Ida I. Taylor, daughter of Elias Taylor of Long Branch, died on Saturday, February 17th aged 35 years. She had been sick since last summer. Two weeks before her death she was attacked with measles and this hastened her death. Miss Taylor’s mother died several years ago and she kept house for her father. She was a member of the Freehold Methodist church and of the Freehold Daughters of Liberty, from which lodge her father receives a death benefit of $200. Miss Taylor leaves two sisters and a brother. They are Mrs. Hugh N. Menke and Thomas E. Taylor of Long Branch and Mrs. R. J. Thompson of Howell.

Source: Red Bank Register, Wednesday, Feb 21, 1900