When Mary Elizabeth Taylor was born on 8 March 1837, in Far West, Caldwell, Missouri, United States, her father, Allen Taylor, was 23 and her mother, Sarah Lovisa Allred, was 19. She married Francis Marion Owen on 28 May 1854, in Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Davis, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Panguitch, Iron, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 8 August 1905, in Emery, Emery, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Emery Cemetery, Emery, Emery, Utah, United States.
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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.
Possible Related NamesAs Told by Wanda Durfee Johnson This event happened in the early days of the LDS church near Kaysville, Utah, to the pioneers of that day. When Johnston’s army came to this particular area, they wer …
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