Leon Deforest Taylor

1899 - 1949  (49 years)

• Name	Leon Deforest Taylor  [1, 2]
  Birth	21 Aug 1899	Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Census	6 Jun 1900	French Creek Town, Chautauqua, New York, USA   [5]
  Census	2 May 1910	Spring, Crawford, Pennsylvania, USA   [6]
  Census	2 Jan 1920	Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA   [7]
  Census	10 Apr 1930	Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA   [8]
  Death	25 Jun 1949	Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA   [1, 2, 4]
  	Hamot Hospital. Usual residence: St. Barnabas Home, North East, Pa. Usual occupation: retired. [4]
  		Leon Taylor Pennsylvania Certificate of Death Erie county file 51132 (1949)
  Burial	27 Jun 1949	Wattsburg Cemetery, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA   [4]
  Person ID	I214	Bisbee
  Last Modified	19 Jul 2017

  
  

  Father	Deforest Taylor,   b. 4 Nov 1872, , , Pennsylvania, USA d. 11 Aug 1913, Venango Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 40 years)
  Mother	Mary Viva Bisbee,   b. 16 Nov 1874, Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA d. 24 Jun 1942, Venango Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1895  [5]
  Notes	This family lived in the area of Wattsburg and Lowville, Pa. Leon Taylor, Lowville, Pa. was bedridden for many years with a strange and rare disease in which a limestone formation entered his system, paralyzed him, and gradually "turned him to stone". He lay in his bed, by a window, and waved to passersby, who knew him, from far and wide. [9]
  Family ID	F101	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 21 Aug 1899 - Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Census - 6 Jun 1900 - French Creek Town, Chautauqua, New York, USA Census - 2 May 1910 - Spring, Crawford, Pennsylvania, USA Census - 2 Jan 1920 - Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Census - 10 Apr 1930 - Lowville, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Death - 25 Jun 1949 - Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Burial - 27 Jun 1949 - Wattsburg Cemetery, Wattsburg, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Leon Taylor was bedridden for many years with a strange and rare disease in which a limestone formation entered his system, paralized him, and gradually "turned him to stone." He lay in his bed, by a window, and waved to passersby, who knew of him from far and wide. (Medical):See attached sources. [10]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 131. [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 25. [S1579] WW1 Draft Registration Cards, (www.ancestry.com, 2005: NARA micropublication M1509, 4582 rolls), Draft Boar No. 1, Union City, Erie, Pa. Leon Deforest taylor 1 wattsburg, Erie, PA age 19, born Aug 21, 1899 invalid Nearest relative: Viva Taylor, 1 Watsburg, Erie, PA Medium height, medium build, brown eyes, brown hair. 12 Sep 1918 [S2885] Pennsylvania Certificate of Death, Leon Taylor, Erie county file 51132 (1949). [S2490] Taylor, DeForest (I210): 1900 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2004): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T623, roll 1014, enumeration district (ED) 95, sheet 3A, page 17A, line 3, dwelling 48, family 50; image accessed 1/7/2009.), 1900.NY.Chautauqua.French Creek.95.5. [S2638] Taylor, DeForest (I210): 1910 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2006): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T624, roll 1333; enumeration district (ED) 39, sheet 13B, page 58B, line 58, dwelling 149, family 149; image accessed 9/26/2009.), 1910.PA.Crawford.Spring.39.24. [S2491] Taylor, Viva Mary Bisbee (I96): 1920 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2005): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T625, roll 1567, enumeration district (ED) 143, sheet 1A, page 218A, line 38, dwelling 11, family 11; image accessed 1/7/2009.), 1920.PA.Erie.Venango.143.1. [S2492] Taylor, Leon DeForest (I214): 1930 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2002): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T626, roll 2038, enumeration district (ED) 141, sheet 3A, page 183, line 39, dwelling 53, family 53; image accessed 1/7/2009.), 1930.PA.Erie.Venango.141.5. [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 26. [S2493] M. J. Bisbee, GRS, Taylor, Leon DeForest: Medical, (self published, Erie, PA 1974), 25.