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United Daughters of the Confederacy
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Founding President of the Original Salyer Lee Chapter 1417
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Hattie
Salyer Taylor
Daughter of Logan Neil Salyer
Founding President of Salyer-Lee
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Our founding
President was Harriet “Hattie” Salyer Taylor, born February 2, 1862 and died
February 5, 1936, daughter of Colonel Logan Henry Neal and Clerinda (Godsey)
Salyer. Hattie Salyer married Sylvan N. Taylor of Norton.
Hattie was a graduate of Martha Washington College in 1883 after which time
she returned to her father’s home at (Gladeville) Wise. She taught school
at Tacoma and Hazard, Kentucky, before her marriage. Mrs. Taylor was instrumental
in obtaining a pension for Floyd Lamar, aka A. D. Mitchell, a black minister
who lived in Norton. He had served with the 6th Alabama Home Guards
as a Confederate Valet to Mirabeau Lamar. Floyd had carried Mirabeau, wounded,
from the battlefield near Marietta, Georgia back to his home in Alabama.
Her sister, wife of Enos B. Hilton, was widowed when her husband was killed in the line of duty by Talt Hall. While Talt was in jail in Memphis, Hattie took the train to identify him for the police.
Hattie was very active in public affairs with a special aptitude for politics and was an unwavering Democrat. Hattie and Sylvan did not have any children of their own but raised an adopted daughter, Ludie, born September 1885 in Kentucky.
Sylvan was born May 14, 1861 and died February 5, 1935, both are buried in the Wise Cemetery.
A monument from the Salyer-Lee Chapter was placed in the Wise Cemetery in her honor for her years of unselfish service in preserving and protecting the history and heritage of the Confederacy. The current Salyer-Lee Chapter will maintain the stone in her memory.
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