Sixteenth Generation

7775. Rose Chatfield-Taylor was born on 8 October 1921 in Lake Forest, Lake Co., Illinois, USA. She died on 15 December 1997 at the age of 76 in Fairfax Co., Virginia, USA. USA Social Security Death Index
Given Name: Rose
Middle Name: T
Surname: Macmurray
Birth Date: 8 October 1921
Social Security Number: 577-42-9403
State: District Of Columbia
Last Place of Residence: Fairfax, Virginia
Previous Residence Postal Code: 22101
Event Date: 15 December 1997
Age: 76
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Wrote a novel about Emily Dickinson entitled “An Afternoon with Emily,”

Rose Chatfield-Taylor MacMurray was born in 1921 in Chicago. She attended Westover School in Middlebury, Connecticut, a boarding school for girls, and in 1939 she attended Bennington College for one year, after which she married Frank Goodnow MacMurray. They lived in McLean, VA, where they raised three children. In her later years, she taught a much-loved poetry course in the Fairfax County school system, where she was known as "The Poetry Lady" She passed away in 1997.
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New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909
Name: Rose Chatfield Taylor
Event Type: Immigration
Event Date: 1929
Event Place: New York, New York
Gender: Female
Age: 8
Birthplace: Chicago
Ship Name: Majestic
Birth Year (Estimated): 1921
Affiliate Publication Title: Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957. , Affiliate Publication Number: T715 , Affiliate Film Number: 4531 , GS Film number: 1756269 , Digital Folder Number: 004863013 , Image Number: 00534
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New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909
Name: Rose Chatfield-Taylor
Event Type: Immigration
Event Date: 1938
Event Place: New York, New York
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Birthplace: Lake Forest Ill
Ship Name: Queen Of Bermuda
Birth Year (Estimated): 1921
Affiliate Publication Title: Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957. , Affiliate Publication Number: T715 , Affiliate Film Number: 6212 , GS Film number: 1757950 , Digital Folder Number: 004876317 , Image Number: 00153

Rose Chatfield-Taylor and Dr. Frank Goodnow MacMurray were married on 14 June 1941 in District of Columbia, USA. Name: Frank Goodnow Macmurray
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 14 Jun 1941
Event Place: District of Columbia
Age: 22
Birth Year (Estimated): 1919
Spouse's Name: Rose Chatfield-Taylor
Spouse's Age: 19
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1922
GS Film number: 2319185 , Digital Folder Number: 4661674 , Image Number: 00299
Dr. Frank Goodnow MacMurray was born on 29 September 1918 in Peking, China. He died Alzheimer's disease on 25 January 2010 at the age of 91 in Mclean, Virginia, USA. Frank died Jan. 25, 2010, at The Sylvestery, an assisted-living center in McLean, Va.

He was born in Beijing, China, where his father, John MacMurray 1902, was a U.S. diplomat. He attended Gilman School. At Princeton, he majored in history and graduating with honors, rowed on the varsity 150-pound crew, and was a member of the Student Council of the SPIA, and the Glee, German, and Cap and Gown clubs.

A 1943 graduate of Harvard Medical School, he served as an Air Force captain in the Pacific and as a medical examiner and officer-in-charge of a polio ward in Walter Reed General Hospital.

Frank and another doctor started a private practice, Foxhall Internists, in 1953. He was also a clinical professor at Georgetown Medical School and the private Madeira School in McLean. He was an officer of the American Clinical and Climatological Association and a regional governor of the American College of Physicians. His leisure interests included tennis, mountain backpacking, and camping with his family.

Frank’s wife, the former Rose Chatfield-Taylor, whom he married in 1941, predeceased him. He is survived by his sons, Frank Jr. and Worth; daughter Adelaide “Lolly” MacMurray-Cooper; a sister; four grandchildren; and three great-grandsons. His classmates offer them their sincere sympathies.

Rose Chatfield-Taylor and Dr. Frank Goodnow MacMurray had the following children: