Angus Taylor (1778 Scotland - 1854 Bladen Co., NC) was her mother's great great grandfather. Her grandfather was Robert Robinson Taylor (8 June 1868 - Wilmington, NC - 13 December 1942 - Tuskegee, AL) who was the first black graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the first-known credentialed African-American architect and designed most of the original Tuskegee University campus—a project commissioned by Booker T. Washington.
Robert Robinson Taylor was born on June 8, 1868, in Wilmington, North Carolina.[1][2] His father, Henry Taylor, worked as a carpenter and businessman, born into slavery but freed in 1847 by his father and owner Angus Taylor.