Grantham Israel Taggart

Grantham Israel Taggart (October 17, 1828 – October 24, 1905) was a colonel in the United States Army. He was also a noted merchant in Savannah, Georgia.

Early life Taggart was born in 1828 in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, to James Taggart and Deborah Israel. At age sixteen, he worked in the family's grocery store while continuing his studies. He taught two terms at a school across the West Branch Susquehanna River from his hometown. He was made second lieutenant and, later, captain under General John A. McClernand. He served with the rank of lieutenant-colonel It was later run by his sons. He was Martha's second husband, after the death of Captain Leonard Eddy Johnson in 1870, while she was pregnant with their daughter, Annie.

Death Taggart died in 1905 in Savannah, aged 77. He was interred in Riverview Cemetery in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. His wife, who predeceased him by sixteen months, is buried beside her first husband in Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery.