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Hello Mary Lou,
Thanks for the reply. Looks as if I do have my work cut out! Here in Adams County,IL the Quincy,IL library has a search engine to all their old newspapers up to 1919 and very few of 1920. The earliest TAGGART article is 1854, an advertisement with a Joseph Taggart concerning baldness!
This is called ActivePaper:
http://archive.quincylibrary.org/Default/Skins/QPL/Client.asp?skin=QPL&AppName=2&AW=1205417717890
With Quincy,IL being located on the Mississippi River and had been an extremely busy river port. Her newspapers covered many National and International news not counting her thousands of transients each week. So, you see, this was a wide array of news topics. When entering in the search engine "TAGGART" up pops 1,000 articles (which actually means there could possibly be more than that), using "TAGGERT" it shows 86 articles. One could only hope the possibilities of a connection to my line ! Below are just a couple transcribed articles...thought you would enjoy reading them.
A few years back I had the opportunity of copying the Old Augusta Cemetery record book. I have not had the time, lately, to go through it. BTW: I also have all the Adams County,IL cemtery books if you need anything from here.
Karen
Quincy Daily Journal Saturday, June 17, 1893 Page 1
Killed by Disgrace.
Bellaire,O., June 17.-
Thursday night Mrs. John Taggart, of St. Clairsville, Ohio, aged 91 years the mother of Wilson S. Taggart, the $20,000 forger arrested lately in Oceans, Virginia, dropped dead of heart disease, caused by the desgrace of hers on and from the grief. Her husband, aged 85, is not expected to live.
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Quincy Daily Journal Thursday, August 18, 1892 Page 2
He Is a Forger.
Bellaire, O., Aug. 18.-
W. S. Taggart, of St. Clairville, O., north of this city, a prominent merchant and coal operator, committed forgery to the amount of $12,000 and skipped out to Chicago leaving a small family. He forged notes, using his father's and his brother-in-law's names and it is thought the amount will be greater when everything is found out.
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Quincy Daily Journal Monday, May 13, 1895 Page 1
BORN ON PIKE'S PEAK SUMMIT.
Z Day Starts in Life at an Altitude of 12,000 Feet Above the Sea.
Colorado Springs, Colo., May 13.-
Dr. Christopher og Colorado Springs was conveyed yesterday by special train to the summit of Pike's Peak, the occassion being the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. John Taggart. Mr. Taggart is foreman of the Manitou and Pike Peak Cog road, and for a month past has lived in a section house located a mile and a half above the timber line, at an altitude of 12,000 feet above the sea. This is the first recorded birth at so great an elevation in the Rocky Mountains and probably on this continent. The youngester weighs ten ponds and has evidentally come to stay. The train boys have named him Pike's Peak Taggart.
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