When Jesse Willard Taylor was born on 20 August 1925, in Waters, Montgomery, Arkansas, United States, his father, James William Taylor, was 64 and his mother, Louvena Elizabeth Venables, was 32. He married Lucille Taylor on 8 August 1946, in Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Mountain Township, Polk, Arkansas, United States in 1930 and Judicial Township 15, Kern, California, United States in 1940. He died on 2 September 1947, in Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States, at the age of 22, and was buried in Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States.
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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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