Our Taylor ~ Graham Families
I'm Robert Calvin Graham, and my wife is Janelle Aileen Taylor. She calls me Boog.
We met in 1973 while attending Shippensburg State College in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Janelle and I married in 1976, and briefly lived in Elizabethtown, and Harrisburg, before moving to Middletown Pennsylvania. We were there during the Three Mile Island tragedy. By 1980 we bought my family home in Camp Hill, Cumberland County, where our two boys were born.
In 1986 we moved to where we live today in the York Springs area of Franklin Township, northern York County, Pennsylvania. As of 2024, the story of Janelle and my life together is still being written around the lives of our sons.
Justin Taylor Graham
Justin started young in life having a family. He had two children before he graduated high school. Even before he married their mother, Ashley Constance Goss. Their daughter, our granddaughter, Taylor Constance Graham, is our family’s name-sake. She is named after my wife’s maiden name. She’s a beautiful young woman in a relationship with a wonderful young man, Tyler. Taylor and Tyler!
Then there is their son, Jordan. I think of him as my boy. In fact, all the boys are my boys. Jordan is a kind, sweet, and polite. He tells his life story with tattoos.
Justin and Ashley didn’t last long. She went south… figuratively. Taylor's and Jordan's grandparents are the Goss ~ Harkaway families.
It wasn’t long till Justin had more children. Again, before marrying Tyanne Ione Kline. Together they had a son Hayden Jarell Graham. I call him Yo-Yo. He is also a sweet and kind person who has a great future ahead of him. Justin and Tyanne also had a daughter, Riley Emma Graham. I call her Ri-Ri, but her dad and sister Taylor call her bug, or peanut. She's our dancer and gymnast. She is clearly a sweet and loving child.
The marriage between Justin and Tyanne lasted longer than Justin's first marriage, and more amiable. Tyanne and Justin continue to jointly, and positively, care for their children. Hayden's and Riley's grandparents are the Kline ~ Aungst families.
After a few years, Justin met Jamie McKim of Mt. Union, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. At the time Jamie was a teacher for a private school in York, Pennsylvania. She was in a relationship with someone, and they had two girls: Addie and Sage. The relationship didn't work out, and eventually Jamie and Justin met. Soon after they moved in together in York, Pennsylvania. They married, and all six kids are very close half siblings.
Ian Robert Graham
Our son Ian is cut from a different piece of cloth. He was in diapers when he first started beating on our piano. We made him wait until he could read and write before getting him piano lessons.
By the time he was ten he wanted to learn guitar. He became very-very good, but he just couldn’t bring himself to play in front of anyone. However, when he was 14 years old he did play at a golf course bar and restaurant where he washed dishes. He and his brother played golf since they were little people. In fact, they were both on the high school golf team.
The bar there had entertainment most Friday’s, and everyone knew Ian could play guitar. Next thing we knew the entertainment for the night, and the crowd, started yelling for Ian to play. He came out from the kitchen in his apron, asked the entertainer if he could use his guitar and played. His first song was a Jimmy Buffet Margaritaville parody; Marijuanaville. The crowd went nuts.
That’s our Ian.
Ian’s a graduate of Shippensburg State College. The same school his mother graduated in 1974. In fact, he stayed in the same dorm, same floor, and across the hall from where his mother stayed when she attended. Ian married Amanda DeJesus of Brooklyn, New York, New York. I have always said he has more of my genes than his mothers.
Our Parents and Grandparents
I elected myself as the custodian of the Taylor ~ Graham library, and the historian of our many families. I spent years researching, weeding through volumes of information, to leave our grandchildren access to their ancestor’s past lives.
Our Taylor ~ Graham digital library is organized around our parent's grandparents. Essentially my, and my wife’s, great grandparents.
Within the library's directories are the many-many papers on their stories.
Janelle's Parents and Grandparents
Janelle was born November 10 th 1953 to Kenneth (Bud) Henry James Taylor and Jane Alice Hines. Two of the greatest people who couldn’t stayed married. Divorcing during Janelle’s first year in college.
Janelle’s Father (JF)
Ken was born to Austin James Taylor and Bessie May Einsig in York, Pennsylvania.
Austin was born April 17 th 1889 to James Henry Taylor and Emma Jane Hengst. The Taylor ~ Hengst link is also located in the left sidebar menu.
Bessie May Einsig was born July 18th 1892 to John Henry Einzig and Mary Anna Schleich. Their families Einsig ~ Schleich link is also in the left sidebar menu.
Janelle’s Mother (JM)
Jane was born August 9 th 1927 to Paul Daniel Hines and Irene Belle Mankamyer-Blume.
Paul was born December 9 th 1903 to Harry Hines and Harriet Thomas, and you can use the Hines ~ Thomas link on the left sidebar menu.
Irene Belle Mankamyer was born November 3rd 1896 to Joseph Mankamyer and Ida Belle Bittner. Ida died, and Irene was 25 years old when she was formally adopted on February 4th 1922 by her mother’s aunt and husband; William Blume and Alice Lepley. Their Mankamyer ~ Bittner link is also in the left sidebar.
Bob's Parents and Grandparents
I was born September 28th 1953 to Robert Harvey Graham and Dorothy (Dottie) Irene Klinger. My father abandoned my mother in 1964, when I was 12 years old. They didn’t divorce until 1974. I never saw him between those times, until the divorce.
Bob’s Father (BF)
Robert was born to Calvin (Curly) Stoey Graham and Ruth Etta Barr in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Calvin was born November 19th 1905 to William Graham and Sarah Catherine Greenawalt in the farming community of Mongul in Lurgan Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Calvin’s middle name, Stoey, came from the local practicing doctor, Oliver P. Stoey. The Graham ~ Greenawalt link is in the left sidebar menu.
-- My great grandfather, William, was born in 1873 to Samuel B. Culbertson and Mary Sophia Hildebrandt in the Walnut Bottom area of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
-- William adopted his Graham name from his mother's 3rd husband, William Irwin Graham.
Ruth Etta Barr was born May 5th1908 to Harvey Joseph Barr and Sarah Henrietta Ellis in Harrisburg, Dauphin County. Pennsylvania. The Barr ~ Ellis link is in the left sidebar menu.
Bob’s Mother (BM)
Dottie was born November 2nd 1928 1926 to Edwin (Ed) Charles Klinger and Irene Mary Wrightstone in Shiresmanstown, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Ed was born August 12th 1903 to Charles Edwin Klinger and Emma Long Kinter in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. You can use the Klinger ~ Kinter link on the left sidebar menu.
Irene was born on April 23rd 1905 to Edwin Underwood Wrightstone and Hattie Amelia Arnold at the family home on Franklin Church Road in Franklin Township, York County, Pennsylvania. Their Wrigthstone ~ Arnold link is in the left sidebar menu.