LOA, Sept 8.—(Special)—Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Jane Ellison Taylor, 83, stake Relief Society worker, were held in the Loa ward chapel, with Counselor Benjamin F. Van Dyke presiding. Music was furnished by the ward choir. Opening prayer was by Michael Hansen. Speakers were B. Grundy, Emily Blackburn, W. H. Morrell, F. Elroy Brown, Pres. W. H. Callahan and L. I. Taylor. Benediction was by Thomas P. Rees. Interment was in the Loa cemetery.
Mrs. Taylor, the daughter of John Ellison and Alice Pilling, was born Aug 11, 1842 at Nauvoo, Ill., crossing the Plains with her parents in 1852 to Salt Lake, and moving the following spring to Kaysville. She was married to William Riley Taylor, Sept 27, 1857. They were called to build up the country in Washington county in 1862, but moved to Wayne County in 1881, where she was elected as president of the Primary and later president of the Loa Relief Society until 1904 when she was placed on the stake board.
Mrs. Taylor had 12 sons and two daughters, of whom seven sons and two daughters are surviving, also 97 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren and the following brothers and sisters: E. P. Ellison, Layton; M. T. Ellison, Murray; Mrs. Susannah E. Robins, Kaysville; J. H. Ellison, Canada; Mary A. Wallace, Brigham City.
Deseret News | Salt Lake City, Utah | September 8, 1925
LOA, Sept 8.—(Special)—Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Jane Ellison Taylor, 83, stake Relief Society worker, were held in the Loa ward chapel, with Counselor Benjamin F. Van Dyke presiding. Music was furnished by the ward choir. Opening prayer was by Michael Hansen. Speakers were B. Grundy, Emily Blackburn, W. H. Morrell, F. Elroy Brown, Pres. W. H. Callahan and L. I. Taylor. Benediction was by Thomas P. Rees. Interment was in the Loa cemetery.
Mrs. Taylor, the daughter of John Ellison and Alice Pilling, was born Aug 11, 1842 at Nauvoo, Ill., crossing the Plains with her parents in 1852 to Salt Lake, and moving the following spring to Kaysville. She was married to William Riley Taylor, Sept 27, 1857. They were called to build up the country in Washington county in 1862, but moved to Wayne County in 1881, where she was elected as president of the Primary and later president of the Loa Relief Society until 1904 when she was placed on the stake board.
Mrs. Taylor had 12 sons and two daughters, of whom seven sons and two daughters are surviving, also 97 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren and the following brothers and sisters: E. P. Ellison, Layton; M. T. Ellison, Murray; Mrs. Susannah E. Robins, Kaysville; J. H. Ellison, Canada; Mary A. Wallace, Brigham City.
Deseret News | Salt Lake City, Utah | September 8, 1925
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