 General Waller Taylor later served as one of the first United States Senators from the newly created state of Indiana from 1816 to 1825.He died on a visit home to see his relatives in Lunenburg County in 1826.During much of the American Civil War, the family of Missionary Bishop Henry C. Lay lived in Lunenberg County, where Mrs. Lay (the former Eliza Withers Atkinson) grew up.