The circa 1870 photo shows Dora before she married.
Eldora Blanch "Dora" Davis was the eldest daughter of Robert Davis & Nancy M. Van Eaton. She was named after the nearest town, Eldora, in Hardin county in central Iowa. She married April 16, 1873 to Zachary Taylor "Taylor" Shutes, son of William W. Shutes & Julia Ann Severns. Taylor & Dora had 5 children: Leonard Davis, Bertha Alice, Estella May, Minnie Gay, and Arthur Rufus Shutes. Leonard, Estella, and Arthur are buried with their parents in the Shutes plot on Rosemary Avenue in Old Tacoma Cemetery.
At the time of her death, Eldora Shutes was living in Redding, California, with her daughter and son-in-law, Minnie & Robert McPhaill.
In his youth, Taylor enjoyed dancing and having a good time. But then he married Dora, who had been raised a Quaker; she frowned on dancing and carousing and made him give up such frivolities. Over half a century later, "churchy" Dora frowned on her grandson George Shutes being the leader of a popular dance band in Tacoma, Washington.
Taylor & Dora belonged to the Epworth Methodist Church in Tacoma. During long sermons, if a nearby child became restless and noisy, Dora would offer it a peppermint candy from her purse, if the child would promise to sit still and be quiet. Bribery works! (told to me by an elderly member of the church when I visited it in the 1970s; she remembered Dora bribing her with peppermints in the early 1900s.)
Eldora was a 6th cousin of First Lady Ida (Saxton) McKinley (1847-1907). They both descend from 1687 Quaker immigrant George Harlan (1650-1714). George's descendants also include:
comedian Otis Harlan (1864-1940)
Otis' nephew, handsome actor Kenneth Harlan (1895-1967)
two U.S. Supreme Court Justices, both named John Marshall Harlan: the eldest (1833-1911), & his grandson (1899-1971)
James Harlan (1820-1899), U.S. Senator from Iowa, whose daughter Mary Eunice married in 1866 to Robert Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln. Robert & Mary Eunice had three children & four grandchildren; but the grandchildren were childless, so President Lincoln's line is now extinct.
Eldora Blanch "Dora" Davis was the eldest daughter of Robert Davis & Nancy M. Van Eaton. She was named after the nearest town, Eldora, in Hardin county in central Iowa. She married April 16, 1873 to Zachary Taylor "Taylor" Shutes, son of William W. Shutes & Julia Ann Severns. Taylor & Dora had 5 children: Leonard Davis, Bertha Alice, Estella May, Minnie Gay, and Arthur Rufus Shutes. Leonard, Estella, and Arthur are buried with their parents in the Shutes plot on Rosemary Avenue in Old Tacoma Cemetery.
At the time of her death, Eldora Shutes was living in Redding, California, with her daughter and son-in-law, Minnie & Robert McPhaill.
In his youth, Taylor enjoyed dancing and having a good time. But then he married Dora, who had been raised a Quaker; she frowned on dancing and carousing and made him give up such frivolities. Over half a century later, "churchy" Dora frowned on her grandson George Shutes being the leader of a popular dance band in Tacoma, Washington.
Taylor & Dora belonged to the Epworth Methodist Church in Tacoma. During long sermons, if a nearby child became restless and noisy, Dora would offer it a peppermint candy from her purse, if the child would promise to sit still and be quiet. Bribery works! (told to me by an elderly member of the church when I visited it in the 1970s; she remembered Dora bribing her with peppermints in the early 1900s.)
Eldora was a 6th cousin of First Lady Ida (Saxton) McKinley (1847-1907). They both descend from 1687 Quaker immigrant George Harlan (1650-1714). George's descendants also include:
comedian Otis Harlan (1864-1940)
Otis' nephew, handsome actor Kenneth Harlan (1895-1967)
two U.S. Supreme Court Justices, both named John Marshall Harlan: the eldest (1833-1911), & his grandson (1899-1971)
James Harlan (1820-1899), U.S. Senator from Iowa, whose daughter Mary Eunice married in 1866 to Robert Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln. Robert & Mary Eunice had three children & four grandchildren; but the grandchildren were childless, so President Lincoln's line is now extinct.
The circa 1870 photo shows Dora before she married.
Eldora Blanch "Dora" Davis was the eldest daughter of Robert Davis & Nancy M. Van Eaton. She was named after the nearest town, Eldora, in Hardin county in central Iowa. She married April 16, 1873 to Zachary Taylor "Taylor" Shutes, son of William W. Shutes & Julia Ann Severns. Taylor & Dora had 5 children: Leonard Davis, Bertha Alice, Estella May, Minnie Gay, and Arthur Rufus Shutes. Leonard, Estella, and Arthur are buried with their parents in the Shutes plot on Rosemary Avenue in Old Tacoma Cemetery.
At the time of her death, Eldora Shutes was living in Redding, California, with her daughter and son-in-law, Minnie & Robert McPhaill.
In his youth, Taylor enjoyed dancing and having a good time. But then he married Dora, who had been raised a Quaker; she frowned on dancing and carousing and made him give up such frivolities. Over half a century later, "churchy" Dora frowned on her grandson George Shutes being the leader of a popular dance band in Tacoma, Washington.
Taylor & Dora belonged to the Epworth Methodist Church in Tacoma. During long sermons, if a nearby child became restless and noisy, Dora would offer it a peppermint candy from her purse, if the child would promise to sit still and be quiet. Bribery works! (told to me by an elderly member of the church when I visited it in the 1970s; she remembered Dora bribing her with peppermints in the early 1900s.)
Eldora was a 6th cousin of First Lady Ida (Saxton) McKinley (1847-1907). They both descend from 1687 Quaker immigrant George Harlan (1650-1714). George's descendants also include:
comedian Otis Harlan (1864-1940)
Otis' nephew, handsome actor Kenneth Harlan (1895-1967)
two U.S. Supreme Court Justices, both named John Marshall Harlan: the eldest (1833-1911), & his grandson (1899-1971)
James Harlan (1820-1899), U.S. Senator from Iowa, whose daughter Mary Eunice married in 1866 to Robert Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln. Robert & Mary Eunice had three children & four grandchildren; but the grandchildren were childless, so President Lincoln's line is now extinct.
Eldora Blanch "Dora" Davis was the eldest daughter of Robert Davis & Nancy M. Van Eaton. She was named after the nearest town, Eldora, in Hardin county in central Iowa. She married April 16, 1873 to Zachary Taylor "Taylor" Shutes, son of William W. Shutes & Julia Ann Severns. Taylor & Dora had 5 children: Leonard Davis, Bertha Alice, Estella May, Minnie Gay, and Arthur Rufus Shutes. Leonard, Estella, and Arthur are buried with their parents in the Shutes plot on Rosemary Avenue in Old Tacoma Cemetery.
At the time of her death, Eldora Shutes was living in Redding, California, with her daughter and son-in-law, Minnie & Robert McPhaill.
In his youth, Taylor enjoyed dancing and having a good time. But then he married Dora, who had been raised a Quaker; she frowned on dancing and carousing and made him give up such frivolities. Over half a century later, "churchy" Dora frowned on her grandson George Shutes being the leader of a popular dance band in Tacoma, Washington.
Taylor & Dora belonged to the Epworth Methodist Church in Tacoma. During long sermons, if a nearby child became restless and noisy, Dora would offer it a peppermint candy from her purse, if the child would promise to sit still and be quiet. Bribery works! (told to me by an elderly member of the church when I visited it in the 1970s; she remembered Dora bribing her with peppermints in the early 1900s.)
Eldora was a 6th cousin of First Lady Ida (Saxton) McKinley (1847-1907). They both descend from 1687 Quaker immigrant George Harlan (1650-1714). George's descendants also include:
comedian Otis Harlan (1864-1940)
Otis' nephew, handsome actor Kenneth Harlan (1895-1967)
two U.S. Supreme Court Justices, both named John Marshall Harlan: the eldest (1833-1911), & his grandson (1899-1971)
James Harlan (1820-1899), U.S. Senator from Iowa, whose daughter Mary Eunice married in 1866 to Robert Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln. Robert & Mary Eunice had three children & four grandchildren; but the grandchildren were childless, so President Lincoln's line is now extinct.
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