Warren Chancy Taylor was born in covenant on September 26, 1866 in Harrisville, Weber, Utah, the son of Pleasant Green Taylor (born 1827) and Clarissa Lake (born 1828). He grew up in Harrisville in a very large family. His parents had eleven children and Warren was their tenth child. His father also had three other wives, so he had twenty-two half brothers and sisters, making a total of thirty three children in the family. He was baptized on August 6, 1874 and endowed the same day he was married.
On December 22, 1886, he married Sarah Hegsted in the Logan Temple. They made their first home in Harrisville. On September 29, 1887, their first son was born. They named him Warren Elmer Taylor.
In March of 1889, the little family headed to Lewisville, Idaho, where they took up the task of homesteading on a 160 acre sage brush tract on the east side of Lewisville. Warren built a two-room log cabin for his little family and then commenced with the hard job of clearing the land of sagebrush. Warren started on the northeast corner of the tract and would put in crops as he could clear it. He was a very hard working man. He did not get it all cleared before his untimely death, but the land stayed with the family and was eventually cleared some years later and turned into productive land.
Warren and Sarah added two more sons to their family. Horace Wilbert Taylor was born June 28, 1889, and George Alvin Taylor was born October 17, 1891. Both were born in Lewisville in the humble home on their land. They were a happy family.
In the fall of the year of 1892 tragedy stuck the young family. Warren and two other men, Will Gerard and Dave Gould, made a trip to the south fork of the Snake River with a wagon pulled by a team of horses, named Tom and Night to get a load of logs to use for buildings and fence posts. They were gone four or five days working hard to cut trees and prepared the logs for transport back to Lewisville. When the wagon was loaded and tied onto the wagon with a large rope, they began their long journey home with Warren apparently riding the load and driving the team. Along the trip home, they had to go down a steep hill. As the wagon descended down the hill, Warren could see that the load started to shift, so he grabbed the rope and pulled on it, but it rubbed on the front of the hind wheel. The stake that the rope was tied to would not hold and it broke. The other two men hollered for Warren to jump out of danger, but he stayed the load of logs down the hill. The brakes failed on the wagon and as the runaway team and wagon rounded a turn in the road, the logs were thrown off with Warren underneath them. The tongue of the wagon broke and ran into the ground stopping the wagon, but the frightened horses broke loose and ran on and were not hurt badly. Warren was killed instantly with a broken neck. The date was October 10, 1892.
The two other men took his body home to his heartbroken wife and sons. At that time, Elmer was only five years old, Horace was nearly three years old, and George was nearly one year old. The loss of their husband and father was felt deeply by Sarah and her three small sons. Warren is buried in the Lewisville Cemetery.
I am unaware of any written history for Warren Chancey Taylor. Therefore, I have gleaned the above information from several histories of family members and put together a short sketch that I hope will be helpful and interesting to the posterity of Warren Chancey Taylor. If any others have any more information, please contact me and I will be happy to add that information to the sketch.
Frances Arlene Anderson Hawkes
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May 10, 2008
