The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-02-12
FELIX HI. G TAYLOR
| Memoir read at the funeral, Feb. s. 1893,
by Rev. Fitzgerald Sale Parker.l

Memoir read at the funeral, Feb. s. 1893,
by ev.-Fltzgerald Sale Parker.l
Felix H. G. Taylor was born in
Huntsville, Ala, March 2Sth, 1922.
His father was the Hon. John Moore
Taylor, native of Virginia, sometime
Judge of the Supreme Court of the
State of Alabama. Judge Taylor re-
moved to Mississippi in 1882, and re-
sided successfully at Vicksburg and
Clinton. Mr.. Taylor's mother, OF
whom he always. spoke with profound
est generation and affection. was Miss
Anne Foote. DR.. Charles X. Marshall
says OF her: .Our age has produced
few such women" The greater retire
ment of life passed in the discharge
of the duties of wifehood and mother
hood, and in the adornment of the
social relation. has operated to with
hold from our generation detailed
knowledge of the life-companion of a
man we'll known to fame through pub
lie life in the service of Church and
State.
At the age of twelve Mr.. Taylor was
sent to LAGRANGE College, then under
the direction of DIR. afterwards Bishop
Robert Paine. This period of his life
Mr.. Taylor always remembered with
much regret as time of moral aud
spiritual detection from the teaching
and discipline of his boyhood. Judge
TAYLOR was a man of robust cast, a
member, and local preacher, in the
Methodist Episcopal Church; and his
life was one unblemished in its moral
character and influences. The subject
of this memoir always regretted that at
too early an age he had been separated
from the formative Influences of his
Christian home.
Mr.. Taylor graduated at Randolph
Macon College in 1915. He was man
of scholarly tastes, of large mentality
but never followed or acquired a pro-
fession. He became planter, and
removed to Carroll parish in 1858.
where he resided during the remainder
of his life.
= During the war of secession Mr.. Tay-
lor was member of the State Legisla-
ture, serving throughout that trying
period as Senator. He was also a
member of the legislature during the
first Nichols administration. and then
rendered eminent service. The bill di-
viding the parish of Carroll into two
political organizations was one i'm
portant measure of which he was the
author. For the past twelve years.
although very pronounced in his politi-
cal views, undisturbed by four changes
of administration, Mr.. Taylor has
been United States Postmaster in the
town of Providence, where his strong
personality is associated with all that
pertains to the welfare of his home
community.
The year following his graduation,
MIR. Taylor was married to Miss Me-
dora Davis, who died seven years later.
In 1855 he was married to Miss Anne
Troup Carter. He was married the
third time January II, 1880, to Mrs.
Susie E. Brock (aee.L anier,) who, with
two children that blessed this union,
and six daughters of his previous mar
rlages, survives him.
Mr.. Taylor passed away yesterday
afternoon. February 9TH, at lbs. He
had survived previous attacks of SIM
liar character to that of which he died;
and, despite age anu feebleness ex-
IRENE. his remarkable vitality gave
color of hope TO relieve the anxiety of
his large family and numerous friends.
But he died suddenly at last, aged
nearly seventy-six. He had contem-
plated the end as a possibilities a
probability, indeed, for so long a time