Brief Life History of Amos W.
When Amos W. Taylor was born on 26 December 1824, in Lenoir, North Carolina, United States, his father, Green Taylor, was 30 and his mother, Penelope Simmons, was 23. He married Nancy Alice Howard on 14 April 1859, in Lenoir, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Kinston, Lenoir, North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Woodington, Lenoir, North Carolina, United States in 1880. He died on 12 February 1896, in Lenoir, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Kinston, Lenoir, North Carolina, United States.
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- Amos Taylor, "United States Census, 1870"
- Amos W Taylor, "Find A Grave Index"
- Amos in entry for Hellen Taylor, "North Carolina, Department of Archives and History, Index to Vital Records, 1800-2000"
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1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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