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Donald Forest Taylor

Male 1914 - 1963  (49 years)

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  • Name Donald Forest Taylor  [1, 2]
    Birth 17 Apr 1914  French Creek Town, Chautauqua, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Gender Male
    Census 2 Jan 1920  Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Census 10 Apr 1930  Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Death 31 Dec 1963  Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    • St. Vincent Hospital.
      Usual residence: RD# 2, Wattsburg, Pa.
      Usual occupation: Superintendent of Roads. [4]
    Donald F. Taylor Pennsylvania Certificate of Death
    Donald F. Taylor Pennsylvania Certificate of Death
    Erie county file 118958-63
    Burial 3 Jan 1964  Lowville Cemetery, Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Donald Forest Taylor Memorial with Gravestone Photo
    Donald Forest Taylor Memorial with Gravestone Photo
    created at Find A Grave by Debbie Dabrowski
    Donald F. and Ellen Y. Taylor
    Donald F. and Ellen Y. Taylor
    Photo by Debbie Dabrowski
    Person ID I217  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  [7
    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. [8]
    Family ID F101  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ellen B. Yost,   b. 16 May 1912, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Nov 2002, Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years)
    Family ID F8035  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 17 Apr 1914 - French Creek Town, Chautauqua, New York, 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 - 31 Dec 1963 - Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 3 Jan 1964 - Lowville Cemetery, Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • 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. [S2581] Correspondence With Compiler, 21 September 2009, Gayle Smith, whose husband is grandson of Deforest and Mary V. Bisbee Taylor.

    4. [S2885] Pennsylvania Certificate of Death, Donald F. Taylor, Erie county file 118958-63.

    5. [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.

    6. [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.

    7. [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.

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