Below are 2 different contrasting accounts by 2 different contributors. (1) the first one reads:
Carleen Basham Carnivale
Her account reads: Elizabeth Bettie Taylor was not an orphan. She was one of 14 children and was allowed to live with her Aunt Amelia because the Watts had no children and they could afford to send Bettie to a girls college in Tennessee.
(2) This account send by contributor Don Leuty It reads:
. . . . .Born Elizabeth B Taylor to William Henry Taylor and Dorcas Ann "Dora" Holley Taylor
Raised by Judge Pressly Watts and his wife, Amelia
Orphaned and raised by aunt Amelia & husband Judge Presley Watts in Princeton, Dallas county, Arkansas
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May have come from Alabama to what became Dallas county, Arkansas with parents as a baby around 1844. Raised in Princeton where adopted father was county clerk then county judge after having sold his Princeton Boarding House (hotel) to Col Wm T M Holmes, then died in 1867. Her mother Amelia, is found in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana operating Battles House Hotel and reportedly committed suicide aboard riverboat, Red Cloud, heading down the Red river for New Orleans.
Census: 1870, age 26 in Princeton, Dallas county, Arkansas with husband.
Census: 1880, age 30 in Princeton, Dallas county, Arkansas with husband.
Census: 1900, age 58 in Fordyce, Dallas county, Arkansas with hubby.(noted she had had NO children & incorrectly noting marriage in 1875 and born Sep 1841)
Death: in Dallas county, Arkansas
Burial: Oakland Cemetery, Fordyce, Dallas county, Arkansas
Foster Father: Presley Watts b: 1808/11 in Georgia
Foster Mother: Amelia Taylor b: 1820 in Alabama
Both foster parents buried in Princeton cemetery, Dallas county, Arkansas.
Marriage: James A. Amis b: 8 MAY 1829 in Granville County, North Carolina
Married: 2 JAN 1868 in Dallas County, Arkansas (Book B, Page 190)
Below are 2 different contrasting accounts by 2 different contributors. (1) the first one reads:
Carleen Basham Carnivale
Her account reads: Elizabeth Bettie Taylor was not an orphan. She was one of 14 children and was allowed to live with her Aunt Amelia because the Watts had no children and they could afford to send Bettie to a girls college in Tennessee.
(2) This account send by contributor Don Leuty It reads:
. . . . .Born Elizabeth B Taylor to William Henry Taylor and Dorcas Ann "Dora" Holley Taylor
Raised by Judge Pressly Watts and his wife, Amelia
Orphaned and raised by aunt Amelia & husband Judge Presley Watts in Princeton, Dallas county, Arkansas
_______________
May have come from Alabama to what became Dallas county, Arkansas with parents as a baby around 1844. Raised in Princeton where adopted father was county clerk then county judge after having sold his Princeton Boarding House (hotel) to Col Wm T M Holmes, then died in 1867. Her mother Amelia, is found in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana operating Battles House Hotel and reportedly committed suicide aboard riverboat, Red Cloud, heading down the Red river for New Orleans.
Census: 1870, age 26 in Princeton, Dallas county, Arkansas with husband.
Census: 1880, age 30 in Princeton, Dallas county, Arkansas with husband.
Census: 1900, age 58 in Fordyce, Dallas county, Arkansas with hubby.(noted she had had NO children & incorrectly noting marriage in 1875 and born Sep 1841)
Death: in Dallas county, Arkansas
Burial: Oakland Cemetery, Fordyce, Dallas county, Arkansas
Foster Father: Presley Watts b: 1808/11 in Georgia
Foster Mother: Amelia Taylor b: 1820 in Alabama
Both foster parents buried in Princeton cemetery, Dallas county, Arkansas.
Marriage: James A. Amis b: 8 MAY 1829 in Granville County, North Carolina
Married: 2 JAN 1868 in Dallas County, Arkansas (Book B, Page 190)
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Perry Isaac Taylor
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Martha E. Taylor Hubberd
1839–1909
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William Henry "Frank" Taylor Jr
1847–1935
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Pressley Holly Taylor
1849–1864
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Frances Ann Taylor Lovett
1851–1933
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Amanda Elizabeth Taylor Goodwin
1854–1927
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James Arthur Taylor
1855–1900
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John Thomas Taylor
1859–1930
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Miriam Taylor Roberson
1862–1927
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Lucy Taylor
1864–1905
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Jesse Hart Taylor
1866–1938
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Warren Taylor
1869–1926
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