Brief Life History of Elizabeth Ann
Elizabeth Ann Taylor was born in 1827, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States. She married Charles Chambers Lewis on 10 May 1843, in Greenbriar, Chesterfield, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States in 1860 and Seymour, Jackson Township, Jackson, Indiana, United States in 1870. She died on 12 November 1890, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 63.
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- Elizabeth Lewis, "United States Census, 1870"
- Elizabeth A. Taylor, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Nancy in entry for Katherine W Frey, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
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World Events (8)
1830 · Louisville and Portland Canal Opens
The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
1836 · The Massive Internal Improvements Act
The Massive Internal Improvements Act of 1836 loaned Indiana $10,000,000 to create infrastructure such as canals, railroads, and roads across the state. The act was signed by Whig Governor Noah Noble and passed by the Indiana General Assembly. However, the financial crisis known as the Panic of 1837 thwarted these plans as costs ballooned. Construction on the infrastructure was not completed and the state debt rapidly increased.
1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
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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