"William H. Taylor, one of Potomac's oldest residents and known by everybody in Middlefork Township as "Dad" Taylor, died at his home Tuesday following a long illness due to informities of old age. He was 88 years old last July and had lived at or near Potomac for half a century. He was the father of the Taylor Brothers, extensive buyers of homes and mules in Danville for many years.
Funeral services will be held at the family residences at Potomac at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon and the interment will be in the Potomac Cemetery at the side of the first wife who died about 24 years ago.
Mr. Taylor was a native of Indiana, born in Boone County, July 12, 1833. He grew up there and married Miss Thompson and then removed to Illinois and settled in Potomac, about 1871. For 30 years, he conducted the principal livery stable there.
In ??? Mr. Taylor was married to Julia Holderman, of Potomac, who survives. There were no children born to the second union. By the first marriage there were five children: Mr. Ella Barnett and Mrs. Jemima McDonald, both residents of Frankfort, Indiana, James Taylor, residing at Potomac and Edgar and William Taylor, both residents of Danville." - Commercial News, Danville, Illinois, October 5, 1921
Funeral services will be held at the family residences at Potomac at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon and the interment will be in the Potomac Cemetery at the side of the first wife who died about 24 years ago.
Mr. Taylor was a native of Indiana, born in Boone County, July 12, 1833. He grew up there and married Miss Thompson and then removed to Illinois and settled in Potomac, about 1871. For 30 years, he conducted the principal livery stable there.
In ??? Mr. Taylor was married to Julia Holderman, of Potomac, who survives. There were no children born to the second union. By the first marriage there were five children: Mr. Ella Barnett and Mrs. Jemima McDonald, both residents of Frankfort, Indiana, James Taylor, residing at Potomac and Edgar and William Taylor, both residents of Danville." - Commercial News, Danville, Illinois, October 5, 1921
"William H. Taylor, one of Potomac's oldest residents and known by everybody in Middlefork Township as "Dad" Taylor, died at his home Tuesday following a long illness due to informities of old age. He was 88 years old last July and had lived at or near Potomac for half a century. He was the father of the Taylor Brothers, extensive buyers of homes and mules in Danville for many years.
Funeral services will be held at the family residences at Potomac at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon and the interment will be in the Potomac Cemetery at the side of the first wife who died about 24 years ago.
Mr. Taylor was a native of Indiana, born in Boone County, July 12, 1833. He grew up there and married Miss Thompson and then removed to Illinois and settled in Potomac, about 1871. For 30 years, he conducted the principal livery stable there.
In ??? Mr. Taylor was married to Julia Holderman, of Potomac, who survives. There were no children born to the second union. By the first marriage there were five children: Mr. Ella Barnett and Mrs. Jemima McDonald, both residents of Frankfort, Indiana, James Taylor, residing at Potomac and Edgar and William Taylor, both residents of Danville." - Commercial News, Danville, Illinois, October 5, 1921
Funeral services will be held at the family residences at Potomac at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon and the interment will be in the Potomac Cemetery at the side of the first wife who died about 24 years ago.
Mr. Taylor was a native of Indiana, born in Boone County, July 12, 1833. He grew up there and married Miss Thompson and then removed to Illinois and settled in Potomac, about 1871. For 30 years, he conducted the principal livery stable there.
In ??? Mr. Taylor was married to Julia Holderman, of Potomac, who survives. There were no children born to the second union. By the first marriage there were five children: Mr. Ella Barnett and Mrs. Jemima McDonald, both residents of Frankfort, Indiana, James Taylor, residing at Potomac and Edgar and William Taylor, both residents of Danville." - Commercial News, Danville, Illinois, October 5, 1921
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