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George Henry Taggart

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George Henry Taggart

Birth
Grove Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, USA
Death
23 Aug 1924 (aged 74)
Cowley, Big Horn County, Wyoming, USA
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Cowley, Big Horn County, Wyoming, USA Add to Map
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At age fifty, George Henry Taggart, his wife Jessie McNiven Taggart, and their sixteen children left their comfortable home in Morgan, Utah to respond to a call by the LDS Church to help colonize the Big Horn Basin in northern Wyoming. George Henry is a son of George Washington Taggart and Fanny Parks Taggart.

Without financial aid from either the Church or the Federal government, the family of George and Jessie along with many others camped in tents on the parched and rattlesnake-infested sagebrush land while they built cabins and dug a thirty-seven mile long irrigation canal. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) gave water rights and land to the LDS Church in exchange for their promise to colonize the area, thus fulfilling a dream of Buffalo Bill's. The saints who settled in the area were helped out financially when the railroad hired them to extend rails into Wyoming. They witnessed a miracle in the building of the canal when through divine intervention a huge boulder was moved out of the canal's way. Eventually, churches and schools were erected in the valley.

This year's reunion in Cody, Wyoming will give GWT descendants an opportunity to learn more about this branch of the family. For a history of the settlement of the Big Horn Basin and stories about the George Henry and Jessie McNiven Taggart family's experiences, please see Scott Taggart's (George Henry-Fanny) account in the Taggart Family Newsletter, Vol. II, No.2, and Vol. III, Nos.1 and 2.

Taggart Newsletter, Volume XIII, Spring 1998

* George Washington Taggart Family Organization

Children not listed below: Violet Taggart Brown, Charles William Taggart
At age fifty, George Henry Taggart, his wife Jessie McNiven Taggart, and their sixteen children left their comfortable home in Morgan, Utah to respond to a call by the LDS Church to help colonize the Big Horn Basin in northern Wyoming. George Henry is a son of George Washington Taggart and Fanny Parks Taggart.

Without financial aid from either the Church or the Federal government, the family of George and Jessie along with many others camped in tents on the parched and rattlesnake-infested sagebrush land while they built cabins and dug a thirty-seven mile long irrigation canal. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) gave water rights and land to the LDS Church in exchange for their promise to colonize the area, thus fulfilling a dream of Buffalo Bill's. The saints who settled in the area were helped out financially when the railroad hired them to extend rails into Wyoming. They witnessed a miracle in the building of the canal when through divine intervention a huge boulder was moved out of the canal's way. Eventually, churches and schools were erected in the valley.

This year's reunion in Cody, Wyoming will give GWT descendants an opportunity to learn more about this branch of the family. For a history of the settlement of the Big Horn Basin and stories about the George Henry and Jessie McNiven Taggart family's experiences, please see Scott Taggart's (George Henry-Fanny) account in the Taggart Family Newsletter, Vol. II, No.2, and Vol. III, Nos.1 and 2.

Taggart Newsletter, Volume XIII, Spring 1998

* George Washington Taggart Family Organization

Children not listed below: Violet Taggart Brown, Charles William Taggart

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