William Henry Taylor

Brief Life History of William Henry

When William Henry Taylor was born on 12 July 1833, in Montgomery, Indiana, United States, his father, William Riley Taylor, was 15 and his mother, Elizabeth Peeler Beck, was 12. He married Mary Catherine Thompson about 1852, in Thorntown, Sugar Creek Township, Boone, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Perry Township, Clinton, Indiana, United States in 1870 and Middlefork Township, Vermilion, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. He died on 4 October 1921, in Potomac, Vermilion, Illinois, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Potomac Cemetery, Middlefork Township, Vermilion, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Henry Taylor
1833–1921
Mary Catherine Thompson
1833–1897
Marriage: about 1852
Jemima Ora Taylor
1854–1940
Mary E. Taylor
1857–
Charles L Taylor
1858–1890
William B Taylor
1861–1944
James Riley Taylor
1863–1938
Ella Lavina Taylor
1867–1922
Frank Thompson Taylor
1869–1917
Edgar Wilson Taylor
1876–1924

Sources (18)

  • William Taylor, "United States Census, 1910"
  • William H. Taylor, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
  • Wm. H. Taylor, "Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935"

World Events (8)

1834

Historical Boundaries: 1834: Clinton, Indiana, United States

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1856 · The Town of Santa Claus

The town of Santa Fe was denied their application for a United States Postal Service as a town of Santa Fe, Indiana, was already established. Several meetings were held and the name was changed to Santa Claus, Indiana. The United States Postal Service granted their application. Due to the name, the post office in Santa Claus continues to receive thousands of letters to Santa Claus from children around the world each December.

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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