TAYLOR, Mrs. Elmira: Died 1901

TAYLOR, MARTIN

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Date: 5/13/2017 at 14:44:43

**Handwritten: 1901

Death of Mrs. T.E. Taylor

Elmira Martin was born February 14, 1843, and died at her home near Wilsonville, Iowa, February 21, 1901, aged 58 years and 7 days. She was sick only four or five days, her husband and friends thinking, to within a few hours of her death that she would get well, but alas, their hopes were in vain. About the first of September, 1857, at the age of 14 years, under the preaching of Elder David Thompson, she united with the Christian church and was one of the charter (of about 40)members of "Big Cedar Christian church," for which only three are yet living. On the 30th day of October, 1861, she was united in marriage with Mr. T.E. Taylor. God blessed this happy union with five children, two sons and three daughters, all living and all present at the funeral, except one son, Henry, who is absent in Europe. Through the kind influence of a loving mother and her consecrated Christ-like life and the environments of a Christian home, all the children, in early life, confessed christ and have lived Christian lives. Her life was always kind, generous and benevolent. The poor and needy were not forgotten or neglected. The writer owes much to her and her family for words of sympathy and encouragement in the christian life work. Her greatest anxiety was that her Savior might be everybody's Savior, and her most happy moments seemed when she could see or know of persons confessing Christ. She was enthusiastic and desirous for the success of mission work, both home and foreign, for which she gave liberally for their support. Her death has darkened a home and saddened a community. To her husband, children and friends, we would say: Look up to a home where there is no death, no separation, no graves. She was a member of the church at Stockport.

ISAIAH HARLAN

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book H, Page 145, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA