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Elizabeth Nancy <I>Ownby</I> Taylor

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Elizabeth Nancy Ownby Taylor

Birth
Marshall County, Tennessee, USA
Death
10 Feb 1930 (aged 79)
Whitewright, Grayson County, Texas, USA
Burial
Pilot Grove, Grayson County, Texas, USA
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Elizabeth Nancy Ownby Taylor was the 6th of 11 children of Eli Craig Ownby and Nancy Carol Winstead. This become significant simply because she was 12 in 1861 when her Mother died shortly after the beginning of the Civil War.

Her older sister was already married and lived away from the family farm in Marshall Co., Tennessee. With her mother dead, she was in charge of the household and her 5 younger siblings. With her sister gone and her 4 older brothers off to war, the responsibility was overwhelming. Especially when the Northern troops raided the farm and took her father away for 2 weeks.

This experience stayed with her for the remainder of her life.

The entire family remained close emotionally and all but 2 of the siblings moved to Texas in the 1880's. She was exceptionally close to her oldest brother, Watterson Knox Polk Ownby.

They married on the same day (to Mary Jane Taylor and Jefferson Lafayette Taylor, brother and sister) and they died on the same day in the same house in 1930.



Elizabeth Nancy Ownby Taylor was the 6th of 11 children of Eli Craig Ownby and Nancy Carol Winstead. This become significant simply because she was 12 in 1861 when her Mother died shortly after the beginning of the Civil War.

Her older sister was already married and lived away from the family farm in Marshall Co., Tennessee. With her mother dead, she was in charge of the household and her 5 younger siblings. With her sister gone and her 4 older brothers off to war, the responsibility was overwhelming. Especially when the Northern troops raided the farm and took her father away for 2 weeks.

This experience stayed with her for the remainder of her life.

The entire family remained close emotionally and all but 2 of the siblings moved to Texas in the 1880's. She was exceptionally close to her oldest brother, Watterson Knox Polk Ownby.

They married on the same day (to Mary Jane Taylor and Jefferson Lafayette Taylor, brother and sister) and they died on the same day in the same house in 1930.



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