Death Claims Twin Babies at Biggs House

“Two six-months’ old babies. Eithel and Ethel Taylor, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor¹ of 345 1/2 Front street, died yesterday at their home following an illness brought on by the extreme heat and improper feeding. Coroner Virgil Fowler, who investigated the death of the children said that the crowded condition of the living quarters was a contributory factor in their death.”

“In addition to the parents, there are two brothers, Robert and Lawrence, and one sister, Ardel, 6, in the family. Two other children died in infancy.² Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon with burial in the Taylor family cemetery, on Worley’s Run, near Friendship.”³

Ohio Certificate of Death for Eithel Taylor⁴

Ohio Certificate of Death for Ethel Taylor⁵

1. John W. Taylor and Rhoda Jane Nease Taylor
2. The children of John W. Taylor and Rhoda Jane Nease that had died prior to the deaths of Eithel and Ethel are as follows: Frederick C. Taylor, Jesse W. Taylor, Carl Schroeder Taylor, Louis Edward Taylor, and Betty Ruth Taylor.
3. Death claims twin babies. (1927, July 16). Portsmouth Daily Times, p. 13.
4. “Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953”, , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZ67-J87 : Fri Oct 13 19:49:47 UTC 2023), Entry for Ethel Taylor and John W. Taylor, 15 Jul 1927.
5. “Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953”, , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZ67-JZ1 : Fri Oct 13 19:47:29 UTC 2023), Entry for Ethel Taylor and John W. Taylor, 15 Jul 1927.