OBIT: K. Shannon TAYLOR, Native of Chambersburg, Franklin County, PA

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Newspaper and Date Unknown (Probably Public Opinion)

K. Shannon Taylor

Newspaper Clipping
Probably the Public Opinion Newspaper
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Date Unknown

K. Shannon Taylor died at Oakland, Oregon, January 2, aged 92 years.  Nr Taylor 
was born near Chambersburg and Mrs Katie Heefner, Philadelphia Avenue, is a 
surviving daughter; two other daughters and two sons reside in the far west.

Mr. Taylor was the last of the members of a family well known and prominent 
here during the Civil War.  He grew to young manhood in town and was elected 
prothonotary of the county, serving from 1863 to 1866.  It was during his term 
that the court  house was burned by the Rebel cavalry.  At the time, however, 
Mr. Taylor and his deputy, the late John F. Glosser, anticipating the 
destruction and while the Rebels were breaking up the tables and chairs in 
adjoining offices, hastily gathered together the records of the office covering 
a period of twenty-five years, and succeeded in taking them to the railroad 
station for shipment to Harrisburg.  In a letter to the founder of Public 
Opinion about ten years ago, Mr. Taylor related this incident, and added; "But 
after the statue of Benjamin Franklin fell down through the prothonotary's 
office, we were unable to save any records previous to those we had saved.  
Will I do remember when I jumped into my buggy and pulled the lines of Topsy, 
that we kept ahead of the Rebels in the rush to Harrisburg.  While on this trip 
I saw a cannon ball go through the court house cupalo at Carlisle."

Mr. Taylor left his county after his term of office, first going to Virginia, 
thence to Illinois and far west, locating in Oregon.  A number of years ago he 
was elected a member of the South Dakota legislature.