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Life Sketch of Edmund Zebulon Taylor

Edmund Zebulon Taylor

Born: 14 March 1859 at Slaterville, Weber, Utah, USA
Parents: William Warren Taylor and Julia Aner Carbine
Married: Eliza Ann Taylor 18 Nov 1882 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
Died: 13 August 1888 at Rock Lane, Rock Bridge, Virginia, USA

Eliza Ann Taylor

Born: 15 June 1864 at Harrisville, Weber, Utah, USA
Parents: Pleasant Green Taylor and Sarah Jane Marler
Died: 6 Feb 1932 at Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, USA

LIFE SKETCH OF EDMUND ZEBULON TAYLOR

Edmund Zebulon Taylor was born 14 Mar 1859 at Slaterville, Weber, Utah, son of William Warren Taylor and Julia Aner Carbine. When he was three years old his father was called to help settle southern Utah and established his home first at Harrisburg, then at New Harmony. William's older brother, Allen, was also called to settle Harrisburg at that time with his sixteen children, and in 1883 moved his family to Loa, Utah. At New Harmony, Edmund was raised one of thirteen children. His father engaged in farming and cattle raising, as did "Uncle Allen." It is presumed that Edmund was as much at home with cattle as he was with his many siblings and cousins.

In 1879 a number of families and single young men from the Cedar City area were called to establish the San Juan Mission in southeastern Utah. New Harmony, 22 miles from Cedar City, was among the settlements impacted by the call. Edmund and his brother, William Warren, Jr., and their cousin, Ann Taylor, wife of William Pace Goddard, were among those in the Hole in the Rock company bound for the San Juan.

(Ann Taylor Pace's husband, William Goddard, was nephew or cousin to five other families on the San Juan Mission: James Wilkerson Pace, Wilford Woodruff Pace, John Hardison Pace, Lemuel Hardison Redd, Sr. and Jr., and more remotely connected to George Washington Sevy.)

Edmund did not remain at Bluff once the company arrived. He may have helped herd the stock and performed road building duties along the way. His brother, William Warren, Jr., also returned to Iron County once the expedition concluded. Edmund travelled in 1882 to Salt Lake City where he married is cousin, Eliza Ann Taylor, daughter of his father's just-older brother, Pleasant Green Taylor and his third wife. To Edmund and Eliza were born Edmund Zebulon, Jr. (1883), Lester (1885), and Etta Eliza (1887). By the birth of their third child, pressure was mounting on the members of the Church who practiced plural marriage, limiting the number of missionaries to those not in question of following "the principle." Edmund was among the men eligible to be called, and was called to the southern states (West Virginia) and departed to the mission in February 1887. In August 1888 he was stricken with typhoid fever and died on 13 August in Rockbrige County, Virginia. His body was prepared for burial in Virginia and shipped back to Utah where he was buried 25 August 1888 in Ogden.

The Deseret News stated, "Elder Taylor is spoken highly of by those missionaries who were associated wit him for his firmness and undaunted courage in the missionary field."
Sources
1 Sketch at Hole in the Rock Blogspot
2 Life Sketch of William Warren Taylor
3 Deseret News, August 22, 1888

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