Biographical Sketch of Salathiel H. Taggart, Johnson County, Missouri
Simpson Township
>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

SALATHIEL H. TAGGART,

Warrensburg, Mo.  Born on the 8th day of April, 1822, in North Carolina.
His father Jessie R. Taggart, and mother Rachel Davidson, were natives
of the state of Maryland, and were of English extraction.  His father
died when the Captain was eighteen years of age, and his mother three
years after.  About one year and a half after the death of his father,
the family moved to Missouri, and settled in Lafayette county, where the
Captain remained for twenty years engaged in farming.  For a few years
after coming to Missouri, he worked out at very low wages.  Being
possessed of more than ordinary energy and perseverance, he in three
years time, secured at first eighty-five acres of native soil, and in a
short time his farm contained 155 acres.  At the age of twenty-seven he
was married.  The fruit of this marriage was two daughters and one son,
all of whom have been taken away by death.  The son died in infancy, one
daughter at the age of two years, and the other daughter at the age of
twenty-one. The Captain sold out in Lafayette county, and moved into
Johnson county, in 1865, purchased 247 1/2 acres of good land, where he
now resides.  He has increased his farm to 320 acres, and has bought
other farms, so that now Capt. Taggart is the lawful owner of 1027 acres
of good prairie and timber land, and the valuation of his real and
personal property amounts to nearly $35,000.  Starting in life without
anything, no help but a strong constitution and an indomitable will
power, and without speculation of any kind, he has accumulated all in
about thirty-five years.  Mrs. Taggart, the mother, and his three
children have all died, leaving him without heirs. In a short time he
married Miss Deborah Day, the daughter of Richard and Sarah Day, who are
living in Johnson county. They had five children named as follows: Ameda
R., who died in her third year, Geo. W., James A., Sammie D., (the next,
not named, died very young,) Bessie S. and Frances W.  Mr. Taggart was
appointed the Captain of a company of the militia of the state, hence
the title of Captain.

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