When Mary Ann Taylor was born on 16 September 1858, in Davie, North Carolina, United States, her father, Giles Taylor, was 29 and her mother, Lucinda Seagraves, was 30. She married John Robert Rice on 25 August 1878, in Davie, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Jerusalem, Davie, North Carolina, United States in 1880 and South Point Township, Gaston, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years. She died on 10 December 1937, in Belmont, Gaston, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Hickory Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Gastonia, Gaston, North Carolina, United States.
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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.
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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.
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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