Thomas Taylor / Taylor Cemetery
(Front text)
Thomas Taylor
1743 - 1833
Member of Provincial Congresses 1775
and 1776; Colonel of Militia under General
Thomas Sumter in the American Revolution;
Senator in the Jacksonborough Assembly;
member of S.C. Convention which ratified
the United States Constitution; member
S.C. Legislature; commissioner who
helped plan the city of Columbia and one
of the founders and first elders of the
First Presbyterian Church.
(Reverse text)
Taylor Cemetery
In 1786 the State of S. C. bought as part of the site of Columbia the plantation of Colonel Thomas Taylor, Revolutionary soldier, and elected him one of the commissioners to lay out the capital city. The home was situated near the southeast corner of Richland and Barnwell streets. On the northwest corner lie buried Colonel Taylor, his son Governor John Taylor and members of the family.
Marker is on Richland Street near Barnwell Street, on the right when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
