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Reuben and Margaret N. Taylor
As we mentioned last week, the silent messenger has again visited our little village and taken therefrom Mrs. Margaret Taylor, the beloved wife of Reuben Taylor. She had only been sick for a few days, but that dread disease pneumonia, had taken such a firm grasp upon her that all efforts to loosen it proved unavailing. Mrs. Taylor a true and noble woman, modest and retiring but keenly alive to all duties which go to make a home pleasant and friends happy. She was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1826, and married to Reuben Taylor in 1846. After almost three score years, "The one was taken and the other left," but alas, for only a few brief days, when again the messenger called on Saturday morning of the same week and took the husband. Reuben Taylor was born in 1823 in Virginia and has lived the greater part of his life at Olivett. He adhered firmly to what he believed to be right and resolutely preformed that which he thought to be his duty, and all can truthfully say a good man has gone.
They were the parents of seven children, George, Lafe, Edwin, Mrs. Ella Lee, and Mrs. Leona VanFossen, the last named caring for them in their last sickness. Two of our old friends and neighbors have gone and we can but express the sentiment of the poet and say: "After life's fitful fever they can sleep well." These two have journeyed together almost three score years and in death they are still united. Like unto children tired of play, to lay aside playthings to sleep, so they being weary of life laid down their burden of many years and fell asleep to awaken to a glorious immortality in an eternal home. Interment in Barnesville.
From the Barnesville Enterprise, March 10, 1904
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