Andrew Taggart and Sarah Wilson

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Husband Andrew Taggart ^{1 2}

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           Born: 15 Mar 1762 - County Antrim, Ireland 2
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           Died: 9 Jan 1849 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1 3
         Buried:  - Uniondale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

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         Father: John Taggart (      -      )
         Mother: Agnes Eliza [Unk] (      -      )

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Wife Sarah Wilson ^{1 2}

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           Born: Abt 1768
     Christened: 
           Died: 8 Mar 1855 1 3
         Buried:  - Uniondale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

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         Father: [Father] Wilson (      -      )
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 M Joseph Taggart ³

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           Died:  - Ireland
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2 F Elizabeth Taggart ^{1 4}

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           Born: Mar 1796 - County Antrim, Ireland 3
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           Died: 30 Mar 1876 3
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         Spouse: Francis Hare (      -      ) 1 4

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3 F Agnes Eliza Taggart ^{1 3}

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           Born:  - County Antrim, Ireland
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           Died: Aft 1889
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         Spouse: Joseph Shaw (      -Bef 1889) 1 3

         Spouse: Hugh Dalzell (      -      ) 5

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4 M Matthew Taggart ^{1 3}

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           Died: Bef 1889
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5 F Mary Taggart ^{1 3}

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         Spouse: William Hare (      -      ) 1 3

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6 F Margaret Taggart ^{1 3}

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         Spouse: Alexander Hare (      -      ) 1 3

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7 M Andrew Taggart ^{1 3}

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           Born: 
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           Died: Bef 1889
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         Spouse: Nancy Hare (      -      ) 3

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8 F Sarah Taggart ^{1 3}

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         Spouse: Alexander Glasgow (      -      ) 1 3

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9 M John Taggart ^{1 6}

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           Born: 15 Mar 1799 - County Antrim, Ireland 1 7
     Christened: 
           Died: 24 Nov 1890 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 8
         Buried:  - Uniondale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

         Spouse: Anna Hare (      -1824) 1 3
           Marr: 1824 - County Antrim, Ireland 1

         Spouse: Jane Porter (1798-1888) 1 9
           Marr: 14 Mar 1828 1

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General Notes: Husband - Andrew Taggart

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He was born at Tobergill House, Donegore Parish, Taggartsland.
Like his father, he was a loyalist and was active in helping to quell the insurrections of 1779 and 1798. He was severely injured at Donegore Hill, where the rebels rallied in 1798 and drove the yeomanry back, and was at the markethouse riots in Antrim when Lord Antrim was killed. He was a high officer in the Masonic Order and a member of the Orangemen's Association. As the officers were leaving their headquarters at Ballymena one night in 1801 the United Irishmen attacked the place and he was wounded by a blow from the butt of a gun which rendered him partially deaf during the rest of his life.
He was the first member of the Taggart family to leave the Presbyterian Church to affiliate with the Seceders. He was one of those who prayed relief from the government from the common form of taking an oath by kissing the Bible.
Shortly after John Taggart was trampled to death, Andrew removed with his family to Port Lea beyond Randalstown in the Barony of Lower Antrim, where he carried on the linen business. He was the owner of extensive linen greens, one of which near the Londonderry line was under the management of Wm. Moore, a foreman who often accompanied him to the markets of Ballymena and Belfast.
In 1818 he sold his property at Port Lea to Mr. Russell and came with his family to Pennsylvania. He entered America by the port of Montreal and thence proceeded, mainly by water, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the family building its own flatboats. He purchased a farm in Deer Township, Allegheny County, near the Butler County line from Richard Wilson, a near relative of his wife's who had previously settled there. He was engaged in farming until 1835 when he retired to Pittsburgh. Apropos of the family's settlement in the United States, Andrew Taggart often related the following story: One day on the bleaching greens at Port Lea he came unexpectedly upon his son John standing with his hand shading his eyes, and looking longingly towards the setting sun. To his question, "What troubles you, my boy?" John replied, "Father, I want to go to America." After some discussion as to the impossibility of immediately carrying out such a plan his father promised him if he would content himself for two years he would dispose of his bleaching greens and their home at Port Lea and the entire family would accompany him.
Andrew died at the Taggart homestead on Irwin Ave., Pittsburgh, North Side.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 289.

2 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 155.

3 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 156.

4 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 84, 156.

5 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 856.

6 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 88, 156.

7 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 172.

8 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 176.

9 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 80, 156.