Could use a second pair of eyes on Taylor-4775

Question

I adopted a number of orphaned profiles from a Kentucky Taylor family, and have tried to clean up and source them. But one of them, Temple Taylor, born 1803 in Bowling Green, Kentucky, appears to have left no paper trail of her existence. Two of her sisters had a middle name of "Temperance," and one of them was known by the nickname "Tempy," so I am wondering whether Temple may simply be a duplicate. Since I now own all of the profiles in question, I could merge her, but I'd like to have a second set of eyes first.

Does anyone have any sources for Temple's existence as a separate person? Opinions on whether she actually existed?

Answer 1

Her sister Elizabeth said to have been born same year. If she has a birth record then her sister should have as well. I'd say Temple was a duplicate.

Comments

Thanks! This family is short on birth records (which seem sometimes to be missing in the South during this time period), but Elizabeth shows up in her father's will, in a marriage record that includes her year of birth, in a book by a genealogist who researched the family, and in census records, while Temple doesn't have those or any contemporary record that I can find (and the number of free white female children of the right age in the father's census records fits if I merge Temple with Elizabeth and is one short if I don't). I will merge them.