Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Taylor, Mary Jane (Gibbs) 1912
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Belding Banner, 9 May 1912

Life Work Ended

Mrs. James Taylor One Of The Early Pioneers Is Called To A Life Beyond – Passed
Away Friday

Mary Jane Taylor, daughter of John and Anna Gibbs, was born in Monroe, Saratoga
county short, N.Y., December 1, 1834, and died in Grattan, Kent Co., Mich., her
parents being one of six families namely, Allen Thompson, Andrew Phillips,
Stephen Slawson, Ira Gallop, Michael Weter and John Gibbs, who left Troy, N.Y.,
on April 29, 1845, and three weeks later on May 17, arrived in the vicinity of
Cook’s Corners Mich., having come by the Erie Canal, lake and river route to
Detroit from there with four ox teams to their destination.

She was married to James Taylor of Greenville, April 14, 1852, and a few years
later moved to the farm in Eureka, now occupied by J.E. Taylor, where her active
life work was performed.

Until broken down by age and ill health she was of an unusual cheerful and
helpful temperament, always greatly enjoying to mingle with the sports and
jollifications of the young, seemingly as much of a girl as the youngest. 
Several slight strokes of paralysis some years ago undermined her strength
physically and mentally, and she lingered a long sufferer of disease until the
call came to a life beyond.

Of her brothers and sisters, five in all, one survives, Mrs. E.R. Weter of
Belding, now nearly eighty-six years of age.  There is one son, J.E. Taylor of
Eureka, one daughter, Mrs. C.L. Beardslee of Grattan, and three grandchildren,
Agnes, wife of Rev. C.M. Loomis of Redford, LeVern Taylor of Belding and James
G. Taylor of Eureka, all of whom with their families were present at the last
hours of her presence.

She was a member of the Greenville M.E. Church, Montcalm Grange and the
Washington Club.

Services by Rev. Louis DeLamater at her late residence, burial in Forest Home,
Greenville.


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