Claude Walker Taylor (1888 - 1970)

Born 24 Feb 1888 in Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mollie (Holeman) Taylor — married 15 Sep 1912 in LeFlore County, Oklahoma

Died 29 Dec 1970 at age 82 in Kern, California, United States

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Barbara Middlebrook [send private message]

Biography

Claude W. was born in Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri to William Henry Taylor born 1852 - 1915, and Levisa Ann Lee Taylor, born 1856 - 1910. One of 13 kids. My Uncle who lived near us, in Kern County when we lived in Fresno.

This census is proof that William H. was born in Kentucky not Missouri

1900 Township 10, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. Oklahoma

William H. age 46 (birth date abt. 1854) KY."

Wife: Lusisia A Taylor age 44 born MO." children:

Mary age 23- B: MO

Lattie age 19- B: MO

James M age 17- mar. Dovie Ann-2 daughters

Leonard age 14-

Claudie age 12-

Clarence age:10 (this is my grandfather)mar. Lula E. GREER they had 4 kids

Willie age 8- (NOTHING FOUND after this)

Lena age 6- (aka Eva Lena)

Edwin C.D. age 4 - died age: 17

Freddie age 2 ^[1]

(ALL children BORN in MO, Freddie was the only one born in Oklahoma on :Indian Territory) and the next line on the census is Julius M Taylor and wife :Fannie, he is 24 she is 18 no kids. This is the older brother that appears on the :1880 census, along with his 3 sisters, Sallie (Sarah) Mollie (Mary) & Zeddie age 1.

(Zettie died Christmas next year) And also the one that 4 of the kids moved in :with when they all moved back to Sedalia, Pettis MO.

THE 4 SIBLINGS living with Julius and wife Fannie were:

• sister LENA age 17 MO" (Lena married M.W Jassaway (spelled GASSAWAY on 23 Dec, 1911 in Arkansas) NOTE: 6 days before her brother Clarence (Lena Gassaway is noted on Clarence's Obit)
• Brother: Edwin age 14 who died 3 years after this census.
• Brother: Fred age:11 the only one that was born in Oklahoma.
• AND my grampa, Clarence age:21 (married Lulu Greer- Dec 1911)

Siblings

1. Julius M Taylor (1873 - Nov 1960-Detroit, Wayne, Michigan MAR: Fannie Whitley
2. Sarah Ellen Taylor-Wear (1875 -29 Feb 1948 in Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri
3. Mary Elizabeth Taylor Dempsey (1877 -12 Nov 1947-McAlester, Pittsburg, Oklahoma
4. Charlotte Taylor Harrison (1882 - 1938 in Oklahoma,
5. James Millard Taylor (1883 -1949 [uncertain] in Spiro, Le Flore, Oklahoma
6. Leonard Taylor (1885 Unk
7. Zettie Taylor (1888 - 1898 in Cowlington, Le Flore, Oklahoma
8. Claud Walker Taylor (1888 - 29 Dec 1970 in Kern, California
9. Clarence Lee Taylor (1889 - 7 Dec 1964 in Denver, Denver, Colorado
10. Willie Taylor (1893 - 1974
11. Eva "Lena" Taylor Pilkington (1893 - 11 Jul 1989 in Sherman, Grayson, Texas
12. Edwin C. S. Taylor (1896 - 5 Apr 1913 in Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri, buried in Oklahoma with sister/parents
13. must have died at birth, no mention of the name
14. Fred Taylor (1898 -?

Marriage

Oklahoma County Marriages, 1890-1995

NAME: Claud Taylor

Event date: 15 Sept 1912

Event Place: LeFlore, Oklahoma

age ; 25 Birth year: 1887

Bride's Name: MOLLIE HOLEMAN

age 19 --Birth year: 1893 ^[2]

Family Life

1920 Cowlington, LeFlore County, Oklahoma

head: Claud W Taylor age 31 MO., Farmer

wife: Mollie age 26 OK

dau.: Mary E age 3 OK

son Joseph W age 1 ok ^[3]

HOWEVER, there may be 2 different families

Claud W. Taylor with a wife Mollie

and Children: Mary E Taylor age 3

Joseph W age 1

Because the memorial I found for Mollie Holeman-Taylor --which matches the marriage record, died 1928 and names

"her children Claudie and Wayne" no daughter or Joseph named on her headstone.?

1940 Cowlington, Oklahoma

head: Claude W Taylor age 50 Widower- MO., occupation: Common Laborer, WPA

daughter: Priscilla Taylor age:16 OK (1924) ^[4]

(she would have been 4 yrs. when her Mom Mollie died)

""Work Projects Administration, a former American New Deal agency"

Social Security

Claud Walker Taylor

1888-1970

United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007

Oklahoma, School Records, 1895-1968

Source rec'd from "This email was sent by: FamilySearch to my email add."

Draft Card

WW II Draft Registration Card

NAME: Claude Walker Taylor

Age: 54 born: Sedalia , Missouri

Born: Feb. 24 1888

Residence: Cowlington, Oklahoma

Occupation: Unemployed

Person who will always know your address:

Miss Priscilla Taylor of Cowlington Oklahoma

DATE signed: 1942 ^[5]

Sometime after 1942 he moved to Bakersfield, California.

Death

have just found a

Claude W Taylor

death record: gives dob: 24 Feb 1888

dod: 29 Dec 1970 ---born: MO

died: Kern, Calif.

SS # issued in Oklahoma

dob: same ---dod: same

buried in Kern, California ^[6]

sure looks like this would be the same person.

2 Claud W. Taylor's born in MO, both had lived in OK/SS# issued OK

A friend just gave me my grandfather's obit and it says his brother Claud is living in Bakersfield... So now I am sure this is my UNCLE..- carole taylor puntenney Added: Oct. 14, 2014

Obit of Clarence Lee

Kern Calif.... same place where my Dad died in a car accident and this was his Uncle, :brother to Clarence Lee Taylor

maybe these brothers deserted their families together...

but looks like Claud's wife Mollie Holeman-Taylor died 1928

found another marriage record for a Claude Taylor (his son?)

married a Rebecca Reed in MO on Sept 17, 1928 same year Mollie died.

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MST7-3HT : accessed 19 December 2015), Edwin Taylor in household of William H Taylor, Township 9 N. Range 24 E. Bonoshe town, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, United States; citing sheet 16B, family 251, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,850.
2. ↑ Marriage license https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR3K-T4G
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJMK-Q25 : 3 February 2021), Claud W Taylor, 1920.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1940", database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:VBVF-PKK : Thu Aug 04 19:11:22 UTC 2022), Entry for Priscilla Taylor and Claude W Taylor, 1940.
5. ↑ Draft Card
6. ↑ "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPH8-BHP : 26 November 2014), Claude W Taylor, 29 Dec 1970; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento

• Find A Grave: Memorial #7618207, memorial page for Claude Walker “Claudie” Taylor (24 Feb 1888–29 Dec 1970),citing Arvin Cemetery, Arvin, Kern County, California, Maintained by jlk (contributor 46543270) .
• sources: 1900/1910/1920/1940 census records see citations on father's profile