Obituary of Taylor Vice ********************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons.Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 From: http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000008 ********************************** Taylor Vice Bath County News-Outlook Thursday, August 18, 1938 Brief Illness Fatal To Flat Creek Farmer Taylor Vice, 70, wealthy and widely known Flat Creek farmer, passed away at his home near Bethel Friday morning, August 12, after a several weeks' illness. Suffering from a clot in an artery in his leg, Mr. Vice was taken to a Lexington hospital a week or more before his death for treatment, but was returned to his home several days prior to his death after and operation for the amputation of the limb was given out. Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Grace Corey Vice, and two small children; four children by his first wife, the late Mrs. Mary Anderson Vice, Mrs. Bennie Emmons, Mrs. Sherman Corbin, Morris and Cliff Vice, all of this county; seven sisters, Mrs. Charlie Reed and Mrs. Walter Hawkins, Connersville, Ind.; Mrs. Thornt Snelling, Montgomery county; Mrs. Tollie Snelling, Nicholas county; Mrs. Curran Power, Mason county; Mrs. Estes Hendrix of Ohio, and Mrs. Allie Corbin of near Bethel; two brothers, Senator John L. Vice, Lexington and Abe Vice of this county. Funeral services were held at the grave in Longview cemetery at Bethel Sunday afternoon, August 14, conducted by the Rev. J. R. Jones of Cynthiana. A member of a prominent Bath county family, Mr. Vice was the son of the late Francis M. and Minerva Hendrix Vice. He was born and reared at the Old Vice homestead near Bethel and lived in that community all his life. He was an industrious farmer and at the time of his death had accumulated a large estate in Fine Flat Creek land. He was well known throughout the county and had many friends to mourn his untimely passing.