Cyrenus C. "Jack" Taylor (1949)

PORTER, TAYLOR

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 2/20/2007 at 09:56:14

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, October 26, 1949

BODY IDENTIFIED AS NATIVE OF COUNTY

"Jack" Taylor Found Dead in Plowed Field in Nebraska

Sheriff C. A. Letz was notified this week at the body of a man found in a plowed field near Osceola, Nebr., on Oct. 3, had been identified recently as Cyrenus C. Taylor, son of James Taylor of Truro.

The body was found by state highway commission workers who were setting snow fence. Condition of the body indicated it had been there for several months, and there were no means of immediate identification. But the identity was finally established through fingerprints.

Taylor was known as "Jack" Taylor. He was born at Truro in 1903, and was 46 years of age at his death. His mother is the present Mrs. Gertrude Porter of Des Moines.

For many years he had been a traveling carnival worker, and was known to have been with the Hale carnival which played at Osceola, Nebr., in August. Authorities estimated that his death occurred there at that time. Their investigation has indicated that the death was probably due to natural causes.

The body was buried at Osceola, Nebr.