Obituary of FRANCES M. TAYLOR, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfilm at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date:  May 14, 1940

Headline:  Former Jena Resident Dies at Orange, Texas

Frances M. Taylor, 65, widely known rice farmer and stockman of the 
partnership of Herd Brothers and Taylor, rice planters, died suddenly of 
heart attach at his home in the Little Cypress community at 4:30 a.m. 
Wednesday.

Mr. Taylor had apparently been in normal health.  He worked all day Tuesday 
and Tuesday night went to a picture show in Orange.  Mrs Taylor heard her 
husband struggle at 4:30 o'clock Wednesday morning and endeavored to awaken 
him, only to find that he was dead.  

Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Altonia Walker Taylor; one son, John 
Francis Taylor of Orange; two brothers, J. A. Taylor of Manifest, La., and 
Harve Taylor of Alexandria, La., and foster brothers and sisters of the Heard 
family.

Mr. Taylor was born in Louisiana, and came to Orange County with Heard 
Brothers in 1909 to engage in rice growing and with the exception of four 
years spent by the group rice farming near Sulphur, La., they had lived and 
operated in the Little Cypress community growing rice on a large co-operative 
scale.

Mr. Taylor was secretary of the Orange County Fair Association.  He was a 
deacon of the Baptist Church, having been active for many years as a member 
of the First Baptist Church and for the last three years as a member of the 
Little Cypress Baptist Church. 

Funeral services were held at the home of J. B. Heard in the Little Cypress 
Community at 3 p.m. Thursday with Rev. J. Raroy Weber, pastor of the North 
Orange Baptist Church, and Rev. W. W. Kennedy, pastor of the McDonald 
Memorial Baptist Church officiating, burial to be in Evergreen Cemetery under 
the of the Wheeler Funeral Home.

Active pallbearers were Frank Clark, Milam Linscomb, J. A. Pennington, L. 
Honeycut, R. H. Hall, and George Hudson.