Linley Glenn Taylor (1886 - 1965)

Born 12 Jan 1886 in Wolcott, Lamoille, Vermont, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Bessie Helena (Johnson) Taylor — married 7 Jun 1916 in Lancaster, Coos, New Hampshire, United States

Descendants

Died 23 Feb 1965 at age 79 in Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States

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Biography

Linley Glenn Taylor was born in the family home in Wolcott, Vermont on January 12, 1886, the only son of Henry Augustus Taylor and Clara Maria Slayton.

As a young man, he taught school and worked in the family general store. During the summers, he played baseball in the grand mountain hotels of the time.

Linley and Bessie Helena Johnson met while working at Sunset Hill House in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire. He and Bessie married in Lancaster, New Hampshire in 1916. They lived with his parents in Wolcott for about four years then moved to Lancaster to live with Bessie's mother.

In the early 1920's he became a railway postal clerk and moved his family to Concord, New Hampshire. He regularly traveled from Boston to Montreal. He retired sometime after WWII.

They had eight children, two of whom died in infancy, and fifteen grandchildren.

Linley died in Concord, New Hampshire in February 1965 at the age of 79. He is buried in Blossom Hill Cemetery in Concord.

Sources

• family records - my maternal grandfather
• "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954," database with images, FamilySearch [1] - birth
• "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947," database with images, [FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FLZ2-B7V ] - marriage

Census Records

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MMP9-G87 : accessed 28 September 2017), Linley G Taylor in household of Henry Taylor, Wolcott township, Lamoille, Vermont, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 137, sheet 3B, family 63, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,692.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MPFH-SRQ : accessed 28 September 2017), Linley G Taylor in household of Henry A Taylor, Wolcott, Lamoille, Vermont, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 134, sheet 4A, family 77, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1612; FHL microfilm 1,375,625.
• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MZY3-P2W : accessed 28 September 2017), Linley G Taylor, Wolcott, Lamoille, Vermont, United States; citing ED 106, sheet 2B, line 83, family 43, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1872; FHL microfilm 1,821,872.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X7NK-PLD : accessed 28 September 2017), Lyndey G Taylor, Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 23, sheet 3A, line 14, family 59, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1304; FHL microfilm 2,341,039.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VT9W-J52 : accessed 28 September 2017), Linley G Taylor, Ward 7, Concord, Concord City, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 7-29, sheet 3A, line 40, family 65, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2293.