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United States of America / Re: Looking for family of Patrick Taggart & Mary Mulholland
« on: Friday 17 February 12 01:33 GMT (UK)  »
I am un able to attach and send a photo through this forum. i have posted it on my facebook page at:  http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/profile.php?id=1294363166

mike kohr

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United States of America / Re: Looking for family of Patrick Taggart & Mary Mulholland
« on: Friday 10 February 12 04:32 GMT (UK)  »
My Grandmother Sarah Taggart, daughter of Patrick and Mary Taggart was born on April 8th, 1905. At the age of 16 she married John Kohr and had 6 children before he passed over from a heart attack in 1936. She was remarried in the 60's to Johnston (John) J Roulston who was born on May 19th, 1893. He passed over on March 24th, 1976. Grandma lived until April 2nd, 1998. She was a fierce and life-long Democrat. She said she and her children would have starved to death had it not been for FDR and the Democratic Party. She told her grandchildren it was a mortal sin to vote Republican. And she meant it.Funeral services were held in Cherry's Holy Trinity Church and she was buried in Cherry, Illinois near her mother and father. Father Kevin Gorman OSB was the officiating priest. Three of her children, Katherine, Ellen and Mary have since passed on.
mike kohr

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United States of America / Re: Looking for family of Patrick Taggart & Mary Mulholland
« on: Friday 10 February 12 03:47 GMT (UK)  »
Patrick Taggart and Mary Mullholand were my great grandparents. I have pictures of both of them in older age. Pat and two of his sons  were in the great Cherry Mine Disaster on November of 1909, but survived the fire by climbing up the air shaft. The two bedroom miner's shack is still lived in by one of his grandchildren. Pat raised his children and those of his sister's who died in the flu epidemic of 1919. The street this house is located on was called "Widow's Row," or "Dead Row," as all but two houses on the entire street lost fathers or sons in the disaster.
His daughter, Sarah Taggart Kohr Raulston, my paternal grandmother outlived two husbands and lived to the age of 93. She was concieved on the trip over from Scotland. She told us that it was not just the waves rocking the boat.
mike kohr

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