John Mitchell Taylor

Brief Life History of John Mitchell

When John Mitchell Taylor was born on 20 February 1820, in Milledgeville, Baldwin, Georgia, United States, his father, Gen. William Cannon Taylor, was 27 and his mother, Mary Ann Mitchell, was 18. He married Clementine Foster Gunnison on 4 December 1850, in Mobile, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Alabama, United States in 1870 and Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States in 1880. He died on 22 June 1886, in Mobile, Alabama, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Mitchell Taylor
1820–1886
Clementine Foster Gunnison
1830–1918
Marriage: 4 December 1850
Mary Louise Taylor
1852–1938
Henry Ansel Taylor
1855–1925
Wade Keyes Taylor
1859–1920
Clementine Taylor
1861–
Jennie Mills Taylor
1863–1958
Jefferson Davis Taylor
1865–1865

Sources (22)

  • John M Taylor, "United States Census, 1860"
  • John M Taylor, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  • John Mitchell Taylor, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land

A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.

1825 · The Crimes Act

The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.

1838 · Orders No. 25 Removes Cherokees

A small group of Cherokees from Georgia voluntarily migrated to the Indian Territory. The remaining Cherokees in Georgia resisted the mounting pressure to leave. In 1838, U.S. President Martin Van Buren ordered U.S. troops to remove the Cherokee Nation. The troops gathered the Cherokees and marched them and other Native Americans from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama along what is now known as “The Trail of Tears.” Approximately 5,000 Cherokees died on their way to Indian Territory.

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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