page_title: George Plater Tayloe
section_title: Later career
hierarchical_section_title: George Plater Tayloe / Later career
caption_attribution_description: English: Grave of George Plater Tayloe of Buena Vista, Roanoke, VA
context_page_description: George Plater Tayloe was a Virginia businessman, soldier and legislator who also served as one of the original trustees of Hollins University.
context_section_description: Tayloe was one of the three cotton planters who owned considerable estates in Arcola, Alabama, in 1860. Mr. Tayloe owned "Elmwood" (1,140 acres). He did not live there, however. He bought the place at public auction. He also owned the Walnut Grove plantation, some eight miles eastward on the Uniontown and Demopolis road.
  Tayloe was a deputy from Roanoke County to the secession of Virginia in 1861, and voted against the ordinance to withdraw from the Union. In the progress of the war, however, he was Captain of a Home Guard and marched to meet a raid from the United States army. Benjamin Ogle Tayloe was incarcerated in Fort Warren by the United States government by a time pending the war upon alleged sympathies with the Confederacies. All of the grandsons of Col. John Tayloe of the revolutionary time were soldiers of the Southern Confederacy. One of the sons-in-law of Mr. George P. Tayloe was Brigadier General Thomas T. Mumford of Virginia, one of the distinguished commanders of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia.
  George died on April 18, 1897 in "Buena Vista", Roanoke Co., Virginia.
caption: Grave of George Plater Tayloe of Buena Vista, Roanoke, VA
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