Birth of John Thomas Taylor (1868)
MARY gave birth to another baby boy at the family farm on Friday, March 6, 1868. One
of MARY's brothers back in Scotland was named John, while another was named Thomas.
But the new infant's first name was cloned from his father, who had just reached 42 years of
age on the previous day. During that same week, little Elizabeth, a sister of the day-old
JOHN THOMAS TAYLOR, celebrated her fifth birthday on Saturday, the 7th. Next year,
MARY would most likely decorate cakes for three consecutive days in early March.
By the time their new baby was three months old in June of 1868, JOHN and MARY had
five children who were of school age. Robert and Isabella's four offspring were also old
enough to grasp an education. Members of the McClintock, Howard, Furge, and Dickover
families along with children from two Whaly families made up the remainder of the 33
youngsters in the school district enumeration on June 6. Schoolhousing and book-learning
had finally come to the local neighborhood.
WORK AND PLAY
Here at school we gather daily,
And we learn the golden rule;
Still aspiring, never tiring,
That is what we learn at school!
Lessons over, then each rover
Laughs the happy hours away;
Merry playmates, blithe and gay mates,
That's the way we do at school!
Work and play we mingle daily,
Both we do with loving zest;
Never tiring, still aspiring,
Till the sun sinks in the west.
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