1920 Obituary of Former Union Parish Louisiana Resident Mary Jane Everett Taylor Kilgore Submitted by: T. D. Hudson Date of Submission: 12/2008 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ================================================================================== ================================================================================== 1920 Obituary of Former Union Parish Louisiana Resident Mary Jane Everett Taylor Kilgore From Fort Worth “Star-Telegraph” issue of 18 January 1920 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== AGED WOMAN DIED AS RESULT OF BROKEN HIP ________________ Mrs. Mary J. Kilgore, 82, died Saturday at the home of her niece, Mrs. G. D. Buckley, 2138 Jennigns Avenue, as the result of a broken hip sustained in a fall several days ago. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock from the residence, Rev. J. Frank Norris, pastor of the First Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was in Greenwood cemetery. Mrs. Kilgore was survived by several nieces and nephews, two – Mrs. Buckley and T. E. Snelling of Fort Worth. She had been a resident of Fort Worth for sixteen years, coming to Fort Worth from Arkansas. She had been a resident of Texas for forty years, coming here shortly after the close of the Civil War. ================================================================================== ================================================================================== NOTE: Mary Jane Everett (Mollie) (3 Mar 1837 - 17 Jan 1920) was born in Perry County Alabama, the daughter of Rev. George Washington Everett and After her mother's death in 1847 when Mollie was only nine, she moved to Union Parish with her father and their large family, settling near what is now Oakland. Her father founded the Springhill Baptist Church there, and he travelled widely preaching at various churches. The community in which they lived is now known as "Oakland", but at that time it was called "Union Cross Roads". Mary's father opened the first post office there in 1852. Mollie married Robert B. Taylor, a Union Parish merchant, on 17 April 1856, but he died in 1859. On 19 July 1869, she married to Thomas B. Kilgore (c1808 - 1870s). They lived in Claiborne Parish in 1870 with Mollie's two orphaned nieces. In 1871, they moved to Galveston, Texas, where Kilgore worked in the cotton firm of Brown & Kilgore. He died in the 1870s, and for the rest of her life, Mollie lived with her nieces and nephews in Bremond (Robertson County), Houston, and Fort Worth. ############################################################# File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/union/obits/1920kilgore.txt