• Found in 1810 Culpeper County, VA Census:
    Kaylor, Jno - White Males under 10 - 3 (those would be Robert, b. 1807; Josephus, b. 1808; and, George, b. 1809), White males 26 to 44 -1 (that would be John Kaylor, b. 1778), White females under 10 - 1 (that would be Margaret Ann Kaylor, b. 1805), White females 16 to 26 - 1 (that would be Sarah Calvert Kaylor, b. 1786), Slaves - 0.

    OBITUARY written by Jane (Kaylor) Wood and Rev. Robert Kaylor, a daughter and a son:

    "John Kaylor departed this life April the 1st 1866 in his eighty-second year. He lived in the time of the Revolutionary War. He was left an orphan at the tender age of five years and placed in the care of a Lutheran family in Little York, Pennsylvania, where he had the advantage of acquiring a liberal German education together with a knowledge of the working of various kinds of metals. His guardian was an extensive manufacturer of firearms to which he was thoroughly trained. After attaining his seniority, he emigrated to Virginia, with his fast friend and companion, John Resor and made the acquaintance of Mr. George Wheeler, who was engaged in an extensive government contract for the manufacture of firearms in Culpeper County and was soon employed in Mr. Wheeler's establishment. A short time after this engagement, he married the sister of the contractor's wife, Miss Sarah Calvert, daughter of Captain George Calvert, an officer of the Revolution and a lineal descendant of the proprietor and original settler of the State of Maryland. After the death of Mr. Wheeler the factory, of which he was proprietor, was closed and Father Kaylor, after spending a few years in various engagements went to Harpers Ferry and was employed in the capacity of inspector in the United States armory there, until about the year 1819, when he returned with his family to Culpeper county and engaged in the cultivation of his farm near Washington, until the autumn of 1835, when he emigrated with his family to Missouri and entered lands in Shelby County, which he cultivated until the death of his wife (our mother), which occurred October the fifth (5) 1856. He then made his permanent earthly home with the family of his son Gideon, near his original home in Shelby County, at whose house he closed his earthly career. His appointment as Justice of the Peace is among the earliest records of Shelby County. So much for the secular of this narrative. Suffer a few words on the subject of the religious character of Father Kaylor. As before stated he was placed in early childhood in the care of a Lutheran family, consequently the religious influence over him partook of the peculiar rites of that denomination. He was recognized in early youth as a member of that church, in full communion. After his emigration to Virginia and marriage, he led to examine more particularly the economy or doctrine of the New Testament and under the influence and teaching of his intelligent mother-in-law Lydia Beck Calvert, who was a Baptist.
    While our father was at Harpers Ferry he had frequent interviews with Elders Stoughton; Rice; Dagg, and other eminent Baptist ministers who visited the place and whose sound theological views made a deep and lasting impression on his mind. Finally he was Ied to change his church relations, soon after an interview which he had with an Episcopal minister at Harpers Ferry, who confessed to my father, though determining to continue his clerical relations in the Episcopal church; that his judgment was convinced as to the soundness of the doctrine or principles and practice of the Baptist church; and he set an example for this ecclesiastic; by being immersed after the example of his Savior and with his companion and friend John Resor, in the name of the Trinity in the year 1816, while on a visit to Culpeper and joined the church at Battle Run in the same county; then under the pastoral care of Elder Lewis Connor. Some years after this event, upon the formation of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, with its various Missionary departments and after the death of the lamented Connor and unhappy division and controversy arose In the Battle Run church, then under pastoral care of Elder Thomas Buck, on the subject of the benevolent institutions of the day or missionary operations and which resulted in a division of its membership, the part favoring those benevolent operations uniting with the church at Mt. Salem, under the charge of Wm. F. Broadus; the remaining membership at Battle Run continued to enjoy the teaching or labors of Elder Buck. Our father determined not to suffer a violation of his conscience, after being thoroughly convinced of the propriety of the measures adopted by the General Association, by indifference or inaction in its measures and united heart and hand with the Brethren composing that organization. He was among the first to encourage the publication of the periodical; Latter Day Luminary; the organ of the A.B.B.F.M. and continued to serve his church acceptably, as delegate, agent, deacon, clerk, and any way his brethren might desire, when not trammeled by pressing secular concerns, both in Virginia, in the Shiloh Association and after his removal to Missouri, in the Bethel Association."

    source: James Kaylor jkaylor828@aol.com