Thomas Melville Taylor (1844 - 1917)

Biography

When Thomas Melville Taylor was born on January 16, 1844, in Canada, his father, Isaac Taylor, was 28 and his mother, Sarah Knight, was 19.
In 1855, Thomas age 10, resided with his parents in Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA^[1]
Thomas, age , married Annie E Morrison, age , on January 24, 1873.
They had four children in 16 years.

1. Thomas M Taylor Jr, born 1864
2. May Isabell Taylor, born 1871
3. Wesley Marsh Taylor, born 1877
4. Evalyn Lydia (Taylor) Scharding, born 1881

Thomas died on May 5, 1917, in Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of 73, and was buried in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.^[2][3]

THOMAS TAYLOR (*)Taylor Family Notes^[4]
Uncle Tom, the one with the beard on the far left in the family picture of l885, moved to Atlanta. In l926 he owned a private railroad car that was used by the different railroads operating out of Atlanta to check their scales. He lived on Peach Tree Blvd and/or Decatur St. Naomi Baker (VIIICl in the genealogy) has a photo of him and his son Tom Jr. Wesley, the second son, served in the Navy, sent silver bracelets to his cousins Inez and Eleanor (VIIIA,C). Naomi has his picture in uniform, which he sent to Eleanor when she was a little girl. He had lived for a time in the home of Wesley Taylor (VIII), Naomi's grandfather, whose name he bore. He was serving on the Bennington after the Spanish American War when a boiler burst. Wesley rescued several of his buddies, but was killed when another boiler burst as he was rescuing another. He is buried at Point Loma near San Diego. May bore the married surname of Flowers and lived with Tom Jr. in Atlanta in her later years. Eva traveled from Atlanta to the West Coast in l926 with Charlie Cottrell (IIIB), who noted that she was quite involved in spiritualism. George Taylor (XIIB) visited her in San Francisco shortly before he died in 1959. There is a Thomas M. Taylor III in Atlanta with an unlisted phone, but we can't get the address.

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com, New York, State Census, 1855 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013), Ancestry.com, Name: Wm Taylor Birth Year: abt 1849 Age: 6 Gender: Male Relation to Head: Child Residence: Newfane, Niagara, New York, USA District: E.D. 1 Household number: 45 Line Number: 5 Household Members: Name Age Isaac C Taylor 40 Serah Taylor 30 Thomas Taylor 11 Lucy Taylor 8 Wm Taylor 6 Emma Taylor 4 Eliza Taylor 1
   https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=General-7181&indiv=try&h=1653992657.
2. ↑ Grizzle, R. L, Atlanta, Georgia, Oakland Cemetery Records, 1773-1999 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999), Ancestry.com, Name: Thomas M Taylor Birth Date: abt 1844 Death Date: 5 May 1917 Death Age: 73 Cemetery: Oakland Cemetary Burial Place: Atlanta, Georgia, USA Source: OAKLAND CEMETERY ATLANTA GEORGIA TRANSCRIBED BY RACHAL LEIGH GRIZZLE 1998-1999.
   https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=4105&h=14056&indiv=try.
3. ↑ Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012), Ancestry.com, Name: Thomas Melville Taylor Birth Date: 16 Jan 1844 Birth Place: Canada Death Date: 5 May 1917 Death Place: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States of America Cemetery: Oakland Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States of America Has Bio?: Y Spouse: Sarah E. Taylor.
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89673154/thomas-melville-taylor.
4. ↑ Charles Taylor is credited for maintaining the American Taylor's n America "FAMILY TREE". In the 1960's, he created, and issued copies of his family tree to all known family members. One copy is in my possession, handed down from my Mother, Joyce (Craig) Rurka. This issue, detailed the life lives of many Kin and can be found in the profiles of Isaac C Taylor's sons and daughters indicated by an (*)

• Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), Ancestry.com, Year: 1860; Census Place: Newfane, Niagara, New York; Roll: M653_823; Page: 1266; Family History Library Film: 803823. Record for Isaac Taylor. Thomas Taylor age 17 http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=7667&h=47535961&indiv=try.

1860 United States Federal Census