Catherine Taylor
TAYLOR, PHILLIPS, REYNOLDS
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Date: 6/1/2018 at 17:05:20
The Marion Sentinel Thursday March 1, 1894
OBITUARY.
Miss Catharine Phillips was born in New Jersey, May 30th, 1817. She was the daughter of Ephraim and Ann Phillips. When about 1 year old, her parents moved to Lawrence Co., Penn., near Newcastle, where her parents lived and died. She was married to Mr. John Taylor, April 11th, 1833; together they came to Iowa in the fall of 1856, and settled on Dry Creek. She was the mother of five children, two sons and three daughters. One daughter and two sons now living, Ephraim, William and Mrs. Ann C. Reynolds. Ephraim lives in Marion, but at present is in California. William lives in Colorado, Arapahoe county. Her daughter, who is the only one of her children present with us today, lives near Cawker City, Jewell county, Kansas. Her children were all born in Pennsylvania. She with her husband, together with the Phillips family, obeyed the Saviour, under the personal ministry of Alex. Campbell, about 1835. Grandma Taylor was a kind-hearted, sympathetic, christian woman. She loved the Lord's house, and the worship of the Saviour of men. She was true to every promise she made, and paid all her vows, with that true, conscientious spirit that characterizes every lover of God. She died in Marion in her own house, Feb. 22nd, 1894, 10 p.m. with pneumonia. She is well connected. Her brother, Thomas Phillips, is a very successful business man in Newcastle, Penn, has amassed a fortune; is a large and liberal supporter of the work of the church, has been an elder for many years, gives large sums to home and foreign missions; is a very able minister, and is now in congress, from the district in which he lives and has lived most if not all of his life. Grandma Taylor has lived among you for 38 years. And everyone speaks kindly of this good woman. No heart responded quicker than hers to the appeal of poverty and distress. She was a woman of decided convictions, but without waging war upon the convictions of others; peculiar, but meaning well to old and young. She lead all her children to love and obedience to the Master. Her life has therefore been a success.
"And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me, write, Blessed are the dead which died in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them."
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