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    "ocrText": "CO-1-3264\n-3-\nSERVICE'\nsr\nThe Taylor burial plot was located in the Cemetery, and although there were several\ngraves, the only marker was one large stone bearing the inscription \"G. Taylor.\"\nOn July 3, 1952, another search of the directories in the City Library was made\nand records of George and Blanche Taylor were found in the 1911 and 1912 Directories.\nThere was a long period of no records, but in the 1930's, a James H. Taylor was found\nlisted at 429 7th Street, S. E., Washington, D. C.\nA search of the death certificates in the Bureau of Vital Statistics from 1909\nthrough 1952 disclosed death records of at least three members of the Taylor family.\nPershore Taylor was recorded as having died May 23, 1940, at 78 years of age, and was\nlast residing at 914 8th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. It was noted that he was\nborn in Bayonne, New Jersey, July 18, 1861, and that his parents, George and Mary\nTaylor, (nee Bridgens), were both born in England.\nJames Henry Taylor was listed as having died in St. Elizabeth's Hospital on\nDecember 11, 19443 he had been a mental patient there for more than five years, having\nbeen committed August 26, 1939. His birth place was given at Bergen Point, New Jersey,\nApril 11, 1856.\nBlanche W. Taylor also died in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, March 8, 1946. She had\nbeen a patient there from February 4, 1939. She was born at Bayonne, New Jersey, on\nAugust 8, 1863.\nOn July 7, 1952, Mr. P. M. Lehman, Registrar, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, was inter-\nviewed and the records of James Henry and Blanche W. Taylor were reviewed. James Henry\nTaylor was admitted to St. Elizabeth's Hospital suffering from senile psychosis. He\nreportedly graduated from Yale Law School in 1875, but had never practiced law and had\nheld many odd jobs in various parts of the Country. For some time, he assisted\nhis\nfather in the operation of an ice cream business in Bergen Point, New Jersey. In an-\nother portion of his file, he listed his father's occupation as that of a baker. He\nlisted two friends: F. W. Marple, 410 7th Street, S. E., Washington, D. C., -- now\nliving\nin\nWinchester, Virginia; and, W. C. Davis, Arlington, Virginia, who was last\nreported to be a Professor of History at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. James\nHenry Taylor had left a small property at 429 7th Street, S. E., Washington, D. C.,\nand this was disposed of in his will, Probate Court D. C. Number 65264. There was\nalso a notation that James Henry Taylor's father, George Taylor, died at Westfield,\nNew Jersey, in 1917.\nThe file of Blanche W. Taylor gave no additional information, but was in con-\nformity with the data contained in that of James Henry Taylor. Blanche Taylor was in\nSt.\nElizabeth's Hospital more than seven years; received no visitors; and is buried\nin the St. Elizabeth Hospital Cemetery.\nOn July 8, 1952, the will of James Henry Taylor was examined at the Register of\nWills Office for the District of Columbia. This will indicated that James Henry Tay-\nlor's only property was the small house at 429 7th Street, S. E., Washington, D. C.\nof interest to this particular inquiry was the testimony before the committee for his\nwill on September 10, 1945. The auditor was examining Irene Kennedy, representing the\nexecutor, William C. Davis:"
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