Mary Quinn Coulson was born in Rushville, Ohio, May 15, 1850. Her mother, who was the daughter of Rev. James Quinn, one of the first presiding elders of the M. E. Church in Ohio, died while her daughter was still a very small child. The family moved to Minnesota about 1860, and a few years later, to Edina, Mo., where Mary Coulson received her education and grew into womanhood. March 16, 1875, she married Stephen G. Kaylor, who died in Blaine in 1922. To this union a son, Floyd C. Kaylor, Lakewood, Washington, and two daughters were born. Josephine Kaylor Nelson died in Blaine in 1916. The other daughter is Mrs. J. O. Farr Salem, Ore. Other survivors are five grandsons, one granddaughter, two great-grandsons and two great-granddaughters.
Mrs. Kaylor came to Blaine with her husband in 1906 and lived here until about two years ago when failing health made it necessary for her to give up her own home and live with her daughter. Early in her life she became a member of the Methodist church, continuing that membership up to the time of her death. A woman of decided opinions, Mrs. Kaylor was not afraid to let the world know where she stood on any question. This was well illustrated when at the close of the Civil War, 1860-1865, she accepted an appointment as teacher in one of the first schools for negroes ever opened in the state of Missouri. Later she was prominent in temperance work and was a member of the W.C.T.U. Funeral service was conducted by Rev. B. N. Galbraith of the Methodist Church, Saturday, April 4 and interment followed in the Blaine cemetery.
