Florence died in November 1910 of pneumonia, and and only 3 when his father Henry died just months afterwards in Aug 1911. The three youngest children, Floyd, 18, Clara, 12 and Lawrence, 3, became the wards of Stephen Henry Casey, the husband of Lawrence's oldest sister Nellie Frances Taylor Casey, and lived in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
At some point between 1911 and 1918, Lawrence's care was given over to the Oklahoma Institute for the Feeble Minded in Enid. During the Spanish Influenza epidemic which swept Oklahoma in 1918, Lawrence fell ill and died at that institution, where there were at least 12 other deaths in a short period of time. (Later, the superintendent of the Institute would be the subject of a newspaper expose accusing him of negligence; the doctor sued the newspaper for libel, a case he first won, then lost on appeal. Lawrence Taylor was discussed as one of the children who died, both in the newspaper [though not by name], then later, by name, in court testimony of the watch staff who cared for him at the facility.)
Lawrence's death was the last of a series of tragedies to befall the Taylor family. First his parents deaths in 1910 and 1911, then his older brother Floyd was crushed by railcars in 1914 while working on the Midland Valley Railroad in Tulsa. He was just 19 years old.
Rest in peace, Lawrence. You are not forgotten.
At some point between 1911 and 1918, Lawrence's care was given over to the Oklahoma Institute for the Feeble Minded in Enid. During the Spanish Influenza epidemic which swept Oklahoma in 1918, Lawrence fell ill and died at that institution, where there were at least 12 other deaths in a short period of time. (Later, the superintendent of the Institute would be the subject of a newspaper expose accusing him of negligence; the doctor sued the newspaper for libel, a case he first won, then lost on appeal. Lawrence Taylor was discussed as one of the children who died, both in the newspaper [though not by name], then later, by name, in court testimony of the watch staff who cared for him at the facility.)
Lawrence's death was the last of a series of tragedies to befall the Taylor family. First his parents deaths in 1910 and 1911, then his older brother Floyd was crushed by railcars in 1914 while working on the Midland Valley Railroad in Tulsa. He was just 19 years old.
Rest in peace, Lawrence. You are not forgotten.
Florence died in November 1910 of pneumonia, and and only 3 when his father Henry died just months afterwards in Aug 1911. The three youngest children, Floyd, 18, Clara, 12 and Lawrence, 3, became the wards of Stephen Henry Casey, the husband of Lawrence's oldest sister Nellie Frances Taylor Casey, and lived in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
At some point between 1911 and 1918, Lawrence's care was given over to the Oklahoma Institute for the Feeble Minded in Enid. During the Spanish Influenza epidemic which swept Oklahoma in 1918, Lawrence fell ill and died at that institution, where there were at least 12 other deaths in a short period of time. (Later, the superintendent of the Institute would be the subject of a newspaper expose accusing him of negligence; the doctor sued the newspaper for libel, a case he first won, then lost on appeal. Lawrence Taylor was discussed as one of the children who died, both in the newspaper [though not by name], then later, by name, in court testimony of the watch staff who cared for him at the facility.)
Lawrence's death was the last of a series of tragedies to befall the Taylor family. First his parents deaths in 1910 and 1911, then his older brother Floyd was crushed by railcars in 1914 while working on the Midland Valley Railroad in Tulsa. He was just 19 years old.
Rest in peace, Lawrence. You are not forgotten.
At some point between 1911 and 1918, Lawrence's care was given over to the Oklahoma Institute for the Feeble Minded in Enid. During the Spanish Influenza epidemic which swept Oklahoma in 1918, Lawrence fell ill and died at that institution, where there were at least 12 other deaths in a short period of time. (Later, the superintendent of the Institute would be the subject of a newspaper expose accusing him of negligence; the doctor sued the newspaper for libel, a case he first won, then lost on appeal. Lawrence Taylor was discussed as one of the children who died, both in the newspaper [though not by name], then later, by name, in court testimony of the watch staff who cared for him at the facility.)
Lawrence's death was the last of a series of tragedies to befall the Taylor family. First his parents deaths in 1910 and 1911, then his older brother Floyd was crushed by railcars in 1914 while working on the Midland Valley Railroad in Tulsa. He was just 19 years old.
Rest in peace, Lawrence. You are not forgotten.
Bio by: Nancy C.
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