The first of ten children of Jacob & Annie Green Taylor, born in Hillsboro, Arkansas (about 15 miles east of El Dorado); oldest preacher in the Southern Baptist Convention when he died; delivered sermons at First Baptist Church of Melbourne on both his 100th and 105th birthdays; instrumental in founding of Williams Baptist College in Walnut Ridge as well as three summer youth camps; authored "The Old Timers Did It This Way" (privately printed in 1976); preached his first sermon at Caledonia Baptist Church in 1912.

He and his wife, Minnie Belle White Taylor, raised eight children.

(Info from an article, "A Mud-Cat Chimney Primer" by Tom Dillard in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, June 1, 2014". Dillard is a historian and retired archivist).

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Eld. W. O. Taylor was born Oct. 22, 1890 near Strong, Ark. He is the son of Wm. Jacob and Annie Green Taylor. He was baptized Sept. 15, 1907 by Ben Green. He was educated in the public schools of Union County, Ouachita College, State Teachers College, and Southwestern Baptist Seminary. He holds the "Th.M." degree from the latter. He was ordained in the Second Baptist Church of Arkadelphia, Nov. 5, 1913. He married Minnie Bell White, Oct. 1912. They have eight children. He has pastored a few churches including Wilmot, Parkdale, Plumerville, and Berryville in Arkansas, but has devoted most of his ministerial life to associational mission work. He founded the Ravenden Springs Encampment, has led in organizing about twelve new churches and building about that many houses of worship. He became missionary for Current River and Gainsville Associations, March 1, 1935, and continued as such until the fall of 1942. He is now serving as missionary for Clear Creek Association and makes his home at Ozark, Ark.

--A History of the Current River Baptist Association (1947), by Leroy Carson Tedford