Alonzo Taylor
 

Cincinnati Enquirer, Friday, 25 December 1908, page 9


Alonzo Taylor, a veteran of the Civil War, dropped dead on the sidewalk at the corner of Fairfield and Taylor avenues in Bellevue, about 8 o'clock last night.  Ben Vonderhaar, employed by John A Cunningham the undertaker, saw Taylor stagger and fall, striking the pavement on the back on the back of his head.  He was picked up by William Steinmetz and Mike Morrow and carried into Lehman's saloon and Dr. Senour called.  The man had expired, however, before the arrival of the physician.

The body was then removed into Cunningham's morgue, where Coroner Digby held an inquest later.  He returned a verdict of heart disease.  The deceased had been afflicted with fainting spells and weakness of the heart for some time.

He was 62 years of age and had been a resident of Campbell County nearly all his life. At the age of 16 he ran away from home and enlisted as a drummer boy in the Union Army.  Before the end of the war he threw the drum away and carried the musket until hostilities ceased.  The remains were later removed to the family residence 155 Rhensford.  He is survived by a widow and two children, Nellie and John.  He was a son-in-law of ex-Sheriff John Horsfall of Campbell County.

 

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