Green Taylor (1862 - 1951)

Born 20 Sep 1862 in Harrisville, Weber County, Utah

Ancestors

Husband of Christina (Hegsted) Taylor — married 22 Dec 1886 in Logan Temple, Logan, Cache County, Utah, USA

Died 6 Jan 1951 at age 88 in Idaho Falls, Bonneville County, Idaho

Biography

Green Taylor was the son of Pleasant Green Taylor and Jane Narcissus Shurtliff.

He married Christina Hegsted in 1886. They had ten children.

Burial: Rigby Pioneer Cemetery, Rigby, Jefferson County, Idaho, USA, Plot: ward 8 block 3 lot 5, 1

Obituary

Rigby Star

January 11, 1951

Green Taylor, 88, long time resident of Jefferson County, and well known throughout the Upper Valley, died at an Idaho Falls hospital Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, following a cerebral hemorrhage last Tuesday.

Mr. Taylor was born September 22, 1862, in Harrisville, Utah, the son of Pleasant Green and Jane Narcissus Shurtliff Taylor. He was united in marriage to Christina Hegsted, December 22, 1886 in the Logan temple, and their marriage had lasted more than 64 years. He was recognized as the oldest living Seventy in the church at the time of his death.

In 1896 the family moved to Grant where Mr. Taylor engaged in farming. In 1904, the family moved to Rigby, where he operated a livery stable on Clark street until 1907.

Mr. Taylor homesteaded in the Mud Springs dry farm section in Bonneville county until 1923, when he began work as a field man for the New World Life insurance company. He retired from business i 1936.

Mr. Taylor took a keen interest in politics, although never a candidate for any office. He was well versed in national affairs as well as current events, and was a lover of baseball, following the early ball teams with keen interest. Mr. Taylor had the happy faculty of making friends with the young folks as well as his older acquaintances, and never seemed too busy to stop and chat with the youth and tender some good advice.

Local men, now grandfathers, remember when they hired a horse and buggy from his livery barn to take their sweetheart for a buggy ride.

Mr. Taylor is survived by his widow and the following sons and daughters: Wilmer and Leland, Rigby; Clyde, Spokane, Wash.; Mrs. Emma Ruud, Irwin; Leslie Taylor, Moor; Dilworth Taylor, Cedar Hill, N.M.; Glenn Taylor, Alhambra, Calif.; Mrs. Ruth Searle and Miss Thelma Taylor, Idaho Falls. He is also survived by three brothers, John Taylor, Clifton; Orson Taylor, St. George, Utah, and William Taylor, Harrisville, Utah, and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth McEntire, Rexburg. Nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive.

He is also survived by Bert and Walter Taylor, half brothers, Los Angeles; and Ada Spracher, half sister, Stockton, Calif.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, January 9 at 2p.m. in the Eckersell Funeral Home with Bishop Jesse E. Call, presiding.

Family prayer was offered by Elbert D. Taylor. The opening song by the Rigby Quartet. Invocation was by Willis F. Palmer and Norma Morris gave the obituary. P.W. DaBell was the first speaker followed by a quarter singing "Bury Me Near the Old Home." Ira J. Taylor was the concluding speaker after which the quarter rendered the closing song. Benediction was by Leonard E. Graham.

Burial was in the Rigby Pioneer Cemetery with Percy Groom offering the dedicatory prayer.

Honorary pallbearers were members of the Seventie Quorum. Acting pallbearers were Wilford Taylor, William Taylor, Paul Dixon, LaVon Taylor, Elmer Taylor and Raymond McEntire.

Flowers were under direction of Rigby Third Ward Relief Society without he Eckersell Funeral Home directing the services.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch: accessed 13 December 2014, Green Taylor in household of Jane N Taylor, Harrisville, Weber, Utah, United States, 101; citing sheet 487D, film number 1339, NARA microfilm publication T9, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.; FHL microfilm 1,255,339.

• "United States Census, 1900," index and images, FamilySearch: accessed 13 December 2014, Green Taylor, Menan, Lewisville, Rigby Precincts, Fremont, Idaho, United States; citing sheet 18B, family 311, NARA microfilm publication T623, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.; FHL microfilm 1,240,232.

• "United States Census, 1910," index and images, FamilySearch: accessed 13 December 2014, Green Taylor, Rigby, Fremont, Idaho, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 135, sheet 11A, family 55, NARA microfilm publication T624, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.; FHL microfilm 1,374,237.

• "United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch: accessed 13 December 2014, Green Taylor, Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, United States; citing sheet 16B, family 328, NARA microfilm publication T625, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.; FHL microfilm 1,820,292.

• "United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch: accessed 13 December 2014, Green Taylor, Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0017, sheet 36B, family 79, line 94, film number 400, NARA microfilm publication T626, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); FHL microfilm 2,340,135.

• "United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch: accessed 13 December 2014, Green Taylor, Rigby, Rigby Election Precinct 3, Jefferson, Idaho, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 26-17, sheet 1A, family 3, NARA digital publication of T627, roll 747, NARA digital publication of T627, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

• "Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007," index and images, FamilySearch: accessed 13 December 2014, Green Taylor, 1951; Idaho Falls Regional Family History Center, Idaho Falls; FHL microfilm 100,464,713.

• Find-a-Grave Memorial ID#56862609, created by Gary Schvaneveldt