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Xolable* Ln Fnmll.r Conucolian Yancey D avia Taylor’* father was John Burleson Taylor, who died several years aso at the ase of 100. Hfi was a cousin. of Gen. Zachary Taylor, who led tho United State* troops to victor/ in tho war with Mexico In IS 47 and later became President of the United States- Jefferson Davis, president of the Southern Confederacy during the War Between the States, married Gen. Zachary Taylor's'daugrhter, and Yancey Davis Taylor bears his middlo name in honor of the leader oC the Confederacy. Mrs. Yancey Taylor’s father bore T2e name of Aaron Burleson and her grandfather was also named Aaron Burleson, who was a brother of Joseph Burleson, ffranclfathor of Yancey Davis Taylor. Mrs. Taylor’s grandfather on her mother'.- ulrlc was Thomas Jones Hardeman, who served in iho House of Kcprosentativos and (he Senate of iho Kepublic of Texas and was a personal friend nt Gen, Sam Houston and Stephen F. Any tin. Her fjrumI mother, Mrs.
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San Antonio Express
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sun, Oct 09, 1938
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