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William L. Taylor

Birth	:	1840 Adams County, Illinois, USA
Death	:	10 Jan 1927 Garfield County, Washington, USA
Burial	:	Ruark Cemetery, Mayview, Garfield County, USA
Coordinate	:	46.6030000, -117.4378000
Description	:	William L. Taylor in household of Adam C Taylor, "United States Census, 1850" Place: Ursa, Adams, Illinois, United States William L. Taylor Gender: Male Age: 7 Race: White Birth Year: 1840 Birthplace: Illinois Household: Gender: Age: Birthplace: Head: Adam C Taylor M 36 Kentucky Wife: Barbara Taylor F 34 Kentucky Son. John Taylor M 13 ... Read More	William L. Taylor in household of Adam C Taylor, "United States Census, 1850" Place: Ursa, Adams, Illinois, United States William L. Taylor Gender: Male Age: 7 Race: White Birth Year: 1840 Birthplace: Illinois Household: Gender: Age: Birthplace: Head: Adam C Taylor M 36 Kentucky Wife: Barbara Taylor F 34 Kentucky Son. John Taylor M 13 Illinois Dau: Emily Taylor F 12 Illinois Dau: Percilla Taylor F 9 Illinois Son: William L. Taylor M 7 Illinois Dau: Bartina Taylor F 3 Illinois Dau: Nancy I Taylor F 1 Illinois Other: John Eaimes M 66 Pennsylvania ======================================== William L. Taylor, "United States Census, 1900" Place: Pataha, Pleasant, and River Precincts Pataha city, Garfield, Washington, United States District: 21 William L. Taylor Gender: Male Age: 58 Marital Status: Married Race: White Relationship to Head of Household: Head Years Married: 36 Birth Date: May 1840 Birthplace: Illinois Marriage Year: 1864 Father's Birthplace: Kentucky Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky Household: Gender: Age: Birthplace: Head: William L. Taylor M 58 Illinois Wife: Lucrecia Taylor F 53 Illinois Son: Edward Taylor M 34 Illinois Son: James Taylor M 23 Illinois ====================================== W. L. Taylor is to be classed with the earliest pioneers to the territory now embraced in Garfield county. He is a man or stamina and reliability and has done well the labor that fell to his lot in life. As a pioneer he showed that sturdiness and fortitude so indispensable in that calling, and the hardships, self-denials and other trying items to be met with on the frontier have wasted their power in vain effort to discourage or dishearten him, for he has but grown the stronger in the powers of endurance and the fertility of mind to find a way through them all. Today he is classed as one of the influential and capable men of the community and has the satisfaction of knowing that with his own hands he has carved out a fortune to supply his needs and add the luxuries of life in the golden years that will soon begin to run apace in his life. He has conducted his enterprises well and he and his wife have reared a good family while they together have gathered the substance that now makes their fortune. W. L. Taylor was born in Adams county, Illinois, in 1840. His father, Adam Taylor, was a native of Kentucky and pioneered to Illinois and there farmed the balance of his life. He married Miss Barbara Grimes, a native of the Blue Grass State, also, whose father, John Grimes participated in the Blackhawk war. She was married in her native state and shared the labors and triumphs of her husband in the pioneer days and later years of their careers. The public schools of the frontier of Illinois furnished the training of our subject and he made the best of the winter days when he sat on the slab bench and dug out the intricacies of the common branches. The school house was a log cabin and, although primitive, many happy and profitable days were spent there. The summers were occupied in the healthful labors of the farm, and thus his life continued until he had come to the years of his majority. Then he began to meet the responsibilities of life for himself and naturally turned his attention to farming. In 1878 he sold his possessions in the Prairie State and made the long journey across the country to Washington, where he selected a place in Garfield county, on which he now lives. He took a preemption, a homestead and a timble culture, and then added a quarter section by purchase. This makes him six hundred and forty acres of choice soil. When Mr. Taylor first came here there was only one store in Dayton, and one at Pataha. There were no fences and very few roads. The wildness and all the attendant difficulties that nature strews around her domains to beset the intruder with were heaped on the pioneers here, and our subject had his share. He labored patiently on and the result is that he has made a good success. When twenty-four Mr. Taylor married Miss Lucretia, the daughter of A. and Marguerite (Jackson) Vannest, natives of Holland and Michigan, respectively. Mrs. Taylor was born in Illinois and she has borne to her husband three children, William, Edward and James. An illustrated history of southeastern Washington, including Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties, Washington (1906) ================================== Submitted by Kerry Moser ================================== bio: https://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto00shav/page/581/mode/1up?q=620 page 581 Contributor: Kerry

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William L. Taylor's memorial is located at: Ruark Cemetery, Mayview, Garfield County, USA.
When did William L. Taylor death?
William L. Taylor death on 10 Jan 1927 in Garfield County, Washington, USA
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Latitude: 46.6030000
Longitude: -117.4378000

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Parent

Spouse

Lucretia Vannes Taylor

(1847 - 1915)

Siblings

Clarence C. Taylor

(1852 - 1918)

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Coordinate: 46.6030000, -117.4378000

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Coordinate: 46.4128000, -117.5456000

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