Private Jessie Taylor - Jolleytown, Pennsylvania
N 39° 43.701 W 080° 19.543
17S E 557784 N 4397824
This Monument honoring Greene County's first KIA of the Civil War is located at 1330 Jollytown Road in Gilmore Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania
Waymark Code: WMQBV6
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 01/31/2016
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Private Jesse Taylor - Jolleytown, Pennsylvania
Jesse Taylor was the first Greene County soldier killed in the Civil War. A memorial, consisting of a statue, cannon, and two mortars, was erected in his honor in Jolleytown.
The cannon was originally at West Point and was known as Hoover's Battery. It was moved to New York Harbor to defend the Harbor during the Civil War. After the Civil War, a political group obtained the cannon from the government to use at political rallies. It somehow ended up in Greene County and was abandoned.
Local veterans found the cannon in a junkyard and restored it. The cannon was again abondoned and was picked up by a local medicine show as a curiosity. After several years, veterans' organizations, headed by Colonel Charles I. Faddis were instrumental in placing the cannon at the Jessie Taylor Memorial.
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Jesse Taylor,
Priv. Co. F,7th Regt. W.Va.Vol. Infy.
Aged 21 yrs. and 1 mon.
First soldier killed
from Greene Co. Pa.
in the War of the Rebellion
at Romney W.Va. Oct 26, 1861.
Erected in his memory
by his comrades
S.W. Gilmore
G.W. Shough, Sec.
Jefferson Dye, Cor
J.L. Garrison, Treas.
W.H. Meighen, Pres. of Assos.
Erected 1892
JESSE TAYLOR