Euphie Ramsey
Taylor and her family
By
Charlotte Carl-Mitchell
Left, ca 1896,
Euphie, left, John Murray and Jessie Flora Ramsey. Right, ca
1908, front JM, Belle, FT Ramsey; back, Jessie, Winnie and
Euphie Ramsey
I have long been curious about my Great Aunt Euphie. I don’t remember ever meeting her but from photos and movies, she always seemed to have a sweet smile, a quick laugh and soft eyes. My mother, Euphie’s niece, was allowed into a private residence for a tour because the owner remembered how kind Mrs. Taylor was and she thought my mother looked like her.
Euphemia 'Euphie' Ellen Ramsey was born in Mahomet, Texas on Jan 6, 1893, the second of three daughters of Frank Taylor and Belle Sinclair Ramsey. Her siblings were John Murray, Jessie Flora and Winifred Belle Ramsey. She was named Euphemia, probably for her aunt, Belle’s sister, Euphemia Black Sinclair Williams, and Ellen for FT’s mother, Ellen Taylor Ramsey. FT, Belle and their family moved from Mahomet in Burnet County to Austin in 1894, a year after she was born. They built a home at 4412 Avenue B, the corner of Avenue B and 45th street. The reason for the location was that FT could have his nursery across 45th Street, outside the city limits and therefore not subject to city taxes.
The Ramsey Home was part of the Hyde Park Homes Tour in 1981. The drawing and text are from the tour program.
Left, ca 1910, Euphie at 4412 holding a diploma, probably celebrating her graduation from high school. Middle, a Ramsey family picnic. Right, a close-up of Carl and Euphie
The Ramseys liked to camp, fish, swim and picnic together. Notes on the back of the picnic photo above say Mercy is holding Mother. From her age, that would mean this photo would probably have been taken in 1912. But Murray looks too old to be only a little over two and it looks like Jessie is holding a girl who would be Annabel, born in 1912. If the baby Mercy is holding is Jessie Mary, that would mean this was taken in 1913 or 1914 making Murray around 4. And there appears to be a blond girl by Annabel who could be Mother, Mercy A. Ramsey.
From left going around the picnic circle are Robert Vincent "Doc," Jessie and Annabel Murray, possibly Mercy A Ramsey, Winnie Ramsey and possibly Hilliare Nitschke. Winnie and Hilliare didn't marry until Mar 22,1918. I don't recognize the two obscured people. Next are Carl Taylor and Euphie Ramsey. As early as Apr 8, 1913, Murray mentioned to Mercy in a letter that Euphie planned to be married. But in a letter Mercy wrote Murray on 20 Feb 1914, she asked if Euphie and Mr. Taylor had married. They married on Jun 24, 1914. Carl C. Taylor received a Masters in sociology from the University of Texas in 1914. He and Euphie might have met at UT and married at the end of the semester in which he received his Masters. He was 11 years older than she. The next two people in the photo I don't know, but the older lady on the far right is Belle Ramsey, then Mercy P. holding either Mercy A or Jessie Mary with Murray P. Ramsey next to her. He would have been 2 or 4 years old depending on who the baby is. Mother would have been around two if the baby is Jessie Mary. In the middle of the circle, with the hat, is FT Ramsey, the patriarch of the group. JM Ramsey probably took the photo. It looks like they took the cushions out of their ‘machine’ or motor car to use on the ground, a very practical idea.
Photos showing Euphie with her family. From Annabel’s age, these are probably from around 1914, the year Euphie and Carl married.
Euphie and Carl C. Taylor married on Jun 24, 1914. She had two children with him - Carl Ramsey Taylor born on Aug 6, 1918 and Jean Ann Taylor on Apr 28, 1923. Euphie moved with her husband's teaching and work careers and though she and Carl had left Austin, living in Columbia, Missouri in 1918 and Raleigh, North Carolina in 1923, according to their birth certificates, both her children were born in Austin, Texas. She must have returned to be near family for the births.
The Ramsey family around 1922 in front of Belle and FT's house on Ave. B. Back row: Hilliare Nitschke holding Alice Ann Nitschke, Winnie Ramsey Nitschke, Mercy Perkins Ramsey, John Murray Ramsey, Jessie Ramsey Murray, Dr. Robert V. Murray, Euphie Ramsey Taylor, Carl C. Taylor. Middle row: Murray Perkins Ramsey, Jessie Mary Ramsey, Mercy Annabella Ramsey, Frank Taylor Ramsey and Annabelle Sinclair Ramsey (seated), Annabel Murray. Front row: Helen Georgia Ramsey, Margaret Murray, Carl Ramsey Taylor. Middle, a close-up of the Taylors. Right, Euphie holding Jean Ann with Carl R standing below. Jean Ann was born in 1923.
According to the 1920 US census for Columbia township, Boone County, Missouri, Euphie was 26 and was a teacher. In the 1930 census she was living in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. Her occupation was listed as none. She and Carl C. moved to Washington, DC when he started work for the federal government and they were living there at the 1940 census. According to that record she had had three years of college.
Her name, being unusual, was often misspelled on records or the transcriptions of them. The index to the 1930 US census showed her name as Eupha. In the 1940 census index, she was listed as Eveylene and as having been born in Iowa, both incorrect transcriptions. The census itself clearly lists her name as Euphie and her birthplace as Texas. (I submitted corrections to ancestry.com on all such errors I found.)
Another family portrait in front of the house on Ave B. The identification on the back said: "Frank Taylor Ramsey and Annabelle Sinclair Ramsey Family August 1925. Murray and Mercy Ramsey, Murray P, Jessie Mary, Mercy, Helen; Jessie and R.V. Murray, M.D., Annabel, Vincent, Margaret, Frances; Euphie and Carl Taylor, Carl Ramsey and Jean Ann; Winnie and Hilliare Nitschke, Alice Ann." Right, a close-up of the Taylor family.
Euphie took an active part in the social scene in Washington, DC. An article in the Jan 31, 1937 Evening Star said she was a member of The Landladies, a group of the wives of the professional men of the Land Utilization Division of the US Dept of Agriculture. She had opened her home for a benefit bridge tea to raise money for deserving rural children to attend the 4-H Club camp at the University of Maryland. She was described as ‘Mrs. Carl Taylor, wife of the special adviser on rural sociology’.
There were several articles in DC's Evening Star noting that she, sometimes with her husband or daughter, had attended or hosted a social event. In an article entitled 'Society Leaders to Hear Two Brilliant Concerts,' published in the Sunday Evening Star on Apr 30, 1922, Mrs. Carl C. Taylor was listed as a 'patroness.' Two of the benefit attendees were to be former President and Mrs. Wilson. Mrs. Wilson was also a patroness. The benefit was to raise money for wounded soldiers to have a summer outing.
Even though she had moved away, she would occasionally go back to Austin to visit. She and her family were shown in the group photos above in 1922 and 1925 in front of her parents, FT and Belle Ramsey's house at 4412 Ave. B in Austin. There was an article in the July 23, 1936 issue of The Summer Texan that noted she, Carl R and Jean Ann were visiting her sisters and brother. Dr. Taylor, who was a faculty member at UT from 1911 to 1913, would be joining them in August.
Photos from the Ramsey’s visit to the Taylors in 1937. Left, from left, Helen, JM, Mercy P, Mercy A, Jean Ann and Euphie. Middle and close-up at right, Euphie, Mercy P, Helen, Jean Ann, and Carl R.
Euphie's family also visited her. Above are pictures of JM and Mercy Ramsey and their daughters, Mercy A and Helen Ramsey visiting Euphie and her family in DC in 1937.
Left, the sisters share a laugh at a picnic in 1938, Euphie, Winnie and Jessie rushing away. Right, another Ramsey gathering. From the left, JM Ramsey, Jessie Ramsey Murray, Annabel Murray, Jean Ann, Carl C. and Euphie Taylor, Allice Ann Nitschke, two servants, Vincent Murray, Hilliare Nitschke, Carl R. Taylor, Winnie Nitschke and Mercy Ramsey.
The San Antonio Express wrote an article about the visit the Taylor family made in August 1938. Above are two snapshots of the Ramsey clan gathered during that visit for a picnic.
Two screen grabs from a Bailey home movie showing Euphie and Carl C at the picnic. Right, Carl R. Taylor at the 1938 gathering
By 1938, Belle and Frank had died and the home at 4412 Ave B in Austin was no longer in the family but the traditional family photo was taken there anyway. The people are back row: Hilliare Nitschke, Winnie Ramsey Nitschke, John Murray Ramsey, Murray Perkins Ramsey, Walter Hudlow (Helen's first husband), Helen Ramsey and Jessie Ramsey Murray. Middle row: Alice Ann Nitschke. Mercy Perkins Ramsey, Carl Taylor, Alice Ramsey, Carl Ramsey Taylor, Mercy Ramsey, and Vincent Murray. Front row: Julian Cate holding Jimmy Cate, Jessie Mary Ramsey Cate holding Charles Cushman Cate, Jean Ann Taylor, Euphie Ramsey Taylor, Frances Murray, Annabel Murray and Jessie's husband, Dr. R. V. Murray.
Left and middle, getting ready for the 1938 family photo. Right, Carl R and Polly Schloesser in 1940
Home movies from Margaret Murray Bailey show images of the Taylors. Above are screen grabs from the movie made before the 1938 group photo was taken. There is also a movie of Margaret’s wedding parties in August 1940 that shows Carl Ramsey Taylor and the woman who would later be his wife, Pauline 'Polly' Schloesser. Carl was a groomsman in Margaret's wedding according to an article in the Aug 4, 1940 American Statesman. The article mentioned that Mrs. Carl C. Taylor served the punch at the wedding r
eception. Helen Ramsey Hudlow was a bridesmaid. Mercy and Ed Carl came back from their honeymoon to attend the wedding. The Taylors came for their niece Margaret’s August 1940 wedding but didn’t attend their niece Mercy’s June 1940 wedding. Perhaps there were scheduling conflicts.
More screen grabs from Margaret Murray Bailey’s 1940 wedding movie showing Euphie and Carl Taylor, Helen Ramsey Hudlow and Ed and Mercy Carl.
The day after Margaret’s wedding the family went on a boating outing. These screen grabs are from that. The show Euphie, in what appears to be the same dress she wore to the wedding, Carl R, Jean Ann and Jean Ann with, I think, Frances Murray. Carl C was in the boating movie, playing cards down below with his brothers-in-law.
The photograph above might be from the Taylor’s 1940 visit or a later one. It had to be before Dec 1944 when JM Ramsey died. The people standing in JM and Mercy Ramsey's front yard at 4312 Speedway are front row: Harvey Williams, Mercy P. Ramsey, Jean Ann Taylor, Helen Ramsey (Hudlow or Rugeley depending on the date), Carl R and Carl C. Taylor. Back row: JM Ramsey, probably Euphie Taylor and Ed Carl. Harvey Williams was Belle Sinclair Ramsey’s nephew, the son of her sister Euphie Sinclair Williams for whom Euphie Ramsey was probably named.
From left to right - back row: Harvey Williams, Alice and Murray Ramsey, Jean Taylor, E. C. 'Tommy' and Annabel Murray Thomas (probably holding Frances Claire Thomas now Stephanian), Frances Murray Leggett and Dr. Elbert Leggett, his mother Mrs. Leggett, Dr. Joe Bailey and Margaret Murray Bailey, Harry Wilder and Alice Ann Nitschke Wilder. Middle, seated row: Henrietta Williams (holding her youngest son Tom), Carl C. Taylor and Euphie Ramsey Taylor, Jessie Ramsey Murray (perhaps holding Nancy Leggett now Clark), Winnie Ramsey Nitschke and Hillaire Nitschke. The front row: Claire Williams, Henry Williams, Jane Williams, Joe Murray Bailey, Cynthia Leggett now Norwood, ?Margaret Ann Thomas now Engelbrecht, Ralph Vincent Bailey, Hilliare Wilder, Diane Wilder now Howard. Carl R. Taylor isn’t in the photo and probably wasn’t able to visit.
Photos confirm another visit in 1951 when the Taylors joined Jessie Ramsey Murray and Winnie Ramsey Nitschke and their families and the Williams for a group photo.
According to Leigh Taylor Young, her paternal grandmother, Euphie Ramsey Taylor suffered from dementia in her later years. She died at the Arlington Hospital in Arlington, VA on Apr 10, 1965 at the age of 72 from congestive heart failure, arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease with aortic aneurysm and gastric carcinoma according to her death certificate. Her occupation was listed as housewife. She was cremated with the place of burial being Cedar Hill, Suitland, MD. Neither she nor husband Carl C. are listed as being at that cemetery. It's possible their ashes were interred there but just not listed yet on the cemetery index on Findagrave. I don’t remember ever meeting her but she had such a sweet face and from the Bailey movies, was quick to laugh and happy. My mother, Mercy Ramsey Carl, told the story of wanting to visit her grandparents’ house at 4412 Ave B years after it had been purchased by someone outside the family. She knocked on the door and asked permission to come in and see the place. The owner said she would normally not have allowed such a visit but she had known Mercy’s family and because Mercy reminded her of Mrs. Taylor whom she admired, she let her come in. Euphie must have had a positive effect on people to have left such a legacy.
Euphie’s husband, Carl Cleveland Taylor was born in Harlan, Shelby County, Iowa on Dec 16 1884, the son of L.S. and Mary Ellen Mershon Taylor. According to the 1920 US census for Columbia township, Boone County, Missouri, his father was from Indiana and his mother from Ohio but Findagrave has her from Iowa. Carl's siblings were Alva Wilmot, Benjamin E., Pearl Maude, Edna Grace, and Ethel May Taylor. Carl C. graduated from Drake University in 1911 and in 1914 received an MA from the University of Texas in Austin. It was probably during this time that he met Euphemia 'Euphie' Ellen Ramsey. They married on 24 Jun 1914 most likely in Austin.
In 1918, Carl earned a PhD in sociology from the University of Missouri. Also that year, their son, Carl Ramsey Taylor was born on Aug 6, 1918. On Sept 12, 1918, Carl C. Taylor filled out a draft registration form for WWI. He was living at 1107 Paquin Ave in Columbia, MO and was a teacher at the University. His nearest relative was Euphie Ramsey Taylor, same address. He was of medium height, slender build and had blue eyes and dark hair.
Carl C. Taylor in 1922 and 1925 and undated
Between 1916 and 1923 he taught at the University of Texas, the University of Missouri and North Carolina State University. Carl and Euphie's daughter, Jean Ann Taylor was born on Apr 28, 1923. From 1923 to 1931 he was dean of the graduate school at NC State and from 1931 to 1933 he was engaged in research and writing in NC.
A report said this about the " 'Dismissal of a sociologist: The AAUP report on Carl C. Taylor.' The dismissal in 1931 of a distinguished sociologist, Carl C. Taylor, after 11 years as an influential faculty member, and the investigation by the American Association of University Professors which followed has received little attention in the literature on the history of sociology. Taylor did not have the security of a tenure system. Years later, he received an honorary degree from the same institution, now North Carolina State University, from which he had been dismissed. Our interpretation is that the university president had Taylor dismissed because of deterioration in their interpersonal relations and the cumulative effect of anti-liberal, conservative forces in the state at the time."
Left, Carl C. and Carl R. Taylor during the 1938 visit to Austin. Middle, Carl C in 1946 when he was the 36th President of the American Sociological Society (name later changed to Association). Right, a photo of Carl C. Taylor in his later years from asanet.
After his experience in NC, early in FDR's administration he began work with the Federal government. In 1933 was appointed a sociologist with the Subsistence Homesteads Division of the United States Department of the Interior. He was regional director with the Land Policy Section of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1934-1935. Later he was chief of the Division of Farm Population and Rural Welfare, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture. He spent a year of research in rural sociology in Argentina with the State Department, 1942-1943. He retired in 1953.
Following his retirement from government service he engaged in advisory and other kinds of professional work including from 1953-54 as a community development advisor with the International Cooperation Administration, consultant in rural development with the UN and with the Ford Foundation in India. A colleague remembered him as a stimulating companion, versatile scholar and able speaker.
He was a member of the American Country Life Association, the American Sociological Society, and the Rural Sociology Society. He was a joint author on many surveys, and wrote The Social Survey - Its History and Method, 1919; Economics and Social Conditions of North Carolina Farmers, 1923; Rural Sociology, 1926; Human Relations, 1927; The People of the Drought States (with Conrad Taeuber); and Disadvantaged Classes in American Agriculture (with Helen Wheeler and E.L. Kirkpatrick). “
Carl’s granddaughter, Leigh Taylor Young said this about him, "As a young girl, I spent a great deal of time with my grandfather, Dr. Carl C. Taylor. “Dr. Taylor” was a remarkable man. He is one of my reference points in this life for being truly, unconditionally loved. As a very small girl, we would “discourse” about the world around us, even the universe. Having been a farmer himself, my grandfather probably saw in me fertile soil in which to prepare healthy growth. He recognized my curiosity in everything. Grandpa helped me strengthen my internal life by giving me books to read that stretched me way beyond my school reading. He made it an attractive pursuit, because I couldn’t wait to sit down with him after I had finished the book. He allowed me time to form new thoughts and ideas, under the gentle guidance of his Socratic questioning. He never told me what to think. He would simply question me, and then listen to me with the greatest of interest. I absorbed Grandpa’s humanitarianism. He made me very aware of the interconnectedness in life. He was my best friend."
According to his death certificate, Carl C. Taylor was living at the Sleepy Hollow Nursing Home in Annandale, Virginia when he died on Feb 10, 1975 at the age of 90. The cause of death was generalized arteriosclerosis and chronic brain syndrome which is a term that describes decreased mental function due to a medical disease other than a psychiatric illness. He was cremated at the Metropolitan Crematory, Alexandria, Virginia. His wife, Euphie was also cremated and her place of burial was listed as Cedar Hill in Suitland, MD. Neither she nor Carl C. is listed as being at that cemetery. It's not clear where their ashes were interred.
Many of the details in his history came from his tribute on the American Sociological Association website, asanet - http://www.asanet.org/about/presidents/Carl_Taylor.cfm and from an obituary published in the August 1975 issue of Footnotes. That article said, “His death came only a few months after he had passed his ninetieth birthday, and after a lengthy period of incapacitation. With his going the field of sociology lost one of the last survivors of the small group of distinguished men and women who transformed it from a small, upstart pretender in the realm of academic affairs and governmental service (and with no standing at all in industrial matters) into a scientific discipline of considerable importance.”
Carl Ramsey Taylor in family photos from 1922, 1923, 1925 and 1938
Euphie and Carl C. Taylor’s son, Carl Ramsey Taylor was born in Austin, Texas on Aug 6, 1918. He lived with his parents and went to school in Columbia, Missouri and Raleigh, North Carolina. He graduated from Needham Broughton High School, Raleigh, NC in 1935. His senior yearbook description reported his active high school career: Science Club 1. 2, 3, 4; Boy Scouts 1, 2, 3; Auditor of Fred Olds Bank 1 ; Bov's Literary Society 2, 3, 4; Rifle Club 2; French Club 2; Western High School, "Washington, D. C. 3; Hi-Y 4; Chairman Grounds Committee Student Council 4; Associate Editor Latipac 4; Tennis Club, Corresponding Secretary 4; Tennis Team 4; Chairman Invitation Committee 4. He graduated from the American University in Washington, DC in 1939 in economics and sociology.
Left, Carl R. Taylor, senior, Needham Broughton High School in 1935. Middle and right, photos from his 1938 and 1939 American University yearbooks
He was also very active in college as reflected by his senior year overview.
According to the 1940 US census for Washington, DC, there were four family members in the Taylor household: Carl C, Euphie, Carl R and Jean Ann. But there was also a lodger, Pauline Schloesser. She was born in 1917 in Kansas, the daughter of L. S. and Anna Lyon Schloesser.
Pauline’s photo and description from her 1937 American University yearbook
In August 1940, Pauline joined Carl R at the wedding of his cousin, Margaret Murray where he was a groomsman. The photos above are screen grabs from a movie made of the wedding celebrations. Carl and Pauline were married on Aug 16, 1941 in Alameda, California. Their daughter, Leigh was born on Jan 25, 1945 in Washington, DC. According to Leigh’s biography on her website, she was “born to a diplomatic family.” According to his death certificate, Carl R Taylor worked for the US State Department. The information on the certificate was given by his daughter, Leigh. There are listings for publications written by a Carl R. Taylor and published in 1946 and 1947 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the US Department of Labor. It’s not clear if this is our Carl R. Taylor. There is also a report by the Committee on Government Operations published in 1966 that mentions a Carl R. Taylor had been designated the Latin American Bureau Excess Property Officer as part of the US foreign aid program.
A US 'directory of persons occupying administrative and supervisory positions in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the Federal Government, and in the District of Columbia Government as of May 1, 1958' lists a Carl R. Taylor in the Latin America, Africa, Europe Area Operations Division, Office of Industrial Resources.
Carl’s death certificate indicated he was a veteran of World War II. He is listed in the US Department of Veterans Affairs death index. The Social Security Death Index noted that his Soc Sec number was issued in Vermont before 1951.
In a letter Leigh Taylor Young wrote Alice Ann Wilder in Apr 1981, she said her mother was living in Bloomsfield Hills, Michigen and had been married to her stepfather for some thirty years. That would mean Carl and Pauline had divorced and she had re-married around 1951, the same year Carl R did not appear in the family photo in Austin. Pauline married Donald Earle Young and had two more children, Dey and Lance. Leigh’s stepfather is where she gets her double name of Leigh Taylor Young. The Wikipedia article on her incorrectly notes that the Taylor part of her name came from her stepfather.
Carl Ramsey Taylor died in Arlington, Virginia in August 1975, just six months after his father. There seems to be a disagreement about the day. His death date is 4 Aug 1975 on the Social Security Death Index but his death certificate has 3 written over the 4. His death certificate noted that he died of chronic artery insufficiency and arteriosclerosis, conditions that run in the Ramsey family. His remains were cremated at the Metropolitan Crematory in Arlington, VA. Like his parents, it’s not clear where his ashes were interred.
The undated photo above left of Pauline ‘Polly’ Schloesser Taylor Young is from Leigh Taylor Young’s website. The photo above right is from a publication in which Pauline is named a 1975 Distinguished Woman honoree from Northwood University.
This is the biography Northwood published: Pauline Young was born in Fredonia, Kansas. She graduated with honors from the American University and pursued a graduate course in Social Economics. She worked as a sociologist for the United States Department of Agriculture for several years. Pauline and her husband the late Donald E. Young, had three children, Leigh Taylor Young, Dey Young Ladd and Lance Young. Mrs. Young served as chairman of the Women's Committee, the sustaining organization for the Cranbrook Academy of Art, on the Executive Committee and board of directors for the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts of Detroit, on the board of directors for Our Heritage House of Detroit, on the board of directors of the Community Music School of Detroit and in various capacities for the Detroit Institute of Arts. She received special recognition for her work with the Detroit Institute of Art and with the Cranbrook Women's Committee. Her work with Northwood included guest speaking on the Michigan campus and active participation with the Detroit FAD Auctions. She chaired the Greater Detroit National Women's Board chapter as well. Of Northwood, Mrs. Young said, "I believe that the vocational approach to higher education supported by a liberal arts background is the education of the future for at least fifty percent of young Americans. It is a concept that is uniquely Northwood's, but it can grow, for it fulfills such an obvious gap in American education.” (Deceased 1995)”
Pauline worked in the same department as her father-in-law, Carl C. Taylor. Leigh has noted on her website how close Pauline and Carl C. were. The Northwood biography leaves out Pauline’s first husband, the father of her oldest child. Pauline died on Jun 17, 1995 in Los Angeles, California.
Left, Jean and Euphie in 1923; Carl and Jean in 1925; Jean Ann in 1938
Euphie and Carl Taylor’s youngest child, Jean Ann Taylor was born on Apr 28, 1923 in Austin, Texas though her parents were living at that time in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her father taught at North Carolina State University from 1920-23 and was dean of the graduate school there from 1923-1931. Her mother went back to her hometown for the birth of both of her children. In 1933 Carl started work for the federal government and I’d assumed that the family had moved at that time to Washington, DC, but a 1934 city directory for Raleigh has a Carl and Euphie Taylor living there. And Carl R graduated in 1935 from Needham Broughton High School in Raleigh.
There is a Jean
Taylor listed as a senior at Needham Broughton in 1941 but I
don’t know if this is our Jean Ann Taylor. If so, she, like her
brother, was very active in school. She was even Miss Needham B
Broughton. But I would have thought the family would have moved
to Washington, DC by 1941. Did she stay in Raleigh to finish
high school?
In Dec 1944, Euphie wrote a letter to her sister-in-law, Mercy Ramsey giving her condolences on the death of JM Ramsey, Mercy’s husband and Euphie’s older brother. She also said she wasn’t going to the funeral and gave two reasons. First, that she couldn’t do anything there and second, that Jean Ann was getting ready to go back to Drake in January. I assume she means Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Jean’s father’s alma mater. I looked in the Drake yearbooks but couldn’t find a Jean Ann or Jean Taylor.
In 1951, Euphie, Carl C. and Jean Ann came to visit family in Austin. They were in a group photo at Jessie’s house. There was also a photo taken just of their family. This is the last photo I have of either Euphie or Jean Ann.
Jean Ann Taylor died in Arlington, Virginia on Apr 11, 1962 at the young age of 38. Her death certificate noted she had been a secretary in the Navy Research Department and had never married. She died from Hepatic Failure from Adenocarcinoma of the gallbladder from which she had suffered for five months. She was cremated at the Cedar Hill Crematory in Suitland, Maryland, but like her parents and brother, it’s not known where her ashes were interred.
These are photos that Leigh Taylor Young shared with me of her
family:
Leigh with her father, Carl Ramsey Taylor and grandparents, Euphie and Carl C. Taylor; Leigh's choice of photo
