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Pleasant Green Taylor

8 February 1827—16 May 19171

Born at Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky; son of Elizabeth Patrick and William Taylor.2 Baptized, 1837.3 Married Clara Lake, 1847; participated in plural marriage.4 Traveled to the Salt Lake Valley, 1850.5 Settled at Harrisville, Weber County, Utah Territory, circa 1851.6 Served as bishop of the Harrisville Ward, 1877–1896.7 Died at Harrisville; buried at Ogden, Weber County.8 (See Document 3.28)

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Jan. 2015); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 181/460 (1917), Pleasant Green Taylor. Levi James Taylor, Pleasant Green Taylor family record, 1894–circa 1917, typescript by Clifford M. Taylor, 1934, p. 3, CHL.

  2. 2 Utah death certificate, file no. 181/460. Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson Memorial Assoc./Deseret News, 1936), 4:557.

  3. 3 Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 4:557–558. Taylor, Pleasant Green Taylor family record, 18.

  4. 4 “Golden Wedding,” Deseret News [weekly], Feb. 20, 1897, 293. Taylor, Pleasant Green Taylor family record, 1–4.

  5. 5 “Pleasant Green Taylor,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Jan. 2015.

  6. 6 “Golden Wedding,” 293. Taylor, Pleasant Green Taylor family record, 7. 1860 U.S. census, Weber Co., Utah Territory, p. 500, Green P. Taylor; NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313. 1880 U.S. census, Harrisville, Weber Co., Utah Territory, p. 487C, P. G. Taylor; NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 1339. 1910 U.S. census, Harrisville, Weber Co., Utah, p. 11A, Pleasant G. Taylor; NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 1611. U.S. census digital images from Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015).

  7. 7 Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 4:558. Taylor, Pleasant Green Taylor family record, 14–15.

  8. 8 Utah death certificate, file no. 181/460. Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 4:557. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed May 2023), Pleasant Green Taylor KWJD-HVQ.