Obituaries
TAYLOR  In Elba on the 31st  ult.,  at the residence of Mr. W.H. Slater,
James F. Taylor, of Leavenworth Kansas , formerly of Batavia aged 38 years.


   The Times of last week announced the death  of James F. Taylor, of
 Kansas and gave a brief but kindly and deserving tribute to his honored
 memory, by a comrade -in-arms.  Please permit me to say in addition that
 Mr. Taylor was born in what is now North Oakfield, Genesee County , Feb.
 5th 1839 where his memory is fondly cherished.  After the close
 of the late war in which he bore an active and honorable part, he went to the West,
 and in 1866 he united in marriage with Miss Alice E. Calvert of Leavenworth , Kansas
 and secured a pleasant home in the prairie state.


His labors and exposures in the army induced the incipient stages of Consumption,
the disease of which he died.  For nearly three years past he has been unable 
to perform much labor.


   In the early part of the present season he visited Colorado in the hope
that the salubrious air might stay the progress of the disease.  But finding 
it unavailing, his thoughts turned to his childhood and early friends, and 
he came back to died among them, accompanied with his wife and only child a 
daughter seven years of age.  He reached this place nearly three weeks ago; 
and when the crisis came, he met it with a cheerful trust and recognition, calmly 
and tenderly persuading his friends to  bear submissively the sorrow of the brief separation.


  Mrs. Taylor , and her little daughter , in their great bereavment , are among 
friends who deeply sympathize with them, although all were personally strangers to 
them, but a few weeks ago.

Elba, Aug. 7 1877

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Editor Times - it is with unfeigned sorrow that we are informed of the 
death of our old companion -in-arms James F. Taylor.  The blow falls with crushing 
effect on his old companions.  He being one of the first to answer his country's call 
in the dark days of April "61, by volunteering in Co. "K", 12 N.Y. Vols., 
(Capt. A. J. Root's Company,) and participating in the battles of First Bull Run, 
Seven Day's Fight, Hanover Court house,  Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredricksburg and the
 Siege of Yorktown, and was twice promoted for gallant and meritorious conduct in  
front of the enemy.  As a soldier he was brave and generous to a fault and particularly endeared 
himself to his comrades.  As a citizen he was upright, and was esteemed by all who knew him, 
and we in company with his many friends, tender out heartfelt sympathies to his widow
 and relatives in this, their great bereavment.


Fox    one of Co. K.




Note; James F. Taylor died July 31st 1877  and is buried with his parents
 in Pine Hill cemetery.  This obituary was in the journal kept by Cora Taylor Harvey , 
daughter of James F. Taylor