Geneva Adelma Taylor

Brief Life History of Geneva Adelma

When Geneva Adelma Taylor was born on 11 June 1880, in King Township, Christian, Illinois, United States, her father, Thomas Benton Taylor, was 34 and her mother, Isabell Kinnamon, was 31. She married Harry Leroy Dean on 4 December 1901, in Nokomis, Montgomery, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Irving, Montgomery, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Witt, Montgomery, Illinois, United States for about 30 years. She died on 27 May 1952, in Litchfield, Montgomery, Illinois, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Witt Cemetery, Montgomery, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Harry Leroy Dean
1881–1947
Geneva Adelma Taylor
1880–1952
Marriage: 4 December 1901
Elmer Winston Dean
1903–1967
Arthur Elsworth Dean
1905–1990
Everett Olin Cecil Dean
1908–1983
Louis Benton Dean
1912–1975
Martin Leroy Dean
1913–1915
Isabell Jane Dean
1917–1974
Ethel Geneva Dean
1921–2015
Juanita Mae Dean
1924–1993

Sources (12)

  • Geneva Taylor in household of Thomas Taylor, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Taylor, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Geneva Adelma Taylor - Government record: Death record or certificate: death: 27 May 1952; Litchfield, Montgomery, Illinois, United States

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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.

1885 · The First Skyscraper

The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

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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