Phillip Goodbread Taylor, also known as “Doboy Taylor”, has been characterized as a “desperado”. He and his brother Jack Hays Taylor, were both active in the Taylor-Sutton feud in the 1860s and 1870s. Both died in the feud, Jack Tayor in 1869 and Phillip Taylor in 1871.

“Phillip G. Taylor, aka: Do'boy (1843-1871) - A gunfighter and son of Creed & Nancy Matilda (Goodbread) Taylor, brother of John "Jack".The Taylors were an anti-Reconstruction southern Texas family and staunch Confederate supporters. On August 23, 1869, the Suttons, who were also law officers, ambushed the Taylor brothers as they were riding in the early morning near their father's ranch. Led by Sutton "Regulator" Jack Helm, the group opened fire on the pair, and Jack and Phillip fought back. When the smoke cleared Phillip was wounded in the arm, but able to escape. However, Jack was killed, but not before he had hit five of the "Regulators."

“In November, 1871, Phillip was in Kerrville, Texas, where he was trying to get a job that belonged to a man named Sim Holstein. The two soon quarreled about it and when Taylor pulled his pistol and fired, he missed. Holstein; however, didn't, pumping three shots into him. Phillip lived for six hours, bitterly cussing his nemesis before he died.”1500