Taylor, Clarissa, 1902-2005

Person

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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=acom

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Mary Stevenson Collection

Collection

Identifier: Mss-0353

Abstract The Mary Stevenson Collection documents the people and places of the South Carolina counties of Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens—especially the Clemson-Pendleton area—through the research of Mary Stevenson, a Clemson University librarian and chair of the Research and Publication Committee of the Foundation for Historic Restoration in the Pendleton Area. The collection also documents the families who lived in or were associated with the two historic houses the Foundation operates, Ashtabula and...

Dates: 1784 - 1995; Majority of material found within , 1960-1988

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives / Mary Stevenson Collection

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Scope and Content Note The papers contain many of Bowen's early writings, both published and unpublished; scrapbooks of his letters to the editor and columns from his retirement years; reports and information from his position with the Bureau of Translations and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

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives / Robert Adger Bowen Papers