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William E. Taylor died at the home of his niece, Mrs. G. F. Lillie, in Fremont Monday at the advanced age of 86 years. The body was brought here yesterday and the funeral service held this afternoon at his old home on east Park St., where Mrs. Cora Badgerow now lives. Burial was in the Blair cemetery by the side of his wife whose death occurred February 22nd, 1922. Mr. Taylor was born near Columbus, Ohio, October 2nd, 1840, and at the age of 15 removed to eastern Iowa. At the age of 20 he enlisted at Davenport, Ia., on September 17th, 1861 and served four years in Co. A. 11th Iowa Vol. Inf. He was mustered out at Louisville, Ky., at the close of the war, July 15th, 1865. He was married to Miss Jennie E. Manning in Muscatine Co., Ia., Sept. 6th, 1866, and the following year they came to this state, settling on a homestead out in the Orum neighborhood, which was their home until they sold the farm and moved to Blair in 1880. After the death of his wife in 1922 he has made his home with his niece, Mrs. Lillie at Fremont, Nebr. They had but two children. Dan died in 1898 and Mrs. Jim Dixon was killed in a street car accident in Los Angeles, Calif., in 1920. There are but three grandchildren living, William Dixon, Mrs. R. L. Montgomery and Mrs. L. M. Gould, all of Los Angeles. There are four great-grandchildren. Mr. Taylor is the last of a family of seven children, five boys and one girl. One brother was killed in the Civil War, four being in the service at the same time. Mr. Taylor was a kind and loving husband and father and therefore a good citizen whose passing will be mourned by all who knew him.

Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clipping on file at the Blair Public Library.