Taylor, Lillie Estelle

Birth Name Taylor, Lillie Estelle
Gramps ID I6886
Gender female
Age at Death 82 years, 2 months, 23 days

Events

Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Birth 1862-08-17 Bureau Cty, Illinois, USA  
1a
Census 1870 Berlin Twp, Bureau Cty, Illinois, USA  
2a
Census 1880 Dover, Bureau Cty, Illinois, USA  
3a
Census 1930 Riverside Twp, Adams Cty, Illinois, USA  
4a
Census 1940 Dover, Bureau Cty, Illinois, USA  
5a
Death 1944-11-09 Dover, Bureau Cty, Illinois, USA  
1a
Burial   Prairie Repose Cemetery, Dover, Bureau Cty, Illinois, USA  
 

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Taylor, John Barton [I6883]1834-06-271917-06-27
Mother Huffman, Anne [I6875]1837-05-161909-08-05
    Brother     Taylor, Lafayette [I7172] 1856-05-02 1861-04-09
    Brother     Taylor, Daniel K. [I7171] 1857-06-13 1918-07-10
    Sister     Taylor, Fanny [I7173] 1859-06-15 1859-11-01
    Sister     Taylor, Mary [I6884] 1860-12-20 1942
         Taylor, Lillie Estelle [I6886] 1862-08-17 1944-11-09
    Sister     Taylor, Sarah Sadie [I6885] 1866-03-11 1949-03-12
    Brother     Taylor, John [I7175] 1870-01-25 1900
    Brother     Taylor, Charles C. [I6887] 1876-08-10 1972-08-01
    Brother     Taylor, Howard [I6888] 1879-03-28 1937-10-03
    Brother     Taylor, Enos [I7174] 1883-01-03 1891-11-04

Narrative

Note: Researching Lillie Estelle Taylor

In the text Christian Metzger: Founder of an American Family 1682-1942 (p178), under the listing for her mother's descendants, Lillie is named as one of the daughters who married and had children. Sorting this out has proved more difficult than intended, partly due to her multiple marriages and surnames over the course of her adult life. In my initial searches, there was nearly a fifty-year gap in the records I had found for Lillie, which failed to answer questions about her potential family. Broader searches brought more records to my attention, and what follows is the best summary I have been able to determine thus far.

Lillie's first marriage was presumably to a man with the surname of Rogers (or similar alternate spelling), as she and her seventeen-year-old son Ray R. Rogers are counted in the 1900 US Census in Tiskilwa, Bureau Cty, Illinois, with her second husband John T. Lea (himself age fifty, born in Illinois). I have no further information on Lillie's first husband, including his given name and vital dates, and while I assume she was widowed and not divorced, I do not know how her first marriage ended.

Likewise, I do not have a date or location for her second marriage, though she and John were counted together again in the 1910 US Census (this time in Dover, Bureau Cty, Illinois) and yet again in 1920 (in the veterans' home in Riverside Twp, Adams Cty, Illinois), Several weeks later, John died on 5 Mar 1920. Whether John was wed previously before his marriage to Lillie is unknown to me at this time; I also cannot say whether he had any children of from any previous relationship, though I have found no indication that he and Liliie had any children. In 1921, Lillie married again - this time to Reuben A. Bacon (b. 1846).

Reuben had been previously married in 1886 to Katie Hamilton, with whom he is counted as living in the 1900 US Census in Raymond, Montgomery Cty, Illinois, along with their daughter Adda Mae, aged thirteen. The three of them are counted again in the same town in 1910, prior to Katie's death in 1916. By the time of the 1920 US Census, Reuben was counted as a widower in the veterans' home in Riverside Twp, where he and Lillie met.

Lillie and Reuben continued to live at the veterans' home until his death in 1936. In the 1940 US Census, Lillie was counted as living back in her hometown of Dover, where she would remain until her death in 1944. She and Reuben are buried together in Prairie Repose Cemetery in Dover, where a great deal of her family is also buried.

Returning to Lillie's son Ray, I have not been able to find confirmed records for him after the 1900 US Census listing with his mother and step-father John. I will note that census record denotes his mother, Lillie, as the mother of two children, suggesting he may have an older sibling that I have been unable to find thus far.

Pedigree

  1. Taylor, John Barton [I6883]
    1. Huffman, Anne [I6875]
      1. Taylor, Lafayette [I7172]
      2. Taylor, Daniel K. [I7171]
      3. Taylor, Fanny [I7173]
      4. Taylor, Mary [I6884]
      5. Taylor, Lillie Estelle
      6. Taylor, Sarah Sadie [I6885]
      7. Taylor, John [I7175]
      8. Taylor, Charles C. [I6887]
      9. Taylor, Howard [I6888]
      10. Taylor, Enos [I7174]

Ancestors

Source References

  1. Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947 [S0152]
      • Confidence: High
      • Citation:

        "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N34F-1C9 : 27 December 2014), Anne Hoffman in entry for Lillie Estella Bacon, 09 Nov 1944; Public Board of Health, Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,984,003.

  2. US Census of 1870 [S0020]
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M648-24V : 12 April 2016), Ann Taylor in household of John Taylor, Illinois, United States; citing p. 3, family 16, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,689.

        Event Year 1870
        Event Place Berlin, Bureau, Illinois, United States
        John Taylor M 37 Ohio
        Ann Taylor F 33 Ohio
        David Taylor M 13 Illinois
        Mary Taylor F 10 Illinois
        Lillie Taylor F 7 Illinois
        Sarah Taylor F 4 Illinois
        John Taylor M 0 Illinois
        Anna Anderson F 20 Sweden
        Nelson Anderson M 19 Sweden

  3. US Census of 1880 [S0045]
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXNQ-689 : 22 August 2017), Ann Taylor in household of John Taylor, Dover, Bureau, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district ED 8, sheet 91C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0177; FHL microfilm 1,254,177.

        Event Date 1880
        Event Place Dover, Bureau, Illinois, United States
        John Taylor Self M 45 Ohio, United States
        Ann Taylor Wife F 44 Ohio, United States
        Lillie Taylor Daughter F 18 Illinois, United States
        Sarah Taylor Daughter F 14 Illinois, United States
        John Taylor Son M 10 Illinois, United States
        Charles Taylor Son M 6 Illinois, United States
        Howard Taylor Son M 1 Illinois, United States

  4. US Census of 1930 [S0042]
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSRQ-G1Z : accessed 26 August 2017), Lillie E Bacon in household of Rueben A Bacon, Riverside, Adams, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 62, sheet 3B, line 62, family , NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 405; FHL microfilm 2,340,140.

        Event Date 1930
        Event Place Riverside, Adams, Illinois, United States
        Rueben A Bacon Inmate M 84 Illinois
        Lillie E Bacon Inmate F 67 Illinois

  5. US Census of 1940 [S0043]
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWW4-WC2 : accessed 26 August 2017), Lilly Bacon, Dover, Dover Township, Bureau, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 6-11, sheet 2A, line 27, family 41, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 762.

        Event Date 1940
        Event Place Dover, Dover Township, Bureau, Illinois, United States
        Lillie E Bacon Head F 77 Illinois