James Cole Taylor, for many years a resident of Chapel Hill, and, for the last six years he lived here, cashier of the Bank of Chapel Hill, died Monday of pneumonia in a hospital in Shanghai, China. News of his death reached here in the form of a telegram from the Secretary of State in Washington to M.E. Hogan.
Mr. Taylor sailed from New York January 20 on a cruise of the Clark Tours. A day or two before sailing he was in Chapel Hill. Seated beside his desk in the bank just as he was about to depart, he said:
“Hogan, you never can tell what will happen, and if I die while on this trip I want you to make sure that my body is brought back to New Bern for burial. I’m leaving funds with you to cover the cost.”
“I’ll do it if it has to be done,” replied Mr. Hogan, “but we expect to see you back in Chapel Hill well and happy a few months from now.”
“Well, I expect to be here, too,” said Mr. Taylor, “but you never can tell.”
A telegram from Clark’s Tours in New York came about the same time as the Secretary of State’s. Mr. Hogen wired to both the Secretary and the tour headquarters asking that the body be sent back to North Carolina.
Mr. Taylor, a native of New Bern, was 69 years old last October. He graduated from the University in1877, and in turn was a surveyor, a chemist, a metallurgist, and a railway official. This last occupation he followed in Ohio. He came back to Chapel Hill about 25 years ago. In 1915 he moved to Morganton to live with his aunt, Miss Hattie Cole.
From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, March 12, 1925
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