Death of Mrs. E. B. Taylor
She was a Character Well Known
In This City
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Taylor died
suddenly yesterday morning. She was living at the residence of her son, J. M.
D. Taylor, on Jefferson, between Twenty-second
and Twenty-third. She was 85 years of age and it was her habit to arise about
10 0'clock every morning and eat breakfast alone. About 11 a.m. Mrs. J. M. D.
Taylor went into her room to call her to breakfast when she found her stretched
on the floor dead.
The body was warm when found.
She was dressed and had evidently been combing her hair. The brush laid on the
bed and the comb on the table. One side of her hair was done up and she had
been fixing the other side when heart failure struck her dead. She fell from
the chair lightly, causing but a small bruise on her left eyebrow. When found
she appeared as though laid out with the most loving care by affectionate
hands. The funeral services will be held at the residence, Thursday, at 1:30
p.m.
Mrs. Taylor was born in Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, South
Wales, June 1 1806. She married James
Jones and in 1832 removed to Canada,
where she resided for twelve years. Her husband died in 1841. In the fall of
1842 she married George Taylor and with him returned to Wales in 1844. Shortly after they allied themselves with the Latterday
Saints and in 1862 again came to America,
settling in Ogden,
where the deceased had resided until her death.
She was the mother of twelve
children, six by her first husband. She buried her oldest child at Florence, Neb.,
on the way here in 1862, and Thomas W. Jones, of this City, the next oldest, is
the only one alive of these children. Of the six by her late husband only the
two youngest are alive, J. M. D. Taylor and Mrs. Mary A. Jost,
both well-known in Ogden.
Mrs. Taylor was a great
traveler. She had visited France,
Switzerland, Ireland, Scotland,
England, Wales and Canada, was a scholar in three
languages and well educated.
In this City she had many
friends who, though regretting her sudden departure, feel that here had been a
life of usefulness, a life well spent and blessed with ripened years.
