Robert Cromwell Taylor and Sarah Jane Bell

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Husband Robert Cromwell Taylor ^{1 2}

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           Born: 23 Jun 1822 2
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           Died: 3 Oct 1884 - Indiana, Indiana Co, PA 2
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         Father: Alexander Taylor, Jr. (Abt 1798-1828) 3 4
         Mother: Sarah Cromwell (      -1883) 1 2

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       Marriage: 1847 5

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Wife Sarah Jane Bell ^{1 5}

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Children

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1 M Alexander T. Taylor ^{1 5}

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         Spouse: Lydia Wettling (      -      ) 1 5

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2 M John Bell Taylor ^{1 6}

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           Born: 20 Mar 1851 - Indiana, Indiana Co, PA 5
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         Spouse: Margaret Belle Johnston (1851-1906) 1 7
           Marr: Nov 1875 5

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3 F Alice Taylor ^{1 5}

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         Spouse: George Hart (      -      ) 5

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Cromwell Taylor

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He received a good common school education, and taught school for some time in his young manhood. He gave up the profession to take a high position in the Shoanberger Iron Manufactory, at that time a well-known industrial establishment in the region. Leaving the Shoanberger manufactory to engage in mercantile pursuits on his own account. Shortly after President Lincoln's first inauguration Mr. Taylor was appointed postmaster at Indiana, and held the office for eighteen successive years. His administration gave great satisfaction to the patrons of the office, and he was frequently highly commended by his official superiors at Washington, receiving highly complimentary letters from President Hayes and the Postmaster General, in which his efficient management of the important position was acknowledged and commended, and in one of which he was asked if he would accept the position of Second Assistant Postmaster General. Feeling then that he had already seriously impaired his health by too close application to his work, and knowing how varied and difficult was the labor required to properly fill the office tendered, he respectfully declined the proffered preferment. And to this was added a still weightier reason: His family and domestic attachments were remarkably strong, and he was loath to sever, even in the slightest degree, the loving ties of home, or surrender even temporarily the quiet enjoyment and peaceful recreation he found in the family and social circles where his youth and manhood had been spent. About the close of his last term as postmaster, upon the organization of the Farmers' Bank, he was tendered the position of cashier, which he accepted, and held until the time of his death. The bank was organized March 24, 1876. Mr. Taylor's youngest son, John B. Taylor, not long afterward became assistant cashier, in which position he was serving in 1879.
Robert C. Taylor died suddenly of paralysis, at his home in Indiana, Pennsylvania, at the age of sixty-two years. Over a year before he had suffered a stroke, but recovered sufficiently to resume his duties at the bank, though a few months before his death he gave up active participation in its affairs, turning over the more onerous duties to his son.
Mr. Taylor was always active in church and Sunday school work. He and Rev. David Blair organized the U. P. Sunday school in Indiana, the first Sunday school organized within the bounds of the Presbytery of that denomination. Mr. Taylor was chosen superintendent, and continued to hold the position for over a quarter of a century, "honoring the office and maintaining for the school a foremost place in the ranks of those valuable institutions. His resignation was brought about by feeble health, and was accepted with deep regret by the membership of both the school and church. In 1858 he was elected and installed as a ruling elder of the church, and in that capacity served his Master faithfully and lovingly, being solicitous that in all ways the cause of Christ should be advanced."
"His love for his family was measureless, and in his later years he found delight in mingling with his grandchildren, listening with grave attention to their griefs, joining in their plays, laughing in their glees. His devotion to public affairs never led him to forego the domestic and social enjoyments to which he contributed the full share of earnest discourses, pleasant reminiscences, and assisted in the merriment which is wise and the playfulness which is discreet.
"In the community he was esteemed one of the best citizens. He was forward in every good work tending to the moral elevation of the community and to the development of the town. His advice on public measures and improvements was frequently sought, and it was tempered with reason and devoid of prejudice.
"In his death the widow and the fatherless have lost a faithful friend, and Christian charity one of its surest supports."

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General Notes: Wife - Sarah Jane Bell

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from Westmoreland Co, PA

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 336.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 727.

3 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 336, 523.

4 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 726.

5 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 728.

6 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 724.

7 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 647, 728.