TAYLOR, John Franklin, Bee-Picayune, Thursday, 2 Jan 1936:

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 in Live Oak Co, Texas where they had settled at Lagarto, near 
Dinero. Of this union two daughters survive, Mrs. Wade Hanna, Houston, and Mrs. Marie Sanstrom, Luton, Calif. 
Following the death of his wife he was again married on October 8, 1884  to Miss Julia Glynn who survives him. He 
was the father of 14 children 8 daughters and 6 sons. Surviving children by his second wife who also survives, 
Glynn Taylor, Mrs. H. A. Swinney, Beeville; Scot 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 home. Practically all was recovered.