Upper Level: Levi Taylor and Emeline Owen

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Levi Taylor and Emeline Owen

Levi Taylor
Parents: William Taylor and Elizabeth Patrick
To see him with his parents/siblings: http://upperlevelgen.blogspot.com/2009/02/william-taylor-1787-1839-elizabeth.html
Born 3 Sep 1830 Bowling Green, Warren, Kentucky

Allen Taylor Company
Immigration: Utah Mormon Pioneer
5 July 1849- 10 October 1849

Occupation: Laborer (1850)

Levi was a farmer
(1870, 1880,1900)

Married Emeline Owen 23 Jul 1853 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Died 9 Apr 1909 Kaysville, Davis, Utah

Levi's death certificate
COD: Pneumonia
Informant: Levi Taylor Jr (son)

Levi and Emeline's
headstone

Buried 9 April 1909 Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah Plot: 19-3-A-9
Sources
Birth: Family Bible shown in book, Coneto Creek Taylors, by Jesse L. Warner (1975) page 30b
1840 US Census Hancock County, Illinois (he is one of the children counted, but it doesn't show his name, just his gender under his mother's name

1842 Nauvoo Stake Ward Census (with his mother and brother, James)

1850 US Census Davis County, Utah (age 21, living with his mother and his brother, James)
1860 US Census Davis County, Utah page 56 (age 30)
1870 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 38, his family is living with his mother, Elizabeth)
1880 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah page 321 (age 49)
1900 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah Sheet 8B (age 70)
Nauvoo Community Project

Utah Death Certificate
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123903/levi-taylor

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Emeline
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Emeline Owen
Parents Abel Owen and Elizabeth (Betsy) Davis
Birth 14 Jan 1833 Syracuse, Onondaga, New York
Death 23 Jun 1921 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
COD: Myocarditis, (heart disease) chronic nephritis (kidney failure)
Informant: Mrs James Pardee (her daughter, Daisy)
Buried Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah Plot: 19-3-A-9
Sources
1860 US Census Davis County, Utah (age 26)
1870 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 37)
1880 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 47)
1900 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah Sheet 8B (age 67, mother of 9, with 9 living)
1910 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 74, widow)
1920 US Census TWICE: Farmington, Davis, Utah (age 87, widow, with Armenia)
1920 US Census Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah (age 87, widow, with Daisy)
Utah Death Certificate
Headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=123904

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CHILDREN

Dorleskie Taylor
Birth 16 June 1854 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Married Joseph Bowyer 27 Feb 1871 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children: Joseph, Roy, Eva
Death 26 Apr 1948 Los Alamitos, Orange, California
Buried Westminster Memorial Park, Westminster, Orange, California

Sources
North American Family Histories

D.A.R. Lineage Book DAR ID Number: 51683

1860 US Census Davis County, Utah (age 6)

Note: name spelled Dorleska in record
1870 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 16)
Note: name spelled Darleskie in record
1880 US Census Silver City, Owyhee, Idaho
Note: surname spelled Bouyer
1900 US Census Cave Creek, Maricopa, Arizona (age 46)
Note: name spelled Dorleskei
1910 US Census Yuma, Arizona (age 53)
Note: name given as Dorlesker
1920 US Census Luartzarte, Yuma, Arizona (age 65)
1930 US Census Long Beach, Orange, California (age 73)
Note: name spelled Dorleski
California Death Index

Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117810015/dorleskie-bowyer

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Adora Obit

Adora (Dora)Taylor
Birth 17 Jan 1856 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Married 1) Sylvester M Wessels abt 1874
Children: Sylvester
2) Niles John Strumquist 10 Oct 1894 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Children: Niles, Margarite
Death 11 Jan 1943 Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico

COD: Pneumonia

Informant: daughter, Marguerite
Buried Fairview Cemetery, Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico (no stone - she is buried in the empty plot next to her husband's stone)
Sources
United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926 (for Sylvester's pension)
Filed to claim remarried-widow benefits 11 Nov 1927
Marriage to Niles: Utah, County Marriages
1860 US Census Davis County, Utah (age 5)
1870 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 14)
1900 US Census Sante Fe County, New Mexico (age 43)
1920 US Census Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico (age 62)
1930 US Census Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico (age 73, widow)

Obituary
Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117819599/adora-strumquist

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Emeline Obit
Emeline (Lina)Taylor
Birth 20 Jan 1858 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Married William Henry Wilkinson 4 Nov 1875 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Children: William, Mark, Ethel, Owen, Pansy, Hazel, Clifford, Lillian
Death 28 Mar 1943 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
COD: Acute Cardiac Failure, Hypertension (high blood pressure) Heart disease, Bronchial Asthma
Informant: Alan Olin
Had been living at 1374 S 10th East in SLC

Emelina "Lina" Taylor Wilkinson's death certificate

Buried 31 Mar 1943 Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah

Emeline - Lina - Taylor Wilkinson headstone

Sources
1860 US Census Davis County, Utah (age 2)
1870 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 12)
1900 US Census Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah (age 42, mother of 8, 7 living)
1910 US Census Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah (age 52)
1920 US Census Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah (age 61)
1940 US Census Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah (age 82, widow)

Death Certificate

Headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=117821788

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Place where Levi Jr is buried
No headstone
Levi (Lee) Taylor Jr
Birth 8 Sep 1859 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Married Sarah Elizabeth Layton 21 Dec 1882 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children: Sarah, Levi
Death 12 May 1943 Klamath Falls, Klamath, Oregon
Buried Linkville Cemetery, Linkville, Klamath, Oregon
Note: Section 24, Blk 2, Lot 2 is on the right beyond the Headstones shown; this area may have small round markers under the overgrown ground/grass.

Levi's signature on his sister, Lillian's, marriage certificate

Sources
1860 US Census Davis County, Utah (age 0)
1870 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 10)
1880 US Census for Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 20)
1900 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 39, mother-in-law with them)
1910 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 50)
1920 US Census San Francisco, San Franciso, California (age 59, 'single')
1930 US Census Klamath, Oregon (age 70, divorced)
Note: going by Lee
1940 US Census Modoc Point, Klamath, Oregon (age 80, 'single')
Note: going by Lee

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Lillie's burial plot - no stone
Lillian Elizabeth (Lillie) Taylor
Birth 17 Oct 1861 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Married John Southworth 25 Dec 1880 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Children: Dora, Birdie, Elva, Walter

John and Lillie's marriage certificate

Death 11 Oct 1944 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
COD: Cerebral Hemorrhage, heart disease, chronic nephritis
Informant: W. J. Metalliu (?)
Buried Farmington Cemetery, Farmington, Davis, Utah Plot A-62-3
Sources
1870 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 8)
Note: her name given as Elizabeth in record
1880 US Census for Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 18)
1900 US Census Payson, Utah, Utah (age 38, mother of 4, 4 still living)
1930 US Census Salt Lake City, Utah (age 67)
Utah Death Certificate
Salt Lake County Death Records
Plot: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135607/lillie-elizabeth-southworth
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Armenia Louise Taylor
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Armenia Louise Taylor
Birth 10 Aug 1864 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Married William Marion Mayfield 23 Oct 1881Ogden, Weber, Utah
Children: William, Laura, Clarence, Leroy, George, Leo, Harold
Death 10 Feb 1943 Farmington, Davis, Utah
COD: Heart disease
Informant: Leo J Mayfield (son)
Buried Farmington Cemetery, Farmington, Davis, Utah
Sources
1870 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 6)
1880 US Census for Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 16)
1900 US Census Farmington, Davis, Utah (age 36, mother of 7, 7 still living)
1910 US Census Farmington, Davis, Utah (age 45)
1920 US Census Farmington, Davis, Utah (age 54. mother living with them)
1930 US Census Farmington, Davis, Utah (age 65)
1940 US Census Farmington, Davis, Utah (age 75, widow)
Utah Death Certificate
Headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=34013

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Loran Green Taylor (twin to Owen)
Birth 20 Apr 1866 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Death 1867 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Buried Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah Plot 19-3-A-13
Sources
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123856/loran-green-taylor

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Owen's headstone
Note: on his stone is the sign for the Masons

Owen Allen Taylor (twin to Loran)
Birth 20 Apr 1866 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Occupation: Telegraph Operator
Married: Mary Leah Burton 25 Dec 1891 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Children: Burton, Pauline, Caroline
2) Minnie Hullett 25 December 1902 Laramie, Albany, Wyoming
Death 10 Aug 1907 Ogden, Weber, Utah

Owen's funeral announcement

Owen's death certificate
COD: Nephritis (kidney failure)
Informant: Minnie Hewlett, his second wife

Buried Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah Plot 19-3-A-14

Sources
1870 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 5)
1880 US Census for Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 15 - gender is wrong in census and they gave him the middle name Ellen)
1900 US Census Ogden, Weber, Utah (age 35, single, a servant)
Marriage to Mary: Utah, County Marriages
Utah Death Certificate
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123901/owen-allen-taylor

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William Taylor obit

William Taylor
Birth 9 Mar 1869 Kaysville, Davis, Utah

Occupation:
Chief Clerk RR Office

Married Katie Grace Gibson 24 Jun 1896 Ogden, Weber, Utah

Children: Norma

William and Katie's marriage license

Death 6 Nov 1909 Kaysville, Davis, Utah

William's death certificate
COD: Brights Disease of Kidneys
Informant: Daisy Pardee (sister)

Buried Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah Plot 19-3-A-5

William's headstone

Sources
1870 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 2)
1880 US Census for Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 11)
1900 US Census Ogden, Weber, Utah (age 32)
Note: wife is going by Grace
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123899/william-taylor

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Daisy's obit
Daisy Estella Taylor
Birth 22 Nov 1876 Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Occupation: (1900) Stenographer
Married 1) T.P. Bender 1 Jan 1898 Davis County, Utah
2) (Judge) James Douglas Pardee 29 Apr 1902 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Death 5 Feb 1932 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

COD: Heart disease, influenza
Informant: Mrs. Lina Wilkinson (sister)
Buried 8 Feb 1932 Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Plot R-164-8
Note: was informed there is no stone
Sources
Marriage to TP: Utah, County Marriages
Marriage to James: Utah, County Marriages
1880 US Census Kaysville, Davis, Utah (age 3)
1900 US Census Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah (age 24, widowed)
1910 US Census Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah (age 33)
1920 US Census Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah (age 43, mother is with them)
1930 US Census Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah (age 54)
Utah Death Certificate
Utah Deaths and Burials

Obit: Davis County Clipper issue12 Feb 1932

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Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/163273/daisy-stella-pardee

Daisy's death certificate

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From a Funeral Program

When I come to the end of the road

And the sun has set for me

I want no rites in a gloom-filled room

Why cry for a soul set free?

Miss me a little - but not for too long

And not with your head bowed low

Remember the love that we once shared

Miss me, but let me go.

For this is a journey that we all must take

And each must go alone

It's all part of the Master's plan

A step on the road to home.

When you are lonely and sick at heart

Go to the hills we know

And bury your sorrow among the trees

Miss me, but let me go.

The Line

Every minute someone leaves this world behind.
We are all in “the line” without knowing it.
We never know how many people are before us.
We can not move to the back of the line.
We can not step out of the line.
We can not avoid the line.

So while we wait in line -

Make moments count.
Make priorities.
Make the time.
Make your gifts known.
Make a nobody feel like a somebody.
Make your voice heard.
Make the small things big.
Make someone smile.
Make the change.
Make love.
Make up.
Make peace.
Make sure to tell your people they are loved.
Make sure to have no regrets.
Make sure you are ready.

I'm My Own Grandpa

Many, many years ago when I was 23,
I got married to a widow
who was as pretty as could be.
She had a grown up daughter
who had a hair of red.
My father fell in love with her
and soon the two were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life.
My daughter was my mother,
for she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matters worse,
although it brought me joy,
I soon became the father
of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became a brother -in-law to dad
and so became my uncle though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle,
then that also made him brother to the widow's grown-up- daughter,
who of course, was my stepmother.
Father's wife then had a son,
who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson, for he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother
and it makes me blue.
Because, although she is my wife,
she's my grandma too.
If my wife is my grandmother,
then I am her grandchild.
and every time I think of it,
it simply makes me wild.
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw.
As the husband of my grandmother,
I am my own grandpa!

Quotes from the Prophets

President Gordon B Hinckley: "It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future. It is good to look upon the virtues of those who have gone before, to gain strength for whatever lies ahead. It is good to reflect upon the work of those who labored so hard and gained so little in this world, but out of whose dreams and early plans so well nurtured, has come a great harvest of which we are the beneficiaries. Their tremendous example can become a compelling motivation for us all, for each of us is a pioneer in his own life."

President Spencer W Kimball: "I hope to see us dissolve the artificial boundary line we so often place between missionary work and temple and genealogical work, because it is the same great redemptive work!"

President Joseph Fielding Smith: " The responsibility on behalf of our kindred dead rests with equal force on all, according to our individual ability and opportunities...the greatest and grandest duty of all is to labor for the dead."

The Passing of the Pot (Chamber Pot)

As far back in childhood
As memory may go
One household vessel greets me
That wasn't made for show
Beneath the bed twas anchored
Where only few could see
But served the entire family
With equal privacy
Some called the critter Peggy
And some the thundermug
And others called it badger
A few called it jug
To bring it in at evening
Was bad enough no doubt
But heaven help the person
Who had to take it out
Our big one was enormous
And would accomodate
A watermelon party
Composed of six or eight
When nights were dark and rainy
It was a useful urn
On icy winter mornings
The cold rim seemed to burn
At times when things were rushing
And business extra good
Each took his turn a waiting
Or did the best he could
Sometimes when in a hurry
To our disgust and shame
We fumbled in the darkness
And slightly missed our aim
The special one for company
Was decorated well
But just the same it rendered
That old familiar smell
Today this modernism
Relieves me a lot
And only in my vision
I see that homely pot.
(author unknown)

Poem about ancestors

Though steep is the path I follow today,
The footprints of time will show me the way.
For many have traveled a smiliar road,
And carried an equal of heavier load.

No troubles I face are new to this earth,
That man has not faced from time of his birth.
The route has been charted and roads have been paved
By legions before me who were stalwart and brave.

Their steps never faltered nor courage grew dim,
For they trusted the Lord and let Him led them.
If my faith and my trust remain steadfast and true,
God will guide and protect me in all that I do.
- Dolores Karides

The Elusive Ancestor

I went searching for an ancestor.
I cannot find him still.
He moved around from place to place
and did not leave a will.
He married where a courthouse burned.
He mended all his fences.
He avoided any man who came to
take the US census

He always kept his luggage packed,
This man who had no fame,
and every 20 years or so,
This rascal changed his name.
No one else inthis world is
searching for this elusive man,
so I play "Gene-solitaire"
To find him, if I can!

I'm told he's buried in a plot,
with tombstone he was blessed;
but the weather took engravings,
and some vandals took the rest.
He died before the county clerks
were appointed to keep records
No family Bible has emerged -
In spite of all my efforts.

To top it off, this elusive ancestor
who has caused me many groans -
left me even one more challenge:
He brothed a lady,
by the name of "Jones"!
(Got this from a publication
put out by the DUP organization
that names the author: Merrell Kenworthy)

Poem: Heaven's Door

If I should go before you,

If life on earth were through;

I'll stop just inside Heaven's door,

and there I'll wait for you.

You've but to look 'cross star filled skies,

Past the moon and then beyond;

To know my leaving could never break,

This heart's undying bond.

And if you should go before me,

If your journey on earth were through;

You know I will be close behind,

I'll never be far from you.

Across the span of time and space,

This love will reach this far;

For you'll always carry a bit of my heart,

No matter where you are.

Allison Chambers Coxsey©1995 ~ All Rights Reserved

Which Shall It Be? by Adelaide Proctor

Which shall it be?

"Which shall it be? Which shall it be?
I looked at John and John looked at me,
And when I found that I must speak,
My voice seemed strangely low and weak:
˜Tell me again what Robert said,"
And then I, listening, bent my head.
This is his letter:˜I will give
A house and land while you shall live,
If, in return, from out your seven,
One child to me for aye is given."

I looked at John's old garments worn;
I thought of all that he had borne
Of poverty, and work, and care,
Which I, though willing, could not share;
I thought of seven young mouths to feed,
Of seven little children's need,
And then of this.

˜Come, John,said I,
We'll choose among them as they lie
Asleep. So, walking hand in hand,
Dear John and I surveyed our band:
First to the cradle lightly stepped,
Where Lilian, the baby, slept.
Softly the father stooped to lay
His rough hand down in a loving way,
When dream or whisper made her stir,
And huskily he said: ˜Not her!"

We stooped beside the trundle bed,
And one long ray of twilight shed
Athwart the boyish faces there,
In sleep so beautiful and fair;
I saw on James rough, red cheek
A tear undried. E'er John could speak,
He's but a baby, too," said I,
And kissed him as we hurried by.

Pale, patient, Robbie's angel face
Still in his sleep bore suffering's trace.
˜No, for a thousand crowns, not him!"
He whispered, while our eyes were dim.
Poor Dick! bad Dick! our wayward son”
Turbulent, restless, idle one”
Could he be spared?
Nay, He who gave
Bade us befriend him to the grave;
Only a mother's heart could be
Patient enough for such as he;
˜And so," said John, ˜I would not dare
To take him from her bedside prayer."

Then stole we softly up above,
And knelt by Mary, child of love;
˜Perhaps for her ˜twould better be,"
I said to John. Quite silently
He lifted up a curl that lay
Across her cheek in a wilful way,
And shook his head: ˜Nay, love, not thee,
The while my heart beat audibly.

Only one more, our eldest lad,
Trusty and truthful, good and glad,
So like his father. ˜No, John, no!
I cannot, will not, let him go."

And so we wrote, in courteous way,
We could not give one child away;
And afterward toil lighter seemed,
Thinking of that of which we dreamed,
Happy in truth that not one face
Was missed from its accustomed place;
Thankful to work for all the seven,
Trusting the rest to One in heaven."

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Levi Taylor and Emeline Owen

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