Orray A Taft1

#32434, (14 March 1817 - 8 March 1893)

Family

Elizabeth White b. 1818, d. 1903
Children 1.Elizabeth L Taft1 (c 1844 - )
 2.Read Taft1 (c 1848 - )
 3.Orray Augustus Taft Jr.+1 (c 1849 - 1889)
 4.George Shirley Taft1 (1857 - )
Birth*14 March 1817He was born on 14 March 1817 at West Roxbury, Massachusetts.2,3 
Marriage*3 May 1840He married Elizabeth White on 3 May 1840 at Roxbury, Massachusetts.4,5 
1 August 1860He and Elizabeth White appeared on the census of 1 August 1860 at Winthrop, Suffolk Co., MassachusettsG.6 
Death*8 March 1893He died on 8 March 1893 at Copley Square Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, at age 75.3 

Citations

  1. [S19] 1860 U.S. Federal Census.
  2. [S1628] FindAGrave.com, online findagrave.com, Matching old headstones, reset. Elizabeth W Taft., dau. of James and Abigail White, b. 3 Sep 1818, d. 14 Jul 1903 / Orray A, son of Read and Mary Taft, b. 14 Mar 1817, d. 8 Mar 1893. Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Suffolk Co. MA. Memorials 111097867 and 111097736, created by and photos added by LeeAnne.
  3. [S1239] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910/1915, index and images, online AmericanAncestors.org, Deaths Registered in Boston 1893, p. 99, no. 2170, img. 1386/2114. Orray A Taft, b. West Roxbury, son of Read Taft, b. Uxbury, and Mary Shurtleff; hotel keeper, married; d. Copley Square Hotel, 8 Mar 1893, age 75y 9m 24d, occlusion of coronary artery by atheromatous.
  4. [S266] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Holbrook). Original data Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
  5. [S606] The Essex Institute, compiler, Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, MA: Newcomb & Gauss, 1910), II:390. Orray A Taft and Elizabeth White, intentions 19 Apr 1840.
  6. [S19] 1860 U.S. Federal Census. Orry A (41), b. MA, hotel keeper, real estate value $18,000, person estate $3,500; Elizabeth W (41), b. MA.