1. | TAYLOR, Claude Thomas was born on 31 Aug 1864 in Ballard County, Kentucky, USA (son of TAYLOR, John Thompson and FURNISS, Mary Louisa); died on 27 Nov 1933 in Athens, McMinn, Tennessee, USA; was buried on 29 Nov 1933 in Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA. Notes: Claude was publisher of The Post and later The Post-Athenian newspaper in Athens TN. He was the son of John Thompson Taylor and his wife Mary Louisa Furniss and the twin brother of Lulu Beatrice (Taylor) Maxwell. He served in Co. H., 2nd Nebraska Regiment, in the Spanish-American War (1898). He lived at Lovelaceville, Ballard Co KY, and then Chadron, Dawes Co NE. By 1900 had moved to Ascension Co LA with his brother Lee, and then to Athens, McMinn Co TN. He married (1), 3 Dec 1887, in Kentucky, Sue Jane Edwards (see link to her); they were divorced before 1903, when she remarried. Claude also remarried about 1917; his second wife was Mabel Archer, who was born ca. 1880 in Tennessee; she was a teacher and worked with her husband in the management of his newspaper. Claude married ARCHER, Mabel about 1919. Mabel (daughter of ARCHER, Jefferson C and SHERROD, Eliza W) was born on 16 Oct 1880 in Tennessee, USA; died in Sep 1973 in Athens, McMinn, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] Children:
Claude married ARCHER, Medona about 1920. Medona (daughter of ARCHER, Jefferson C and SHERROD, Eliza W) was born on 9 Sep 1893 in Tennessee, USA; died on 27 Oct 1935 in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA; was buried on 28 Oct 1935 in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] Claude married EDWARDS, Sue Jane on 3 Dec 1887 in Dyer, Tennessee, USA. Sue was born on 2 Jul 1872 in Hickman, Kentucky, USA; died on 1 Oct 1927 in Hickman, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] Children:
Claude married UNKNOWN, Fannie about 1908. Fannie was born in 1874 in Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
2. | TAYLOR, John Thompson was born on 12 Mar 1834 in Daviess, Kentucky, USA; died on 27 Sep 1931 in Hamlin, Calloway, Kentucky, USA. John married FURNISS, Mary Louisa on 10 Dec 1857 in Oldham, Kentucky, USA. Mary was born in 1839 in Oldham, Kentucky, USA; died in 1907 in Wickliffe, Ballard, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
3. | FURNISS, Mary Louisa was born in 1839 in Oldham, Kentucky, USA; died in 1907 in Wickliffe, Ballard, Kentucky, USA.
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