Geoge Taylor 1835 - 1908

TAYLOR, THOMPSON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/29/2022 at 00:24:57

Kingsley News
15 October 1908

Geoge Taylor was born in Aylesby, England, March 5, 1825, and died at his home west of Pierson at 3:00 o'clock, Friday afternoon, October 9, 1908, aged 73 years, 7 months and 4 days.

At the age of 16 he came to America and settled in Cincinnati, removing to Iowa in 1875. In 1857 he was joined in marriage to Elizabeth Thompson. Seven years ago last July death claimed the devoted wife.

To this union six children were born. Two William and Charles have died. Four, Clarence of Pierson, Ela Bricker, of Earlham, Iowa, Anna Brown, of Fort Pierre, South Dakota, and Jessie Woods of Kingsley, Iowa, mourn the death of their father. Three brothers, Thomas, of Paoni, Colorado, and Henry and William of Earlham, Iowa, and two sisters, Sarah and Mary, of Louth Haven, Kansas, live to mourn the death of their brother. Beside these are sixteen grandchildren.

On October 15, 1905, George Taylor was received into the Methodist Episcopal church of Pierson, Iowa, of which he remained an earnest and devout member until his death, believing in the Christ that is able to save.

A year ago last July he first began to notice the trouble that was to end his life. But his uncomplaining spirit so manifest during the entire period of his sickness, led him to say nothing of it until as the cold weather drew on a year ago the ravages of the disease became more marked. In the winter we began to miss him at the Sabbath school and morning service. Eagerly he asked concerning them and talked of soon being able to attend. Often in prayer and conversation he expressed his earnest desire that his neighbors might find the Christ so dear to him.

Two weeks before his death after being very near death's door for some hours he called the family around him and asked for the reading of the first chapter of the Gospel according to St. John. After talking of the beauties of the passage he asked that the hymns "Nearer My God to Thee?" and "We Will Never Say Goodbye in Heaven" and the last chapter of Revelations might be used in the funeral service

On the night before his death his children caught the words "farewell, farewell." The lips continued to move in prayer but those were the last words he addressed to man. At three o'clock the next afternoon, after months of patient endurance the release came. We say goodbye here, but we will never say goodbye in heaven.