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Leon Deforest Taylor

Male 1899 - 1949  (49 years)

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  • Name Leon Deforest Taylor  [1, 2]
    Birth 21 Aug 1899  Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male
    Census 6 Jun 1900  French Creek Town, Chautauqua, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Census 2 May 1910  Spring, Crawford, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Census 2 Jan 1920  Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Census 10 Apr 1930  Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Death 25 Jun 1949  Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4] 
    • Hamot Hospital.
      Usual residence: St. Barnabas Home, North East, Pa.
      Usual occupation: retired. [4]
    Leon Taylor Pennsylvania Certificate of Death    		 Leon Taylor Pennsylvania Certificate of Death
    Erie county file 51132 (1949)
    Burial 27 Jun 1949  Wattsburg Cemetery, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Person ID I214  Bisbee
    Last Modified 19 Jul 2017

    Father Deforest Taylor,   b. 4 Nov 1872, , , Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Aug 1913, Venango Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 40 years)
    Mother Mary Viva Bisbee,   b. 16 Nov 1874, Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Jun 1942, Venango Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
    Marriage Abt 1895  [5] 
    Notes 
    • This family lived in the area of Wattsburg and Lowville, Pa. Leon Taylor, Lowville, Pa. was bedridden for many years with a strange and rare disease in which a limestone formation entered his system, paralyzed him, and gradually "turned him to stone". He lay in his bed, by a window, and waved to passersby, who knew him, from far and wide. [9]
    Family ID F101  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 21 Aug 1899 - Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 6 Jun 1900 - French Creek Town, Chautauqua, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 2 May 1910 - Spring, Crawford, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 2 Jan 1920 - Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 10 Apr 1930 - Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 25 Jun 1949 - Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 27 Jun 1949 - Wattsburg Cemetery, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Leon Taylor was bedridden for many years with a strange and rare disease in which a limestone formation entered his system, paralized him, and gradually "turned him to stone." He lay in his bed, by a window, and waved to passersby, who knew of him from far and wide.
    • (Medical):See attached sources. [10]

  • Sources 
    1. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 131.

    2. [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 25.

    3. [S1579] WW1 Draft Registration Cards, (www.ancestry.com, 2005: NARA micropublication M1509, 4582 rolls), Draft Boar No. 1, Union City, Erie, Pa.
      Leon Deforest taylor
      1 wattsburg, Erie, PA
      age 19, born Aug 21, 1899
      invalid
      Nearest relative: Viva Taylor, 1 Watsburg, Erie, PA
      Medium height, medium build, brown eyes, brown hair.
      12 Sep 1918

    4. [S2885] Pennsylvania Certificate of Death, Leon Taylor, Erie county file 51132 (1949).

    5. [S2490] Taylor, DeForest (I210): 1900 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2004): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T623, roll 1014, enumeration district (ED) 95, sheet 3A, page 17A, line 3, dwelling 48, family 50; image accessed 1/7/2009.), 1900.NY.Chautauqua.French Creek.95.5.

    6. [S2638] Taylor, DeForest (I210): 1910 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2006): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T624, roll 1333; enumeration district (ED) 39, sheet 13B, page 58B, line 58, dwelling 149, family 149; image accessed 9/26/2009.), 1910.PA.Crawford.Spring.39.24.

    7. [S2491] Taylor, Viva Mary Bisbee (I96): 1920 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2005): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T625, roll 1567, enumeration district (ED) 143, sheet 1A, page 218A, line 38, dwelling 11, family 11; image accessed 1/7/2009.), 1920.PA.Erie.Venango.143.1.

    8. [S2492] Taylor, Leon DeForest (I214): 1930 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2002): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T626, roll 2038, enumeration district (ED) 141, sheet 3A, page 183, line 39, dwelling 53, family 53; image accessed 1/7/2009.), 1930.PA.Erie.Venango.141.5.

    9. [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 26.

    10. [S2493] M. J. Bisbee, GRS, Taylor, Leon DeForest: Medical, (self published, Erie, PA 1974), 25.