The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-04-04
Failed to Rally From An Opera
ton for Gall Stones and Death
Ended His Sufferings Body
Taken to Nashville Wednesday
Where it Lay in State Over
Wednesday and it Viii Be
Brought to Knoxville for Inter
ment Thursday Morning.

Washington, d. c., Mar. 3l.--Be-
meath heap of radiant blossoms and
trailing arbutus, fresh harbingers of
the vernal resurrection, rests in pulse
less sleep tonight under the glorious
stars of cloudless sky all that is of
the mortal tenement of one Of Ameri-
cas- greatest hearts, one of the South S
best beloved sons, the figure of one
who was as welcome to the homes of
his native Tennessee as Gods best gifts
Of ofmusic, sunshine and laughter it was
his greatest joy to interpet-all that is
of Robert Love Taylor.
Words are failures to tell the grief
which smote the hearts of his loving
friends here when they learned that he
had passed away at 9:40 o'clock this
morning. They had been encouraged
to believe that he had safely passed the
crisis following the operation of
Thursday.
The reports from Providence hospit-
al last night, while they did not relieve
apprehensi on, were sufficient to allay
alarm and to nourish hope that the
senator would survive and rally to re-
covery. But sinking spell came al
three o'clock.
1t was realized the end was at hand,
aud Mrs. Taylor was summoned.
Unconscious from that time until he
breathed his last, the happy spirit,
quenched in the ripeness of rare ma
turity of wonderful gifts of mind and
heart, left the racked body just when
a brilliant spring morning had dis
closed the prodigal treasure of beau.
tiful park which the patients windo vs.
overlooked. The buoyant glories Of
the day that graced the passing of the
inimitable soul to sore-d distressed hearts
brought meager balm, for they knew
they had lost the gentlest, kindest and
best of friends, and if there were any
consolation to them, it was in line o.
song he loved: "Memory is The only
friend that grief can call its own"
Besides his wife, Senator Taylor il
survived by five children, three daugh
tiers and two sons, as follows: Mrs
Campbell Pitcher, Nashville; Mrs
George st. John, Hartmann: Mrs
Hillsman Taylor, Trenton; Robert l.
Taylor, Jr., Columbia, and Davit
Taylor, Washington. The latter was
the only one oi his children here al
his death. He also leaves three
brothers and two sisters, as follows
Ex-Congressman Alfred A. Taylor, o
Embreeville, Tenn, James Taylor, o
Embreeville, and Hugh Taylor, Texas
Mrs. Jobe of Jonesboro and Mrs. Millel
of Johnson City.
Robert Love Taylor, United States
senator from "Fiddling
Bobo to all the south-was unable t
withstand the shock of an operation
for gladstone performed last Thursday
Early this morning the senator be
gan to fail to respond to stimulants
Mrs. Taylor, worn out by day ant
night of vigil, had gone to her apart
ments. AT three o'clock this morning
the senator began to sink so rapid,
that she was sent for. She was at hi
side when the end came at $40 O'Clock
"Fiddling Bobn Taylor, so known
because he played his way into thu
hearts of his audiences, carrying hi
violin wherever he campaigned, wa
sixty-one years DID, He was born a
Happy Valley in eastern Tennessee
but spent most of his life at Nashville
practicing law. He belonged To al
office holding family. His father wa
representative in congress and com
missioner of Indian affairs, and al
uncle was in the confederate senate.
Once pension agent at Knoxville