Rachel Christine Taylor

Brief Life History of Rachel Christine

When Rachel Christine Taylor was born in 1868, in Tennessee, United States, her father, James Henry Taylor, was 53 and her mother, Sarah Vanover, was 36. She married William Robert VANOVER SR on 29 December 1887, in Ashe, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Scott, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States in 1910. She died on 24 November 1924, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 56.

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Family Time Line

John S Hite
1857–1911
Rachel Christine Taylor
1868–1924
Marriage: 1903
Bessie Louisa Hite
1905–1918
France F Hite
Gabriella Hite
George Harvey Hite
Jacob Hite
Margaret Ann Luther Azodine Woodford Collins
Mary (Ruhama) Hite
Nancy Elizabeth Hite (Lucretia)

Sources (9)

  • Rachel C Vanover in household of William Vanover, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Rachel Taylor in entry for Jacob Amberr Vanover, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
  • Rachel C Hile in household of John S Hile, "United States Census, 1910"

World Events (8)

1868 · Impeach the President!

Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.

1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic

When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

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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