Death of Orin F. Taylor

The death of Orin F. Taylor at the Virginia Hospital in Richmond Friday April 25,
came as a shock to his many friends. Only on Tuesday before he was carried to
the Hospital to be operated upon for an acute attack of appendicitis. At six o’clock
in the afternoon the end came and the scene that followed at his home, in Richmond,
with his uncle, Mr. Edgar Taylor, 3 East Franklin Street, was most touching. Grief
stricken friends, who seemed almost numberless, crowded the parlors and mingled their
tears with those of his family. Mr. Taylor was a son of the late C. T. Taylor, of
Accomack, and was 22 years of age. His home Was Onancock but for three years he has
been with the America Tobacco Company in Richmond where he made a marked success in
business, and his firm was about to promote him to a higher position. He had long
been a member of the Makemie Presbyterian Church, but lately changed his membership
to the Second Church in Richmond, where he was loved by all who knew his cheery
smile. Cut off in the morning of a great career, with happiness and love staring
him in the face; the future beckoning to him with a smile. Besides being endowed
with a sympathetic manner and a happy faculty for making friends, he also possessed
the highest principles of honor and noble manhood. Few young men were more popular,
and few lived a purer life. Standing upon the threshold of a great life, full of promise
for the realization of all those blessings and aspirations that fill a wise man’s heart,
he was, inopportunely it seems to us, called upon to give up his life, yet he met his
fate like a hero and a Christian. After an impressive service conducted by Dr. Russell
Cecil at his late Richmond home on Saturday his remains were brought to Accomack,
accompanied by his family, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Taylor and several friends from Richmond.
On Sunday final funeral services were held in Onancock and the remains interred in the
Poulson burying ground on Onancock creek.