When Charles Isaac Taylor was born on 20 August 1856, in Lee, Virginia, United States, his father, James Henry Taylor, was 41 and his mother, Sarah Vanover, was 24. He married Nancy Sexton on 5 July 1880, in Scott, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Grand River Township, Cass, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Scott, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died after 1903, in Tennessee, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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