Brief Life History of Gertrude
When Gertrude Taylor was born in March 1879, in Rush, Indiana, United States, her father, Charles M. Taylor, was 27 and her mother, Laura E. Mather, was 21. She married Thomas H. Ferguson on 4 May 1912, in Indiana, United States. She lived in Union Township, Clark, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Silver Creek Township, Clark, Indiana, United States in 1910. She died on 2 July 1946, at the age of 67.
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- Gertrude Taylor in household of Charles Taylor, "United States Census, 1880"
- Gertrude Taylor, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Gertrude Taylor in household of Laura E Taylor, "United States Census, 1910"
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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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Gertrude Taylor Ferguson BIRTH 18 Mar 1879 Memphis, Clark County, Indiana, USA DEATH 2 Jul 1946 (aged 67) Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana, USA BURIAL Greenlawn Cemetery Franklin, Johnson County, I …
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