John Henry Taylor was born near Round Top in Fayette County, Texas, Jan. 22, 1857, that locailty being at that time the Texas frontier, and departed this life July 4, 1942, at the age of 85 years, 5 mos. and 14 days.
He was old enough to remember seeing the young men leave for service in the Civil War. In 1874 he enlisted with the Texas Rangers for service against the Indians and outlaws of West Texas. He visited Ft. Elliott now Mobeetie, Texas, the year it was established (1874) and was present at the arrest of John Wesley Hardin, the noted Texas outlaw. He narrowly missed being at the battle of Adobe Walls, on the upper Canadian Valley, as he was recovering in the north Panhandle at that time. He settled his father and mother in Summerville County, Texas, then the frontier, in 1875. In the winter of 1881-82 he had charge of a sheep ranch near Old Tascosa which frontier town was noted for its Boot Hill cemetery and was afterward moved to Amarillo.
On September 4, 1892 he was married to Nancy Elizabeth Beck of Glen Rose, Texas. To this union was born eight children. Three of them died in infancy. He is survived by his wife, Aunt Nannie, as she is known and five children, Nat M. and Andrew L. of Oklahoma City, Frank G. of Hobart, Addie Brothers and Kizzie Wall of Sayre, Okla.
He was one of the early settlers of Roger Mills County, having moved here and homesteaded in November, 1899. He leaves behind, besides his immediate family two sisters, Mrs. J.W. Bailey and Mrs. Kizzie Shields of Glen Rose, Texas, twenty grandchildren six great-grandchildren, a host of personal friends.
Another of the rapidly passing group of pioneers is gone to his reward. A few years ago he made the remark that he was 85 years old and had never lived where he could not hear the coyotes howl, which attest the fact that he was a true pioneer.
Burial in Berlin cemetery, Berlin, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.
He was old enough to remember seeing the young men leave for service in the Civil War. In 1874 he enlisted with the Texas Rangers for service against the Indians and outlaws of West Texas. He visited Ft. Elliott now Mobeetie, Texas, the year it was established (1874) and was present at the arrest of John Wesley Hardin, the noted Texas outlaw. He narrowly missed being at the battle of Adobe Walls, on the upper Canadian Valley, as he was recovering in the north Panhandle at that time. He settled his father and mother in Summerville County, Texas, then the frontier, in 1875. In the winter of 1881-82 he had charge of a sheep ranch near Old Tascosa which frontier town was noted for its Boot Hill cemetery and was afterward moved to Amarillo.
On September 4, 1892 he was married to Nancy Elizabeth Beck of Glen Rose, Texas. To this union was born eight children. Three of them died in infancy. He is survived by his wife, Aunt Nannie, as she is known and five children, Nat M. and Andrew L. of Oklahoma City, Frank G. of Hobart, Addie Brothers and Kizzie Wall of Sayre, Okla.
He was one of the early settlers of Roger Mills County, having moved here and homesteaded in November, 1899. He leaves behind, besides his immediate family two sisters, Mrs. J.W. Bailey and Mrs. Kizzie Shields of Glen Rose, Texas, twenty grandchildren six great-grandchildren, a host of personal friends.
Another of the rapidly passing group of pioneers is gone to his reward. A few years ago he made the remark that he was 85 years old and had never lived where he could not hear the coyotes howl, which attest the fact that he was a true pioneer.
Burial in Berlin cemetery, Berlin, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.
John Henry Taylor was born near Round Top in Fayette County, Texas, Jan. 22, 1857, that locailty being at that time the Texas frontier, and departed this life July 4, 1942, at the age of 85 years, 5 mos. and 14 days.
He was old enough to remember seeing the young men leave for service in the Civil War. In 1874 he enlisted with the Texas Rangers for service against the Indians and outlaws of West Texas. He visited Ft. Elliott now Mobeetie, Texas, the year it was established (1874) and was present at the arrest of John Wesley Hardin, the noted Texas outlaw. He narrowly missed being at the battle of Adobe Walls, on the upper Canadian Valley, as he was recovering in the north Panhandle at that time. He settled his father and mother in Summerville County, Texas, then the frontier, in 1875. In the winter of 1881-82 he had charge of a sheep ranch near Old Tascosa which frontier town was noted for its Boot Hill cemetery and was afterward moved to Amarillo.
On September 4, 1892 he was married to Nancy Elizabeth Beck of Glen Rose, Texas. To this union was born eight children. Three of them died in infancy. He is survived by his wife, Aunt Nannie, as she is known and five children, Nat M. and Andrew L. of Oklahoma City, Frank G. of Hobart, Addie Brothers and Kizzie Wall of Sayre, Okla.
He was one of the early settlers of Roger Mills County, having moved here and homesteaded in November, 1899. He leaves behind, besides his immediate family two sisters, Mrs. J.W. Bailey and Mrs. Kizzie Shields of Glen Rose, Texas, twenty grandchildren six great-grandchildren, a host of personal friends.
Another of the rapidly passing group of pioneers is gone to his reward. A few years ago he made the remark that he was 85 years old and had never lived where he could not hear the coyotes howl, which attest the fact that he was a true pioneer.
Burial in Berlin cemetery, Berlin, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.
He was old enough to remember seeing the young men leave for service in the Civil War. In 1874 he enlisted with the Texas Rangers for service against the Indians and outlaws of West Texas. He visited Ft. Elliott now Mobeetie, Texas, the year it was established (1874) and was present at the arrest of John Wesley Hardin, the noted Texas outlaw. He narrowly missed being at the battle of Adobe Walls, on the upper Canadian Valley, as he was recovering in the north Panhandle at that time. He settled his father and mother in Summerville County, Texas, then the frontier, in 1875. In the winter of 1881-82 he had charge of a sheep ranch near Old Tascosa which frontier town was noted for its Boot Hill cemetery and was afterward moved to Amarillo.
On September 4, 1892 he was married to Nancy Elizabeth Beck of Glen Rose, Texas. To this union was born eight children. Three of them died in infancy. He is survived by his wife, Aunt Nannie, as she is known and five children, Nat M. and Andrew L. of Oklahoma City, Frank G. of Hobart, Addie Brothers and Kizzie Wall of Sayre, Okla.
He was one of the early settlers of Roger Mills County, having moved here and homesteaded in November, 1899. He leaves behind, besides his immediate family two sisters, Mrs. J.W. Bailey and Mrs. Kizzie Shields of Glen Rose, Texas, twenty grandchildren six great-grandchildren, a host of personal friends.
Another of the rapidly passing group of pioneers is gone to his reward. A few years ago he made the remark that he was 85 years old and had never lived where he could not hear the coyotes howl, which attest the fact that he was a true pioneer.
Burial in Berlin cemetery, Berlin, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.
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