Ancestry of
Alan Taylor

Historian and Pulitzer Prize Author

Ruel Edward Taylor Jr.

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• • Father of Alan Taylor — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Ruel E. Taylor 
  • Mother:
  • Nellie R. Shaw   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Aug 1914 
  • Birth Location:
  • Roxbury, Oxford, Maine 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 May 1989 
  • Death Location:
  • West Buxton, York, Maine 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Gray Village Cemetery, Gray, Cumberland, Maine 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Virginia Ruth Craig
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1937 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Craig Taylor

  Alan Shaw Taylor (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Eric Taylor

  Vernell Taylor

  Rueline Taylor

  Carole Taylor

• Sources for Ruel Edward Taylor Jr.

  • ¹ Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, Massachusetts), 31 AUG 1981, p. 4, Obituary for step-mother-in-law Mildred (Tichy) Craig.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/01/2023).
  • ³ Journal Tribune (Biddeford, Maine), 02 MAY 1989, p. 2, Obituary for Ruel Taylor.
  • ⁴ Portland Press Herald (Portland, Maine), 17 JUL 1957, p. 23, Obituary for father Ruel E Taylor Sr.
  • ⁵ St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), 11 AUG 1937, p. 31, Marriage license for Ruel E Taylor Jr and Virginia R Craig.
  • ⁶ The Recorder (Greenfield, Massachusetts), 10 OCT 1967, p. 10, Obituary for father-in-law Harold B Craig.
  • ⁷ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Record for Ruel Edward Taylor Jr, gives birthdate as 14 AUG 1914.
  • ⁸ U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, Draft registration for Ruel Edward Taylor Jr.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Alan Taylor (historian)", (accessed 07/01/2023).

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