OBIT: Gilbert W. TAYMAN, 1943, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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GILBERT W. TAYMAN

Gilbert W. Tayman Killed in Action in Sicily

  Private First Class Gilbert W. Tayman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey J. Tayman of 
Callery, Butler County, Pa., was killed in action on August 3rd, during the 
invasion of Sicily by the American armed forces.  He was serving with an 
infantry regiment as a switchboard operator.  No details of the action in which 
he lost his life were given by the war department in the official communication 
but a letter was received from a soldier friend stating that Tayman was killed 
"while trying to run a telephone line to one of the companies in his regiment."
  Tayman was a member of a communications section and had been in the service 
one year and was a graduate of the Evans City High School.  Prior to entering 
the service he was employed by the Mine Safety Appliance Company at Callery.
  Mourning his untimely but heroic death are his parents, two sisters, Mrs. 
LaVerne Salem of Mars and Miss Della Tayman at home; two brothers, Paul Tayman 
at home and Carl Tayman of Bethesda, Md., and a host of other relatives 
including many residing in Somerset County.
  He was a scion of two well known pioneer Somerset County families - Tayman and 
Keefer families.  He was a grandson of the late Henry Tayman, who moved from 
Meyersdale to Akron, Ohio, in 1910.  His maternal grandfather was the late 
Zachariah Keefer of Larimer Township.  His mother, a daughter of Zachariah 
Keefer, was visiting relatives in Meyersdale and vicinity last week, bringing 
them the sad news of the death of her son.

Meyersdale Republican, November 11, 1943