Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Taylor, Lucy 1890 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net June 10, 2011, 2:32 pm The Ionia Standard, Friday, December 26, 1890 Another of the early pioneers “joined the majority,” on Tuesday. One whose life dates back to another century, and whose years numbered almost as many as those of the nation. Mrs. Lucy Taylor, widow of Levi Taylor, died at noon on Tuesday, at the homestead farm, two and a half miles south of the city, where more than half a century of her life has been passed. Mrs. Taylor’s maiden name was Reed, and she was born in the town of Gorham, Ontario county, New York, February 7, 1798. She was married Sept. 10, 1818, to Levi Taylor, in her native town of Gorham. The first home of the young couple was at Lewiston, N.Y., where they remained until 1822, when they moved to Lockport. They came to Michigan in 1837, settling first at the frontier town of Ypsilanti. In 1838 they joined the Ionia colonists, and located on the farm, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Levi Taylor died in 1871. Of the six children born to them, four are still living. The children are Palmer H., now living in Ionia; C. Reed, Berlin, Wis.; John L., Ionia; Mary B., died in 1868; George, died in Colorado in 1878, and William, residing on the homestead farm. Mrs. Taylor united with the Presbyterian church in Lockport in 1824, and the Ionia society in 1848, and has been known as a conscientious follower of the teachings of the Lord Jesus, according to the tenets of her belief. Western New York was a wilderness in her youth, but notwithstanding the privations of a pioneer life, by which she was always surrounded until the declining years of her life, she was a woman of marked refinement and with some knowledge of books, having been a teacher before her marriage. The high respect and esteem in which she was held by her pioneer friends of other days and by her neighbors of later years is the best testimonial of the high character and womanly worth of one whose patient faith was not dimmed by the trials of so many years, and who had gone at last to the reward of those who have faithfully tried to do their duty. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/t/taylor12980nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb