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William Warren and Armelia Rebecca Taylor
William Warren Taylor, Jr.
Born: 20 April 1857 at Slaterville, Weber, Utah, USAArmelia Rebecca Berry
Born: 17 April 1863 at Middleton, Washington, Utah, USALIFE SKETCH OF WILLIAM WARREN TAYLOR, JR.
William Warren Taylor, Jr was born 20 April 1857 at Slaterville, Weber, Utah, son of William Warren Taylor and Julia Aner Carbine. When he was four 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, William was raised one of thirteen children. His father engaged in farming and cattle raising, as did "Uncle Allen." It is presumed that William 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. William and his brother, Edmund, 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.)
William 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, Edmund, also
returned to Washington County once the expedition concluded. William travelled in 1881 to Saint
George where he married Armelia Rebecca Berry of Kanarraville, a town about nine miles north of
New Harmony.
Tragedy struck the Taylor family three times in the first few years of their married life:
their first child, Sarah, died at birth (5 August 1882); Armelia's father was murdered while
serving a mission in his home state of Tennessee (10 August 1884); and, William's brother, Edmund,
died while serving in the same Southern States mission in 1889. By 1898, they and six living
children moved to join William's great-uncle, Allen Taylor, and cousin, William Riley Taylor,
in Loa, Wayne County.
Sources:
1 Life Sketch of William Warren Taylor
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William Warren and Armelia Rebecca Taylor