Brief Life History of Margaret Buchanan
When Margaret Buchanan Taylor was born in 1812, in Austinville, Wythe, Virginia, United States, her father, James Taylor, was 25 and her mother, Sarah Smith, was 24. She married John Stuart Crockett on 19 March 1832, in Wythe, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Fort Chiswell, Wythe, Virginia, United States in 1870 and Wytheville, Wythe, Virginia, United States in 1880. She died in 1896, at the age of 84, and was buried in Wytheville, Wythe, Virginia, United States.
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- Margaret Crocket, "United States Census, 1870"
- Margaret B Taylour, "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989"
- Margaret Buchanan Taylor Crockett, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · Monumental Church Built
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
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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