I find the marriage licenses for Leonard Taylor and (1) Caroline Kidwell (20 January 1845) and (2) Rebecca Loveless (10 May 1852), and that his second marriage to Rebecca was performed by the Rector of St. Barnabas', Leeland. (This is interesting, because both Leonard and Rebecca were buried at Mount Carmel, the cemetery of St. Mary's Roan Catholic Church in Upper Marlboro.)
Leonard's gravestone at Mount Carmel gives his dates as 20 July 1821 to 16 November 1891. Rebecca is indicated on the gravestone, but there are no dates. I find also (as you must have already) both Leonard and Rody Taylor listed in the 1850 census, the first census that lists all individuals by name In 1850 Rody is 75 years old, and Leonard only 27. (Leonard's wife, Caroline, is still living at the time of this census. She iied in 1852, and is buried at St. Thomas' Episcopal church in Croom.)
In 1850 Leonard lived very close to the area now known today as Rosaryville, as his closest neighbor was Cecelius Calvert who lived at the Mount Airy plantation. Leonard is listed as a "manager" in the 1850 census, almost certainly for the Calverts at Mount Airy. While Leonard owned no real estate at that time, Rody owned a substantial amount. In 1850 Rody (Rhody) lived in the Croom area,between the village of Croom and Shelby's Landing on the Patuxent River.
A Rodiah Taylor is buried at St. Thomas' Church at Croom, but the inscription on his gravestone indicates that he died 8 June 1889 at 77 years of age. This of course does not fit with the data in the 1850 census. Prince George's County probate records indicate that Rhody Taylor died in 1857 - he did not write a will, but his estate file is preserved at the MD State Archives as File #401. Did the older Rhody Taylor have a son by the same name, and could the son be the R.H. Taylor who appears in the 1870 census in the Notingham area not too far from Croom? and who died in 1889?
These same probate records indicate that Leonard Taylor died in 1891; he also did not write a will, but his estate file is #1444.
You will need to dig deeper into the wills and estate files of the Taylor faily to discover the parents of these two men, and to find anything about Sarah Jones. I find nothing abut a marriage between a Sarah Jones and any Taylor.
Good luck with your search!
Susan G. Pearl, Historian
Prince George's County Historical Society
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: Leonard Taylor of Nottingham/Upper Marlboro is
: my gggrandfather as is Rhodia Taylor of
: Nottingham.Leonard married first Caroline
: Kidwell and had 1 son and lived in
: Nottingham at that time. He married 2nd
: Rebecca Loveless and lived in Upper
: Marlboro.Rhodia married Sarah Jones and
: lived in Nottingham. Several of the children
: in these 2 families married each other. I am
: looking for information on the parents of
: both Rhodia and Leonard as well as Sarah
: Jones.
: Laurie Taylor Gilman
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