Elizabeth Coats Taylor

Brief Life History of Elizabeth Coats

When Elizabeth Coats Taylor was born about 1840, in Hart, Kentucky, United States, her father, Nineon Mobley Taylor, was 42 and her mother, Mary Jane Dowdy, was 36. She married Thomas Goatley Laird on 8 September 1857, in Munfordville, Hart, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Caney, Montgomery, Kansas, United States in 1880. She died on 28 January 1917, in Arma, Crawford, Kansas, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Liberal Cemetery, Liberal, Seward, Kansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Goatley Laird
1828–1893
Elizabeth Coats Taylor
1840–1917
Marriage: 8 September 1857
Laura Alice Laird
1858–1935
Mary Jane Laird
1860–1947
Lucy Bronne Laird
1867–1948
William Franklin Laird
1870–1961

Sources (13)

  • Elizabeth Taylor in household of Ninion W Taylor, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Elizabeth Coats Taylor Laird, "Find a Grave Index"
  • Elizabeth Coats in entry for Mary Jane Williams, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1850 · 8th Most Populated State

According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.

1861

Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.

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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