TARLTON, Evaline Margaret (West)

Date of birth:  19 Aug 1824 – Georgetown, Harlan County, Kentucky
Date of death: 19 Dec 1898 – Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, December 23, 1898,
Volume XXXIX Number 24, page 1 column 5

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Death of Mrs. C. B. Tarlton.

After a long illness, Mrs. Tarlton, wife of Capt. C. B. Tarlton, died Mon­day evening at 9 o’clock at her home on the Greensburg road.

Funeral services were held Wed­nesday morning at 11 o’clock at the res­idence conducted by Rev. J. A. Knowl­ton, pastor of the Baptist church of which church Mrs. Tarlton had long been a devoted member. Burial at Greenlawn.

Deceased was born at Georgetown, Ky., August 19, 1824, and came with her parents, M. D. West and wife, to Johnson County in 1830, settling on a farm east of Greenwood.

On Nov. 13, 1849, she was united in marriage to C. B. Tarlton, who survives her. To this union were born seven children, six of whom are living, viz: John H., M. W., Mrs H. G. McCaslin, Jas. A. of Indianapolis, Charles W. and George M. One son, Caleb Jr., died in infancy. Mrs. Tarlton had resided in Franklin since 1870.

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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, December 23, 1898,
Volume XXXIX Number 24, page 3 column 4

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GREENWOOD.

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Good many here and near Salem were sorry to hear of the death of Mrs. Caleb B. Tarlton, mother of M. W. Tarlton, at their old home farm. A good mother gone home to glory. Wm. Tarl­ton, Sr., and wife and Dault Wilson at­tended the funeral Wednesday at Frank­lin.

Link to Evaline Margaret (West) Tarlton’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book H-18, page 10, records that Evaline Tarlton, a seventy-four-year-old white female, died 19 Dec 1898 in Johnson Co.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry