When Lenora E Taylor was born on 27 November 1856, in Cecil, Maryland, United States, her father, Lorenzo Dow Taylor, was 41 and her mother, Rebecca Ann Sidwell, was 22. She married Grafton Duvall Spangler about 1876, in Chanceford Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Chanceford Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States for about 50 years. She died on 6 February 1937, in Springettsbury Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Greenmount Cemetery, York, York, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
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 .
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