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husband, Frederick Morgan Pike Taylor. Alice Taylor died in 1942 and the property was deeded to the
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of seven saints. Archways to the transepts "rough hewn wood carvings". The altar, pulpit, lectern, and other furnishings are made of carved wood, also by
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