Jeremy Ray Taylor
LOS ANGELES – SEP 05: Taylor, Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Sophia Lillis, Chosen Jacobs, Wyatt Oleff, Jaeden Lieberher arrive ‘IT’ September 5, 2017, Hollywood, CA, photo by DFree/Bigstock.com
Place of Birth: Bluff City, Tennessee, U.S.
Date of Birth: June 2, 2003
Ethnicity: Finnish, English, some German/Swiss-German, Irish, distant Welsh, possibly remote Cherokee Native American, other
Jeremy Ray Taylor is an American actor. He has starred in the films It (2017), Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, It Chapter Two, and Senior Year, on the shows Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Carnival of Doom and Big Sky, and in the made-for-tv movie The History of Us.
He is the son of Tracy, a band manager, and Michael Taylor.
Jeremy’s paternal grandfather was Raymond Claude Taylor, Jr. (the son of Raymond Claude Taylor, Sr. and Evelyn Nilene Sheffey). Jeremy’s grandfather Raymond was born in Virginia. Evelyn was the daughter of Robert Preston Sheffey and Olivia Blanche Prater.
Jeremy’s maternal grandfather is Isaac/William Pete Grubbs (the son of Wilfred Wysor Gray, Jr. and Elinor Ruth Bowery). Wilfred was the son of Wilfred Wysor Gray and Virginia Lucille Mason. Elinor was the daughter of The Rev. John/Jonnie E. Bowery and Ora E. Osborne.
Jeremy’s maternal grandmother is named Diana Lehtinen. Diana is of Finnish descent.
Sources: Obituaries of Jeremy’s maternal great-grandparents, Wilfred Wysor Gray, Jr. and Elinor Ruth Bowery – https://www.findagrave.com
Obituary of Jeremy’s maternal great-grandmother, Elinor Ruth Bowery Gray – https://www.heraldcourier.com
Obituary of Jeremy’s maternal great-great-grandmother, Ora E. (Osborne) Bowery Brown – https://www.findagrave.com
Jeremy’s maternal grandmother is named Diana Lehtinen.
I don’t know if Diana was born in Michigan, but she went to school there. She’s of Finnish descent.
Jeremy’s paternal grandfather was Raymond Claude Taylor, Jr. (the son of Raymond Claude Taylor, Sr. and Evelyn Nilene Sheffey). Jeremy’s grandfather Raymond was born in Virginia. Evelyn was the daughter of Robert Preston Sheffey and Olivia Blanche Prater.
If you can find out where Diana went to school in the state, I could help. The western part of the UP has the highest percentages of Finnish Americans in the nation.
Hancock, MI.
Jeremy’s maternal grandfather is named William Pete Grubbs (the of Wilfred Wysor “Wimpy” “Champ” Gray, Jr. and Elinor Ruth Bowery). Wifred was the son of Wilfred Wysor Gray, Sr. and Virginia Mason. Elinor was the daughter of The Rev. John E. Bowery and Ora Osborne Bowery.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136208479/wilfred-wysor-gray
-> The Rev. John Ernest Bowery and Ora Osborne Brown
The Rev was the son of Adam Wiley Bowery and Elizabeth Jane “Jennie” Thomas
Adam W. Bowery was the son of this man: https://www.geni.com/people/Adam-Bowery/6000000001730774746
Thus Jeremy has distant German/Swiss-German (Mennonite) ancestry
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56619706/ora-e-brown
Genealogy of Elinor Ruth Bowery (focusing on her mother’s side): https://www.geni.com/people/private/6000000003354958334?through=6000000003355014166
Other family trees of Osborne family include some Cherokee people, see below
https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=gayfamilyfile&id=I102972&style=TABLE
https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=ourtexasfamily&id=I50507&style=TABLE
Also there is a Blevins line, a family connected with the Sizemore who have documented Native American ancestry, so I think Jeremy Ray Taylor might have distant “Indian” ancestry.
Or at least most likely distant Welsh ancestry (“Blevins”)
Michael Moore’s son?