Bienville-Claiborne County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Taylor, Francis Turner July 3, 1859 - December 6, 1918
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Author: History of Bienville Parish

  Mr. Francis T. Taylor was a prominent business man and a much beloved
citizen of Arcadia, Louisiana.  He was born in Sugar Creek, Louisiana on
July 3, 1859, the son of Williams Washington Taylor and Jane Turner Taylor.
He married Mary Effie Patton of Lisbon, Louisiana on 29 November 1888. She
was the daughter of Harmon Wright Patton and Narcussus Tait.
  The Taylor's had 6 children: Vera, who married Ray P. Oden; Berta, who
married Dr. Joseph Feilding Fisher (a dentist); Robert Lamar, who married
Hazel Thomas; Frank, who died in infancy; George Curtis, who married Esther
Belle Mosely and after her death Dera Pardue Davidson; Gladys, who married
Stephen Morris Evans.
  Francis Taylor moved to Arcadia in 1902, from Sugar Creek where he was
engaged in the mercantile business and owned and managed extensive farming
interests. He came to Arcadia to provide his family more educational 
advantages and assumed the position as manager of the Arcadia Cotton Oil
Mill, in which he held considerable stock. At the time of his death, he was
president and manager of of that organization, vice-president of the First
National Bank and was prominently connected with several other business
enterprises in the community. Mr. Taylor was a man of unassuming attitude -
a man endowed with high ideals and whose good deeds spoke for themselves.
He was prominent because of his method of square dealing and civic 
progressiveness: prominent because he was a Christian man and yet ranked
among the most successful of businessmen. This prominence was unsought by
Mr. Taylor, but his life of manliness and godliness gained for him a 
reputation of which any man could well be proud and but few attain. His
friends and acquaintances loved him and those who knew him only by reputa-
tion held him in highest regard.
  He was a most patriotic citizen and was appointed by Governor Pleasant
as a member of the advisory council on the United War Work campaign during
World War I. He gave both money and time to organizations - The Red Cross -
YMCA and others of this nature.
  He was a devout Christian and a member of the Methodist Church and a 
Steward in that church. One of the many glowing tributes pain Mr. Taylor
after his death was that he was "always on the side of the right." He died
on December 6, 1918 of Spanish Influenza followed by pneumonia at the age
of 59.
  Mrs. Taylor lived in Arcadia and continued to be of service to her family,
her beloved Methodist church, the community and individuals who needed her
service. She held the honor of being the sixth person in the State of 
Louisiana to receive the Life Patron's Membership of the Woman's Society of
Christian Service. She was a strong, loving, compassionate person who set
a wonderful example of her children and grandchildren. She died on 
August 20, 1954 at the age of 90.

Additional Comments:
Mary Effie Patton Taylor was the sister of my great-grandfather, Charles Samuel
Lee Patton of Lisbon, Louisiana.

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