Civil War Records of Simeon O. Taylor

Service

Co. Regiment / Ship From To Residence/ Credit Occupation Notes
E 26th MVI Private; enl. Sept. 9, 1861; must. Oct. 18, 1861 transf. to V.R.C. March 1, 1864 Southborough; Acton farmer age 22
K 3rd VRC transf. to V.R.C. March 1, 1864 disch. Oct. 17, 1864      

MASSCW, III:93
Record of the Massachusetts Volunteers, 2:510

Service Record (select pages from the National Archives): x
Service Ledger (Town of Acton): x

Pension

Co. Regiment Date Filed Type App. No. Cert. No. State Beneficiary/Remarks

E

K

26th MVI

3rd VRC

 July 23, 1890 Invalid 787 990 733 359 Mass.  
E 26th MVI Oct. 18, 1890 Widow 472 194   Mass. Betsey Taylor (inexplicably, her pension application claims the soldier died in 1878).

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives):  9 pages (PDF*) 

Grand Army of the Republic

x


Death

Date 1890?
Place
Age approx. 49?
Cause

 
Obituary  
Funeral  
Burial Wildwood Cemetery, Winchester, Mass. (National Graves Registration Database, website; Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, http://www.suvcwdb.org).
Survived by

Additional Information

Simeon O. Taylor, age 9, is recorded as a resident of Roxbury, Oxford, Maine in the 1850 census, in the household (no. 11/11) of Abel W. Taylor and Naomi S. Taylor. Also in the household was 14 year old Daniel G. Taylor ("1850 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com).

Simeon Taylor, age 18, is recorded as a resident of Roxbury, Oxford, Maine in the 1860 federal census, in the household of Abil W. Taylor and Naomi Taylor. Also in the household was 24 year old Daniel Taylor ("1860 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com).

Simeon O. Taylor, age 29, a farm laborer, and Betsey O. Taylor, age 30, are recorded as residents of Livermore, Maine in the 1870 census (household 35/37). Living with them was Joseph Taylor, age 1; and three children, ages 6-11, with the surname "Corthell", presumably children from her previous marriage ("1870 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com).

Simeon O. Taylor, age 38, a farmer, and Betsey T. Taylor, age 42, are recorded as residents of Sumner, Oxford, Maine in the 1880 federal census. Also in the household (no. 168/192) were Abel W. Taylor, age 11, and Raddie B. Taylor, age 6. ("1880 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com).

Betsey T. Taylor, widow of Simeon O. Taylor, is recorded as a resident of Somerville, Mass. (household no. 157/193) in the 1890 veterans census ("1890 Veterans Schedules," Ancestry.com).

Contradictory claims in the pension file leave in doubt Simeon Taylor's date of death.

Betsey T. Taylor died at Lawrence, Mass., of pneumonia, on February 10, 1897, at age 59 years, 5 months, 26 days. The death register records her as a widow living in Andover, Mass., and place of burial as Canton, Maine. She was born in Sumner Maine, to father Isaac. (Lawrence death register, "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," AmericanAncestors.org).

 

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See also:

Hosmer, The Town of Acton in the Civil War: 44, 97.

 

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