Mrs. EDWIN (Nora Taylor) WHORTON

WHORTON, TAYLOR, HARRIS

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 2/8/2005 at 21:30:56

Died, at her home, two and a half miles west of Emporia, Kansas, of typhoid fever, Mrs. Nora WHORTON, wife of Edwin J. WHORTON and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. TAYLOR, Sunday morning, Sept. 29, 1895. She was married to Edwin J. WHORTON, July 24, 1891, and he was killed by the cars on March 1, 1892, and on March 2, 1893 she buried her five months old baby. She had been clerking in the Alliance store in Emporia for the last two years and had won the admiration and esteem of a large number of friends. The funeral services were held Sept. 30, at two o'clock, at the TAYLOR residence, conducted by Rev. Pearse PINCH, pastor of the 1st Congregational church. A large concourse of people, with the weeping friends, followed the remains to their final rest in Maplewood cemetery.
- note: she was the daughter of J. C. Taylor & Mary E. (Harris) Taylor, early settlers of Allamakee Co.
- source: Postville Review, 11/2/1895
- submitted by Sharyl Ferrall