Mary Taggart/Tagard/Taggartt and Hugh McWilliams
My great-great-grandmother, Elvira McWilliams (also called Elva), married James Means in Lafayette Co. MO about 1833.My cousin Carol has been working on this line and discovered that Elvira’s parents were David McWilliams and Anna Allison.
We had no idea who David’s parents were.Just a few weeks ago, I sent away for an article about Elvira’s son-in-law, Henry W. Leavitt, in a Marshall Co., KS history.To my surprise, when I received a copy of the article, there was quite a lot of information about Henry’s mother-in-law, Elvira McWillliams Means.
The article states the following:
“Mrs. [Elvira] Means is living in this county in the home of her son, John Means.She is now seventy-two years old.She bore the maiden name of McWilliams.Her paternal grandmother was named Tagard and her great-great-grandmother’s name was Wallace.”
We had never heard these names in connection with our family before.We looked up Tagard on the internet and found nothing, but we did find that a Mary Taggart was married to a Hugh McWilliams in the late 1700s.Some people have reported that this couple had a son named David.From testimony given by the couple’s sons, James and John, to support James’s revolutionary war pension application, there is evidence that the couple was living in Orange Co, NC between 1762 and 1780.This matches facts from the 1850 census that show that David McWilliams, Elvira’s father, was born about 1772 in NC.
We are looking for more evidence of a connection between David McWilliams of Warren Co., KY, Lafayette Co, MO and Arkansas, and Hugh and Mary Taggart McWilliams.Besides being Elvira's father, David is also thougt to be the father of James McWilliams who married Cynthia Norris.
Hope to hear from anyone working on this family line.
Thank you.
Charlene
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david stetson 4/27/07
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Charlene Herreid 4/29/07
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