If anyone on this list has a book that includes Oak Hill cemetery, I'm trying to find
a branch of my family that is being VERY hard to
find!!
Four sisters named Taylor lived in Evansville from the 1870's until they died, I
think! Except for one who went off to China as a
missionary and then came back and died in California. The ones who stayed were:
Mary Taylor married about 1870 (guess) Abiah Taylor who is in the Evansville city
directories until 1889, then just Mary is listed (as a
dressmaker), and she continues to be listed until 1919, sometimes as "widow of
Abiah". They supposedly had a daughter Mary Martin who
married Henry Muller, and in the 1887 city directory, Mary Muller appears also as a
dressmaker but not after 1889. So maybe they moved
away.
Sarah Ellen Taylor (who went by Ellen) married William T. Sears in 1878 in Vand. Co. and
they had a daughter Edith Sears in 1880 who
married Arthur C. Allen in 1901 and they had a daughter Lucille Allen in 1905. I think
Edith was an only child, and I think Lucille was an
only child. I don't know if this family was in the city directories. My friend who did
the looking for me was only looking for the Martins
and the Taylors.
The last sister was Margaret (Maggie) Frances Taylor, and she didn't marry. She is
listed in various directories, and lived for a while
with Mary Martin, widow of Abiah. She was at one time the matron at the Rathbone Home for
the Aged. She disappears from the city
directories in 1919 too.
None of these people has an obituary in the Browning Evansville online obit index (except
for the sisters' mother who died in 1911). I am
reasonably sure that Mary and Maggie did not leave Evansville. I am less sure about Wm. T.
Sears, but someone who has the 56-CD set of the
1880 census from the LDS, he didn't find Wm. T. Sears OR Abiah Martin in the 1880
census.
I feel like I'm running out of ideas, so perhaps they are in Oak Hill Cemetery.
That's where all the rest of their relatives were buried.
If anyone knows anything, I really REALLY appreciate your help.
Susan Jones