Mattie Elizabeth Milton

Brief Life History of Mattie Elizabeth

When Mattie Elizabeth Milton was born on 21 October 1879, in Pleasant Hill, DeSoto, Mississippi, United States, her father, George H Milton, was 34 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Kirk, was 20. She married James A Taylor on 15 March 1902, in Jefferson, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Pendleton Township, Jefferson, Illinois, United States in 1910. She died on 10 November 1944, in Evansville, Knight Township, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Park Lawn Cemetery and Mausoleum, Evansville, Knight Township, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

James A Taylor
1877–1947
Mattie Elizabeth Milton
1879–1944
Marriage: 15 March 1902
Lorraine E Taylor
1904–1947
Herbert Arthur Taylor
1906–1947
Divonis E Taylor
1909–1925
Virginia Taylor
1911–1979
Carman Sylvia Taylor
1914–1945
Alice Elizabeth Taylor
1917–1971

Sources (19)

  • Mattie Taylor in household of James A Taylor, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Mattie E. or Marthy E. Milton - Government record: birth-name: Mattie E. or Marthy E. Milton
  • Mattie Milton, "Hawaii, Marriages, 1826-1954"

World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1885 · The First Skyscraper

The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: habitational name from one or other of the many places called Milton, or sometimes Middleton (see Middleton ) and occasionally Melton (see Melton ), most of which derive from Old English middel ‘middle’ or myln ‘mill’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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