Bee County, TX - Obituaries:  John Franklin Taylor, 1936
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The Bee-Picayune, Thursday, January 2, 1936, front page:

Death Calls Aged Citizen
J. F. Taylor Had Purchased Casket, Burial Clothes, Monument; Buried Sunday Funeral services 
were held Sunday afternoon for John Franklin Taylor, 87, whose death occurred at 7:20 p.m. 
December 28, at the family home in this city.  The services were held at Walker Funeral Home at 
3 o'clock with Rev. Sam B. Hill of First Presbyterian church conducting the rites.  Interment was 
in Glenwood cemetery.  Mr. Taylor joined the Methodist church in 1880. The deceased had been 
a resident of Beeville for about 7 years, moving here with his wife from his ranch at Dinero, in Live Oak 
County where he had resided for 56 years.  He was buried in the casket he had personally selected 
and paid for four years before his passing.  Mr. Taylor had also provided his burial clothes and had 
erected a monument bearing his name on the lot where his remains were laid to rest. The pallbearers 
were Hugo Krueger, R. H. Mueller, Edwin Kinkler, Lano Cox, Gentry Givens and Howard Custer. 
The deceased was a native of Lavaca County, Texas, where he was born November 14, 1848.  He 
was married on September 9, 1872 to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Givens Live Oak Co, Texas. They had 
settled at Lagarto, near Dinero.  Of this union two daughters survive, Mrs. Wade Hanna, of Houston, 
and Mrs. Marie Sanstrom, of Laton, Calif.  Following the death of his wife he was again married on 
October 8, 1884 to Miss Julia Glynn who survives him. John F. Taylor the father of 14 children, 8 
daughters and 6 sons. Surviving children by his second wife Julia also survives.  Glynn Taylor; 
Mrs. H. A. Swinney, Beeville; Scott Taylor, Seadrift; Mrs. Earl Rigby, Refugio; Lewis Taylor, Box Elder; 
and Mrs. D. M. Nelson, Palacios. Mr. Taylor was of a quiet and retiring disposition.  Little is (known) 
of his early life.  He was industrious and honest and enjoyed the respect and confidence of his neighbors 
in Live Oak County where he spent most of his life.  He had been in ill health for many years and some 
7 years ago decided to move to Beeville to spend the remainder of his life, purchasing a home in north 
Beeville where Mr. & Mrs. Taylor lived.  Some months ago he reported the theft of money, which he 
secreted in his home.  It was recovered shortly afterwards when a local officer questioned a man who 
had been placed in the home to take care of Mr. Taylor. ___ buried the money in the ___ the home. 
Practically all was recovered.