Brief Life History of Jess Whitley
When Jess Whitley Taylor was born on 13 October 1877, in Smith, Tennessee, United States, his father, Greenberry Jackson Taylor, was 45 and his mother, Ann Elizabeth Whitley, was 33. He married Ada Fry on 18 November 1899, in Smith, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Civil District 15, Smith, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 19, Smith, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years. He died on 4 October 1948, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 70.
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- Jesse W Taylor, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Jess Whitley Taylor - Memory of Someone: Memory of a relative: birth-name: Jess Whitley Taylor
- J W Taylor, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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