IIIOGHAPHIES 299 ' t . GEORGE W ASHJNGTON TAGGART . GeorgeT aWggaaerhtl ngton HTarargigeat rAt . Fanny P. Taggart Clarl1H R. Taggart • • • • • • O.:urge Wll:ihtoaton TU¥aiut w~ born Nuvembt!1· 6, HUii ln ::ibaron. Wlla-bon> ugb COwlty. New H1U11pshire. Ilia parents were Waahinaton Taaart &Pd Suaana Law. He wa.s ~ptized a meanba' of tile Church ot Jeau:i ChrJat ot Ii&ttc:r-dAy ·s.riate by Elf ..i il~bun~t Pel6a'b'orougb. New- Hampbalre ln Decem-ber. 11141. Mlly 7, 11H3 he married Harrie&. A.Udna Bruce. One cbUd. Ellaa Allll, was born to them. This wlfe uled Pebruary 19, 18'6. He married Panny Para, July 8. 1846. She aawned Lhe responsibility ot ra1:q 11-moot.b-old ltl1a Ann . Eliza Aun &W&rried Geur1c A.Jbtirt OOOdrtch of Richville, Utah, and moved to Star Valley. Wyo. Fanny Parks was born OCI.Ober 26. 1827 at Lavonia I.Jvlngaton, New YorJc to WlUtam Parks IUld Fanny Hyde Parb. Three children were born to George 1tnd Panny Ill Harris Grove, Poi.utwatamie County, Iowa_ Plnit born Ha.rrteu Marie aJao marriL'd Oeorae Albert Goodrich and movud Lo Star Val-ley, Wyo .• while Oeorve Henry married Jeule McNiven and Uved part of tbelr llvea In MOl1Plll, Utah. U1«111 UlOVt:d LO Biai Horn. Wyo. Oharlea Wallace man1ec1 Mary Su.sa&D& Beaman. They Uved 1n RlebvWe, Soulll Weber. Osden, U&ab, and Black Piney. Idabo. Oeoqe W. TacKart. moved to Nauvoo. IUiuoi=- ln JWle 1!143. lie WU made a memt,er of thtt 13th quorum ot aevenUt!S. Pebru&ry 1'1. 1848 he 1att Nauvoo wtlll the S&Jnt6 who were betna driven troin t.bejr homes. He waa ap-potntl.'< 1 one ot Lhe 1iwu-ds or Lbe a1·Wlery. tell hls ·Nite and cbild wtU1 trtenda In Nauvoo. Mr. Taaaart "'" an John acou·, compw1y_ 'l'hcy urived al Sugu Cr~k wllere they remained unlit M:.rch lliL. Dunni; UliJs Li.me he returned 10 hill wife and chlld and apent two day:. with them. The Scott camp traveled on unUI they rellChed ML P~ab. While her11 a call ca.me from B1'lt(haw1 YuUJ1¥ tor IIJl Lhe young men wbo could bu ?.l)&red to gather u Councll Bluffs tn order th&L a company ot 500 mlrht Join the U.S. Army In ILi march to Santa Pe and then 10 on to OaWornJ&. '.lbl.a wu the Mormon Battalion. Ckorge W. Taggart became a mualcian In Company B. He made the entlre march to SOuLhern California where th6y arrived the JaLter part of January, Uk7. 6n July 16. J&l7 the Battalion WL'i honorably discharged at Los Angeles. Mr. Tanart reached Salt Laite Olly Jn October. I8f7. He. with other men of I.he battallon, left Sall Laite for Winter Quarters ln Iowa, arriving Ulere December 17, 11K7. Hert> he met his wife and child. In October. 1862 they reached Sal~ Lake C!Ly where he spent a number of years as a carpenter, joiner and mWwrlght.. He was an excellent M>rkman . He worked for Heber C. Klmba.U and Brigham Youna and obLaJned most ot hla houaeboJd turnM;un· tn thJa - ,. In December, 18M he married Clarlasa Marina Rogers. She wns born March 27. 1838 at Bhalervllle. Port.age County, Ohio. Thuteen children were born to them. tour In Salt. L&k.e Olly and n.tne In Richville. Mol'lran County. Utah. Her parent.a were Noah Rogers and Eda Holister: Her rather. with Addi-em Prati and BenJamio P . Orouard. were the first mlaalonartea o( t he church to the lalanda ol the Paclflc. They ten Nauvoo in .June, 18'3. They opened 11 mbllon In the 8odet:, Islands- Rorers wu the nrnt man to sa.tl a.round the world ae an LD8 m1aslonary. In 1883 tbe George W Taaart lamU.les moved to RichvlUe. Morgan County, on a amall farm. Soon aft.er arriving he utd two brothers. Morgan and Henry Blmna.n of Parml~n. O&vta COunlY. commenced the buildlog of a grtat mtll in Richville. Owuig to the dlttlcultlea In llloae daya of obtaining materlab it waa not completed unW 1886. Before the completion of I.he DlW the people were dependent on the lower vallen for their· flour and etc. Bo th1a grtst mW WM areaUy apprecia&.ed by the peo()le and proved a blessing to them. It wu patrontsed by lhe people of CoalvWe and all the upper part of Summit COunb'. Oeorfre Wub!ngton T'alBan wa.a a man of diat1nc:Uve char1lct.er, an honorable man to be lone remembered by all who knew him and tbolle who ha•e read ot. bia counceoua llfe In the Mormon BfittalJon. Bealdes rus quaU-flcattona before menticoed. be wu a aboemaJcer, YiOlln maker and wheelwright. Hla family b,- the third wtfe (Clarisa& R~• Clarissa Marie who mu.r· ried WUllam B. Park1Daon, M.D., moved to Logan. Utah. Sarah Jane and 8uaanna (twtna, SUADDA liftd one day)-Sarah Jane married 0eol'lJe Helner and Uved ~ rest of her llfe In Nort.h Morg,m. Noah Albert married Sarah Marie Klnpton and moved to Star Valley. Wyo. Julie Marie married WUllam B. Lewis, ·moved to Lewiston, Cache Coun-ty, Utah. Marcus married Plorence Bright,' lived in Lewtston, Utah. Franci!I and FranJr..l.1n (twins) died at birth. James married Valerie Laird, moved lo Lewiston. Utah. Allee Janett married John w. Bnght. Uved In Lewiston, Utnh . Henry M. married Allee May Bright (ahe died) he married Mary Laird. lived in Balt. I.Ake City. Predrick married Eulalla Leavitt, Uved In Lewiston, ut.ah. Two children living at this wrt\tng, Pebruary. Ul58, J.am~ and Alta, live in Lcw;ston.. nta,A---------------------- ---- < &I..I i .I..I ."... "•0 ' .•... ... I..! •.. ~ • 0 a. • ..~.... ........ " ( • THE !4RLY LIPE OP THE TAGGART FAMILY IH MORGAM R1cbv111•, Morgan County, Utab, 1• located on the Weat aide ot a ... 11 valley, twenty ail•• •••t of Ogd•n, Utah, There were ••v•nt••n familie• living there, when on July let, 1877, Alb•rt D, Dickaon waa inad• Biebop of the Richville Ward, R• continu•d aa such, tor tbirty-aeven year•, On tbet eame day, I waa born, The laat ot my tether'• children; nuaber aixteen, The twelfth child of Clar111• Marina Roger• Taggart, My father bad aervad •• Chief Muaician of Company B of the famed MonDon Battalion, The firat recollection I have, we, when about three and a belt year• old, Brother Morgan and Henry Hinman were helping my father 1bingle our log houae, which bad• 10d root. Before tbey had finiabed, it rained, 1oaking all of our bed1, Thi• bou1e had three room• in it, On the north and of tbe living room waa • very large fireplace made ot 1and- 1tone. The center rooa wa1 the bedroom, tbe 1outb room was father'• csrpe~ter 1hop and the boy'• bedrooa, combin•d, Many a night I aet up until very late, dreading to go to bed on cold Winter night• becauae our bedrooa waa ao very cold, Our bed conaiated of apringa .. de ot one-fourth inch rope run croaawhe and aho lengthwiae with abeepakina for a mattr••• and two Buffalo robea to cov•r ua, I have ••t befor• that large fireplec• liaten1ng to tatber and Biabop D1qkaon talk concerning th• Goapel many tiaea1 beard tbe111 d1acuaa1ng propbeaiea and prediction• that are now taking plece, Mother uaed the fireplace to ••ok• meat very often. In the Pall ot 1885, I bad the privilege of going to the Logan Temple to be •••led to my parenta. At this time we wer• the largeat faaily tbat ' bad be•n to the Logeo T .. pl• to be aealed, They received their endowment• July 10, 1879. The acbool houae wa1 juat a abort diatance from our houae, and the teacher, Oliver Xingaton, boarded with our family, School we, only held three or tour month• out of the year, A• a youngater, I apent • lot of ti .. with bow and arrow, and learned to teath•r the arrows, ·making them ahoot atraight, We lived at the mouth of• canyon called ''Taggart Hol-low". We bad to go mil ea after the cows and abe•p, We alway, went on foot, never knowing what it was to bava • horse to rid•, • Taken fro• ''Highlight• in the life of Puderick Taggart" Tbe land in all the•• hill• waa own•d by tba co1UNn• ity and bad no feocea. In th• Pall of tba year,• boy from ••ch family bad to herd the cowa in tba field• to kaap them from deatroying tbe crop• not yet barveated, I waa very young at tbe tiae, and like moat boya that age, wanted ao .. excitement, There were aome very wild cows in the herd, ao ao•• of wa boya decided to••• wbo could get bold of the tail of the wildeat cow in the bard, We aet out, and I won the race, aucb to my aorrow, I got the cow by tba tail, wrapped bar tall around •Y hand and ah• ran ao feat, I couldn't keep up, yet coulnd't let go, I finally got \ooae, but it broke my left arm, cloae to the abouldar. When I regained conaciouaneaa, I bad to walk about a mile and a halt to get ho .. , holding my broken •r• un-der my ,uapandera and having to croaa canyon Creek on• pole, Patber•a amall farm being near the billa on the Weat aide of the vall•i, • great deal ot my tim• waa apent roam-ing the b111a, bunting cowa, digging Sago Lily bulba, etc. Three or four ti•••• veak, Mark and I would go down to Cenyon Creek about four o'clock in tbe att•rnoon, and enjoy catching trout, We nearly alway• caae boae with• large atring of fiab, Often we would stay until dark, make• tire on the bank, and fiabing aeemad to improve, They aeem•d tb bite better under th••• cond1\1ona, On the Pourth of July once, •Y brother•, Charley and Mark and I want fiabing and caught fifty-tour n1oa trout, Mark waa fiabing with an old ruaty book, wben • large fiab bit hi• line off, Ju•t abov~ the book, and got away, A few minute• later, I caught the tiab and Mlirk getting bia book back again, waa able to continue fiahing, Patber bad a two year old ateer that he broke to pull • large ale1gb, The runners were ••d• ot aapla and it wae built good and aolid, In tbe Winter we would have tba atear haul the ale1gb with• forty-five gallon barrel of water once• day, We bad to take it about• halt mile and often when we would get to the gate, tba at••r would give a quick jump and ott would go the ber,.l ot water. That would mean another trip, My Job waa to get the water in tbe Summer, Mother would have me carry about a thirty-gallon barrel ot water each aorning very early, ~tor• the cattlo were turned out, aa the stream waa very amall, and ran several • mllua trom whure it bolled out of the mounlnln. lt It woan'l hauled oarly, it bocamc: unfit for uso. l thought mother 1o·as a 11 ttlo aovore on mil, oa she would havo mo turn out whet water waa left oach morning, and rotill. tho barrel w1th clean, troah water, and put it in tho collar where it would keep cool. ln the Winter, when we were out of school, we coaat-ed down the hills with th-. other boys ot the vil lego, We spent man 1 pl eeHnt houra this way. We especially enjoyed coasting on the cruated anow , when we could walk uphill tor several •ilea, to get to ride back, My pala were; James R. Burt, the Raymond Rich boya, Albert and Abe Dickaon • a boys, Charley and Wi l liam Cr ouch'• boys, John, Mark, Jim and Henry Taggart , (br othera), Thia made e real crowd, I remember an old Indian bringlng a rifle to my fathe r to have it fixed, He ~aid, "Maybe ma coma back, maybe me never coma back, maybe 11e dia----you have the gun I'' Father gave the old rifle an overhaul, but the old Indian never · came back, My tether made the tirat ahoea I ever had, ahoemeker; violin and fife maker; a tirat claaa wbeel r ight; He owned a atone burr flour mill, timbera in tbia mill were hued withe broad-ax . Ha waa a mill and Tha large They were ten by tan inches, a nd all the coga were made of oak, run-ning very aaootbly, No naila were uaed to apeak ot, i n t bia mill, In the biatory of Morgan County, we find thia nota-tion; "About 186), George W. Taggart, Henry and Morgan Hin .. n ot Farmington, commenced building a griat mill in Richvi l le, Due to t he ditficultiea in obtaining materiala, it t ook until 1866 to complete the mi ll, Dur ing t ha procaaa ot building the mill, Praaident Bri gham Young viaited tbe aita., Attar looking the workinga over, told t bam that they bad tha draft aunk in dead water, that i i tbey would aink it deeper, it would work, Thia turned out to be true, aod alter following the Brophet•o inatruc-tiooa, tba mill ran aa it waa intended, Balora tbia time, they had no mill in the upper Weber val ley, and at one time there waa a elide at Devil's Gate t hat .. de it impoaaible to r wagons to get out of the valley, ao that it waa nacesaary for men to make their way over ten feet of anow to get aome flour to avert atarvation, Becauae of the difficulty in obtaining flour , this mi l l in Richville waa really appreciated, and the people were encourgaed to grow more grain, It became ao busy, that aa .. n, aa t hirty teams would be waiting at the same time for flour, The mill contiPUad in operation, until 1890 , • and woi; lorn tlc,wn In 191!-. Ct:r11J ,,r ·~u.,tc form H<,rc,1m County lltatory). (Now bock to Fred Taggart's occuunt) I c1<n rome111ber, a• a small child, running dciwn the, little troll that .led trom our house, at tho mouth of Tag-gart Hollow, down the aido of tho hill, to whorti atood the mill. Thora I'd watch my brothor, George Henry, making flour. At times there wore ao sany grlata to be made into flour, that the aecka had to be atacktid outaide, People came from all the surrounding aottlements, and oven aa tar aa Ogden, to get ~heir flour milled here, Aa years want on, I was the laat one to take charge ot the mill, At that time, I did not make flour, but apent my time chopping grain. I well' romember sitting on my father'• knao and hear-ing him tell many atoriaa of the hardahipa he au f tarad while with the Mormon Battalion. Row they auffarad from lack of water until their tonguaa would awall. Ha alao aaid he bad walked and led hia mulea in order to preserve them, until hia feet would bleed. While in the aervice of hia country, ha caught a cough that etayed with him until hia dying day, When about twelva yaara old, I hel ped Mark make a concrete cellar and hue the logs to make father and mother a batter home, We put tbe logs on the concrete cellar foundation. I can ' t recall my father doing vary much hard work a• be was an old men, aa I olwaya knew him, Ra wae aixty yeara ol d when I waa born, On April 6tb, 189), the Salt Lake Temple waa dedicated. At the time, I waa aurpriaad ·to be invited to go to Salt Lake with my brother, Charley, and hia daughter, Susie , We made the trip in• Jump-aaated buggy, drawn by horaaa . While going down Weber Canyon , we encountered two ' bad 1now 1lidea. Other than thi1, wa had a very enJo,.ble trip, Wa were thrilled with the ei ght ot the Taaipla and it's aurroundinga. J une;\ 189), my father died at the age of 77 yeara, Ba waa • aalt-educatad man, very well reapected by all who koew him, Hia funeral waa held in Richville with a very large congregatioo attending the aervicea. Eighty-tour teama followed tbe haaraa to tba cemeter y, at South Morgan, I waa 1ixtaen yaara old when he died. (and" ot quote from !'Highlights in the Ute ot Frederick Taggart) More f ro• the Hiatory ot Morgan County; Sugar waa One-dollar a pound, tlou~ , Twenty-five dol-lars a hundred, in 186), In 1870, taxes were Two dollara and fifty cents on fifty acres, In the Summer , the • ........ • .0. . '.O "...' Cl • . ... NII • Cl Cl •"... .". " X 0 C"l •r:, ) \ ) • ( .C, .C.l :i .C.. fl ...,. Cl Cl ~"•' • Cl ..i.s • II, ... 0 ..•.... ~ ... ~.. :r (. • 3, Shoshone and Ute Indiana would camp at Richville, Thay always lived at peace, Their dancaa ,tarted early ln tha evening, and they danced until midnight, then would hava a big eupper, then reaume dancing, and continue until dawn, Tha dance hall was lighted with candle• for a long time, becauae it wae more economical, and they were frightened of keroeane, Morgan City waa the firat incorporated city between Omaha and Ogden----whan the railroad cama through in 1869, By appropriate action by tha Legialature, the 19th of February, 1868, Morgan City became the County Saat, When the fire• burned out, they would hava to go to tha neighbor• and borrow a naw atart, In 1868, there waa a graaahopper plague and tha graaa-hoppera ate every living .green thing in eight, Thay had a lot of hardahip, but decided the advantagea far outweighed tba diaadvantagea, Charla• W, Taggart waa the firat Preaidant of the Young Man's Mutual Improvement Aaaociation in Morgan, Compiled by Mary Lambert Taggart Footnote; Frederick Taggart paaaad away, May 4th, 19SS, having attended every Taggart Family Reunion held in the 4g" yaara the George Waahington Tagger\ Pamily baa bean organized, except the one held in Morgan, Utah, in 19S4, At thia time, ha lay absolutely halpleaa, and waa in thi1 condition, for eighteen month• before hie death, Ra never haaitatad to bear hia te1timony to thoaa who called to aae him during hi• illn•••, or to hie loved onaa, •• they aerved him through bia three and a half year• of illnaaa, Kor did ha complain, but alwaya mat everyone with a smile and a good word of ancouragemant to liva the Goepel, Hi• life waa truly a tribute to hia good pioneer parents whom he honored and loved with all hi• heart, M,L,T. • The F1ret 11111 in Upper Weber Valley The Griat 11111 at Richville, Moraan County, Utah, . •