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Nellie Davis Tayloe was born near Amazonia, in Andrew County, Missouri ( now part of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area ) to James Wynn Tayloe, a native of Stewart County, Tennessee, and his wife, Elizabeth Blair Green, who owned a plantation on the Missouri River.

In 1884, when Nellie Ross was seven years of age, her family moved to Miltonvale in Cloud County in northern Kansas.

The relocation happened after their Andrew County home burned, and the sheriff was about to foreclose on the property.