Brief Life History of Aura Angeline
When Aura Angeline Taylor was born on 8 August 1808, in Waterford, Caledonia, Vermont, United States, her father, Vine Taylor, was 28 and her mother, Sally Grow, was 21. She married Thomas Jacob Myers on 11 November 1828, in Penfield, Monroe, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Starkey, Yates, New York, United States in 1855 and Reading, Schuyler, New York, United States in 1880. She died on 9 April 1909, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 100, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Issaquah, King, Washington, United States.
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- Angeline Myers in household of Ellis Putnam, "United States Census, 1880"
- Vermont Births and Christenings, 1765-1908 for Angeline Taylor
- Angelina Myers, "Washington Deaths and Burials, 1810-1960"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1824
The Town of Starkey became part of the county in 1824, the year after Yates County was created, and was formed from the town of Reading (in Schuyler County).
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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