Taylor Kephart 1848-1908

KEPHART, HORSCH, MONTGOMERY

Posted By: Georgia Bruns (email)
Date: 3/10/2005 at 14:48:24

The Iowa Recorder (Greene, Iowa) 12-23-1908

Taylor Kephart, after three weeks illness died at his home Saturday morning,
December 19, 1908, at 9 a.m. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1848. In 1869 he
was married to Miss Catherine Horsch of Guttenburg, Iowa. In 1875 he and his
brother John opened a blacksmith shop there, and later purchased his brother's
interest and has run the shop ever since. Among those out of town who attended
the funeral were his brother Jake and wife of Parkersburg, Charley of
Fredericksburg, her brother John Horsch and wife of Lincoln, Neb., a nephew
John Kephart and wife of Cedar Rapids and Scott Montgomery of Allison.