Richmond Dispatch, August 10, 1886
Captain Babel Taylor, a prominent citizen and well-known steamboat-man, died yesterday morning at Lake Springs, Roanoke County. Captain Taylor had been suffering for years from a disease contracted while steam boating on the Roanoke River, which annually prostrated him, and the only relief afforded was the water of the Roanoke Red Sulphur Springs. He was on his was to that point, when he became so ill that he could get no further than Salem and Lake Springs
Captain Babel Taylor, a prominent citizen and well-known steamboat-man, died yesterday morning at Lake Springs, Roanoke County. Captain Taylor had been suffering for years from a disease contracted while steam boating on the Roanoke River, which annually prostrated him, and the only relief afforded was the water of the Roanoke Red Sulphur Springs. He was on his was to that point, when he became so ill that he could get no further than Salem and Lake Springs
Richmond Dispatch, August 10, 1886
Captain Babel Taylor, a prominent citizen and well-known steamboat-man, died yesterday morning at Lake Springs, Roanoke County. Captain Taylor had been suffering for years from a disease contracted while steam boating on the Roanoke River, which annually prostrated him, and the only relief afforded was the water of the Roanoke Red Sulphur Springs. He was on his was to that point, when he became so ill that he could get no further than Salem and Lake Springs
Captain Babel Taylor, a prominent citizen and well-known steamboat-man, died yesterday morning at Lake Springs, Roanoke County. Captain Taylor had been suffering for years from a disease contracted while steam boating on the Roanoke River, which annually prostrated him, and the only relief afforded was the water of the Roanoke Red Sulphur Springs. He was on his was to that point, when he became so ill that he could get no further than Salem and Lake Springs
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