Coatesville Weekly Times
November 28, 1885
ACITVE AT EIGHTY-SIX- "The Kennett Advance" says: Mrs. Rebecca W. Taylor, the venerable mother of the late Hon. Bayard Taylor, lately celebrated her 86th birth-day at 'Sunnyside', her pleasant cottage home of South Union street, where she dispenses a liberal hospitality. Although confined to the house and to her chair by rheumatism, her cheerfulness and energy are unremitting. She daily receives a large number of guests and is the centre (sic) of interest in the house. She still plies the spinning wheel and hopes before death to spin enough silk to make hose for all her children.
Ibid:
February 22, 1890
MRS. REBECCA W. TAYLOR
Mrs. Rebecca W. Taylor, mother of the late Bayard Taylor, died at her home in Kennett Square on Tuesday morning, in the 91st year of her age. Mrs. Taylor was born in Lancaster county, but came with her husband to Kennett Square soon after their marriage. Their children, Bayard, William, Howard, Frederick, Anna and Emma were all born there. Of these, Bayard, on of America's greatest poets, writers and travelers, an of whom every school boy is familiar with his history, and Col. Frederick, who won bright laurels and sacrificed his life on freedom's altar at Gettsburg (sic), have gone to their reward.
Mrs. Taylor was always a very active woman and took a deep interest in public affairs. With her demise Chester county looses one of its oldest and most honored women.
Ibid:
March 1, 1890
Bayard Taylor's Mother- At the funeral of Rebecca Way Taylor at Longwood meeting the other day Colonel Gourand, a life-long friend of the family (whom Bayard Taylor always spoke of as his "foster brother"), paid a tender tribute to the many virtues and striking characteristics of the dead woman. He spoke of her early struggles and sacrifices to secure for her children the education that was to fit them for the lives of usefulness and careers of distinction which more than one of them had so brilliantly realized. He reminded them of the heroic resignation with which she sacrificed on the alter of her country's integrity that gallant son, her latest born, and the very apple of her eye, who at the head of his charging regiment fell, pierced through the heart, at Gettysburg. The country's history, he continued, would tell them of what her sons were made; but the friends gathered there at the last meeting with the mother knew well how much that mother had done in moulding her boys into truly noble men. After recalling many occurrences in the private life of Mrs. Taylor, illustrative of her rare industry and patience, her unsurpassed charity and goodwill toward all, and her deep-seated trust in God and love of country, Colonel Gourand concluded his address by saying that it was women such as Rebecca Taylor and virtues such as had been exemplified in her life that made, and would preserve and increase the glory of the country she so loved and had so honored.
November 28, 1885
ACITVE AT EIGHTY-SIX- "The Kennett Advance" says: Mrs. Rebecca W. Taylor, the venerable mother of the late Hon. Bayard Taylor, lately celebrated her 86th birth-day at 'Sunnyside', her pleasant cottage home of South Union street, where she dispenses a liberal hospitality. Although confined to the house and to her chair by rheumatism, her cheerfulness and energy are unremitting. She daily receives a large number of guests and is the centre (sic) of interest in the house. She still plies the spinning wheel and hopes before death to spin enough silk to make hose for all her children.
Ibid:
February 22, 1890
MRS. REBECCA W. TAYLOR
Mrs. Rebecca W. Taylor, mother of the late Bayard Taylor, died at her home in Kennett Square on Tuesday morning, in the 91st year of her age. Mrs. Taylor was born in Lancaster county, but came with her husband to Kennett Square soon after their marriage. Their children, Bayard, William, Howard, Frederick, Anna and Emma were all born there. Of these, Bayard, on of America's greatest poets, writers and travelers, an of whom every school boy is familiar with his history, and Col. Frederick, who won bright laurels and sacrificed his life on freedom's altar at Gettsburg (sic), have gone to their reward.
Mrs. Taylor was always a very active woman and took a deep interest in public affairs. With her demise Chester county looses one of its oldest and most honored women.
Ibid:
March 1, 1890
Bayard Taylor's Mother- At the funeral of Rebecca Way Taylor at Longwood meeting the other day Colonel Gourand, a life-long friend of the family (whom Bayard Taylor always spoke of as his "foster brother"), paid a tender tribute to the many virtues and striking characteristics of the dead woman. He spoke of her early struggles and sacrifices to secure for her children the education that was to fit them for the lives of usefulness and careers of distinction which more than one of them had so brilliantly realized. He reminded them of the heroic resignation with which she sacrificed on the alter of her country's integrity that gallant son, her latest born, and the very apple of her eye, who at the head of his charging regiment fell, pierced through the heart, at Gettysburg. The country's history, he continued, would tell them of what her sons were made; but the friends gathered there at the last meeting with the mother knew well how much that mother had done in moulding her boys into truly noble men. After recalling many occurrences in the private life of Mrs. Taylor, illustrative of her rare industry and patience, her unsurpassed charity and goodwill toward all, and her deep-seated trust in God and love of country, Colonel Gourand concluded his address by saying that it was women such as Rebecca Taylor and virtues such as had been exemplified in her life that made, and would preserve and increase the glory of the country she so loved and had so honored.
Coatesville Weekly Times
November 28, 1885
ACITVE AT EIGHTY-SIX- "The Kennett Advance" says: Mrs. Rebecca W. Taylor, the venerable mother of the late Hon. Bayard Taylor, lately celebrated her 86th birth-day at 'Sunnyside', her pleasant cottage home of South Union street, where she dispenses a liberal hospitality. Although confined to the house and to her chair by rheumatism, her cheerfulness and energy are unremitting. She daily receives a large number of guests and is the centre (sic) of interest in the house. She still plies the spinning wheel and hopes before death to spin enough silk to make hose for all her children.
Ibid:
February 22, 1890
MRS. REBECCA W. TAYLOR
Mrs. Rebecca W. Taylor, mother of the late Bayard Taylor, died at her home in Kennett Square on Tuesday morning, in the 91st year of her age. Mrs. Taylor was born in Lancaster county, but came with her husband to Kennett Square soon after their marriage. Their children, Bayard, William, Howard, Frederick, Anna and Emma were all born there. Of these, Bayard, on of America's greatest poets, writers and travelers, an of whom every school boy is familiar with his history, and Col. Frederick, who won bright laurels and sacrificed his life on freedom's altar at Gettsburg (sic), have gone to their reward.
Mrs. Taylor was always a very active woman and took a deep interest in public affairs. With her demise Chester county looses one of its oldest and most honored women.
Ibid:
March 1, 1890
Bayard Taylor's Mother- At the funeral of Rebecca Way Taylor at Longwood meeting the other day Colonel Gourand, a life-long friend of the family (whom Bayard Taylor always spoke of as his "foster brother"), paid a tender tribute to the many virtues and striking characteristics of the dead woman. He spoke of her early struggles and sacrifices to secure for her children the education that was to fit them for the lives of usefulness and careers of distinction which more than one of them had so brilliantly realized. He reminded them of the heroic resignation with which she sacrificed on the alter of her country's integrity that gallant son, her latest born, and the very apple of her eye, who at the head of his charging regiment fell, pierced through the heart, at Gettysburg. The country's history, he continued, would tell them of what her sons were made; but the friends gathered there at the last meeting with the mother knew well how much that mother had done in moulding her boys into truly noble men. After recalling many occurrences in the private life of Mrs. Taylor, illustrative of her rare industry and patience, her unsurpassed charity and goodwill toward all, and her deep-seated trust in God and love of country, Colonel Gourand concluded his address by saying that it was women such as Rebecca Taylor and virtues such as had been exemplified in her life that made, and would preserve and increase the glory of the country she so loved and had so honored.
November 28, 1885
ACITVE AT EIGHTY-SIX- "The Kennett Advance" says: Mrs. Rebecca W. Taylor, the venerable mother of the late Hon. Bayard Taylor, lately celebrated her 86th birth-day at 'Sunnyside', her pleasant cottage home of South Union street, where she dispenses a liberal hospitality. Although confined to the house and to her chair by rheumatism, her cheerfulness and energy are unremitting. She daily receives a large number of guests and is the centre (sic) of interest in the house. She still plies the spinning wheel and hopes before death to spin enough silk to make hose for all her children.
Ibid:
February 22, 1890
MRS. REBECCA W. TAYLOR
Mrs. Rebecca W. Taylor, mother of the late Bayard Taylor, died at her home in Kennett Square on Tuesday morning, in the 91st year of her age. Mrs. Taylor was born in Lancaster county, but came with her husband to Kennett Square soon after their marriage. Their children, Bayard, William, Howard, Frederick, Anna and Emma were all born there. Of these, Bayard, on of America's greatest poets, writers and travelers, an of whom every school boy is familiar with his history, and Col. Frederick, who won bright laurels and sacrificed his life on freedom's altar at Gettsburg (sic), have gone to their reward.
Mrs. Taylor was always a very active woman and took a deep interest in public affairs. With her demise Chester county looses one of its oldest and most honored women.
Ibid:
March 1, 1890
Bayard Taylor's Mother- At the funeral of Rebecca Way Taylor at Longwood meeting the other day Colonel Gourand, a life-long friend of the family (whom Bayard Taylor always spoke of as his "foster brother"), paid a tender tribute to the many virtues and striking characteristics of the dead woman. He spoke of her early struggles and sacrifices to secure for her children the education that was to fit them for the lives of usefulness and careers of distinction which more than one of them had so brilliantly realized. He reminded them of the heroic resignation with which she sacrificed on the alter of her country's integrity that gallant son, her latest born, and the very apple of her eye, who at the head of his charging regiment fell, pierced through the heart, at Gettysburg. The country's history, he continued, would tell them of what her sons were made; but the friends gathered there at the last meeting with the mother knew well how much that mother had done in moulding her boys into truly noble men. After recalling many occurrences in the private life of Mrs. Taylor, illustrative of her rare industry and patience, her unsurpassed charity and goodwill toward all, and her deep-seated trust in God and love of country, Colonel Gourand concluded his address by saying that it was women such as Rebecca Taylor and virtues such as had been exemplified in her life that made, and would preserve and increase the glory of the country she so loved and had so honored.
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