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196. Elizabeth[9] Taylor (A427). Born, 1726. Died, 1812, in Fayette, KY.

The Lost "Diary" of Nancy (Riley) Clarke: She "...was a very pious woman but lived out of the church until 1800. In March she, with 3 others--several were her grandchildren, I one of them--was baptised in Hickman Creek [Ky] by John Price, the pastor of Marble Creek Church. The ice had to be broken, Grandmother then 75 years old. She lived until she was 86 years old."

"In March 1800, Garrard's mother was to be baptized. She was now 75 years old. She had been a member of the Church of England and had never seen it her duty to be baptized before, as she had been sprinkled when she was an infant. But now she saw such a duty in the ordinance that she came to the church and gave in her experience, and was joyfully received. Garrard nearly shouted aloud to see his dear Mother so happy and to see his dear old mother so happy and to see her received into the church with his dear old father and so many of their children. Then his oldest daughter came forward and gave a relation of Hope in Christ. These two scenes were almost too much for him to bear....

"On Sunday they were to be baptized in Hickman Creek, which was four inches thick. Garrard, with others, went and broke the ice and cleared the ice out of the way from the shore and cleared the snow off about the shore where they went in. And, when they all got to the creek, the people were crowded around the banks in the snow, though it was a beautiful day overhead.

"There were 30 candidates on the shore ready to be baptized. Elder Price called on Garrard to sing. When done, Price prayed. Then he took one man by the hand and walked slowly into the stream, saying that, 'This is the way we believe our dear Saviour went down into Jordan and was baptized of John. In like manner, we wish to follow we wish to follow him down into this frozen creek that has been broken around and seems as if it would be too cold for timid women but their hearts were warm with the love of Christ. He then baptized him. Garrard led in his mother to the minister and led out the man. He next led in his daughter--then twelve years old--and sang as he went. He led out his mother and so on until the 30 were all baptized, and then they all left rejoicing, and strange it will seem to some that not one that was baptized then took cold, though the snow was four or five inches deep."

The son Garrard Riley moved to Clermont Co., Ohio in 1805. "...the thought of leaving his old Father and Mother whom he loved so dearly, was a great trial. He told them he would come back to see them every year if he lived and could as long as they lived, which promise he tried to fulfill..."

She married Ninian Riley (195) (A426).