When James Milton Taylor was born from about 1790 to 1792, in Lynchburg, Campbell, Virginia, United States, his father, Taylor, was 23 and his mother, Rachel Taylor, was 23. He married Pamilia Dickey on 29 October 1812, in Campbell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Anderson, Tennessee, United States in 1860. He died on 16 August 1869, in Cumberland, Tennessee, United States, and was buried in Mount Pisgah Cemetery, Cumberland, Tennessee, United States.
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Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
On June 1, 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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 .
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