Henry County archivist Stephanie Routon Tayloe was honored by a state historical organization earlier this month for her efforts to preserve records from the American Civil War.

Tayloe received the Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal from the United Daughters of the Confederacy of Tennessee. The award, which is one of the organization’s highest honors, was presented Oct. 11 at the UDC Tennessee Convention in Greeneville.

A Paris native, Tayloe has headed the Henry County Archive and Genealogy Library for the past 18 years.

During her tenure, Tayloe and the archive’s volunteers have cleaned, indexed and prepared records to be microfilmed that span 180 years of the county’s history. The records start with the county’s founding in 1821 and continue through the year 2000.

Tayloe has compiled more than 70 genealogy and history books, including 14 focusing on the Civil War period. These comprise the obituaries, letters and biographies of Henry County’s Confederate veterans.

In addition, she authored 38 articles in The Post-Intelligencer’s “Tennessee Trailings” column about the county and state’s history before, during and immediately after the Civil War.

Tayloe is the recipient of two previous awards for her work in historic preservation. She received the UDC’s Judah P. Benjamin Medal in 2013 and was honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Excellence in Historic Preservation Award — its highest national award for preservation of historic records — in 2015.