John Henry Traylor was born March 27, 1839, in Traylorsville,[1] Henry County, Virginia, to Robert Bailey Traylor and Secilea R. Mullins.
John Traylor served in Co. B., 4th Georgia regiment during the Civil War being wounded a number of times.
He married Pauline Lockett, daughter of Royal Lockett and Martha Smith on December 1, 1869, in Jefferson, Marion County, Texas.
They had eight children: Paul (died aged 2 years), Robert Hill, Gooch, Ruby, Paul H. (father-in-law of Eric Lansdown Trist), Harry, Leslie, and Royal Lockett.
Traylor, his wife and a son moved to Rockport, Texas, in 1907.