Thomas Hunter Taylor^[1]

1950 - 2006  (56 years)

• Name	Thomas Hunter Taylor
  Born	23 Apr 1950	Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee
  Gender	Male
  Died	28 Nov 2006	Colorado Springs, Colorado   [2]
  Buried	9 Dec 2006	Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee
  Person ID	I169764	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2013

  
  

  Father	Hugh Taylor,   b. Abt 1913, Tennessee ,   d. Bef 7 Nov 2004  (Age ~ 91 years)
  Mother	Aylene Johnson,   b. Abt 1916, Tennessee ,   d. Bef 28 Nov 2006  (Age ~ 90 years)
  Family ID	F64075	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Suja
  Family ID	F64076	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 23 Apr 1950 - Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee Buried - 9 Dec 2006 - Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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  [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 7 Nov 2004. Mary Josephine Taylor Ford obituary [S113] Manes Funeral Home, (http://www.manesfuneralhome.com), 28 Nov 2006. Thomas Hunter Taylor, 56, died of complications of esophageal cancer, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Born and raised in Newport, Tenn., Tom graduated from The Citadel, Charleston, S.C., Career Army, he retired in 1996, and then earned a B.S.W. magna cum laude at Colorado State University, and an M.A. in psychology at Chapman University, Orange, California. At the time of his death , he was employed at Spanish Peaks Mental Health Center, Pueblo, Colorado. Tom was an avid fisherman, and loved the outdoors; he enjoyed cards, reading, and genealogy. Throughout life, he endeavored to be kind. Tom was the son of the late Hugh and Aylene Johnson Taylor, Newport, Tenn., and grandson of the late Alfred and Janie Chilton Taylor of Newport, Tenn., and the late Thomas Woodson and Allie Smith Johnson, of Morristown, Tenn. He is survived by his loving wife, Su Ja, of Colorado Springs, Colorado; brother Hugh Parmenas Taylor, of White Pine, Tenn.; cousins Alfred Taylor Ford, Dr. Hobart Ford, Newport, Tenn., and Dr. John Taylor Purvis, of Knoxville, Tenn.;and his caregiver, Clarice Stewart, of Newport, Tenn. Although a resident of Colorado Springs for some 16 years, Tom was a 7th generation Tennessean, and considered himself a Tennesean. He was descended from Col. Parmenas Taylor, Taylors Bend, Jefferson County, Tenn., and who was appointed by President Washington to the upper Council of the Southwest Territory; Captain Jonathan Langdon, Virginia continental Line; and member of the Society of Cincinnati in the State of Virginia (composed of Revolutionary officers); Col. Parmenas Taylor Turnley, U.S. Army and founder and former President of the Aztec Society (composed of veterans of the Mexican American War); and multiple members of First Families of Tennessee and First Families of Virginia. The family will receive friends at Manes Funeral Home Chapel on Saturday, December 9, 2006, at 1:30p.m., followed by services at 2:30 p.m. and interment at Union Cemetery, Newport.