Father of Waller Taylor.
Departed this life, on the 11th inst. at his residence, in Lunenburg county, in the 82d year of his age, WILLIAM TAYLOR, Esq'r. Few instances have ever occurred, in which a long life has been spent in a more unexceptionable and exemplary manner, than has that of this gentleman. As a just, honest and honorable man, there were none to excel him: as an officer (he was upwards of fifty years clerk of the county court in which he lived) he was assiduous and correct in the discharge of his duties; and as a husband, father, master & neighbor, he was affectionate, tender, humane and kind. In the year 1765, when a young man, he was elected to the assembly of Virginia, and was one of those who supported the resolutions brought forward by Mr. Henry, against the assumed power of the British parliament, to tax the then colonies without their consent ; and it is believed, that he is the last of those patriotic men, who constituted the majority upon that occasion. He continued during the revolution, the same warm, steady patriot, and not only suffered with cheerfulness the privations and hardships peculiar to that struggle, but actively exerted himself to insure success to the cause of independence. He has left an aged widow & a numerous offspring, by whom his memory will be tenderly cherished, so long as they esteem virtue, pure morality, and unaffected piety, to be the perfection of human nature. His county-men, most of whom, from his age, reverenced him as a father, and his numerous friends and acquaintances, will long remember his worth, and it is to be hoped that the bright example he has left them, will induce many to imitate his virtues. [The Petersburg Republican, 19 Sep 1829, p.3, c.4.]
Departed this life, on the 11th inst. at his residence, in Lunenburg county, in the 82d year of his age, WILLIAM TAYLOR, Esq'r. Few instances have ever occurred, in which a long life has been spent in a more unexceptionable and exemplary manner, than has that of this gentleman. As a just, honest and honorable man, there were none to excel him: as an officer (he was upwards of fifty years clerk of the county court in which he lived) he was assiduous and correct in the discharge of his duties; and as a husband, father, master & neighbor, he was affectionate, tender, humane and kind. In the year 1765, when a young man, he was elected to the assembly of Virginia, and was one of those who supported the resolutions brought forward by Mr. Henry, against the assumed power of the British parliament, to tax the then colonies without their consent ; and it is believed, that he is the last of those patriotic men, who constituted the majority upon that occasion. He continued during the revolution, the same warm, steady patriot, and not only suffered with cheerfulness the privations and hardships peculiar to that struggle, but actively exerted himself to insure success to the cause of independence. He has left an aged widow & a numerous offspring, by whom his memory will be tenderly cherished, so long as they esteem virtue, pure morality, and unaffected piety, to be the perfection of human nature. His county-men, most of whom, from his age, reverenced him as a father, and his numerous friends and acquaintances, will long remember his worth, and it is to be hoped that the bright example he has left them, will induce many to imitate his virtues. [The Petersburg Republican, 19 Sep 1829, p.3, c.4.]
Father of Waller Taylor.
Departed this life, on the 11th inst. at his residence, in Lunenburg county, in the 82d year of his age, WILLIAM TAYLOR, Esq'r. Few instances have ever occurred, in which a long life has been spent in a more unexceptionable and exemplary manner, than has that of this gentleman. As a just, honest and honorable man, there were none to excel him: as an officer (he was upwards of fifty years clerk of the county court in which he lived) he was assiduous and correct in the discharge of his duties; and as a husband, father, master & neighbor, he was affectionate, tender, humane and kind. In the year 1765, when a young man, he was elected to the assembly of Virginia, and was one of those who supported the resolutions brought forward by Mr. Henry, against the assumed power of the British parliament, to tax the then colonies without their consent ; and it is believed, that he is the last of those patriotic men, who constituted the majority upon that occasion. He continued during the revolution, the same warm, steady patriot, and not only suffered with cheerfulness the privations and hardships peculiar to that struggle, but actively exerted himself to insure success to the cause of independence. He has left an aged widow & a numerous offspring, by whom his memory will be tenderly cherished, so long as they esteem virtue, pure morality, and unaffected piety, to be the perfection of human nature. His county-men, most of whom, from his age, reverenced him as a father, and his numerous friends and acquaintances, will long remember his worth, and it is to be hoped that the bright example he has left them, will induce many to imitate his virtues. [The Petersburg Republican, 19 Sep 1829, p.3, c.4.]
Departed this life, on the 11th inst. at his residence, in Lunenburg county, in the 82d year of his age, WILLIAM TAYLOR, Esq'r. Few instances have ever occurred, in which a long life has been spent in a more unexceptionable and exemplary manner, than has that of this gentleman. As a just, honest and honorable man, there were none to excel him: as an officer (he was upwards of fifty years clerk of the county court in which he lived) he was assiduous and correct in the discharge of his duties; and as a husband, father, master & neighbor, he was affectionate, tender, humane and kind. In the year 1765, when a young man, he was elected to the assembly of Virginia, and was one of those who supported the resolutions brought forward by Mr. Henry, against the assumed power of the British parliament, to tax the then colonies without their consent ; and it is believed, that he is the last of those patriotic men, who constituted the majority upon that occasion. He continued during the revolution, the same warm, steady patriot, and not only suffered with cheerfulness the privations and hardships peculiar to that struggle, but actively exerted himself to insure success to the cause of independence. He has left an aged widow & a numerous offspring, by whom his memory will be tenderly cherished, so long as they esteem virtue, pure morality, and unaffected piety, to be the perfection of human nature. His county-men, most of whom, from his age, reverenced him as a father, and his numerous friends and acquaintances, will long remember his worth, and it is to be hoped that the bright example he has left them, will induce many to imitate his virtues. [The Petersburg Republican, 19 Sep 1829, p.3, c.4.]
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