When William Maxwell Taylor was born on 19 July 1856, in Livingston, Overton, Tennessee, United States, his father, James Parris Taylor, was 23 and his mother, Sarah Louisa Mainord, was 21. He married Amanda Helen Arney on 7 April 1882, in Clay, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Campbell, Searcy, Arkansas, United States in 1900 and Red River Township, Searcy, Arkansas, United States in 1910. He died on 22 December 1943, in Granite, Greer, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Granite, Greer, Oklahoma, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1860: Greer, Texas, United States 1896: Greer, Oklahoma Territory, United States 1907: Greer, Oklahoma, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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