Daughter of Thomas Whitaker and Sophia Turner
Married John Taylor, 23 Apr 1847, Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska
Children: Hyrum Whitaker Taylor, James Whitaker Taylor, Moses Whitaker Taylor, Helena Whitaker Taylor, John Whitaker Taylor, Jeanette Jones Jones (Taylor), Frederick Whitaker Taylor, Harriet Ann Whitaker Taylor
DEATH OF SISTER S. W. TAYLOR, WHO PASSED PEACEFULLY TO HER REST ON SUNDAY. Yesterday (Feb. 27th) Sister Sophia Whitaker Tayler, wife of President John Taylor, expired at her residence in the Fourteenth Ward. The deceased was born at Blakedown, near Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, on April 21st, 1825, and was consequently nearing the close of her 62nd year. At the time the late President Young, President Taylor, and other members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles were in the missionary field in England, in 1840, she was living with her sister in Liverpool, and those brethren were by them hospitably entertained. In that year she embraced the Gospel, and from that period to the hour of her death was a consistent and conscientious Latter-day Saint. She emigrated to this country at an early day, and was married to President John Taylor in 1847, at Winter Quarters, after the expulsion of the Saints from Nauvoo. She came to this valley in Pioneer year, landing up on the site upon which Salt Lake City now stands, October 2nd, 1847. She has four sons and two daughters.
Sister Taylor was a most estimable woman, modest and unassuming in her nature, her chief interest being centered in the proper rearing of her family. Having been with the Church in its earlier phases, and having come to this valley before it was settled, she necessarily had to endure many privations of a trying nature. She bore them all with that Christian fortitude which was a leading feature of her character. No matter what were the circumstances of her experience in battling, in unison with her respected husband, with the difficulties incident to the development of a new country no murmur of complaint ever escaped from her lips. Her dying hours were not solaced by the presence of her husband, the latter being under the ban of a mistaken and cruel policy which deprives him of the exercise of his liberty and drives him into exile, but her friends have the comforting assurance that she has gone to a sphere where she will enjoy the undisturbed peace which is the heritage of the righteous when freed from the toils of mortality.
The funeral service will be conducted at 1 o'clock tomorrow, March 1st in the Fourteenth Ward Assembly Rooms.
Transcribed from Deseret News - March 2, 1887
Married John Taylor, 23 Apr 1847, Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska
Children: Hyrum Whitaker Taylor, James Whitaker Taylor, Moses Whitaker Taylor, Helena Whitaker Taylor, John Whitaker Taylor, Jeanette Jones Jones (Taylor), Frederick Whitaker Taylor, Harriet Ann Whitaker Taylor
DEATH OF SISTER S. W. TAYLOR, WHO PASSED PEACEFULLY TO HER REST ON SUNDAY. Yesterday (Feb. 27th) Sister Sophia Whitaker Tayler, wife of President John Taylor, expired at her residence in the Fourteenth Ward. The deceased was born at Blakedown, near Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, on April 21st, 1825, and was consequently nearing the close of her 62nd year. At the time the late President Young, President Taylor, and other members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles were in the missionary field in England, in 1840, she was living with her sister in Liverpool, and those brethren were by them hospitably entertained. In that year she embraced the Gospel, and from that period to the hour of her death was a consistent and conscientious Latter-day Saint. She emigrated to this country at an early day, and was married to President John Taylor in 1847, at Winter Quarters, after the expulsion of the Saints from Nauvoo. She came to this valley in Pioneer year, landing up on the site upon which Salt Lake City now stands, October 2nd, 1847. She has four sons and two daughters.
Sister Taylor was a most estimable woman, modest and unassuming in her nature, her chief interest being centered in the proper rearing of her family. Having been with the Church in its earlier phases, and having come to this valley before it was settled, she necessarily had to endure many privations of a trying nature. She bore them all with that Christian fortitude which was a leading feature of her character. No matter what were the circumstances of her experience in battling, in unison with her respected husband, with the difficulties incident to the development of a new country no murmur of complaint ever escaped from her lips. Her dying hours were not solaced by the presence of her husband, the latter being under the ban of a mistaken and cruel policy which deprives him of the exercise of his liberty and drives him into exile, but her friends have the comforting assurance that she has gone to a sphere where she will enjoy the undisturbed peace which is the heritage of the righteous when freed from the toils of mortality.
The funeral service will be conducted at 1 o'clock tomorrow, March 1st in the Fourteenth Ward Assembly Rooms.
Transcribed from Deseret News - March 2, 1887
Daughter of Thomas Whitaker and Sophia Turner
Married John Taylor, 23 Apr 1847, Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska
Children: Hyrum Whitaker Taylor, James Whitaker Taylor, Moses Whitaker Taylor, Helena Whitaker Taylor, John Whitaker Taylor, Jeanette Jones Jones (Taylor), Frederick Whitaker Taylor, Harriet Ann Whitaker Taylor
DEATH OF SISTER S. W. TAYLOR, WHO PASSED PEACEFULLY TO HER REST ON SUNDAY. Yesterday (Feb. 27th) Sister Sophia Whitaker Tayler, wife of President John Taylor, expired at her residence in the Fourteenth Ward. The deceased was born at Blakedown, near Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, on April 21st, 1825, and was consequently nearing the close of her 62nd year. At the time the late President Young, President Taylor, and other members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles were in the missionary field in England, in 1840, she was living with her sister in Liverpool, and those brethren were by them hospitably entertained. In that year she embraced the Gospel, and from that period to the hour of her death was a consistent and conscientious Latter-day Saint. She emigrated to this country at an early day, and was married to President John Taylor in 1847, at Winter Quarters, after the expulsion of the Saints from Nauvoo. She came to this valley in Pioneer year, landing up on the site upon which Salt Lake City now stands, October 2nd, 1847. She has four sons and two daughters.
Sister Taylor was a most estimable woman, modest and unassuming in her nature, her chief interest being centered in the proper rearing of her family. Having been with the Church in its earlier phases, and having come to this valley before it was settled, she necessarily had to endure many privations of a trying nature. She bore them all with that Christian fortitude which was a leading feature of her character. No matter what were the circumstances of her experience in battling, in unison with her respected husband, with the difficulties incident to the development of a new country no murmur of complaint ever escaped from her lips. Her dying hours were not solaced by the presence of her husband, the latter being under the ban of a mistaken and cruel policy which deprives him of the exercise of his liberty and drives him into exile, but her friends have the comforting assurance that she has gone to a sphere where she will enjoy the undisturbed peace which is the heritage of the righteous when freed from the toils of mortality.
The funeral service will be conducted at 1 o'clock tomorrow, March 1st in the Fourteenth Ward Assembly Rooms.
Transcribed from Deseret News - March 2, 1887
Married John Taylor, 23 Apr 1847, Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska
Children: Hyrum Whitaker Taylor, James Whitaker Taylor, Moses Whitaker Taylor, Helena Whitaker Taylor, John Whitaker Taylor, Jeanette Jones Jones (Taylor), Frederick Whitaker Taylor, Harriet Ann Whitaker Taylor
DEATH OF SISTER S. W. TAYLOR, WHO PASSED PEACEFULLY TO HER REST ON SUNDAY. Yesterday (Feb. 27th) Sister Sophia Whitaker Tayler, wife of President John Taylor, expired at her residence in the Fourteenth Ward. The deceased was born at Blakedown, near Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, on April 21st, 1825, and was consequently nearing the close of her 62nd year. At the time the late President Young, President Taylor, and other members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles were in the missionary field in England, in 1840, she was living with her sister in Liverpool, and those brethren were by them hospitably entertained. In that year she embraced the Gospel, and from that period to the hour of her death was a consistent and conscientious Latter-day Saint. She emigrated to this country at an early day, and was married to President John Taylor in 1847, at Winter Quarters, after the expulsion of the Saints from Nauvoo. She came to this valley in Pioneer year, landing up on the site upon which Salt Lake City now stands, October 2nd, 1847. She has four sons and two daughters.
Sister Taylor was a most estimable woman, modest and unassuming in her nature, her chief interest being centered in the proper rearing of her family. Having been with the Church in its earlier phases, and having come to this valley before it was settled, she necessarily had to endure many privations of a trying nature. She bore them all with that Christian fortitude which was a leading feature of her character. No matter what were the circumstances of her experience in battling, in unison with her respected husband, with the difficulties incident to the development of a new country no murmur of complaint ever escaped from her lips. Her dying hours were not solaced by the presence of her husband, the latter being under the ban of a mistaken and cruel policy which deprives him of the exercise of his liberty and drives him into exile, but her friends have the comforting assurance that she has gone to a sphere where she will enjoy the undisturbed peace which is the heritage of the righteous when freed from the toils of mortality.
The funeral service will be conducted at 1 o'clock tomorrow, March 1st in the Fourteenth Ward Assembly Rooms.
Transcribed from Deseret News - March 2, 1887
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