Rebecca M. Taylor Died 1920

TAYLOR

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/5/2018 at 13:10:32

Sioux City Journal
16 March 1920

Pioneer Woman, 91, Dies
Mrs. Taylor Was a Dixon County, Nebraska Resident 50 Years

Mrs. Rebecca M. Taylor, a pioneer of northeast Nebraska and a resident of Dixon County for fifty years, died early yesterday morning at the home of her son, N.E. Taylor, 825 Cook Street. Mrs. Taylor was 91 years old. She came to Sioux City a few months ago and was active until a few days before her death.

Mrs. Taylor was born near Raleigh, North Carolina October 28, 1828, where she lived until shortly after the civil war. She came to Emerson, Nebraska with her husband and family in 1869, moving afterward to a farm at Daily, Nebraska.

Surviving Mrs. Taylor are one brother, Louis Taylor of Salt Lake City, Utah, G.A. Taylor and D.V. Taylor and Mrs. J.B. Adams, all of Ponca, Nebraska and Mrs. S.D. Flippin, all her children. The body will be sent to Daily for burial.