Susan Taylor

Brief Life History of Susan

When Susan Taylor was born in 1804, in Virginia, United States, her father, James Taylor, was 34 and her mother, Elizabeth Hunter, was 33. She married Yelvaton Melton on 3 July 1823, in Cole, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Cole, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Clear Creek Township, Cooper, Missouri, United States in 1860.

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Family Time Line

Yelvaton Melton
1803–1850
Susan Taylor
1804–
Marriage: 3 July 1823
William Neville Melton
1824–1850
Nancy Jane Melton
1826–1907
Rebecca Melton
1827–1903
Sarah P. Melton
1829–1857
Elizabeth Melton
1830–1904
Jacob A. H. Melton
1832–
Dr. Jerome Ransom Melton
1834–1912
Spencer Pettis Melton
1839–1890
Snelling Johnson Melton
1841–1915
Julia Ann Melton
1843–1929

Sources (6)

  • Susan Melton, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Susan Taylor, "Missouri, Marriages, 1750-1920"
  • Susan Taylor in entry for Yelvaton Melton, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"

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World Events (8)

1804

Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.

1812 · Monumental Church Built

The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

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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