[1] His father Walker Baylor joined the Continental Army as the rank of cornet and was later promoted to major in the Revolutionary War.
He became disabled after a cannonball crushed the instep of his foot at the Battle of Germantown, where he served in the life guard to George Washington at the age of 17.
And be it further enacted, that any person who shall be guilty of endeavoring to procure votes in any manner whatever, shall be subject to an indictment, and on conviction thereof shall receive thirty nine lashes on his bare back at the public whipping post of the county, and shall not thereafter be a competent witness in any court of law or equity in this state.
[10] In 1834, Baylor issued a penal bond to John Cantley and Harrison W. Goyne, who he later succeeded in the Alabama Senate, to the amount of $361 and executed a chattel mortgage.
Henry W. Collier, the president of the convention, appointed Baylor to a committee to discern the "practicability and expediency" of railroad construction as was demanded by the people.
[5] On February 14, 1843, he was elected as one of the two Trustees for the University of the State of Alabama, from the third Judicial District, receiving the second-most votes, 63, after Benjamin F. Porter's 94.
Mr. Rivers, I learn, suffered greatly from agony of mind, and expressed the deepest sorrow on account of his being the cause of this fatal occurrence.
[4] Du Bose wrote that before he left Kentucky, Baylor "parted from a pure, sweet girl, who was soon to become his wife."
[3] Greatly interested in philosophy and astronomy, he often visited the Old University of Alabama Observatory, where he studied the planetary system with Professor Frederick A. P.
He spent many evenings and nights examining the planetary system with Professor Barnard, aided with improved instruments that were ordered from London.
His convictions were often acted upon by measuring the face and head of candidates seeking office with a tape line to determine their fitness.
[29] William Garret noted in his reminiscence of Baylor:To a practised observer of men, and to one well acquainted with the influences on character, there would be no difficulty in deciding that the high gifts of nature in the external man, had suffered in their full development by an excess of wine or other stimulant not essential to physical or mental beauty.
He was a rare compound of worth and infirmity and while his melancholy fate excited general sympathy and regret, his character for integrity will ever survive in the memory of those who knew him best.