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
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