Vincent Taylor Family of Missouri

MIRANDA TAYLOR

Miranda married Nathaniel MORRIS on 28 October 1847 in Warren County, Missouri. Nathaniel Morris, born 1821 in Virginia. About 1862 Miranda and Nathaniel moved to Potosi, Grant County, Wisconsin. Nathaniel Morris died sometime between 1861 and 1870. After the death of husband Nathaniel Morris, Miranda accompanied her son William Eleazor Morris to central Kansas. Miranda obtained a Homestead for 160 acres, Farmer Township, Rice County, Kansas. Miranda died of consumption in 1876. (Ref. "Widows, Stepkin, and Support Networks: Clues to the Unknown Father of Miranda (Taylor) Morris," by William M. Litchman, Ph.D., CG. National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 84, #1, March 1996, pp. 17-27).

The origin of the name Miranda is French. Famous persons: Marie-Francoise DuLignon dit LaMirande who married Jean-Baptiste Fleury in 1728 in Louiseville, Quebec. Jean-Baptiste Fleury was involved in fur trading. Marie-Francoise was the daughter of Elie Theodore DuLignon dit LaMirande and Marthe Pasquet.

John Hoppner painted a portrait of Frances Vane (1769-1821), called 'MIRANDA' at the end of the 18th century. Frances, considered one of the most beautiful women of her time, was the wife of Michael Angelo Taylor (1757-1834). Frances Vane, daughter of Sir Henry Vane, Reverend, gained notoriety as the mistress to Frederick, Prince of Wales. France Vane's husband, Michael Angelo Taylor was a Member of Parliament (MP) and Whig politician in the 1830s. Michael Angelo Taylor was the only son of Sir Robert Taylor, a London architect. Both Michael and his father Sir Robert are buried at Saint Martin's in the Fields, Westminster, England. A mezzotint of the "Miranda" portrait was engraved by James Ward, and later printed in about the year 1900.

(3) MIRANDA TAYLOR

b. 1827, Virginia; d. 10 April 1876, Rice County, Kansas

Researcher: William M. Litchman, Ph.D., C. G., Albuquerque, New Mexico

Spouse: Nathaniel MORRIS, b. 1821 Virginia; Died 1861/70. Married: 28 October 1847, Warren County, Missouri

Children:

(3-a) John Morris, b. 1847/1848, Missouri.

(3-b) William Eleazor Morris, b.17 July 1849, Missouri; d. Feb 7, 1927 in Oklahoma.
Spouse 1. Anna Eliza Bonham (1854-1944), married December 20, 1870, Grant County, Wisconsin
................Divorced sometime between 1881 and 1885. Anna secondly married a W. J. Barr, residing in Kansas City in 1900. Anna thirdly married Louis O. Leimbach and resided in St. Louis, Missouri until her death in 1944. Daughter Mrs. H. R. (Eulah) Rybarczyk, of 4110 N. Kings Highway Blvd, St. Louis, Missouri was the informant on her mother's death certificate.
Spouse 2. Ruth David Harvard, married ca. 1890

William Eleazor Morris lived in Missouri up to the year 1870 then moved to Farmer, Rice County, Kansas. William and second wife Ruth are found living in the Berkeley Precinct neighborhood in Denver, Colorado from ca. 1891-1903. William lived the remainder of his life from ca. 1904 - 1927 in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Children:

3-b-1. Edmund Elmer Morris, b.13 Jan 1872 Saline, KS; d. 3 March 1956, Kansas City, MO
3-b-2. William Leon Morris, b. 7 May 1874 Saline, KS; married twice
...........Sp 1: Mabel Edna Francis, m. 12 June 1900 Chaffee County, Colorado
...........Sp 2: Leva Pearl Waggoner
...........Occupation: Jeweler in 1900 census-Florence, Colorado.
3-b-3. Harry Delphus Goodwin Morris, b. 20 Feb 1878, Rice Co., KS, resident Kansas City
3-b-4. Eulah Lettie Morris, b. 3 July 1881, Rice County, Kansas
...........Research Note: Eulah married Henry Rafael Rybarczyk, 17 years her junior, in St. Louis, Missouri. Henry died in 1985 in San Diego, California.

(3-c) Mary E. Morris, b. 1852, Missouri

(3-d) Charles Morris, b. 1854, Missouri

(3-e) Martha Morris, b. 1859, Missouri

(3-f) Louella Morris, b. 1859-1860, Missouri

(3-g) Eli A. Morris, b. 1861/62, Missouri