Taylor - Ed
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, 10 November 1899
Last Tuesday Mrs. Frank Wade, of south Green street received a dispatch from Baltimore, Maryland, stating that her son, Ed Taylor, had been killed there Tuesday. The message gave no particulars. He was an electrician, and it is supposed that he was killed while at work. The news of his death almost prostrated his mother and was received by his many friends here with the utmost sorrow. He lived here for a number of years and was a bright and talented young man. He was a skilled electrician and went from here to St. Louis to take a fine position. Later he went to Baltimore to take a place there. He was married and quite lately lost his two little children by disease. His bereaved wife is left alone. Mr. Taylor was twenty-seven years of age. - thanks to Kim H
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 17 November1899
The many friends who were shocked to hear of the sudden death in Baltimore, of Ed Taylor, son of Mrs. Frank Wade, will be relieved to learn further particulars, received on Friday afternoon. Mr. Taylor was at his work as an electrician on Tuesday afternoon, when by some means he slipped and partly fell from the pole. He clung to the pole until within a few feet of the ground, when his hand gave out and he fell backwards, crushing his skull on the curbstone. He was dead before help could reach him. The only wound being to the skull, his face remained uninjured.
It being impossible to embalm his body, owing to this wound, his wife and friends decided to inter it at Baltimore St. Louis
The accident was an unavoidable one, no person being in any degree responsible. As Mr. Taylor was just recovering from a two weeks’ illness it is thought that he resumed his work before he was strong enough to do so, and fell from sheer weakness. Mr. and Mrs. Wade have both felt very deeply their great affliction. They desire to return to the friends who stood close to them in loving sympathy, their most heartfelt gratitude. In writing a short poem to her son for his birthday, not long since, Mrs. Wade wrote these lines:
“May my prayers for my boy be answered,
Though the way seems dark and dim.
I will trust to our heavenly Father,
Who has bidden us lean on Him.
I may have years of waiting,
Perhaps be taken away,
Before the dear Lord will rescue him
From paths that might lead astray.
Yet he may be helping others,
As I would be helping him,
And only in my fancy
The way seems dark and dim.”
The mother’s prayers were answered sooner than she thought, for before the beloved boy was taken away, she learned that he had sought the “better path” and no longer need his future “seem dark and dim.” -- thanks so much to "S" for this one - so so sad