Abel Taylor and Esther Knapp

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Husband Abel Taylor [1633] ¹

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      Born: 24 Jul 1798 ^{2 3}
 Christened:
      Died: 23-4 Feb 1838 - , , , NY ^{2 3 4 5} Cause of Death: accident, "while felling trees"
     Buried: 1838 - Forest Hill Cemetery, Attica, Wyoming, NY ^{3 4 5}
    Married: Nov 1819 ^{2 6}

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Other references ⁷

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Wife Esther Knapp [1321] ⁸

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      Born: 8 Apr 1795 - , Orwell, Addison, VT ^{2 9 10}
 Christened:
      Died: 30 Jan 1889 - , Attica, Wyoming, NY ^{2 6 10 11}
     Buried:

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Father: William Knapp [1304] (1759-1815)
Mother: Olive Annabel Rowley [2435] (Abt 1765-1834)

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Obituary ^{12 13}
Other references ^{7 14}

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Children

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1 M Vorello Cook Taylor [1842]

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      Born: 2 Sep 1820 - , Ashville, Chautauqua, NY ^{2 3}
 Christened:
      Died: 25 Oct 1884 - Tonawanda Creek, Attica, Wyoming, NY ^{3 4 15}
     Buried: 1884 - Forest Hill Cemetery, Attica, Wyoming, NY ^{3 4 5}
Spouse: Sarah [6791] (Abt 1822-Bef 1880)

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2 M Rowley Phidello Taylor [1844]

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      Born: 16 May 1822 - , of Attica, Wyoming, NY ^{2 3 4 5 16 17}
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      Died: 30 Jan 1863 ^{3 4 5 17 18} Cause of Death: killed in action, "Battle of Blackwater"
     Buried: 1863 - Forest Hill Cemetery, Attica, Wyoming, NY ^{3 4 5}
Spouse: Harriet Baker [1942] (1831-) Marr: 12 Jun 1851 - , Attica, Wyoming, NY ^{5 18}

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3 F Juliette M. Taylor [1843]

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      Born: 24 Jun 1824 - , Busti, Chautauqua, NY ^{3 4 16 19}
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      Died: 13 Jun 1902 - at home, Attica, Wyoming, NY ^{3 4 19}
     Buried: 1902 - Forest Hill Cemetery, Attica, Wyoming, NY ^{3 4 19}
Spouse: Horace Dewitt Gladding [1941] (1821-1881) Marr: 1 Jan 1841 ^{2 5 18 20}

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4 F Olive Knapp Taylor [1845]

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      Born: 17 Nov 1832 - , of Attica, Wyoming, NY ^{3 4 21 22}
 Christened:
      Died: 2 Mar 1913 - son's home, St. Ignatius, , MT ^{3 19 23} Cause of Death: heart failure
     Buried: 1913 - Forest Hill Cemetery, Attica, Wyoming, NY ³
Spouse: James Gilford Doty [1943] (1829-1906) Marr: 15 Sep 1853 - , Attica, Wyoming, NY ^{8 18 22}

1 Ethan Allen Doty, Doty-Doten Family in America : Descendants of Edward Doty (Brooklyn, NY: self-published, 1897); scanned copy available online at http://archive.org/stream/dotydotenfamilyi00doty/dotydotenfamilyi00doty_djvu.txt
https://books.google.com/books?id=ppMPAwAAQBAJ

2 B043. The Nicholas Knapp Genealogy, by Knapp, Alfred Averill, M.D. (Edwards Brothers, Inc.: Ann Arbor MI, 1953).

3 CM014. Forest Hill Cemetery, Attica, Wyoming County, NY, 2001, by Spring, Leilani, compiler; published by USGenWeb, on the internet at http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/wyoming/cemeteries/foresthill.txt, 2001.

4 CM032. Cemetery Internment Records: Forest Hill Cemetery, Wyoming County, New York, (database) Published on the internet by Rootsweb contributors at http://userdb.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cemeteries/, 2000.

5 CM076. Find-A-Grave (cemetery records) as contributed by the public; published on the internet at http://www.findagrave.com/.

6 B242. Biographical Review of the Leading Citizens of Livingston and Wyoming Counties New York, (Biographical Review Publishing Company, Boston MA 1895).

7 B042. History of the Town of Warsaw, New York, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, by Young, Andrew White (Press of Sage: Buffalo NY, 1869); a scanned copy is available on the internet at http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/History_of_the_Town_of_Warsaw_New_York_from_Its_First_Settlement_to_the_1000365114/373, p. 288.

8 Ethan Allen Doty, Doty-Doten Family in America : Descendants of Edward Doty (Brooklyn, NY: self-published, 1897).

9 M009. International Genealogical Index, database kept by LDS Library, Salt Lake City, UT.

10 N109. Western New Yorker (Warsaw, NY) (newspaper) published on the internet at fultonyhistory.com; also transcriptions contributed by the public at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycgaine/NewsWesternNY.htm.

11 N132. "The Daily News" (Batavia, NY), (newspaper) digital scans published on the internet at fultonhistory.com.

12 N109. Western New Yorker (Warsaw, NY) (newspaper) published on the internet at fultonyhistory.com; also transcriptions contributed by the public at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycgaine/NewsWesternNY.htm, 1889 Feb. 7. "Mrs. Esther Taylor died in Attica, on the on the __th inst, at the age of 94 years."

13 N132. "The Daily News" (Batavia, NY), (newspaper) digital scans published on the internet at fultonhistory.com, 1889 Feb. 4. "An Old Resident of Batavia Dead.
ATTICA, Feb. 4 The funeral of Mrs. Esther Taylor, an old and respected citizen of this place, took place on Saturday, her death, at the age of 94 years, having occurred on Wednesday. Mrs. Taylor was the mother of Cook Taylor and Captain Rowley P. Taylor, both deceased, and Mrs. James. G. Doty and Mrs. H.D.W. Gladding, who now resides in this village."

14 B043. The Nicholas Knapp Genealogy, by Knapp, Alfred Averill, M.D. (Edwards Brothers, Inc.: Ann Arbor MI, 1953), p. 122.

15 N135. Buffalo Courier Express (Buffalo, NY) (newspaper) digital scans of New York newspapers; published on the internet at http://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org.

16 C85. United States Federal Census, year 1850.

17 "History of Rowley P. Taylor Post. G.A.R," scanned record, FultonHistory.com (www.fultonhistory.com).

18 B042. History of the Town of Warsaw, New York, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, by Young, Andrew White (Press of Sage: Buffalo NY, 1869); a scanned copy is available on the internet at http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/History_of_the_Town_of_Warsaw_New_York_from_Its_First_Settlement_to_the_1000365114/373.

19 N133. The Attica News (NY), published on the internet at http://www.fultonhistory.com.

20 N133. The Attica News (NY), published on the internet at http://www.fultonhistory.com, "on New Year's Day."

21 Ethan Allen Doty, Doty-Doten Family in America : Descendants of Edward Doty (Brooklyn, NY: self-published, 1897), says b. Ashton, NY.

22 C90. United States Federal Census, year 1900.

23 N111. Wyoming County Times (Warsaw, NY) (newspaper) digital scans of New York newspapers; published on the internet at http://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org.

Rowley Genealogy Site & Family Charts, compiled by I. Rowley, version of Nov. 10, 2016.

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