This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Taylor, Liggett Classification: death Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/4113.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS-HERALD. April 14, 1938. "DAN TAYLOR, FORMER RESIDENT, BURIED IN COLORADO LAST WEEK".--Daniel D. Taylor, who died in Englewood, Colo., Friday, just short of his 101st birthday, formerly lived near Sidney and had charge of the Fremont county home. He was an interesting and familiar personage to the boys and girls of the community for not only was he an old Indian fighter but he had had part of one arm amputated. The story was that Dan had the rest of his arm carefully wrapped up and laid away, to be placed in his coffin when he should die. For he wanted both his hands when he got into the other world, he said. Mr. Taylor had an iron hook he made himself and in some fashion fastened to his stump of an arm, that he could use with great dexterity. He was,therefore, an object of the greatest curiosity and admiration to Sidney youths. When Mr. Taylor was placed in his casket last week, relatives reverently placed beside him a package containing the polished bones of his right forearm which had been amputated just below the elbow 56 years before as the result of an accident in a machine shop at Hamburg, and which had accompanied him wherever he had traveled since that time. Mr. Taylor would point out to sceptical observers that possession of the bones represented the physical union to him and that even though severed from his body, they were apart of him and must always remain so. Mr. Taylor was born in Booneville, Ark. Toward the end of the Civil War he enlisted in the army and was involved in mamy Indian battles. Most of his adult life was spent in Nebraska and Iowa. He and Mrs. Taylor moved to Wyoming in 1916 and from there to Colorado in 1922 to be near their sons, J. W. and J. D. Taylor, both of Englewood. He is survived by his wife, 91, his two sons, and three daughters. N.B.: While recollections are interesting, in 2010 it would have been nice if more hard data had been included! But the chances are great that, since he lived to be 101 years old, he would have been on a government pension to which his Civil War service might have entitled him. If this turns out to be the case, he would have been required to outline his war and Indian fighting experiences so the pension bureau could verify his claims. But to the people of 2010, the Taylor experiences fighting the Indians of the Far West would be a gold mine of information. Too, as the steward of the Fremont County Home, he would have been the next door neighbor of my great grandfather, George Biglow Liggett. The Liggett home place was the next farm east of the County Home, a little over three miles southeast of Sidney. They must have known each other! The present Sidney golf course is just to the west. -- W.F. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.