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Show 1 .M0. Js T0 m mm mm Pleasant Green Taylor, pioneer of Utah and Weber county, was born February 8, 1827, at Bowling Green, Warren county, Kentucky, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Taylor. In the spring of 1830 he was taken by his parents to Monroe county, Mo., to reside. re-side. The doctrines of tho Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints were brought to tho family in 1832, and the father, William Taylor, was tho first person in the state of Missouri Mis-souri to be baptized into the church. In the years following, until the martyrdom mar-tyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith and the exodus of the Mormons from Nauvoo, 111., to begin their arduous journey across the plains, tho Taylor family followed tho fortunes of their fellow religionists and moved with them from placo to place as they were driven about by their persecutors. Tho boy and youth, Pleasant Green, remembered re-membered well theso trying times and in his later years in Utah related many stories of them to his posterity and to congregations in Weber county churches. He was adorned a seventy when 16 years of age and held many important offices in tho church, being at patriarch at the time of his death. While encamped with his family at Council Bluffs, following tho exodus from Nauvoo. the late patriarch enlisted en-listed in tho Mormon Battalion, called out for service in tho Mexican war, but on account of Illness caused by exposure ex-posure to tho cloments, he was unable to leave with the battalion for the Mexican frontier. He was a cousin of General Zachariah Taylor. In 1817 he was married to Clara Lake, and in the spring of 1851 brought his family to Utan. That fall they settled In Weber county and ate late patriarch became the head of one of the largest families in this section sec-tion of the country. While farming was his principal activity, Mr. Taylor was also interested In civic affairs. When the railroads wore being built into this country he was captain of tho Ogden police, holding that office from 1S59 to 1870, and as the country was at that timo infested with a rough class of men, saw some lively service. Ho was always active in church work, and in 1855 was called upon for mission work in the colonization of tho Salmon river country, whero he passed three years among the Bannock Indians, tho Shoshones and the Walla Wallas. In 1S72 he filled a mission to Kentucky, and when tho Harrlsville ward was organized by President Brigham Young, he was its first bishop, bish-op, serving in that capacity for nineteen nine-teen years. In 1891 ho was made a patriarch. Through his death Weber county has lost ono of its best known and loved characters. Funeral services will bo hold tomorrow tomor-row at 1 p. m. in tho Harrlsvillo ward chapel and Interment will be in the Ogden city cemetery. The body may be viewed at the residence on iarris-ville iarris-ville avenue this afternoon and evening even-ing and tomorrow until tho funeral hour. Flowers will be delivered at the home if taken to tho Lindquist mortuary mor-tuary before 11 a m. tomorrow. |