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Porter Taylor's Father £ead.Col. Clay Taylor, father of Porter C. Taylor of ihi» city died in Hu John’* Hospital Hi. Louis Fridayafternoon, afier an iltneaH of »*-v-eral months. The following taken from SaturdayV Republic:“Col. Clay Tayloy was a vetranof two war**, hiving served in tb*' Doniphan expedition Mexico and being engaged to the battles of Sacramento and Chihuahua, in IKid, and later, underthe Confederate (general Price.through the stirring scenes of th'* Civil War, from its opening until the surrender of Genera) Lee at Appomattox*Colonel Taylor, who was 80 years old, wan a Kentuckian by birth, but coming to Missouri as a | child and achieving his education in the public schools of St. Louis, be hu always regardedMissBpM i h mnon itod aacterdelrjThpres*legeinch vers nlty The in totuticho a;dentlegeTtce i vlug,pr» shimaeti as a Mi-sourian. At the . .a ■ l dclose of the »ar he returned to StLouis and married Mis*' Louise Pfatte, 11mui_-h 1' r of General B* r-nard Praiic, o* e of the early Mayors of St. Louis, and removedto a farm in Warren county. Mr*. Taylor died shortly before 187*5.Colonel Taylor is survived by two eons, Bernard P. Taylor and Porter Clay Taylor, of Warrend e t #* Sprire p runit.raort ionApoirChnart■tty,rdlaonteencounty*, Missouri, and Mrs. Wm. £tjuPrice, of Normandy. He was An uncle of P. Taylor Bryan, of No. 1340 McPherson avenue, whose mother, Mrs. Frances P. T. Bryan, was Colonel Taylor’s sister.frornotWeWc
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Montgomery City Tribune
Montgomery City, Missouri, US
Fri, Nov 16, 1906
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