Obituaries: Clayton C. Taylor, 1949, Winn Parish, LA Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** From: January 6, 1949 Winn Parish Enterprise Rites For Deputy Sheriff Clayton Taylor Held Jan. 3 Funeral services for Winn Parish deputy sheriff Clayton C. Taylor, 56, were held at the Winnfield First Baptist Church at 10 a.m. Monday, January 3, with the Rev. H. H. McBride, Rev. Fred S. Flurry, Rev. Alwin Stokes, and Rev. C. M. Robinson officiating. Burial was in the Gansville Cemetery under direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home. Mr. Taylor died suddenly, apparently of a heart attack, while on patrol in the L & A colored quarters in Winnfield at 8:50 o'clock Saturday night. Sheriff C. M. Robinson and Deputy Lionel Boone, who accompanied Deputy Taylor on the patrol reported that he appeared to be in the best of health when he suddenly stumbled and fell to the ground. A doctor was immediately summoned but he died a few minutes after suffering a heart attack. He was born at Liberty Hill in Bienville Parish in 1892, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Taylor, and was reared at Gansville in Winn Parish. He moved to Winnfield when he was about 20 years of age, where he was engaged in several business enterprises. He served one term from 1936 to 1940 as alderman of the Town of Winnfield. He served for several years as deputy sheriff under Sheriff Heflin and Sheriff Sholars, and for the past few months under Sheriff Robinson. During the war Mr. Taylor was employed with a construction company in Alexandria and after that time was head of the State Unemployment office in Winnfield until a few months ago whenhe accepted the position with the sheriff's department. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Winnfield, a Mason, and Woodman, and a member of the American Legion. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Eva Waters Taylor of Winnfield; four brothers, Fred L. Taylor of Minden, Clyde Taylor of Ruston, Archie Taylor of Laurel, Miss., and Floyd Taylor of Dodson; six sisters, Mrs. Daisy Fallin of Ruston, Mrs. Eva Temple of Dodson, Mrs. Winnie Baggett of Shreveport, Mrs. Ethel Scott and Mrs. Vera Logan, San Diego, Calif., and Mrs. Minnie Lou Land of Ruston. Pallbearers were Harry Fuller, C. F. Walsworth, John T. DeLoach, Welby Willis, Troy Kyson, and Lionel Boone.