Washington County News | 1942-03-26 | Page 1 | Independence Taylor, Dixie Pioneer, Dies at New Harmony

Independence Taylor, Dixie Pioneer, Dies At New Harmony NEW HARMONY, Utah. Buried in the New Harmony cemetery Monday afternoon was Independence Independ-ence Taylor, 87-year-old Dixie pioneer pio-neer and direct descendant of Zachery Taylor of national historical histor-ical fame, who died at the home1 of his daughter, Mrs. Randle W. Lunt at Cedar City, Saturday, March 21st, of pneumonia, after one week's illness. A son of Allen and Sarah L. Allred Taylor, Davis county pioneers, pio-neers, he was born in Kaysville, July 4, 1854, his national birthday birth-day persuading his parents to give him the name of Independence. All through southern Utah he was intimately known as "Uncle Penn". Coming south with his (Continued on page eight) Independence Taylor (Continued from first page) parents in 1862, they lived first at Harrisburg, moving tp Ft. Harmony Har-mony in 1864, where he has continued con-tinued his residence through life. Born of pioneering parents, he has lived the strenuous pioneer life, helping to build canals, roads, bridges into new areas, and in working on such buildings as the St. George Temple. He was a progressive farmer. He married Julia in the St. George Temple, Jan. 19, 1880. She died in 1910. Surviving besides his one daughter, daugh-ter, are 17 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.