Rev. Jefferson Randolph Taylor, (CSA)

Rev. Jefferson Randolph Taylor

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REV JEFFERSON RANDOLPH TAYLOR DAILY PROGRESS, 17 April 1919, p. 1

Veteran Minister Buried at Monticello

The remains of the late Rev. Jefferson Randolph Taylor, Rector of the Episcopal Church at Accomac, were brought to this city at 4:30 on the C&O train and laid to rest by friends and relatives beside his deceased wife and many kinspeople gone before at the family graveyard at Monticello. Rev. Mr. Taylor was in the 78th year of his age, at his death, which occurred on Tuesday morning of this week, he having been in failing health for some time and having just resigned his pastorate on the Eastern Shore because of advancing age and attendant incapacities. He had held this charge among the good and worthy folk on the Shore for the past 15 years and was beloved and venerated by them as few have ever been for his intensely human character and faithfulness to their spiritual needs and temporal interests. The special services were held at Accomac before the body was removed yesterday, and the concluding services at the grave at Monticello were conducted by the Rev. W. Roy Mason, Rector of Christ Church, of which the deceased had been a communicant during his many years in residence here, both before and after the War Between the States. The pall bearers... During his long life Mr. Taylor had done his part well in every issue and won the admiration of all with whom he came into contact for with his conscientious discharge of every trust, high mindedness and deeply spiritual Christian faith. As a young man he went into the Civil War with the Albermarle Artillery Company, Captain William H. Southwell commanding, and made an enviable record throughout that fratricidal strife for faithfulness and efficiency. When the war closed, he devoted himself to teaching, for which his literary bent and high cultivation from his family associations made him eminently fitted and later on took up the study of law and qualified on (illegible) in this county judicial circuit. In the year 1885 he yielded to the deeply religious side of his nature and determined to devote the remainder of his years to preaching the Gospel. To this end he took the course at the Episcopal Seminary at Alexandria and was ordained a priest of the Episcopal Church after a remarkably short attendance on the (illegible). He had charges thereafter in various parts of W.Va. and the present state until he was called to the parish at Accomac about the year 1904, where he labored faithfully until the end came, he practically “dying in the harness” and at the font, which he was wont to be. Rev. Mr. Taylor was the fourth son of the late J. C. R. Taylor Esq. of Lego and his wife Patsy Jefferson Randolph, second child of Col. Thomas Jefferson Randolph of “Edgehill,” and thus a direct descendent of the President near whose monument on his favorite mountain his remains will be. He intermarried with Miss Mary Hubard Bruce, a daughter of the late Edward C. Bruce, the well-known artist of Winchester, while stationed at Moundsville, W.Va., and is survived by his two attractive and winsome daughters, Misses Martha Jefferson and Mary Cary Taylor of Accomac. Miss Cornelia J. Taylor, the present owner of “Lego”, is his only surviving sister and many nephews and nieces of his name reside in various parts of the state and many relatives on the Randolph side in this section and elsewhere.