John Taylor Coxsey

John Taylor was born in 1869 in Arkansas.¹   John Taylor's father was Benjamin Coxsey and his mother was Martha L. Barksdale.  His paternal grandparents were Absalom Coxsey and Elizabeth Maile. He had a brother and four sisters, named Benjamin Molloy, Lilly Alice, Mary, Sarah Lou and Eliza Jane.  He was the third youngest of the six children. He had a half-brother and a half-sister, named Loy and Lilly Ann.