Brief Life History of Mariah
When Mariah Taylor was born in June 1839, in Indiana, United States, her father, William Prevatte Taylor, was 27 and her mother, Mary Ann Lockyer, was 21. She married Paul Razor Jr on 3 December 1869, in Warrick, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in Glaize Township, Jackson, Arkansas, United States in 1880 and Barren Township, Jackson, Arkansas, United States in 1900. She died on 16 January 1918, in Bradford, White, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Oakland Cemetery, Possum Grape, Jackson, Arkansas, United States.
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- Maria Razer, "United States Census, 1900"
- Mariah Taylor, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- M Razor in household of Paul Razor, "United States Census, 1880"
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World Events (8)
1841 · Indiana Nears Bankruptcy
The State of Indiana was near bankruptcy in 1841 due to the inability to repay interest incurred for the Massive Internal Improvement Act. The state liquidated much of its public works. Many of the projects were handed over to the state’s creditors as a way to reduce debt. Only two of the eight proposed infrastructure projects were completed by the creditors.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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