Parents

Daughter of William Dabney STROTHER & Sarah BAYLEY.

Life History

Notes

• There are two different sets of parents reported widely as the parentsof Sarah Dabney Strother, who became the wife of Richard Taylor andthe mother of Zachary Taylor, President of the USA.
  
  Many family sources have as her parents Anthony Strother and FrancesEastham.
  
  Anthony Strother was born in 1725 in Hanover County, Virginia. He diedin 1810 in Hardy County, Virginia.
  One source gives birth as in Culpepper County, Virginia. Sources alsodiffer on birth date: 1725, 1732, 1738. Death is reported to be inHardy County, Virginia. Hardy is no longer a county name in Virginia.
  Frances Eastham was born on 3 Mar 1747 in Orange, Virginia, UnitedStates and died on 1777 in Hardy, Bedford, Virginia.
  Anthony Strother and Frances Eastham married.
  Daughter Sarah Pannill Dabney Strother was born on 14 Dec 1760 inRapidan, Orange, Virginia. She married Richard Taylor on 20 Aug 1779in Rapidan, Orange, Virginia.
  She died on 13 Dec 1822 in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky.
  
  Researcher Steve Taylor pointed out to me some formal sources thathave different parents.  I also found that the Kentucky HistoricalSociety research had earlier reported the parents Steve had discoveredin sources, William Strother and Sarah Bailey (also spelled Bayley insome sources).
  
  Most sources give Sarah's full name Sarah Pannill Dabney Strother.There are differences of date of birth among the sources.
  
  Many sources give Sarah four names, Sarah Pannill (or Pannell) DabneyStrother.  The Pannill/Pannell was her mother's first married name.Sarah Bailey or Bayley had married William Pannill.  When he died shemarried William Strother, Sarah's father.  It seems a bit odd that hermother would have named her after her first husband.  Some sourcesgive her name as Sarah Dabney Strother.
  
  Parents of Sarah Panill Dabney Strother
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  Wm. Strother "of Orange" was the second son of Francis Strother andSusan Dabney. In 1751 he married Sarah Bailey Pannill, widow of Wm.Pannill, who died in 1749.
  
  His wife's maiden name was Sarah Bailey, a lady of unusualintelligence and many other charms. She had several children by thefirst marriage. Feb. 20, 1752, she was assigned dower in the estate ofher late husband, Wm. Pannill and Wm. Strother was appointed guardianof her children. By the marriage to Wm. Strother "of Orange" were thefollowing children:
  Susannah Strother - Capt. Moses Hawkins.
  Wm. Dabney Strother - killed battle Guilford Courthouse.
  Sarah Strother - Col. Richard Taylor. ...
  
  Sarah Strother was the third and last of the children of Wm. Strotherof "Orange," and Sarah Pannill. Her birth was in 1760 and she was onlyfourteen years of age when her mother died. She married Col. RichardTaylor, who was a son of Zachary Taylor, Sr., and Elizabeth Lee, andZachary Taylor, Sr., was a son of Col. James Taylor, who came toVirginia in 1658.
  
  Col. Richard Taylor was a gentleman of culture and colonel of the 9thVirginia Regiment during the Revolution. Soon after the termination ofhostilities he moved from Virginia to Jefferson county, Ky., with hisfamily. They had several children. Their son, Zachary Taylor, Jr., wasborn in Orange county, Virginia, in 1786, and was an officer in the U.S. Army, distinguishing himself during the struggle with Mexico, whichservice made him available to the Presidency, to which position he waselected, but the duties of the office were so taxing that he diedbefore the expiration of his term.
  
  He married Margaret Smith and their son, Richard Taylor, was alieutenant general in the Confederacy, and skillfully and ablydistinguished himself during the Rebellion. Other children of Col.Richard Taylor and Sarah Strother were Hancock, Wm. Dabney, George,Richard, Joseph P., Elizabeth, Sarah and Emily, all of whom have manydescendants in Kentucky and other Southern states, who are prominentin social, political and business circles. This ends the line of Wm.Strother of "Orange" and Sarah Pannill.
  --  Register of Kentucky State Historical Society, Volume 16 ByKentucky Historical Society,http://books.google.com/books?id=XXIUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=Sarah+Pannill+Dabney+STROTHER&source=bl&ots=IH2pRPRYon&sig=mxYASGklFNYmchUOqOpp10etdfQ&hl=en&ei=PjbpTLm4EYOKlwfkrtC-Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB0Q6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=Sarah%20Pannill%20Dabney%20STROTHER&f=false
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  Taylor researcher Steve Taylor pointed out to me two errors in theabove material from Kentucky Historical Society, regarding the datesfor James Taylor, father of Zachary Taylor, father of Richard Taylor.The book says that Col. James Taylor "came to Virginia in 1658."Steve points out that according to Taylor Family Bible at the Libraryof Virginia, James Taylor was born in 1674.  So the historical societyleft out a generation.  Further Steve says James was not styled aColonel.
  --  Steve Taylor, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 22 November 2010
  
  U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
  Sarah Dabney Strother
  Gender: Female
  Birth 1760 VA
  Spouse Name: Richard Taylor
  Spouse Birth 1744 VA
  Marriage 1779 VA

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