Taylor, Clarissa, 1902-2005
Person
biographical statement
Clarissa Walton Taylor was born on January 24, 1902 in Macon, GA, the daughter of Frank Eugene and Jane Eliza Bowen Taylor. She was the granddaughter of Clarissa Adger Bowen and the niece of Robert Adger Bowen. Taylor was educated in Macon and in Greenville, SC where her family moved when she was a teenager. She became an elementary school teacher and taught for 40 years, mainly in Greenville County’s Monaghan School District. Taylor wrote and edited a number of works on family and local history, including providing commentary for The Diary of Clarissa Adger Bowen, Ashtabula Plantation, 1865 by Mary Stevenson. She died in Greenville on November 20, 2005.
Citation:
Donor file Ancestry Library, U.S. Social Security Death Index 1935-2014, http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?new=1&gsfn=Clarissa+Walton+&gsln=Taylor&rank=1&gss=angs-g&mswpn__ftp=Greenville%2c+Greenville%2c+South+Carolina%2c+USA&mswpn=22169&mswpn_PInfo=8-|0|1652393|0|2|3245|43|0|1227|22169|0|&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=88724384&recoff=10+11+12&db=ssdi&indiv=1&ml_rpos=1 Find A Grave Index, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=83014462&ref=acomFound in 1 Collection or Record:
Robert Adger Bowen Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0119
Scope and Content Note
The papers contain many of Bowen's early writings, both published and unpublished; scrapbooks of his letters to the editor and columns from his retirement years; reports and information from his position with the Bureau of Translations and Radical Publications and the FBI; hundreds of his poems organized by topic, clippings related to his interests in royalty, literary figures and politics.Bowen's Poetry/Writings: Bowen wrote extensively from 1885 until his death at age 103 in...
Dates:
1865 - 1981
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