Amy Temperance Taylor (1784 - abt. 1865)

Born 1784 in Edgecombe, Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Etheldred E. Wallace — married 1800 in Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died about 1865 at about age 81 in Stewart, Tennessee, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Amy Temperance (Taylor) Wallace is listed by the Taylor Family Association as among the daughters of Joseph Taylor and Sarah Best, though she is not listed in Joseph Taylor's will.^[1]

The Taylor Foundation gives their sources as ^[2] and ^[3]

There are conflicting reports of the date of Amy's death (see below), but the Taylor Foundation and FindAGrave.com both have her as dying in 1865 and being buried in Stewart County, Tennessee.

Name

Name: Amy /Taylor/

Given Name: Amy

Surname: Taylor^[4]

Birth

Birth: Different merged profiles variously give her birth year as 1775 or 1784, but 1784 is more consistent with the dates of her parents' marriage and her siblings' births than 1775

Date: 1784^[5]

Place: Edgecomb Co., North Carolina^[6]

Death

Death: The merging of three different profiles for Amy, and comparison of the information in these profiles with FindAGrave.com memorial #12626739, produced conflicting reports about Amy's death. Either she died in about 1815 or about 1853, and was buried in the Taylor Family Cemetery in Warren County, KY^[7], or she married Etheldred Wallace, died in 1863^[8] or 1865^[9], and is buried in Hayes Fork Creek Cemetery in Stewart County, TN^[10].^[11][12]

Marriage of Parents

Husband: Joseph Taylor

Wife: Sarah Elizabeth Best

Marriage:

Date: 1782

Place: Martin County, North Carolina^[13]

Child: Allen Taylor

Child: Seraphy Temperance Taylor

Child: Sarah Best Taylor

Child: Joseph Best Taylor

Child: Elizabeth Ann Taylor

Child: Charlotte Taylor

Child: Frances Taylor

Child: Amy Taylor

Child: Delilah Taylor

Child: William Warren Taylor

Child: Mary Ann Taylor

Child: Nancy Taylor

Data Changed:

Date: 28 Mar 2011

Time: 14:34

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Kentucky County, District and Probate Courts.
2. ↑ Mrs. Lawrence (Nelda) Saunders, Dover, TN, desc. of John Wallace and Amy Taylor.
3. ↑ Separation Agreement for Etheldred Wallace and his wife Amy Wallace dtd 2 Sep. 1850, which states: "because some unhappy differences have lately arisen between Dreddie and Amy, they agreed to live separate and apart from from each other,..."
4. ↑ Source: #S9
5. ↑ FindAGrave.com memorial #12626739 has her birth date as 1784.
6. ↑ Source: #S9
7. ↑ Source: #S9
8. ↑ The Joseph Taylor, Sr. Family Association web site, https://taylorassociation.org/taylor-heritage/family-tree/
9. ↑ FindAGrave.com memorial #12626739
10. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 12626739
11. ↑ According to the Joseph Taylor, Sr. Family Association web site, a totally new biography is contained in Shari Franke's new book, Family History of the Joseph Taylor, Jr. and Sarah Best Family, Volume 1.
12. ↑ Some Ancestry trees also show Amy as having died in 1839.
13. ↑ Source: #S5 Page: Tree #4407 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3

Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records

Author: Edmund West, comp.

Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.

Note:

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Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900

Author: Yates Publishing

Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was deriv

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Title: Ancestry Family Trees

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Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.

Abbreviation: World Family Tree Vol. 2, Ed. 1 Title: World Family Tree Vol. 2, Ed. 1 Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc. Publication: Release date: November 29, 1995 Note: ABBR World Family Tree Vol. 2, Ed. 1 CONT Customer pedigree. CONT CONT Source Media Type: Family Archive CD

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Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of Beaman Family Tree.ged on 31 March 2011.

• WikiTree profile Taylor-6555 created through the import of RamageRice102011.ged on Oct 12, 2011 by Molly Rice. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Molly and others.

• WikiTree profile Taylor-4781 created through the import of The Sammons Family Tree.ged on Jun 9, 2011 by Steve Sammons. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Steve and others.

• Year: 1840; Census Place: Stewart, Tennessee; Roll: 534; Page: 323; Image: 659; Family History Library Film: 0024549

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19303237/amy-wallace : accessed 03 October 2021), memorial page for Amy Taylor Wallace (1775–1865), Find a Grave Memorial ID 19303237, citing Wallace Cemetery, Bumpus Mills, Stewart County, Tennessee, USA ; Maintained by Erika Sauve (contributor 46605377) .