All the children were able to be present at the funeral and six of the grandsons, James Rafter, Edward Dunn, Leonard Powell, Edward Starin and DeVere Rafter and Robert Hurd acted as pall bearers.
Joseph Willard Taylor was born of Quaker parentage, in Hendricks county, Indiana, near Plainfield, sixteen miles west of Indianapolis, March 24, 1830, and died at his home in Goff, Kansas, April 4, 1911, aged 81 years. He married Elizabeth Pope, who had been a school-mate and play fellow from their earliest childhood, September 18, 1851. To this union were born six children, one of whom, Eulia, died in infancy. They came to Jackson county, Kansas in 1862 and settled on the farm known as Fort Spurs, five miles north of Holton. They moved to Goff in the fall of 1882, and have since resided in Nemaha county.
Mr. Taylor served in the county militia during the war and participated in Price's raid ....
There survive, to mourn his passing, the wife and five children: May, (Mrs. Rafter) and Rose, (Mrs. Dunn) of Holton, Kansas; Bayard, of Goff, Eva (Mrs. Plaxton) of Alberta, Canada, and Mack of Severy, Kansas. There are fifteen grandchildren and twenty great grandchildren.
The Holton Recorder, April 13, 1911.
All the children were able to be present at the funeral and six of the grandsons, James Rafter, Edward Dunn, Leonard Powell, Edward Starin and DeVere Rafter and Robert Hurd acted as pall bearers.
Joseph Willard Taylor was born of Quaker parentage, in Hendricks county, Indiana, near Plainfield, sixteen miles west of Indianapolis, March 24, 1830, and died at his home in Goff, Kansas, April 4, 1911, aged 81 years. He married Elizabeth Pope, who had been a school-mate and play fellow from their earliest childhood, September 18, 1851. To this union were born six children, one of whom, Eulia, died in infancy. They came to Jackson county, Kansas in 1862 and settled on the farm known as Fort Spurs, five miles north of Holton. They moved to Goff in the fall of 1882, and have since resided in Nemaha county.
Mr. Taylor served in the county militia during the war and participated in Price's raid ....
There survive, to mourn his passing, the wife and five children: May, (Mrs. Rafter) and Rose, (Mrs. Dunn) of Holton, Kansas; Bayard, of Goff, Eva (Mrs. Plaxton) of Alberta, Canada, and Mack of Severy, Kansas. There are fifteen grandchildren and twenty great grandchildren.
The Holton Recorder, April 13, 1911.
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