Pleasant Hearst Baylor

Brief Life History of Pleasant Hearst

When Pleasant Hearst Baylor was born in March 1868, in Indiana, United States, his father, William Baylor, was 55 and his mother, Mary Ellen Hammond, was 38. He married Mary R. Crecelius on 23 December 1886, in Marengo, Crawford, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Whiskey Run Township, Crawford, Indiana, United States for about 30 years. He died in 1910, at the age of 42.

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Family Time Line

Pleasant Hearst Baylor
1868–1910
Mary R. Crecelius
1871–1929
Marriage: 23 December 1886
Clara Baylor
1887–
Ora A. Baylor
1889–
Roscoe Baylor
1890–1988
Eschol Baylor
1892–
Ora Zahud
1894–
Louella Baylor
1896–1948
Ralph Baylor
1899–1975
Agnes Ethel Baylor
1900–1984
Anna Merle Baylor
1907–1946
Baylor
1910–

Sources (15)

  • Pleasant N Bailor in household of William Bailor, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Plez Baylor, "Indiana, Marriages, 1811-2019"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Pleasant Hearst Baylor - Individual or family possessions: death: 18 March 1911; Milltown, Crawford, Indiana, United States

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

Name Meaning

English: from the legal term bailor (Anglo-Norman French baillur, bailleor) ‘one who delivers goods’. This surname is rare in Britain.

Americanized form of German Bailer or Beiler , or of their variants Beyler and Bayler.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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