Arrena Goen Taylor, 18691930 (aged 60 years)

Name
Arrena Goen /Taylor/
Given names
Arrena Goen
Nickname
Renie
Surname
Taylor
Married name
Arrena Goen /Simpson/
Birth
Citation details: certificate# 53233/49350
Birth of a brother
Note: copies of original journal & diary obtained from Myrl Wilks McLean in possession of Barbara D. McLean Corner
Birth of a brother
Note: (twin)
Birth of a sister
Note: a twin
Death of a sister
Death of a brother
Cause: whopping cough
Birth of a sister
19th President of the United States
Rutherford B Hayes
March 4, 1877
Birth of a brother
Citation details: Film# 2137865, Digital Film# 4029651, Image# 1232
Birth of a sister
Note: F. S. Taylor wrote her name as "Leva."
Census
June 1880 (aged 10 years)
Address: Justice Precinct 5
Bell County, Texas, USA
Citation details: page 374A
Note: in hh 23-23 was Ferdinan Taylor,Head, Married, Male, White, Age: 28, Farmer, KY KY KY; Elizabeth, Wife, Married, Female, White, Age: 38, Keeping house, IN NC Canada; Manda E., Daughter, Single, Female, White, Age: 11, Attending school, MO KY IN; Arrena G., Daughter, Single, Female, White, Age: 10, Attending school, TX KY IN; John Newton, Son, Single, Male, White, Age: 9, Attending school, TX KY IN; Genirah, Daughter, Single, Female, White, Age: 4, TX KY IN; Asa H., Son, Single, Male, White, Age: 3, TX KY IN; Levi, Daughter, Single, Female, White, Age: 1, TX KY IN.
Death of a maternal grandmother
Citation details: Sheet D, Page 405 Vol 1
Death of a maternal grandfather
Text:

most likely Bell County, Texas

Citation details: p. 3
British Queen
Victoria
from June 20, 1837 to January 22, 1901
20th President of the United States
James A Garfield
March 4, 1881
Birth of a sister
Note: near Cincinnati [2 miles from Oklahoma, USA state line]. On 29 January 1942 Johna Newton Taylor certified that he was " present at the birth of this child, who was born alive at 2 a.m. on the date above stated." [March 29, 1881] This birth certificate spelled her middle name as "Catharine". Others have spelled it as "Catherine".
21st President of the United States
Chester A Arthur
September 19, 1881
Death of a mother
Burial of a mother
Cemetery: Moffat Cemetery
Address: GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 31.21720, Longitude: -97.45720. Section A. Approximately 5 miles north-east of Temple on Hwy 36 in Moffat, about 2 miles south-east of the Bridge over Lake Belton, on the North side of the highway. There is a gate just off the road showing the entrance.
Note: tombstone inscription: Elizabeth Goen; Taylor; Sept. 3, 1840; Aug. 9, 1884; Rest Mother, rest in quiet; sleep. While we in sorrow; o'er thee weep.
22nd President of the United States
Grover Cleveland
March 4, 1885
Marriage of a sister
Citation details: Memorial# 53949865. Added 21 JUN 2010 by Elreeta Weathers.
23rd President of the United States
Benjamin Harrison
March 4, 1889
Marriage of a parent
Citation details: Film# 1026025
Citation details: Page: p. 128, a Journal of Erie Catharine Taylor Wilks
Note: 2nd wife, 2 children; they married the second of four years Ferdinando lived at Blue Ridge, Hamilton, Texas, USA
Marriage
Citation details: Memorial# 59246435. Added 26 SEP 2010 by Elreeta Weathers.
Citation details: Texas-VR, Film# 1020864
Note: recorded as "Bride: Miss A. G. Taylor, Groom: H. C. Simpson, 07/24/1890, Book 01, Page 186, Administrator: W. W. Robertson, MG." Four days after her father married Rosa McLaughlin.
Birth of a half-sister
Citation details: Certificate # 77359
Birth of a son
24th President of the United States
Grover Cleveland
March 4, 1893
Birth of a half-brother
Citation details: Certificate # 69798
Birth of a daughter
25th President of the United States
William McKinley
March 4, 1897
Family census
Address: Justice Precinct 1
Hamilton County, Texas, USA
Quality of data: census image
Text:

Enumerator: C. W. Boynton?
Supervisors District: 4
Enumeration District: 42

Citation details: Page 46 Sheet 11A
Note: in hh 206 206 as Simpson, Henry C., Head, White, Male, Born: Apr 1870, Age: 30 Married: 9 years, TX KY AL, Farmer, Read write & speak English: Yes, Home: Owner, mortgaged, farm, Farm # 49; Arrena, Wife, White, Female, Born: Dec 1869, Age: 30, Married: 9 years, Children born: 2, Children living: 2, TX KY IN, Read write & speak English: Yes; Lola, Daughter, White, Female, Born: Mar 1891, Age: 9, Single, TX TX TX, At school: 4 months, Read write & speak English: Yes; Austin, Son, White, Male, Born Mar 1893, Age: 7, Single, TX TX TX, At school: 4 months.
Marriage of a brother
Note: Groom-Taylor, J. N. / Bride-Winters, Cassia M. / Administrator: Jernigan, A. J., MG / Book 3, Page 181.
Marriage of a sister
Citation details: Texas-VR, Film# 1020864, Reference# 2-RLXJFC
Note: Bride: Jennie Taylor; Groom: E. F. Tippie; Administrator: A. J. Jernigan, MG; 12/05/1900, Hamilton County Texas Marriage Book 3, Page 192.
26th President of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt
September 14, 1901
Marriage of a sister
Citation details: Texas-EASy, Film# 1026027, Reference# 431
Note: recorded as Mr. A. L. Moore and Miss Levia Taylor.
Marriage of a sister
Address: Courthouse, Glen Rose, Somervell County, Texas, USA.
Text:

They lived in the home of Willie's parents, B. C. and Harriet Wilks, first 19 months of their marriage.

Citation details: Book 2 - A, Page 216
Note: Witnessed by Rev. Joe Newman and others; marriage performed by C.M. Wright, Justice of Peace, Precinct No. 1, Glen Rose, Somervell. Texas, USA [Holy Matrimony Certificate]
Marriage of a brother
27th President of the United States
William Howard Taft
March 4, 1909
Death of a sister
Address: Loraine, Mitchell County, Texas, USA
Citation details: page 2
Quality of data: primary evidence
Family census
Address: Justice Precinct 1
Hamilton County, Texas, USA
Note: in hh 58 61 as Henry C. Simpson head , 40 TX-KY-AL farmer, Arrene wife, 40 TX-KY-IN, Lola daughter 19 TX-TX-TX, Austin son, 17 TX-TX-TX laborer home farm, Howard Tippie nephew, 8 TX-TX-TX
British King
Edward VII
from January 22, 1901 to May 6, 1910
28th President of the United States
Woodrow Wilson
March 4, 1913
Death of a paternal grandmother
Citation details: Memorial# 37040736. Added 13 MAY 2009 by Oklahoma Grave Walkers
Note: at age 91, a year after she fell and broke her hip - Doris Ross Johnston
Burial of a paternal grandmother
Cemetery: Old Velma Cemetery
Address: Velma, Stephens County, Oklahoma, USA
Citation details: Memorial# 37040736 Added 13 MAY 2009 by Oklahoma Grave Walkers
Note: tombstone inscription: Catherine; Taylor; Born; June 20, 1831; Died; Nov. 17, 1920; MOTHER.
Marriage of a parent
Quality of data: primary evidence
Note: Ann Taylor Nelson found these two documents among her father's papers [Charles Jenkins Taylor] in a trunk in her fathers house in Burnet, Texas, concerning an unknown marriage of her grandfather, F.S. Taylor. At this time this is all that is known of Alice Taylor.
Family census
Address: Precinct: 1, Enumeration District: 3, Hamilton County, Texas, USA
Citation details: Sheet 2A
Note: in family# 34 as Henry C. Simpson, Head, Male, White, Born: 1870, Age: 60, Married, TX KY AL; Arrena G., Wife, Female, White, Born: 1870, Age: 60, Married, TX KY IN; Alexander A., Father, Male, White, Born: 1839, Age: 91, Widowed, KY NC KY; Edna B. Sommerfeld, Servant, Female, White, Born: 1912, Age: 18, Single, TX TX TX.
Marriage of a parent
Quality of data: primary evidence
Citation details: Bk # 1, pg 223
Note: Mary Kirkley Hunt was a widow with 9 children. She was F. S. Taylors 4th wife late in life. She was a "mail order bride". In Erie's letter to Jewell on March 15, 1930 she wrote, " Pa said he was going to Austin Sun to meet his widow. she lives near Houstin. I disremember the place. Her name is Mary T. Hunt and he has never seen her I saw her picture. she is a nice looking woman only has a rather hard look she aims to stay a few days and see how they like each other. If they suite they will marry, if not she will go back. He wants me to see them married."
British King
George V
from May 6, 1910 to January 20, 1936
29th President of the United States
Warren G Harding
March 4, 1921
30th President of the United States
Calvin Coolidge
August 2, 1923
31st President of the United States
Herbert Hoover
March 4, 1929
Death
November 12, 19309:43 a.m. (aged 60 years)
Address: Hamilton, Hamilton County, Texas, USA
Cause of death: diabetis
Text:

Informant: H. C. Simpson, her husband, Hamilton County, Texas, USA

Citation details: Memorial# 59246435. Added 26 SEP 2010 by Elreeta Weathers.
Quality of data: image
Citation details: certificate# 53233/49350
Burial
Cemetery: IOOF Cemetery
Address: Row 3, Grave 53. Hamilton, Hamilton County, Texas, USA. IOOF Cemetery has no official entrance or signs. The cemetery is located north of the courthouse on N. Rice St. (Hwy 281). The IOOF occupies all of the space on North Rice Street between Ranglers Convenience Store and the United Primitive Baptist Church.
Citation details: Memorial# 59246435. Added 26 SEP 2010 by Elreeta Weathers.
Citation details: certificate 53233/49350
Family with parents
father
Ferdinando San Francisco Taylor
18511936
Birth: March 14, 1851 22 19 Harrison, Kentucky, USA
Death: December 4, 1936Burnet, Burnet, Texas, USA
mother
Elizabeth Goen
18401884
Birth: September 3, 1840 30 23 Carr Township, Jackson, Indiana, USA
Death: August 9, 1884Bell, Texas, USA
Marriage MarriageDecember 8, 1867Cooke, Texas, USA
1 year
elder sister
Taylor Sisters 1859
18681951
Birth: November 19, 1868 17 28 Clay, Missouri, USA
Death: February 19, 1951Hamilton, Hamilton, Texas, USA
13 months
herself
Taylor Sisters 1859
18691930
Birth: December 4, 1869 18 29 Bell, Texas, USA
Death: November 12, 1930Hamilton, Hamilton, Texas, USA
18 months
younger brother
Johna Newton Taylor & Cassandra [Cassie] May Winters Taylor ca 1890
18711945
Birth: June 10, 1871 20 30 Bell, Texas, USA
Death: February 22, 1945Lometa, Lampasas, Texas, USA
23 months
younger brother
18731873
Birth: April 16, 1873 22 32 Texas, USA
Death: June 7, 1873Texas, USA
1 month
younger sister
18731873
Birth: May 3, 1873 22 32 Texas, USA
Death: May 3, 1873Texas, USA
2 years
younger sister
Taylor Sisters 1859
18751910
Birth: August 15, 1875 24 34 Texas, USA
Death: February 9, 1910Loraine, Mitchell, Texas, USA
21 months
younger brother
Asa Hampton & Bertha Elizabeth McCarty Taylor
18771944
Birth: April 28, 1877 26 36 Texas, USA
Death: December 1, 1944Hamilton, Hamilton, Texas, USA
2 years
younger sister
Taylor Sisters 1859
18791970
Birth: April 26, 1879 28 38 Texas, USA
Death: September 2, 1970Bandon, Coos, Oregon, USA
23 months
younger sister
Erie Catharine Taylor Wilks
18811951
Birth: March 29, 1881 30 40 Washington, Arkansas, USA
Death: August 30, 1951Gorman, Eastland, Texas, USA
Father’s family with Rosa Anna McLaughlin
father
Ferdinando San Francisco Taylor
18511936
Birth: March 14, 1851 22 19 Harrison, Kentucky, USA
Death: December 4, 1936Burnet, Burnet, Texas, USA
stepmother
Rosa Anna McLaughlin Taylor
18511913
Birth: May 16, 1851 51 48 Vernon, Hickman, Tennessee, USA
Death: February 13, 1913Dublin, Erath, Texas, USA
Marriage MarriageJuly 20, 1890Erath, Texas, USA
9 months
half-sister
Rosa Jewel Taylor_Wink,TX_ca 1912
18911969
Birth: April 14, 1891 40 39 Carlton, Hamilton, Texas, USA
Death: November 19, 1969Burnet, Burnet, Texas, USA
3 years
half-brother
Charles Jenkins "Buck" Taylor & Alice Juanita Stedman Taylor Tombstone
18941971
Birth: May 28, 1894 43 43 Carlton, Hamilton, Texas, USA
Death: October 30, 1971Burnet, Burnet, Texas, USA
Father’s family with Alice
father
Ferdinando San Francisco Taylor
18511936
Birth: March 14, 1851 22 19 Harrison, Kentucky, USA
Death: December 4, 1936Burnet, Burnet, Texas, USA
father’s ex-wife
Marriage Marriagebetween May 1913 and December 13, 1922
Divorce Divorceafter December 13, 1922Paris, Edgar, Illinois, USA
Father’s family with Mary Talula Kirkley
father
Ferdinando San Francisco Taylor
18511936
Birth: March 14, 1851 22 19 Harrison, Kentucky, USA
Death: December 4, 1936Burnet, Burnet, Texas, USA
stepmother
Mary Talula Kirkley Quine Hunt Taylor
18661946
Birth: October 7, 1866 28 24 Sumpter, Sumpter, South Carolina, USA
Death: December 3, 1946Mahl, Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
Marriage MarriageMarch 21, 1930Burnet, Texas, USA
Family with Henry Clay Simpson
husband
18701935
Birth: April 3, 1870
Death: May 30, 1935
herself
Taylor Sisters 1859
18691930
Birth: December 4, 1869 18 29 Bell, Texas, USA
Death: November 12, 1930Hamilton, Hamilton, Texas, USA
Marriage MarriageJuly 24, 1890Hamilton, Texas, USA
3 years
son
1893
Birth: March 1893 22 23 Texas, USA
Death:
2 years
daughter
18951968
Birth: March 19, 1895 24 25 Hamilton, Texas, USA
Death: after December 17, 1968
Birth
Citation details: certificate# 53233/49350
Census
Citation details: page 374A
Marriage
Citation details: Memorial# 59246435. Added 26 SEP 2010 by Elreeta Weathers.
Citation details: Texas-VR, Film# 1020864
Family census
Quality of data: census image
Text:

Enumerator: C. W. Boynton?
Supervisors District: 4
Enumeration District: 42

Citation details: Page 46 Sheet 11A
Family census
Citation details: page 100
Family census
Citation details: Sheet 2A
Death
Text:

Informant: H. C. Simpson, her husband, Hamilton County, Texas, USA

Citation details: Memorial# 59246435. Added 26 SEP 2010 by Elreeta Weathers.
Quality of data: image
Citation details: certificate# 53233/49350
Burial
Citation details: Memorial# 59246435. Added 26 SEP 2010 by Elreeta Weathers.
Citation details: certificate 53233/49350
Census

in hh 23-23 was Ferdinan Taylor,Head, Married, Male, White, Age: 28, Farmer, KY KY KY; Elizabeth, Wife, Married, Female, White, Age: 38, Keeping house, IN NC Canada; Manda E., Daughter, Single, Female, White, Age: 11, Attending school, MO KY IN; Arrena G., Daughter, Single, Female, White, Age: 10, Attending school, TX KY IN; John Newton, Son, Single, Male, White, Age: 9, Attending school, TX KY IN; Genirah, Daughter, Single, Female, White, Age: 4, TX KY IN; Asa H., Son, Single, Male, White, Age: 3, TX KY IN; Levi, Daughter, Single, Female, White, Age: 1, TX KY IN.

Marriage

recorded as "Bride: Miss A. G. Taylor, Groom: H. C. Simpson, 07/24/1890, Book 01, Page 186, Administrator: W. W. Robertson, MG." Four days after her father married Rosa McLaughlin.

Family census

in hh 206 206 as Simpson, Henry C., Head, White, Male, Born: Apr 1870, Age: 30 Married: 9 years, TX KY AL, Farmer, Read write & speak English: Yes, Home: Owner, mortgaged, farm, Farm # 49; Arrena, Wife, White, Female, Born: Dec 1869, Age: 30, Married: 9 years, Children born: 2, Children living: 2, TX KY IN, Read write & speak English: Yes; Lola, Daughter, White, Female, Born: Mar 1891, Age: 9, Single, TX TX TX, At school: 4 months, Read write & speak English: Yes; Austin, Son, White, Male, Born Mar 1893, Age: 7, Single, TX TX TX, At school: 4 months.

Family census

in hh 58 61 as Henry C. Simpson head , 40 TX-KY-AL farmer, Arrene wife, 40 TX-KY-IN, Lola daughter 19 TX-TX-TX, Austin son, 17 TX-TX-TX laborer home farm, Howard Tippie nephew, 8 TX-TX-TX

Family census

in family# 34 as Henry C. Simpson, Head, Male, White, Born: 1870, Age: 60, Married, TX KY AL; Arrena G., Wife, Female, White, Born: 1870, Age: 60, Married, TX KY IN; Alexander A., Father, Male, White, Born: 1839, Age: 91, Widowed, KY NC KY; Edna B. Sommerfeld, Servant, Female, White, Born: 1912, Age: 18, Single, TX TX TX.

Media object
Taylor Sisters 1859
Taylor Sisters 1859
Note: Left to Right - Back row 1. Amanda Elizabeth Taylor 2. Generrah "Ginny" Taylor 3. Arrena "Rena" Goen Taylor. Front row 1. Erie Catharine Taylor 2. Levia Taylor
Note: Photoshop enhanced by Barbara D. McLean Corner
Media object
Arrena Goen "Renie" Taylor Simpson
Arrena Goen "Renie" Taylor Simpson
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Barney Hitt (1894–1932) Norton Lindsey McLean (1903–1980) John P. Wilks (1883–1937) Clara Wilks (1905–1991) Edgar B. Hitt (1864–1913) Martha Harriet Young (1841–1911) Nolan Franklin Ellett (1903–1984) Sarah Wilks (1798–1885) Francis Jacques Corner (1821–1870) Charles B. McLean (1804–1883) Sarah Priscilla Vance (1780–1847) Levi Ashley Hitt (1864–1927) Guy Utha Newman (1900–1969) Maggie Eola Lindsey (1908–1993) Letitia Brank McLean (1861–1862) Steven Jay Corner (1965–2010) Alpha Olevia Moore (1903–1996) Minnie May McLean (1938–1995) George Atlas Newman (1907–1989) Erie Catharine Taylor (1881–1951) William Weldon Wilks (1915–1983) Arrena Goen Taylor (1869–1930) Benjamin Carroll Wilks (1827–1919) Benjamin Franklin Jeans (1838–1927) Albert D. Corner[s] (1868–1904) William Corner (1819–1899) Karl Glyn Wilks (1906–1991) Johna Newton Taylor (1871–1945) Messaniah Elizabeth Busby (1849–1852) Charles Jenkins Taylor (1894–1971) 1860 Census for Grayson County, Texas, USA Ginny Elizabeth Newman (1946–2008) John McLean (1791–1830) Sheron Kuhn McLean (1940–1980) Evan Ellsworth Osborne (1889–1948) Marl Vane Wilks (1909–1980) George Atlas Newman + Gladys Mae Akin Sheron Kuhn McLean (1940–1980) Los Charlie Ross (1907–1977) Charles William Wilks (1947–1970) Martin T. McLean Sr (1895–1992) Horace Wooten Busby (1884–1965)