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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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
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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