Susannah L. Taylor

Susannah L. Taylor

            Susannah “Susan” E. Leach was born 22 Jan 1803, the daughter of Leonard S. Leach and M. C. Skinner.  Susannah was one of nine children and out-lived all of her siblings.  Thomas Jefferson was President when she was born. Susannah lived through the War of 1812; the arrival of the railroads in Kentucky; the siege of The Alamo in 1836;  the war with Mexico and the Gold Rush in 1848;  the Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination; the inventions of the typewriter, the phonograph, and the telephone; the first Kentucky Derby in 1875; and the invention of electric lights.  Susannah died 29 Aug 1883 in Ohio County.

            She married Richard C. Taylor, a Presbyterian minister, on 8 April 1834. Richard died about nine months before Susannah.  They had ten children: Septimus, Christina, William Henry, Mary Jane, Rebecca, Nancy Caroline, Leonard, Hugh, Elizabeth, and Josephine.