Carroll County TN Obituaries

Obituary, Sept. 28, 1937
James Taylor
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Mrs. Elizabeth Hodge Taylor, wife, died last week.
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Mr. James Taylor, 93, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. L. H. (Lillian)
Brown, Tuesday and funeral services were conducted from the Primitive
Baptist Church at Bruceton Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock.
Elder Monroe Phillips officiated.
Mr. Taylor was the last surviving member of the Federal Army in Carroll
County. He joined the Federal Army under Colonel Isasac R. Hawkins of
Huntingdon being in Company I of the 7th Tenn. Cavalry. He served two years
in the army before he was captured at Union City while defending the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad there. He was marched from there to Andersonville, Ga.,
where he remained a prisoner for fourteen mos. He was wounded twice during
the war. After the war Mr. Taylor came back to Carroll County to enter
farming. He lived near Bruceton, Vale and later moved to Weakley County.
When he retired he made his home with his son J. Lee Taylor, at Huntingdon.
In April Mr. Taylor came to McKenzie to live with his daughter, Mrs. L. H.
Brown (Lillian).
Mrs. Elizabeth Hodge Taylor, Mr. Taylor's wife, died a week ago at her
daughter's home also. The children who survive besides the daughter, Mrs.
(Lillian) Brown of McKenzie are Mesdames Lazo French and Della Green of
Bruceton, Beulah Myrick of Paris, E. J. Moore of Memphis, Cora Edwards of
Mansfield, and G. H. (Quincy) Spellings of Parsons; and a son Mr. J. Lee
Taylor of Huntingdon.

     Submitted by Carol Streeter
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