Elizabeth Taylor

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Taylor was born on 13 April 1813, in Ohio, Kentucky, United States, her father, Simon Taylor, was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth North, was 35. She married Matthew Hunsaker Sr on 12 February 1830, in Edgar, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Sullivan, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and Penn Township, Sullivan, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 13 August 1890, in Green City, Sullivan, Missouri, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Hawkeye Cemetery, Green City, Sullivan, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Matthew Hunsaker Sr
1801–1877
Elizabeth Taylor
1813–1890
Marriage: 12 February 1830
Louis Hunsaker
1830–
Levi Hunsaker
1831–1899
Armelda Hunsaker
1832–
Lavina Hunsaker
1833–1886
George Hunsaker
1835–1863
Susan Hunsaker
1837–1878
Benjamin J Hunsaker
1839–1920
Mary Elizabeth Hunsaker
1843–1918
Synthia Hunsaker
1844–1878
Sarah Hunsaker
1847–1875
Sina Hunsaker
1850–1924
Matthew Hunsaker Jr.
1853–1933
Joseph Hunsaker
1855–1926

Sources (9)

  • Elizabeth Hansaker in household of Matthew Hansaker, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Elizabeth Taylor, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
  • Elizabeth Taylor Hunsaker, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1818 · Jackson Purchase

The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

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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