Brief Life History of William Wiley
When William Wiley Taylor was born on 23 December 1797, in North Carolina, United States, his father, William Wiley Taylor SR, was 26 and his mother, Hannah Dudley, was 20. He married Mary Ross Flack on 22 October 1822, in Todd, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Todd, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. He died on 13 December 1860, in Guthrie, Todd, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Taylor Cemetery, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Wiley Taylor, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Wiley - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Wiley Allred
- Wiley Taylor, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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World Events (8)
1799 · Gold Nuggets Found
"In 1799, in Little Meadow Creak located in Cabarrus County, North Carolina a large yellow """"rock"""" was found by Conrad Reed. A few years later it was determined that the """"rock"""" was a gold nugget."
1801 · Cane Ridge Revival
The Cane Ridge Revival took place for six days in Cane Ridge, Kentucky. From August 6, 1801- August 12 or 13, 1801, around 20 thousand people gathered together for what was called the Second Great Awakening.
1818 · Jackson Purchase
The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
Name Meaning
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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