Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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George Howard Taggart and Helen Sloan Cochran




Husband George Howard Taggart 1

           Born: 27 Jun 1898 - Sewickley, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Father: George Bradford Taggart (1859-1910) 3
         Mother: Jane Baxter Kilgore (      -1913) 4


       Marriage: 10 Sep 1920 1



Wife Helen Sloan Cochran 5 6

           Born: 11 May 1899 5
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         Father: Milton C. Cochran (      -      ) 2 6
         Mother: Lyda M. Boyd (      -      ) 2




Children
1 F Marilyn Boyd Taggart 2

           Born: 26 May 1923 2
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2 M George Howard Taggart, Jr. 2

           Born: 15 Nov 1925 2
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3 F Jane Kilgore Taggart 2

           Born: 22 Nov 1927 2
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4 F Nancy Cochran Taggart 2

           Born: 22 Nov 1927 2
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General Notes: Husband - George Howard Taggart


He enlisted with his brothers Jesse K. and Robert in the National Guard of Pennsylvania in June, 1916, and was mustered in at Mt. Gretna, Pennsylvania, July 5, 1916, Battery F, First Pa. Field Artillery, Captain Parucker, second officer in command. He served about five months on the Mexican border and was mustered out November, 1916. On Apr. 4, 1917 he enlisted in the U. S. Navy and served on the U. S. S. Tallahassee, R. F. Menner, Commander. He was stationed at Panama for one year as a seaman of the first class. From Panama his ship went to the West Indies, patrolling Kingston, Jamaica, San Juan de Marcus, Haiti, St. Thomas, Guantanamo, Key West, Miami, then to Key West, Guantanamo to Panama, then to Guantanamo, and from there to Bermuda Island, where he was stationed eleven months. From Bermuda he was sent to Charleston Navy Yard where he was honorably discharged Sept. 10, 1919. He was later employed at the Union Switch and Signal Company at Swissvale, Pennsylvania.


General Notes: Wife - Helen Sloan Cochran

from Wilkinsburg, Allegheny Co, PA

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Sources


1 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 184.

2 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 187.

3 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 182.

4 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 183.

5 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 188.

6 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 34.


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