Westmoreland County PA Archives Obituaries.....Taylor, George William  November 30, 1935
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The Indiana Progress Wed, Dec 11, 1935
George William Taylor, aged 89, who died November 30 at his home in New
Kensington, was a native of Canoe township, this county, where he was born
September 10, 1846, and reared to manhood. When a lad in his early teens be was
a raftsman on the Susquehanna river and when less than 17, he left home
secretly, and enlisted in the defense of his country during the Civil war as a
member of Company C, Second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Returning
to his home county after the war, he engaged in the lumber industry for sometime
and in 1889 located in business in Freeport and later in New Kensington, where
he opened a dry goods store and branch stores in Saltsburg and Latrobe, retiring
in 1912. He was married in 1867 to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Smith, who survives with
two adopted daughters, Mrs. A. W. Vestrand, of New Kensington, and Mrs. F. R.
Lowman, of Canonsburg. Among his surviving nephews and nieces are Mrs. Della
Strickland, Mrs. Charles Irwin, and Robert Taylor, of Indiana, and Mrs. Dolly
States, of Home. Funeral services were held in New Kensington on Wednesday and
interment followed in that city. 

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