When David William Taylor was born about 1843, in Bogue Sound, Carteret, North Carolina, United States, his father, Jabez Taylor, was 38 and his mother, Sophia Higgins, was 41. He married Sarah Ann Price on 18 February 1869, in Carteret, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in White Oak Township, Carteret, North Carolina, United States in 1850 and Newport, Carteret, North Carolina, United States in 1880. He died on 8 November 1903, in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
On February 7, 1862, General Burnside's expedition started with the Battle of Roanoke Island. The battle was mostly fought by the Union and Confederate Navy's. This was a Union victory.
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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