Marshall County, OK - Obit - JOHN TALIAFERRO - t416
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Source: MADILL RECORD JUNE 8, 1950
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FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FRIDAY FOR JOHN TALIAFERRO

Funeral services were held Friday, June 2, for John Taliaferro.  Rev.
Bert Cherry, pastor of the Madill Baptist Church, conducted the services 
which were held in the Watts Memorial Chapel.  Burial was in the American 
Legion Cemetery.

Mr. Taliaferro was born July 27, 1892 in Madill and died June 1 in St.
Vincent hospital in Sherman, Tex.  He had been ill health for the past
several years with a heart ailment and was taken to the Sherman hospital 
May 31.

He graduated from Madill high school in 1911 with the first graduating
class.  Mr. Taliaferro attended college at the University of Oklahoma 
and Austin College.  He united with the Methodist Church when a boy 
and was a memeber of the Masonic Lodge.

He is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Jane Rowland, Memphis, Tenn., 
Mrs. A. M. McElhannon and Mrs. L. O. Blanton, both of Sherman, Tex., 
and two brothers, R. D. Taliaferro, Madill and H. B. Taliaferro, Oklahoma 
City. Also one uncle, Bob Null, Madill, and two aunts, Mrs. Bess McCommas 
of Madill and Mrs. Frank Ross of Tulsa.

Pallbearers were John McMillian, Rex Strickland, Marvin Byrant, Rabbitt 
Dillingham, Sosh Keller, Harry Lawrence, Jim Mundy, Leonard Woody, F. L. 
Lewis and Quinton Little.

Submitted by:  Kourtney French Garcia
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