Robert Lee Taylor, 81, of Mercer, died this morning in the home of his daughter, Mrs. R. T. (Evelyn) Curlin of the Leighton Community, after an illness of one year.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:30 PM from the Maple Springs Baptist Church with Rev. T. R. Hammons and Rev. Ray Emerson officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Mr. Taylor was the son of Robert Wooding and Mary Ellen Pentecost Taylor. He was born and reared in Madison County and had lived in the same vicinity his entire life. He was a retired farmer and landowner.
He was a member of the Maple Springs Baptist Church, where he served as Deacon and as a former Sunday School Superintendent.
His wife, the former Mary Ophelia Leathers, died in November of 1952. They were married on December 18, 1895 at the Leathers' home.
He is survived by two sons, Vester and Houston Taylor of Mercer; three daughters, Mrs. Ina Maners, Mrs. Hattie Pearl Pentecost, and Mrs. Evelyn Curlin of Leighton; two brothers, George Street Taylor of Mercer and William Osborne Taylor of Madison Hall; two sisters, Mrs. Sallie J Perry of Lexington and Mrs. Della Louisa Leathers of Mercer; 16 grandchildren and 34 great-grandchildren.
Grandsons Gene and Harvey Lee Curlin, Murphy Laney, Edmond Melton, John Edwards Taylor and Grady Maners will serve as pallbearers. The deacons of the Maple Springs Baptist Church will serve as Honorary Pallbearers.
Robert Lee Taylor, 81, of Mercer, died this morning in the home of his daughter, Mrs. R. T. (Evelyn) Curlin of the Leighton Community, after an illness of one year.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:30 PM from the Maple Springs Baptist Church with Rev. T. R. Hammons and Rev. Ray Emerson officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Mr. Taylor was the son of Robert Wooding and Mary Ellen Pentecost Taylor. He was born and reared in Madison County and had lived in the same vicinity his entire life. He was a retired farmer and landowner.
He was a member of the Maple Springs Baptist Church, where he served as Deacon and as a former Sunday School Superintendent.
His wife, the former Mary Ophelia Leathers, died in November of 1952. They were married on December 18, 1895 at the Leathers' home.
He is survived by two sons, Vester and Houston Taylor of Mercer; three daughters, Mrs. Ina Maners, Mrs. Hattie Pearl Pentecost, and Mrs. Evelyn Curlin of Leighton; two brothers, George Street Taylor of Mercer and William Osborne Taylor of Madison Hall; two sisters, Mrs. Sallie J Perry of Lexington and Mrs. Della Louisa Leathers of Mercer; 16 grandchildren and 34 great-grandchildren.
Grandsons Gene and Harvey Lee Curlin, Murphy Laney, Edmond Melton, John Edwards Taylor and Grady Maners will serve as pallbearers. The deacons of the Maple Springs Baptist Church will serve as Honorary Pallbearers.
Bio by: Barbara Melton Lewis
Family Members
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Nannie Elizabeth Taylor Miller
1867–1905
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Sally Jemima Taylor Perry
1868–1963
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Henry Thomas Taylor
1869–1934
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Della Louisa Taylor Leathers
1873–1956
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Fannie S. Taylor
1877–1878
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George Street Taylor
1878–1957
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William Osborne "Ozz" Taylor
1881–1957
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Annie M. Taylor
1883–1889
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Infant Son Taylor
1885–1885
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Mary M. Taylor
1890–1890
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