Ruth Esther Taylor

Brief Life History of Ruth Esther

When Ruth Esther Taylor was born on 13 August 1894, in Wilmington, Wabaunsee, Kansas, United States, her father, Gilbert Russell Taylor, was 44 and her mother, Caroline Virginia Wilkinson, was 36. She married Earl Horace Kimble in 1913, in Burlingame, Shawnee, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Waterloo Township, Lyon, Kansas, United States in 1920 and Dragoon Township, Osage, Kansas, United States in 1940. She died on 12 June 1977, in Burlingame, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Burlingame, Osage, Kansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Earl Horace Kimble
1892–1980
Ruth Esther Taylor
1894–1977
Marriage: 1913
Fern Mae Kimble
1915–1995
Clayton Russell Kimble
1918–1999

Sources (9)

  • Ruth Kimble, "Kansas, State Census, 1925"
  • Ruth Kimble, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Ruth Taylor in entry for Fern Kimble Saderstrom, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

World Events (8)

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1898 · War with the Spanish

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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

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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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