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Blanche Tarter

Jeanette "Blanche" (Clark) Tarter was born on Oct. 16, 1880 near Laredo, Grundy County, MO, the daughter of George "William" and Helen (White) Clark. Her family history research and writing efforts, done well into her 90s, provide a rare, vivid and irreplaceable view of this pioneer branch of our family, and prove that one person can make a difference.

On Dec. 14, 1904, at the age of 24, Blanche married 26-year-old Laban Moore Tarter (1878-1969) in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO. The groom was a college senior at the time.

Laban was born on Sept. 16, 1878 in Farmington, IL, the son of Frederick Moore and Mary Anne (Oliver) Tarter. When death took Laban's mother when he was just one year of age, Laban and his father migrated from Illinois to Missouri. "They lived for a time near Farmersville, and for a time at Chillicothe," said James Everett Ford's 1908 book, History of Grundy County. "[Laban] worked on a farm, and at whatever work he could get, earning his way through school. For four years, he made his home with Dr. R.C. Norton."

One of Blanche and Laban's two "modern homes." History of Grundy County, 1908

Laban was a 1905 graduate of the University of Missouri, having studied agriculture and electrical engineering. He was tall, and of medium build, with blue eyes and brown hair. Blanche described him as "a man of honor and integrity, so kind and so generous, devoted to his family, fond of reading and writing poetry." 

The Tarters had two sons -- Rodney Clark Tarter and William "Paul" Tarter. 

After marriage, Blanche and Laban resided on her father's farm near Laredo for three years. They purchased the farm outright in about 1907, and moved to the property, "building a beautiful home," said the 1908 History. They "belong to the Methodist church."

In fact, Blanche and Laban built two "modern farm homes" near Trenton, Grundy County, before moving in 1916 to Chillicothe, Livingston, MO. There, Laban was a salesman for the International Correspondence Schools. 

During the First World War, Laban was required to register for the military draft. He stated to the registrar that their address as 1206 West Jackson in Chillicothe, and that he remained an employee of International Correspondence Schools, headquartered in Scranton, PA.

They moved further into urban life when relocating back to Kansas City in 1923, where they joined the Linwood United Methodist Church. Later still, Laban became an insurance broker with the Walker-Curtis Insurance Agency.

~ An Initial Interest in Family Roots ~

One day in November 1949, Blanche opened a letter from an unfamiliar name and address, Verda (White) Richey of Canton, Ohio. In the opening sentence, Verda wrote: 

At the suggestion of Mrs. Philp, I am presuming to write to you, asking whether you would care to give me some information, or direct me to the proper source from which to obtain it. As a non-profit hobby, geneologies have becoming very interesting and challenging. To one not interested, such a personal can be a very big "bore," and please do not allow me to be such. But in the course of "digging for ancestors," the ones preceding our great grandfather, Peter White's family are fairly well known. But when the families left Morrow County , Ohio in the middle of the 1880's and scattered over the west and mid-west, the family intercourse ceased.

Verda went on to explain that she had been orphaned at a young age and was raised in Missouri by her grand-uncle and aunt Peter and Tena White. She said that this Uncle Peter and Blanche's grandfather Luther White were brothers, and lived near each other in Ohio and Missouri. She noted that she had often heard about Blanche's family growing up: "Blanche and Mabel Bailey visited at Uncle Peter's: Lester & Layton were closer to Uncle Peter than some of his own brothers. In fact, I visited -- when young -- in Isabel, Kansas, when Blanche Petrie [sic] was first married. The occassional [sic] horse-and-buggy-trips my uncle & his wife made to see Luther & Mahala were important events, but I was never taken so missed knowing the Clark's except by hear-say." 

Moving to Ohio in about 1910, Verda wrote that she met another of her White uncles (John), who imparted into her imagination much "family lore." Verda caught the genealogy bug and began doing her own research. She visited White and Fluckey family graves in the Cardington Cemetery and went inside the old farm homestead of Luther White's parents, Noah and Frances "Fanny" White. Some years later, she decided to try to collect as much information as possible, and began writing to distant cousins. Among them, Mabel (Bailey) Philp sent back the names of Luther and Mahala White's family and their descendants. Verda's letter to Blanche Tarter thus contained three follow-on questions: 1.) what was the maiden name of Noah White's wife Frances? 2.) what was Mahala White's maiden name? and 3.) were there any known names of Luther's siblings other than Mary Ann Pringle, Allen White and Mariah Patterson Purvis? 

In concluding the letter, Verda wrote: 

Now surely Luther White's family kept a family record in the middle pages of the big parlor bible -- as everyone else did. If so, who would have access to them? The Pringles had the farm last, so probably had the Peter Sr. & Noah White records. Their adopted daughter probably did not keep them & they are lost forever. If you are able to give me some data, I shall be very grateful. 

Blanche Tarter's immediate reaction is unknown. Unfortunately, there are no further letters between the two in our archive for a span of 21 years. 

~ Digging Deeper into Genealogical Research ~

In 1961, the Tarters moved to Raytown, a suburb of Kansas City. They remained there for eight years until Laban's death.

Laban passed away in Baptist Memorial Hospital in Kansas City on April 23, 1969.

After her husband's death, Blanche became more deeply immersed in genealogy. In January 1970, she and Verda exchanged more letters, focusing on the ancient White family's alleged origins in the Isle of Wight. Verda offered up a number of theories advanced by other researchers and apparently sent family papers to Blanche for study. 

Blanche's book

Working from her Raytown home, Blanche collaborated with her cousins Edith Marguerite (Peterie) Hoyt and Verda (White) Richey to co-publish a landmark book in 1971 about the Whites. She entitled it Ancestral and Chronological History and Lineage of the Family of Luther White and Mahala (Minor) White, Their Forbears and Descendants, 1665-1971. Copies are known to be deposited in the Morrow County (OH) Historical Society in Mt. Gilead, Ohio; the Somerset (PA) Historical and Genealogical Society; and the California Genealogical Society; among others.

She also published another small booklet, Ancestral and Chronological History and Lineage of George William Clark, with assistance and guidance from her son Paul. An August 1974 letter from Paul advised that the booklet finally was "now at the printer's." The print run was very small, perhaps 36 copies in all. An original copy is on file today at the Grundy County Genealogical Society at the Jewett Norris Library in Trenton, MO.

Blanche changed her focus once these publications were completed, desiring to know more about her Minor roots.  She embarked throughout the 1970s on an intensive letter writing campaign, with her son Paul and cousin Alba (McGirk) Kristensen Peck, and many others, using correspondence from afar to explore courthouses, historical societies and other sources in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Paul himself did research on weekends, in libraries in Oakland/San Francisco, and on occasional business trips to regions of interest to the family, including in Columbus and Mt. Gilead, Ohio, in July 1974.

She and Verda renewed their letter-writing and exchanged messages off and on through the 1970s.  By 1974 they began focusing on the genealogical origins of Blanche's great-grandparents, Daniel Miner Sr. and Margaret "Peggy" Fluckey. At first they theorized that he was of the English family of Miner-Minor from Connecticut, as that clan had been in America since the 1600s and published several family history books. But Daniel's name was never found among them. 

During these years of discovery, as Blanche entered her 90s in 1970, she began to lose her eyesight. But with her mind active, and her curiosity highly aroused, she relied on her sons Paul and Rodney to help keep her Daniel Miner quest going. Adding her own notes to one Verda letter of September 1975, she scribbled to Paul: "Do you think I should follow this up & how?" 

In looking through an old family photo album in the early 1970s, Blanche commented on her great-grandparents, and great-aunts and uncles: 

Daniel looks like such a kind benevolent old man. Aunt Lib the fussy one. I have a very faint shadowy remembrance of seeing Uncle Eli. I suppose it was the time that Jack and Floy Sellers remember. A tall slender man with blue eyes and a brown silky beard. I have no idea from whence he came nor whether he went nor when it was.

Blanche enjoyed her correspondence, which was a distraction from her increasing blindness, but also was very frustrated with dead ends. In a letter dated March 11, 1974, Verda wrote: "Congratulations on your successes in family searches. It all means W-O-R-K. Your writing is good even though you cannot read newsprint." In a 1976 letter, Marguerite Cockley said: "I do agree with you that Pennsylvania kept very poor records in the early days. Many professional genealogists throw up there [sic] hands when asked to do research here. It is so time consuming and so often produces so little. But we must work with what we have."

Institutions and Researchers Contacted in the Quest to Find Daniel Miner Sr. Stonington (CT) Historical Society, Roger Williams Jr., 1976 Morrow County (OH) Historical Society, Idelma (Rigdon) Silver, 1973 Genealogist Rosalie (Lucas) Hartinger, Dayton, Ohio, 1975 Mary Deaver, Crooksville, Ohio, 1975 Somerset (PA) Historical and Genealogical Society, Marguerite (Lepley) Cockley, 1974 Washington County (MD) Historical Society, Rachael S. Schwartz, 1976 Genealogist Helen L. Harriss, Pittsburgh, PA, 1976 Washington & Jefferson College, Dr. Raymond Bell, 1976 Historian Rev. H. Austin Cooper, Burkettsville, Maryland, 1976  Researcher Mrs. Walter McClintock, New Lexington, Ohio, 1976  Perry County, Ohio Clerk of Courts, Ned Watts, 1975 Preston County (WV) Historical Society, Janice (Cale) Sisler, 1976 Brownsville (Ohio) Cemetery Association, Lucile Hupp, 1978 Mt. Gilead (Ohio) Independent Register, 1974 Fairfield County (Ohio) Recorder of Deeds, Rex M. Zollinger, 1975 Ohio Auditor of State, Thomas J. Voldness, 1975 Piqua (Ohio) Daily Call, Louise M. Fogt, 1975 Sandusky (OH) Historical Societyj Ohio State Library, Columbus, Alice D. Paulin, 1975 Ohio Vital Statistics Ohio Historical Society, Columbus

Vacationing at her niece's home in Connecticut in the summer of 1975, Verda offered to drive to towns of Blanche's suggestion in order to work in the old records firsthand. They theorized that Daniel might have been part of a military unit from Connecticut that ended up in Pennsylvania. On an unsuccessful trip to the Pequot Library in South Fairfield, CT, Verda was advised by the librarian to try the Connecticut state archives in Hartford. In June 1976, again in Connecticut, Verda wrote to Blanche: "I often wonder how you and your search for your gr. grandfather has progressed. If you had any lead at all, I might be able to do some more research for you; you know there were too many Minor branches and none named who emigrated westward." 

On his mother's behalf, Paul sent Verda some information about Daniel Miner, and said "Mother would be the happiest 95-year old in the world if you could establish a connection between Daniel Miner and one of the families in Connecticut." In her last known reply to Paul, Verda concluded: "I feel sure that the Miner you want went with the Susquehannah Company from Connecticut to Pennsylvania with those of 'The New Connecticut': Finding him is the problem. Hoping for success."

~ A Slight Miner Family Breakthrough ~

In the summer of 1974, Blanche finally began to crack through history's frustrating barriers. She wrote to the Somerset (PA) Historical and Genealogical Society, with her letter forwarded to Society archivist Marguerite (Lepley) Cockley. In her reply of Aug. 2, 1974, Marguerite provided some leads that have proven to be accurate, and while not confirmed at the time, gave Blanche her first real clues. Marguerite said: "Have not found very much to report. Jacob Miner was a taxpayer in Turkeyfoot Township in 1793. Daniel Miner or Minor may be a son or the above or a brother. There was a Martin Miner in a Somerset County Company Civil War years. So the family was here." 

Blanche sent a delighted reply: "You will never know how happy you have made me by repeating the name of Jacob Miner as a citizen of Somerset Co. Turkeyfoot Twhip. [sic] Pa. It is the first clue I have had to anyone who might be the father of my g. grandfather, Daniel Miner." 

In all, Blanche and Marguerite exchanged dozens of letters. In her Raytown home, eagerly awaiting replies, Blanche understandably was impatient from time to time. In a letter in 1974, Marguerite wrote: "I know it's hard to be patient at 93½ -- you need to know, now. And there are so many like you. I've answered nine letters today -- and it's after midnight now." 

More convinced than ever (correctly) that Daniel Miner had come from Somerset County, PA, Blanche notified her other correspondents. They began to try to connect the English Miner-Minor clan of Connecticut with our German Minerd-Miner group, to establish when or how they migrated from Connecticut to Pennsylvania. But they never found this link, as it does not exist, and Daniel's origins and migration pattern were far different. But because Daniel's extended family lacked basic reading and writing skills, and left meager if any written records, Blanche and her network of researchers were digging for a scant paper trail. 

At about the same time, Blanche's cousin Alba (McGirk) Peck, in California, began writing independently to Marguerite, also seeking the Daniel Miner paper trail. So their conversation began to take on a three-way dynamic.

Later that year, in November 1974, Marguerite Cockley again sent a research summary to Blanche. Without realizing it with precision, the letter shows that they were ever more closely circling around the names of Daniel's brother and nephews.

I have not forgotten you, nor my promise to check Wills and Deeds at the Somerset Court House... There was a John Miner and a Jacob Miner who received tracts of land in Turkeyfoot Twp.... There was also an estate paper for Jacob Miner and wife Catherine... which shows a John married to Hannah, Jacob m. Rachael, Joel m. Kate and Charles m. Adeline.... Now, our society has had an inquiry from Mrs. Alba McGirk Peck.... Do you know her?  I stopped in Bedford Court House and Library 3 weeks ago and looked for Miner(or) name. Was not a productive search.

And in mid-November 1975, noting the first snowfall of the season, Marguerite wrote correctly about a hunch she had: "I think that Daniel and Burket Miner may have been sons of Jacob. Burket Minor married Francis Skinner and appears to have gone to what is now West Virginia. Since your Daniel Minor shows up in Perry County, Ohio where so many people from Turkeyfoot settled, it is very likely that he went there with them..." 

Blanche had a way of engaging her correspondents with such earnestness and interest that she became a pied piper. A 1976 letter from Marguerite started with: "I will drop you a few lines to let you know that I am still thinking of our search. It's almost as if I were hunting for one of my own."

By May 1976, Marguerite had found one of the vital facts that finally -- though only a suspicion to her and Blanche -- established the connection. She wrote of having located an early land record where "D.F. Miner" and "Frederick Miner" had bought land in Perry County, Ohio. In reality, "D.F. Miner" was a clerk's sloppy shorthand for the joint purchase of 160 acres in 1812 by "Daniel and Frederick Miner," establishing that there was a relationship between the two men. 

In August 1976, in the last known letter Marguerite sent to Blanche, she wrote: "I have all my friends looking for any early Miners they can find... I feel certain that your Daniel Minor is the one in Turkeyfoot Twp. in 1800. But where did he come from? Wouldn't we like to know?

~ Final Years ~

Blanche died in a rest home on Feb. 8, 1978, at the age of 98, almost certain, but never assured, that her great-grandfather, Daniel Minor Sr., was the son of Western Pennsylvania pioneers Jacob and Maria (Nein) Minerd Sr.  While her hunch has proven correct, this fact was not established for another two decades. 

Her son Paul, intrigued with the search, and in loving memory of his mother, continued corresponding with historical institutions back east, hoping to complete her work.

In 1988, the founder of this website visited with Marguerite Cockley in her home in Meyersdale, PA. She shared what she had learned about Daniel Miner and Blanche Tarter and suggested that this needed additional attention. In the early 1990s, Minerd.com's founder and cousin Eugene Podraza traveled to Perry and Morrow Counties in Ohio to learn more about Daniel's story. 

Then, in 1996, Blanche's elderly son donated some of her papers to the Minerd-Miner-Minor Archives, and after the founder of this website made another visit to Perry County, Ohio, finding a row of burials in an old cemetery that confirmed the connection.

~ Son Rodney Clark Tarter ~

Rodney Tarter Courtesy Jay Garner

Rodney Clark Tarter (1909-1989) was born on June 27, 1909 in his parents’ farmhouse near Trenton, Grundy County, MO. 

He grew up attending school in Chillicothe, MO and was a 1927 graduate of Central High School in Kansas City. He went on to study the Kansas City Business College. He stood 6 feet, 1 inch tall in young manhood and weighed 162 lbs.

At the age of 27, on Sept. 24, 1936, he was united in matrimony with Edythe Lucille Brewer (Feb. 23, 1917-2003), daughter of Cloy C. and Hilda (Philgreen) Brewer of Kansas City, MO. Their wedding ceremony was held at the First Assembly of God Church, by the hand of Rev. A.A. Wilson, "under an arch of roses," said the Kansas City Star. The bride "wore a princess gown of bride's satin, with the skirt lengthening into a circular train. Her tulle veil was held in place by a halo of of orange blossoms. She carried a shower bouquet of yellow Johanna Hill roses and gypsophila with streamers of satin and tulle."    

Together the couple bore two offspring – David Moore Tarter and Linda Jeanette Tarter. 

Rodney obtained employment in Kansas City, KS with William Volker & Company and the General American Transportation Corporation. When he was required to register for the military draft during World War II, their address was 2926 Lockridge.

Circa 1951, they relocated to Raytown, MO, with him joining the Raytown Police Department. He spent about 20 years with the police force, retiring as sergeant in 1977. In 1974, he was named "Outstanding Police Officer" by the Raytown Jaycees.

A gathering of Tarters, 1973. Front, L-R: Martie, Steve, Blanche holding Jeannette and Jennifer, Clark and Linda Hulbert. Back, L-R: David, Sandra, Kelley, Terri, Cheryl, Edythe, Rodney  - courtesy Jay Garner

In his free time, Rodney enjoyed antiques and genealogy. He belonged to the Missouri Peace Officers Association and the Sons of the American Revolution.

Edythe earned a living at the Jones Store Company in Kansas City's Blue Ridge Mall. They were active members of the First Assembly of God Church in Raytown. The pair celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in September 1986 with a reception at the Evangel Temple.

Sadly, at the age of 79, Rodney died in Baptist Medical Center on Jan. 7, 1989. Burial was in Floral Hills Cemetery. His obituary appeared in the Kansas City Times, which said he "had lived in this area most of his life." He was survived by nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Lucille outlived her husband by 14 years. The angel of death cleaved her away in Belton, MO at the age of 85 on Jan. 8, 2003.

Son David Moore Tarter (1939-living) was born in 1939 in Kansas City, MO. He was a 1957 graduate of Raytown High School and then attended Grantham School of Electronics to learn the field of radio. He went on to work as a radio engineer for KRLS-AM in Russell, KS followed by work as operator and manager of KEDD-AM of Dodge City, KS. On March 15, 1957, he tied the knot with Sandra Ann Cooper (1942- ? ), daughter of Wellington E. and Dorothy (Fancher) Cooper. Three daughters born into this family were Terri Sue Tarter, Cheryl Ann Tarter and Kelley Lynn Tarter. David eventually was tapped to be general manager of High Plains Advertising Agency in Dodge City. With a love of air travel, he became a licensed pilot and flew himself to business meetings out of town. The family held a membership in the United Methodist Church. 

• Granddaughter Terri Sue Tarter (1958- ? ) was born in 1958. She entered into the rite of marriage with Kent Robert Hermes ( ? - ? ). Their two children are Jordan Shea Hermes and Chelsea Brianne Hermes.

• Granddaughter Cheryl Ann Tarter (1959- ? ) was born in 1959. She was joined in wedlock with Robert Charles Dunst ( ? - ? ). Together, they produced a family of three -- McKenzie Allison Dunst, Shelby Leigh Dunst and Whitney Nichole Dunst. 

• Granddaughter Kelley Lynn Tarter (1962- ? ) was born in 1962. She was united in matrimony with Rodney Rohn ( ? - ? ). They became the parents of Hollie Danielle Rohn and Trevor David Rohn. 

Daughter Linda Jeanette Tarter (1948- ? ) was born in 1948 in Kansas City, MO. She was a 1966 graduate of Raytown High School and studied medical technology for three years at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. When she was 20 years of age, on July 12, 1968, she was joined in wedlock with Clark Lynn Hulbert (1945- ? ), a native of Corpus Christi, TX and the son of Carroll Lloyd and Inez (Hardy) Hulbert. The nuptials were exchanged at the Raytown Assembly of God Church by the hand of Rev. Glenn A. Green. The Kansas City Star announced the marriage, saying that the bride's "peau de soie gown featured a bodice and bell sleeves of Alencon lace and a 7-foot train, also of lace. Lace bows, edged with seed pearls and lily of the valley, held her veil. She carried rosebuds and lily of the valley." The seven children they bore together are Jennifer Diane Garner, Jeannette Lynn Petersen, Johanna Leigh Hulbert, Cameron Lloyd Hulbert, Matthew Clark Hulbert, Jessica Brienne Hulbert and Jannell Amanda Hulbert. Clark was an airman at the time of marriage, stationed at the Miramar Naval Air Base in San Diego. He is said to have been a great-great grandson of President John Quincy Adams. Clark attended Evangel College in Springfield, MO and Michigan State University. During the Vietnam War, in 1966, he joined the U.S. Navy. He was stationed for three years as a firefighter at Miramar and in his fourth year was deployed to Vietnam. He received his honorable discharge from the Navy at Treasure Island Naval Base in San Francisco in June 1970. Circa 1989-2006, the Hulberts made their dwelling-place in Belton, MO.

• Granddaughter Jennifer Diane Hulbert is married to John H. "Jay" Garner. Their pair of offspring are Barbara Brienne Garner and Michal Kathryn Garner. Jay graciously has provided valuable content and images for this biography.

• Granddaughter Jeannette Lynn Hulbert wed Jason Andrew Petersen. They are the parents of Chloe Anne Petersen, Cailey Rose Petersen, Simon Alexander Petersen and Emma Kathryn Petersen.

• Granddaughter Johanna Leigh Hulbert exchanged marital vows with Paul David Pankonin. The three offspring in this family are Anne Elise Pankonin, David Tyler Pankonin and Abigail Leigh Pankonin.

• Grandson Cameron Lloyd Hulbert ( ? - ? )

• Grandson Matthew Clark Hulbert ( ? - ? )

• Granddaughter Jessica Brienne Hulbert ( ? - ? )

• Granddaughter Jannell Amanda Hulbert ( ? - ? ) 

~ Son William "Paul" Tarter ~

Son William "Paul" Tarter (1912-2003) was born on Dec. 3, 1912 at the family's farmstead near Trenton, MO.

As did his brother, Paul stood 6 feet, 1 inch high and weighed 160 lbs. as a young man.

On Sept. 5, 1937, Paul entered into marriage with Sarah "Blanche" Larkin (Sept. 24, 1912-2003), a native of Kansas City and the daughter of A. Lee and Pearl (Shepard) Larkin. Their nuptials were conducted in the Linwood Boulevard United Methodist Chapel in Kansas City, MO. In announcing the wedding, the Kansas City Journal said that the rites had been performed by Rev. Cassius English Street, that Pearl Cronk of Dallas, TX had served as maid of honor, and that Paul's brother Rodney was best man. Their union endured the ebbs and flows of an extraordinary 65 years together.

The newlyweds' first home was at 2937 East 28th Street. Together they produced a family of four -- Julia T. Prager, Philip Tarter, Marilyn Tarter and Steven Tarter.

In 1935, Paul was hired by William Volker & Company, the Kansas City-based manufacturer of home furnishings such as moldings, picture frames and window shades. When the business relocated its headquarters in 1952 to Burlingame, CA, the Tarters pulled up stakes and moved too, settling in San Mateo. Eventually Paul was promoted to vice president of transportation for the company.

The family were active members of the First Presbyterian Church of Burlingame and resided at 2600 Easton Drive. Said the San Mateo County Times, Paul "was a Registered Practitioner before the Interstate Commerce Commission. From 1930 until 1993, he served the Methodist and Presbyterian denominations of the church in many capacities as an unpaid Christian layman - in Kansas City and in Burlingame - as well as regionally and nationally. From 1981 through 1986 he was employed by the First Presbyterian Church of Burlingame as its Administrator."

Their final home together was in Greenbrae, CA. Sadly, the pair died less than three months apart. Blanche passed first, on Jan. 4, 2003. Paul died at the age of 90 on March 27, 2003. His obituary was printed in the Alameda (CA) Times. 

Son Philip William Tarter (1940- ? ) was born in 1940 in Kansas City, MO. He received his bachelor's degree in political science from Stanford University and then his master of business administration degree from the same institution. On Aug. 19, 1961, at the age of 21, he tied the marital cord with Judith E. Jones ( ? - ? ), daughter of Major William E. Jones of Burlingame, CA. The only child of this couple was Susan Marie Tarter. Their marriage dissolved in divorce in Reno, NV in May 1969. Philip was employed by the consulting giant Booz Allen & Hamilton, a provider of consulting, analysis and engineering services. As of 1971, he was engaged with the firm's long-term clients in Puerto Rico and Caracas, Venezuela. Circa 2003, he resided in Saint Cloud near Paris, France.

• Granddaughter Susan Marie Tarter (1968- ? ) was born in 1968. She was only eight months of age when her parents divorced, and she grew up in her mother's household. 

Daughter Marilyn Sue Tarter (1943- ? ) was born in 1943 in Kansas City. She was age nine when she and her family moved to Burlingame, CA. As a young woman she became licensed as a beautician and managed a salon. On March 8, 1963, she was joined in wedlock with Joseph E. Perez ( ? - ? ), also a resident of Burlingame. At the time, he was employed by Lauder Plumbing Inc. Marilyn eventually became a receptionist, and as of 1971, they dwelled in Belmont, CA. In time she relocated to Western Kentucky and was there in 2003.

Daughter Julia Elaine Tarter (1947-1998) was born on Oct. 7, 1947 in Kansas City. She was five years of age when moving to California. Julia was an alumna of Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR and took master's classes at San Jose (CA) State College. On May 18, 1973, she wed Thomas Ralph Prager (May 1947- ? ), son of Lawrence H. Prager of San Mateo. The couple exchanged their vows in the First Presbyterian Church of Burlingame, by the hand of Rev. Dr. Thomas Gillespie. In announcing the marriage, the San Mateo Times reported that the bride "was dressed in a floor length Juliet style gown with a bodice of Chantilly lace over satin. The costume featured an oval neckline, chiffon sleeves with deep cuffs, and a satin skirt with a chiffon underlay. For something old she carried a lace handkerchief which her mother and grandmother used on their wedding days." Thomas was an alumnus of Arizona State University. The newlyweds' first home was in San Mateo. Sadly, she died in Burlingame on July 6, 1998. A memorial was established in her name at the First Presbyterian Church.

Son Steven Lewis Tarter (1949- ? ) was born in 1949 in Kansas City. He earned his bachelor's degree in music education in 1971 from the University of Redlands, where he served as drum major for the marching band. On May 25, 1971, he wed Martha Louise "Martie" Casford ( ? - ? ), daughter of Kenneth and Norma Casford of Whittier, CA. Their trio of children are Bryan Tarter, Carolyn Tarter and Lynell Tarter. Steven served in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War and in 1973 was posted to Tokyo, Japan. Later, he and Marti went into the field of Christian missionary ministry and remained in Japan. On a trip back home in 1988, the family was pictured in the Sanger Herald. He has been affiliated with SEND International, with a mission "to mobilize God's people and engage the unreached in order to establish reproducing churches." He also has served on the board of directors of the Christian Academy in Tokyo, a K-12 school providing Christ-centered education to the children of evangelical missionaries.

~ More on the Family ~

For more information on this branch, please click to visit Jay Garner's website, which is searchable for individual names. He advises that "To really navigate the database, you need to establish a login; however, doing such is free. Then you can move throughout the database in an unlimited fashion."