Brief Life History of Josephine Kain
When Josephine Kain Taylor was born on 15 March 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, John Taylor, was 37 and her mother, Elizabeth Kaighin, was 34. She lived in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 5 July 1921, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Josephine Taylor in household of John Taylor, "United States Census, 1880"
- Josephine Taylor, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Josephine Taylor, "Utah, Salt Lake City Cemetery Records, 1847-1976"
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World Events (8)
1848 · Fire Destroys the Temple
On October 9, 1848, an arsonists fire claimed everything but the outer walls of the Nauvoo Temple since the structure was made out of limestone and wood. It was meant to discourage the Saints that had fled to never come back.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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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