When Fannie Didema Taylor was born on 10 July 1862, in Essex, Virginia, United States, her father, James Henry Taylor Sr, was 45 and her mother, Mary Polly Houston, was 40. She married Harvey Thomas Walton on 25 December 1884, in Essex, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Rappahannock District, Essex, Virginia, United States in 1880 and Petsworth District, Gloucester, Virginia, United States for about 20 years. She died on 1 October 1923, in Gloucester, Virginia, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Gloucester, Gloucester, Virginia, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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