Jessie Allen

Female6 March 1896–4 August 1965

Brief Life History of Jessie

Jessie Allen was born on 6 March 1896, in Alabama, United States. She married William Orville Taylor on 16 October 1926, in Springdale, Jefferson, Alabama, United States. She lived in Kimberly, Jefferson, Alabama, United States in 1950. She died on 4 August 1965, at the age of 69, and was buried in Gardendale, Jefferson, Alabama, United States.

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William Orville Taylor
1893–1965
Jessie Allen
1896–1965
Marriage: 16 October 1926

Sources (10)

  • Jessie A Taylor, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Jessie Downs, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  • Jessie Allen Taylor, "Find A Grave Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    16 October 1926Springdale, Jefferson, Alabama, United States
  • World Events (8)

    1898 · War with the Spanish

    Age 2

    After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

    1900 · Gold for Cash!

    Age 4

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

    1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

    Age 20

    Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

    Name Meaning

    English and Scottish: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Alain, Alein (Old Breton Alan), from a Celtic personal name of great antiquity and obscurity. In England the personal name is now usually spelled Alan, the surname Allen; in Scotland the surname is more often Allan. From 1139 it was common in Scotland, where the surname also derives from Gaelic Ailéne, Ailín, from ail ‘rock’. The present-day frequency of the surname Allen in England and Ireland is partly accounted for by the popularity of the personal name among Breton followers of William the Conqueror, by whom it was imported first to Britain and then to Ireland. Saint Alan(us) was a 5th-century bishop of Quimper, who was a cult figure in medieval Brittany. Another Saint Al(l)an was a Cornish or Breton saint of the 6th century, to whom a church in Cornwall is dedicated.

    English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English femaje personal name Aline (Old French Adaline, Aaline), a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Adal-, especially Adalheidis (see Allis ).

    French: variant of Allain , a cognate of 1 above, and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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