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| John Henry Taylor |
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| Submitted by: Wanda Purcell |
John Henry Taylor was born near Round Top in Fayette County, Texas,
January 22, 1857, that locality being at that time of the Texas
frontier, and departed this life July 4, 1942, at the age of 85
years, 5 months and 14 days.
He was old enough to remember seeing the young men leave for service
in the Civil War.
In 1874 he enlisted with the Texas Rangers for
service against the Indians and outlaws of West Texas. He visited
Ft. Elliott {now Mobeetie, Texas}, the year it was established {1874}
and was present at the arrest of John Wesley Hardin, the noted Texas
outlaw. He narrowly missed being at the battle of Adobe Walls, on
the upper Canadian Valley, as he was recovering in the North
Panhandle at that time.
He settled his father and mother in
Summerville county, Texas, then the frontier, in 1875 in the winter
of 1881-82.
He had charge of a sheep ranch near old Tascosa which was a
frontier town noted for its Boot Hill Cemetery and was afterward
moved to Amarillo.
On September 4, 1892 he was married to Nancy Elizabeth Beck of Glen
Rose, Texas. To this union was born eight children. Three of them
died in infancy.
He is survived by his wife, Aunt Nannie, as she is
known, and five children, Nat M. and Andrew L. of Oklahoma City;
Frank G. of Hobart; and Addie Brothers and Kizzie Wall of Sayre,
Oklahoma.
He was one of the early settlers of Roger Mills County, having moved
here and homesteaded in November, 1899.
He leaves behind, besides
his immediate family two sisters, Mrs. J. W. Bailey and Mrs. Kizzie
Shields of Glen Rose, Texas; twenty grandchildren, six great
grandchildren, besides a host of personal friends.
Another of the rapidly passing group of pioneers is gone to his
reward.
A few years ago he made the remark that he was 85 years old
and had never lived where he could not hear the coyotes howl, which
attest the fact that he was a true pioneer.
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