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Taylor was succeeded as County Clerk by his son William Henry Taylor, who held the office for another 32 years — from 1814 until 1846.

Another son, General Waller Taylor, represented Lunenburg in the Virginia legislature, then moved to Vincennes, Indiana.

There he became a judge and subsequently Adjutant General of the United States Army under General William Henry Harrison in the War of 1812.

General Waller Taylor later served as one of the first United States Senators from the newly-created state of Indiana from 1816 to 1825.

He died on a visit home to see his relatives in Lunenburg County in 1826.