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Submitted: 11/30/15 • Approved: 12/1/15 • Last Updated: 4/17/18 • R779055-G779053-S3
Sarah
May 22, 1875 St. Louis City
Jul. 4, 1952 St. Louis City
Parents:
Amos Riley Taylor (1842 - 1920)
Anna Rudd Taylor (1842 - 1924)
Amos
Jan. 2, 1842 Daviess county, Kentucky
Jan. 6, 1920 San Luis Obispo, California
Anna
Apr. 30, 1842 Louisville Jefferson County Kentucky
Oct. 4, 1924 Louisville Jefferson County Kentucky
Parents:
James Rudd (1789 - 1867)
Ann Hamilton Phillips Rudd (1800 - 1881)
Nannie
1870
1953
Parents:
Amos Riley Taylor (1842 - 1920)
Anna Rudd Taylor (1842 - 1924)
Spouse: Evariste Retailliau
St. Louis Post Dispatch
January 8, 1920, Page 9
AMOS R. TAYLOR, 77, DEAD
Member of Constitutional Convention Succumbs in California.
Amos R. Taylor, 77 years old, one of the oldest practicing lawyers in Missouri, died Tuesday at San Luis Obispo, Cal., where he went a year ago for his health. He and his son, Howard, of 4210 Delmar boulevard, maintained offices in the Title Guaranty Building.
Taylor was a member of the convention which framed the Missouri Constitution in August, 1875. He is surivived by his wife.
TAYLOR, Amos Riley, lawyer; born near
Owensboro, Ky., Jan. 23, 1842; son of How-
ard and Elton (Riley) Taylor; descendant of
Revolutionary ancestry; educated seminary,
Owensboro; entered junior class, Yale Uni-
versity, 1860, but did not graduate owing to
outbreak of Civil War; married. Louisville.
Ky., Nov. 26, 1868, Anna Rudd: four chil-
dren: Nannie (Mrs. Evariste Retailliau, of
Poitiers, France), Howard, Alexandrine, Elea-
nor (deceased). Enlisted in Confederate Army
as private, Company A, First Kentucky Cav-
alry; commissioned second lieutenant, July,
1862; after three years' service enrolled a
company, serving to end of war as captain
Company H, consolidated Eighth and Twelfth
Regiments, Kentucky Cavalry; paroled at
Columbus, Miss., May 15, 1865". Admitted to
bar, 1865; county attorney, Daviess Co., Ky.,
1866-68; resigned, located in St. Louis and
has since engaged in general practice. Demo-
crat. Member Missouri State Constitutional
Convention, 1875.
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