Blazon:  Barry bendy gold and green, upon a white billet a hawk's feather erect proper

Jonathan David Makepeace designed this coat of arms for one of his parents, Warren Eugene Taylor, a great-great-grandchild of Henry and Polly.  It is for the use of any descendant of Henry or Polly, regardless of sex or surname, including adoptive and step descendants.  The accompanying depiction of the arms was drawn by Michael Waas, Director of the Heraldische Gemeinschaft Westfalen. 

The background or heraldic field is divided into gold and green lozenges representing the orderly pattern of settlement on flat, Midwestern prairie land.  Henry and Polly were the first permanent settlers of European extract in what is now Bureau County, first tilling the soil of the future Bureau Township on June 10, 1828.  The view of farmland from above also evokes Warren's nearly twenty-one-year career in the U.S. Air Force.

Henry became the first postmaster in the future Bureau County in 1831.  The white rectangle is a heraldic billet representing a sheet of paper folded as a letter.  Warren was postmaster of Seatonville for fifteen years, retiring on April 26, 1990.

The hawk's feather refers to Henry's presence among the militia at Stillman's Run, the opening confrontation of the Black Hawk War.  In some Native American traditions a feather is the mark of a warrior, and on a white rectangle it could be seen as representing a soldier on a litter.  Warren spent much of his military career as an air evacuation medic.  The feather could also be regarded as a symbol of flight or as a writing utensil.

Indeed, the arms are here depicted on a heraldic lozenge meant to evoke the rectangular shape of a desktop.  Bureau is a French word for a writing desk.  The shape also recalls Polly, since in British heraldic traditions only women bear their arms on a lozenge–though men do in others.  However, the shape is technically not important, and it would be equally correct to draw the design on a shield of another shape.