Obituaries:  Mrs. Carro Jackson Taylor, Sabine Parish       T-460
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Sep 6, 1973
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Mrs. Carro Jackson Taylor (Photo)

  Mrs. Carro Jackson Taylor, 64, Tax Assessor for Sabine Parish
for the past 16 years, died in Beaumont, Tex., on Sunday, Sept.
2, at 4:45 p.m.

  Mrs. Taylor had gone to Beaumont to spend the Labor Day weekend
with her two sisters. Sunday afternoon, she started experiencing
pains in her knee. The pain worked it's way up to her hip before
they called a doctor. The doctor ordered an ambulance, but Mrs.
Taylor was pronounced dead on arrival at the Beaumont Hospital.
The apparent cause of death was listed as a particle of something
lodged in the blood vessels.

  Mrs. Taylor was born on Feb. 4, 1909, in Many, to the late
George L. and Mary L. Jackson of Many.

  Mrs. Taylor's father, George L. Jackson, was elected Tax
Assessor of Sabine Parish in 1908, and served in that office by
being elected without opposition, until his retirement. Mrs.
Taylor's life was centered around the Tax Assessor's office. For
28 years, she served as Chief Deputy Tax Assessor, under her late
brother, Robert Burns Jackson. In 1956, she decided to run for
the office of Tex Assessor, to succeed her brother. Mrs. Taylor
was elected in the first primary. She was re-elected without
opposition for the four terms.

  Mrs. Taylor married the late S. M. Taylor in 1941. He was a
veteran of WWII, and served as Chief Deputy Tax Assessor, until
his death in 1965.

  Devoted to her work as Tax Assessor, Carro Jackson Taylor found
little time to be a "joiner", but if anyone needed help, she was
always willing to lend a helping hand.

  Mrs. Taylor was a member of the La. Tax Assessor's Association,
Many-Sabine Parish Chamber of Commerce, and the First Methodist
Church of Many.

  Mrs. Taylor is survived by two brothers, Fred Jackson of
Converse, and Jim Jackson of Houston; five sisters, Mrs. Lena
Stephens, Beaumont, Mrs. Norma King, Mrs. Daisy Perkins, and Mrs.
George Langford, all of Many, and Mrs. Mary Evelyn Kilgore,
Beaumont; and numerous nieces and nephews.

  Funeral services were held Tuesday, Sept. 4, in the First
Methodist Church of Many, at 2 p.m., with the Rev. Bill Sirman
officiating. Burial was at the Many Cemetery, under the direction
of Warren Meadows Funeral Home.

  Pallbearers were Conrad Cathy, E. L. Edwards, George Jackson, J.
D. Nichols, Judge William Ponder, and Keith Jackson.