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Matilda Taylor
1886 - 1986 (100 years)
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Name Matilda Taylor Born 26 Jun 1886 Loa, Wayne, Utah Territory, United States 
Gender Female Died 3 Sep 1986 American Fork, Utah, Utah Territory, United States Buried 8 Sep 1986 American Fork Cemetery, American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States Person ID I3103 Speirs-Taylor Last Modified 26 Jul 2018
Father Allen Taylor, b. 17 Jan 1814, Bowling Green, Warren, Kentucky, United States , d. 5 Dec 1891, Loa, Wayne, Utah Territory, United States (Age 77 years) Mother Pheobe Ann Roberts, b. 22 Jan 1843, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States , d. 21 Sep 1919, Loa, Wayne, Utah, United States (Age 76 years) Married 27 Mar 1857 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Family ID F951 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Joseph Franklin Edwards, b. 14 Apr 1876, American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States , d. 24 Feb 1939, Salina, Sevier, Utah, United States (Age 62 years) Married 23 Dec 1903 Wayne, Utah, United States [1] Children 1. Myrtle Edwards, b. 23 Apr 1905, Loa, Wayne, Utah, United States , d. 31 Dec 1998, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 93 years)2. Phoebe Lucille Edwards, b. 22 Jan 1907, Fremont, Wayne, Utah, United States , d. 22 Jan 2001, Utah, United States (Age 94 years)3. DeVon Edwards, b. 6 Jan 1909, Utah, United States , d. 23 May 1984, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States (Age 75 years)4. Solen T Edwards, b. 6 Apr 1910, Loa, Wayne, Utah, United States , d. 4 Jun 1993, St George, Washington, Utah, United States (Age 83 years)5. Martha Fontella Edwards, b. Abt 1912, Utah, United States 6. Arda Edwards, b. 25 Jun 1919, Loa, Wayne, Utah, United States , d. 23 May 1921, Loa, Wayne, Utah, United States (Age 1 years)7. Leo Taylor Edwards, b. 30 Mar 1923, Loa, Wayne, Utah, United States , d. 23 Jan 2000, Sun City West, Maricopa, Arizona, United States (Age 76 years)Last Modified 26 Jul 2018 Family ID F700 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Died - 3 Sep 1986 - American Fork, Utah, Utah Territory, United States 
Buried - 8 Sep 1986 - American Fork Cemetery, American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States = Link to Google Earth
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Documents 
1900 US Federal Census with the Levi Taylor and Phebe Taylor Families
Loa, Wayne, Utah
Dated 25 June 1900
Dwelling 185
Levi A Taylor, 30 year old farmer, born July 1869 in Utah
Rhoda C Taylor, 27 year old wife, born Aug 1872 in Utah
Rhoda E Taylor, 8 year old daughter, born Sep 1891 in Utah
Levi A Taylor, 7 year old son, born Oct 1892 in Utah
Viola Taylor, 5 year old daughter, born Aug 1894 in Utah
Arletta M Taylor, 2 year old daughter, born Aug 1897 in Utah
Loa A Taylor, 1 year old daughter, born May 1899 in Utah
Dwelling 186
Phebe A Taylor, 56 year old widow, born Feb 1844; twelve children, nine living.
Wilford W Taylor, 17 year old son, born Apr 1883 in Utah
Matilda Taylor, 13 year old daughter, born June 1886 in Utah
Source:
1900 US Federal Census; Census Place: Loa, Wayne, Utah; Page: 17; Enumeration District: 0177
The Death Certificate of Joseph Franklin Edwards in 1939
Joseph's wife was Mitilda Taylor but they are listed as divorced. He was a sheepherder.
Source:
Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
The Obituary of Matilda (Taylor) Devitt in 1986
Matilda was one hundred years old when she died. She was born in 1886 to Allen and Phoebe Ann Roberts Taylor.
She was married to Joseph Franklin Edwards, who died in 1939, and Ernest C Devitt who died in 1968.
She had seven children, four of whom were still living.
Source:
Newspapers.com; American Fork Citizen, American Fork, Utah; 10 Sep. 1985, page 12
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Sources - [S43] Utah, Select County Marriages, 1887-1937, Ancestry.com, ( Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.).
Name: Joseph F Edwardds
Age: 27
Birth Date: 1876
Spouse: Matilda Taylor
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Birth Date: 1885
Marriage Date: 23 Dec 1903
Marriage Place: Wayne, Utah, United States
FHL Film Number: 0484603
- [S43] Utah, Select County Marriages, 1887-1937, Ancestry.com, ( Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.).