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Clement John Taylor
23 Apr 1871 – 2 Feb 1958
| Birth | 23 Apr 1871 |
| Death | 2 Feb 1958 |
| Cemetery | Hillside Cemetery Whitewater , Walworth County , Wisconsin , USA |
| Added by | bonnie carroll on 17 Sep 2013 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117208466 |
Bio
Clement Taylor and Mary Etta (Cox) married in 1892. In 1894, per The Whitewater Register (TWR), C.W. Rowe sold the Rowe farm, a few miles NE of Whitewater, WI, on Piper Rd., to Clement Taylor. Taylor, born to a farm family in NE Cold Spring Township, purchased the Rowe farm for $62.50 an acre. Clement Taylor and his wife, Mary Etta Cox Taylor, raised their family on the picturesque little farm. Elsie Elizabeth was born in the farmhouse in 1898 and younger sister Ardys was born in 1902. They attended the local one-room schoolhouse where Hwy D meets Piper Road and then graduated from The University of Wisconsin at Madison with teaching degrees. The sisters met their husbands in college and were married in a joint ceremony in the Taylor farmhouse in August of 1926. Ardys and her new husband Leon Dunwiddie took on the agricultural task of running the Taylor farm. Leon was a Member of the Whitewater Dairy Herd Improvement Association, owned 18 milking cows in 1931 and in August of 1943 received a certificate from the Governor at the State Fair for being chosen "outstanding farmer" by the Whitewater chapter of Future Farmers of America, per TWR. The Dunwiddies were blessed with a son, David, in 1928, and a daughter, June, in 1932. David married Dorothy Severance of Milwaukee in 1950. In 1952, they took over the Taylor homestead and brought four children into the world. They raised dairy cattle and a few thousand chickens. According to the August 7, 1958, edition of TWR, David was an exceptional young man. He graduated high school from Whitewater City High in 1945 and The University of Wisconsin School of Agriculture in 1949. He was the winner of the Whitewater Junior Chamber of Commerce for outstanding young farmer in1956. David was an active member of the United Methodist Church of Whitewater, the local Masonic Lodge and the Wisconsin Farm Bureau. In the early 1950's, Leon and Ardys retired from farming and lived in a new mobile home that was placed behind the farmhouse. Ardys kept busy teaching home economics at the Palmyra High School from 1952 to 1967. Just as the sun was rising upon the two-story farmhouse, on the morning of August 6, 1958, David Dunwiddie died at the age of thirty. The generational agrarian aspirations of the Taylor/Dunwiddie bloodline died as well. (David's obituary in TWR indicates that his fatal illness was a form of cancer.) The Taylor homestead sold in November of 1958 to Robert and Inez Zarnstorff (and children). The Dunwiddies' moved to Fremont Street in Whitewater. TWR announced on June 22, 1961, that David's widow remarried. She and her new husband and her four children moved to Michigan. In 1971, the farm was purchased by Dr. Leslie H. Salov (head of the Ophthalmology Department at Fort Memorial Hospital) and his wife Berte. They rented out the farmland. The Salov's extensively remodeled the farmhouse in the 1970's. They lived there until Dr. Salov died in the farmhouse on the night of October 4, 1998. The dairy barn that DB Rowe built in the 1880's burnt down in 1979. The farmland has since been re-zoned and separated from the farmhouse and out-buildings. The property has changed hands several times since 1999.
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- Ellen Taylor Vail 1857–1933
- Thomas B "Tom" Taylor 1859–1894
- Edwin H Taylor 1860–1942
- Frank Taylor 1863–1940
- Theodore A Taylor 1866–1922
- Lillian T Dockhorn 1869–1957
- Albert Edward Taylor 1872–1953
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