LEW TAYLOR

MR. LEW TAYLOR WAS BORN IN VIRGINIA AND WAS 70 YEARS OF AGE AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH.  HE CAME TO THIS VICINITY YEARS AGO AND HAD LIVED NEAR HOPEVILLE MANY YEARS AND WAS MARRIED AT THAT PLACE, AFTERWARDS MOVED TO PLEASANT TOWNSHIP, WHERE DEATH CAME MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1924, AFTER A LINGERING ILLNESS.  MR. TAYLOR LEAVES TO MOURN THEIR LOSS A FAITHFUL WIFE, NINE CHILDREN, A MOTHER, THREE SISTERS AND THREE BROTHERS AND A HOST OF FRIENDS.  REV. ALTA M. NICHOLS, PASTOR OF THE M.E. CHURCH, GAVE A COMFORTING SERMON AT THE HOME WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.  FRIENDS SANG HIS FAVORITE SONGS AND A LARGE NUMBER OF NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS FOLLOWED THE REMAINS TO THE HOPEVILLE CEMETERY, WHERE INTERMENT TOOK PLACE.