Brief Life History of Sarah S.
When Sarah S. Taylor was born on 20 September 1902, in Georgia, United States, her father, Nathaniel Taylor, was 26 and her mother, Rentha Clarice Dyal, was 21. She lived in Waltertown, Ware, Georgia, United States in 1910 and Mershon, Pierce, Georgia, United States in 1930. She died on 23 December 1994, in Pierce, Georgia, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Ramah Cemetery, Mershon, Pierce, Georgia, United States.
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- Sarah Taylor in household of Nat Taylor, "United States Census, 1910"
- Sarah S Courson, "Georgia Death Index, 1933-1998"
- Sarah Courson in household of Dennis Courson, "United States Census, 1930"
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World Events (8)
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1906 · The Atlanta Race Riot
The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September 22 through September 24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American men. Fueled by pre-existing racial tensions, these reports enraged white men who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next few days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were killed and many were injured.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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