On 20 October 1884, a Wilson County Probate Court judge ordered 12 year-old Dora Ann Taylor bound as an apprentice to Jordan Taylor until she reached 18 years of age.

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• Jordan Taylor

In the 1880 census of Wilson, Wilson County: Jordan Taylor, 35, works on R.R.; wife Jane, 22; and children James Grant, 7, Manora Ann, 4, General Washington, 3, and Lilly Green, 1; or, in the 1880 census of Saratoga township, Wilson County: Jordan Taylor, 30, farm laborer; wife Adline, 22; and children Caroline, 5, and Elizabeth, 2 months.

• Dora Ann Taylor

Perhaps: on 29 May 1887, Joseph Eatmon, 30, of Wilson County, son of R. Jordan and Wilmot Eatmon, married Dora Taylor, 15, of Nash County, N.C., daughter of N[illegible] Locus and Mary Taylor, in Wilson County, with Mary Taylor’s permission. Thomas Hagans and Gilbert Howard witnessed the ceremony.