HAMPSHIRE REVIEW - ROMNEY, WV. - October 15, 1913 Dr. K. Taylor

Death Removes a Prominent Hampshire Physician

One of Hampshire's oldest and most widely know physicians and one of her prominent citizens passed away when Dr. K. Taylor died at his home, at Slanesville, Thursday night of last week. For the past two years he had been in failing health and only his superb energy kept him going so long.

Dr. Taylor came to this county from Loudoun County, Virginia, during the first decade following the Civil War. Shortly afterwards he married a Miss Rannells who, with four sons and two daughters, survive him. He had a very large practice and was regarded as a most successful and skilled physician.

Dr. Taylor was a soldier in the Confederate Army, was a member of Pickett's Division and was in that General's famous charge at Gettysburg. He was knocked down by a minie ball near the stone fence, almost at the "High watermark of the Confederacy," and carried the print of the ball on the side of his head to the day of his death.

Last summer he attended the great Reunion on the Gettysburg field and in company with friends from this county revisited and idendified the spot where he fell fifty years before.

The funeral occured Sunday and the interment was at Salem Church. A number of ex-Confederate veterans from this place attended the last sad rites over their old comrade.