William Moore-Taylor

William Taylor came to the United States in 1876. He would have been 17. He was naturalized in 1881 according to the 1920 Census. I should look up that record to locate his arrival in the United States to see what surname he gave aboard ship.

He married Sadie (Sarah) Minerva Slentz 21 November 1885 in Dawson County, Montana. This would have been after his mother's death and shortly after his brother and sisters had arrived in the United States. They were headed to Montana to meet him according to the ship's list.

William and Sadie had 9 children. The first four were born in Montana. The next four in Missouri, and the youngest in Chicago. Frank Mervin, Florence Ellen, Ethel Jane, Myrtle Viola, Annie Grace, Mary Irene, Charles Clayton, William Delton, and Harold Rex. Florence and Annie both died young.

William started married life as a farmer (1900). Then moved on to being a Boiler maker for the railroad (1910, 1920). When he died in 1927 he was a retired night watchman for the Federal Reserve Life Insurance Company in Kansas City, Kansas.

I haven't found William on the 1880 census although I have looked for him both as a MOORE and as a TAYLOR. In 1900 his family lived in Jackson, Daviess, Missouri. Then in 1910 in Chicago, Illinois. Finally, in 1920 in Kansas City, Kansas.

His death certificate states that his mother was Mary Moore of England. His father was Charles Taylor of England. All censuses state that both parents were born in England.

Annie Moore-Taylor

Annie was born 11 Dec 1865 in Liverpool, England. She emigrated to the United States with Charles and Alice Jane (Jennie) in 1885. They came aboard the Inman Line's City of Chester.

Annie married Duane Robert Linsley about 1887, presumably in Montana. She would have been 22.

Duane was born in 1857 in Wisconsin, the son of Charles Linsley and Filena. (1860) He grew up in Minnesota (1870, 1880) and later moved further west. He was a Grocer his entire life.

Their first child, Hazel May Linsley was born September 1888 in Dakota Territory. Their second child, George Howard Linsley was born August 1889 in Montana.

By 1900 the Linsleys are in Pocatello, Idaho. Then in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1910, 1920 & 1930. Duane died 5 December 1932 in Colorado Springs. What a sad Christmas they must have had that year!

Annie moved to Midwest, Wyoming to live with her daughter, Hazel, who had married Fred Temple. They had two daughters, Dorothy and Charolette. George had married Lillie Bertie and they had two daughters, as well, Nellie and Flora.

Annie died 7 March 1936 in Midwest. She was buried beside her husband in Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs.

This picture was taken in Colorado Springs at the Garden of the Gods (did you know the Lone Ranger Westerns were shot here?) when Charles Taylor (Jr.), his wife, Anna Marie Helland and daughter Hilda Virginia (Ginnie) went to visit them. The other children were already married by the time of this visit which was around 1930

Annie's death certificate lists her mother's name as Marian DeBarcy born in France. Her father was Charles Taylor born in England. Each census lists Annie's mother as born in France and speaks French and her father as born in England. Both of which corroborate Charles Taylor (Jr.)'s information.