Brief Life History of Stella
When Stella Taylor was born on 16 May 1919, in Virginia, United States, her father, Robert Lee Taylor, was 40 and her mother, Louisa Creech, was 38. She lived in Harlan, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Magisterial District 4, Harlan, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died on 31 August 2001, at the age of 82.
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Sources (4)
- Stella Taylor in household of Robert Taylor, "United States Census, 1940"
- Stella Lamoreaux, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
- Stella Taylor in household of Bob Taylor, "United States Census, 1930"
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World Events (8)
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1926 · Mammoth Cave is Discovered
In 1926, in central Kentucky, Mammoth Cave was discovered. It dates back to Mississippian times and consists of over four hundred miles of passageway. On July 1, 1941, the cave was made a National Park.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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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