Brief Life History of Joseph A.
Joseph A. Taylor was born on 30 April 1843, in Canada as the son of Eli Taylor and Marie DeWitt. He married Sarah Jane "Sallie" Minor on 12 July 1886, in Mercer, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Grant District, Wayne, West Virginia, United States in 1900 and Grant, West Virginia, United States in 1910. He registered for military service in 1865. He died on 30 January 1917, in West Virginia, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Cove Gap, Wayne, West Virginia, United States.
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- Joseph Taylor, "United States Census, 1910"
- Jos Taylor, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Joseph A. Taylor, "Find a Grave Index"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1869
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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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