Person:Robert Taylor (139)

Sources

Original presented at FamilyPedia

Transcript:Marriage Record for Robert Taylor and Ama Mary Goldizen, Parke, Indiana, 17 April 1849

Transcript:Pefecting Homestead Claim, Amy M. Taylor, undated

Overview

Robert was probably born in the Glade, Madison County Ohio. His parents relocated to Indiana, settling in Parke County sometime between 1820 and 1830. We do not have a direct record of where in Parke County his parents were living, but in 1849 he married Ama Marie Goldizen in the town of Rockville. Rockville was incorporated in 1823, and it seems likely that the Taylor family moved here about this time. Robert's father died the year after Robert and Ama Marie married, of a "fever" or probably cholera, according to the 1850 mortality schedule. Two of Robert's younger brothers, Harrison and Silas, are shown living with the newly weds in the 1850 census.

By the time of the 1860 census Robert and Ama Marie had moved on to Warren County, Iowa, where they are found living in Washington Township. They are still in Warren County in the 1870 census, but by 1874 they have moved to Franklin Precinct, Fillmore County, Nebraska. Robert died there in December of that year. In the 1885 Nebraska State Census Ama Marie is shown living in Midway Borough of Franklin Precinct, and it is likely that this is where the couple originally settled c. 1872. Ama Marie died at age 65 in July of 1889, in Fillmore County, and was buried in the Franklin Cemetery. Robert's final resting place is not known, but is presumably nearby.

Robert and Ama Marie had a total of six known children, though there is a substantial gap between the birth of John Levick in 1850, and his brother James in 1858. It seems likely that Robert and Ama Marie lost several children during this period.

Filmore County NE

Thayer County NE