The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1900-06-07
MRS. R. |. TAYLOR
DIED MONDAY EVENING AT HER
KNOXVILLE HOME.
Ex-Governor Grief-Stricken Over His Loss
Funeral Wednesday.

Mrs, Sarah Loretta Taylor, wife of
Ex-Governor Robert L. Taylor, died
at her home, No, 303 Fourth avenue,
Monday evening at $40 o'clock. The
funeral will be held at tue residence
Wednesday morning at 1890 o'clock.
The remains will be laid to rest in old
Gray cemetery. The service will be
simple and quiet, in compliance with
the wishes of the ex-governor.
Sorrow is in many homes today on
account of the death of Mrs. Taylor.
Monday evening soon after the sad
news was announced it spread rapidly
throughout the city.
Everywhere expressions of condo
lence were heard, and today, since it is
generally known, hundreds of people
have called at the home of the ex-gov-
ernor to express their sympathy. All
deaths are sad, but this one is sur
rounded by halo of pathos that APP
peals to every one. Three weeks age
Governor Taylor closed one of the mos
successful lectures of his illustrioul
career. He had retired from the tur.
MOL of public and political life, and
had purchased an elegant home on
Fourth avenue. Here he intends tC
spend the remainder of his life and {
month ago his family came from Texa,
md occupied the new home He Joined
his family and had just settled dowr
to the happiness of his new home whel
\ MS wife was stricken i'll and no wifi,
was dearer to husband than was tina
n Of Gov. Taylor.
A daughter was born last Wednesday
but she lived only until Thursday, whel
she died The mother was improving
when Monday morning she was takei
worse and at noon Monday she begar
20 sink slowly At o'clock in tn,
afternoon all hopes of her recover!
we're despaired of and at GAO she sue
,umbed to heart failure. She was sur
rounded by her family.
Not until Monday were serious ap
aprehensions as to her recovery enter
tanned, but her husband did not give n
hopes until the last. Hewas constant,
1t her bedside and watched over he
necessarily.
Mrs. Taylor was forty-two years O
4 age, and was formerly Miss Sarah Lo
retta Baird, of Asheville, n. G. Sh
vas the daughter of Adolphus Z. Bair
and her mothers maiden name wa
Miss Loretta Hunter. Her father i
dead, but her mother is still living a
Asheyille at an advanced age Tw
brothers and three sisters survive he
md are living at and near AshevillC
u The deceased leaves to mourn her deaf
aside from her husband, mother sis
Il ters and brothers, five children, Mis-
q Emily, aged IS, Misses Loretta an
i Hatherin, and RobertL L. Jr. and David
the little boys being II and ID years G
Z age, respectively, Relatives will reac
the city on the evening and night train
to be present at the funeral.
Fifty kilograms or more have bee
received by Gov Taylor from promi
z1ent men of the south Among ther
we're governors of Texas, Georgia
Alabama, Mississippi, North Caroline
Tennessee and other states, also fror
d congressman and senators from a
parts of the union. To Coy. Taylc
II he death of his wife is most sever
shock. He was at first Frustrated wit
grief but rested we'll Monday nigt
land was able to go the cemetery toda
Ito select burying place. The major
Nity of the lawyers of the city called tC
day and expressed their sympathy. -
n Knoxville Sentinel, June 5.