stewards of the land, some served their country under arms. I am a tenth-generation descendant of one Richard Taylor. A synopsis of the life of this man and his male descendants follows:
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be a man
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