Georgia Gordon Taylor

[2] In her youth, Taylor did not receive an education, but learned to read by studying the Bible.

[3] She arrived at Fisk University in 1868, studying literature under Helen Clarissa Morgan,[4] and music with George L. White.

[1][5] For seven successive years of almost continuous labor, she was the group's leader, traveling extensively in the interest of Fisk University, giving popular entertainments of a species of singing which originated among the slaves of the South.

[6] After retiring from public life, she married Preston Taylor, founder of Greenwood Cemetery and minister of the Lee Avenue Christian Disciples of Christ Church at Nashville.

[1] Taylor died in 1913 in Nashville,[7] and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, a plaque commemorating that she was an original Fisk Jubilee Singer.