Grafton Wenden Tarleton (1863)

Born 5 Mar 1863 in Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, United States

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Grafton Wenden Tarleton was born in Mobile, Alabama, on 5 March 1863. He was a son of Horace Tarleton and Ruth Ann (Barstow) Tarleton. ^[1]

Grafton W. Tarleton married Mary Isabel Pike in Hanover, New Hampshire, on 13 March 1884. He was 21 years old and a farmer, born in Mobile, Alabama, and living in Lebanon, New Hampshire; she was 26 years old, born in Hanover and living there. It was the first marriage for both. The marriage record identifies his parents as Horace Tarleton, born in Piermont, New Hampshire, with occupation Empire Cotton Press, and Anna Barstow, also born in Piermont. The bride was the daughter of Monroe Pike, a farmer, and a mother born in Vermont; those are the only details for her parents included in the record. They were married by clergyman S.P. Leeds of Hanover.^[2]

Grafton W. Tarleton married Ruth H. Stone in the town of Hartford, Vermont, on 26 February 1902. They were married by Charles Ernest White, minister of the Congregational Church in Wilder, Vermont (a village in the town of Hartford). According to the marriage record, he was a son of Horace Tarleton and Ruth Anna Barstow, born in Mobile, Alabama. He was 37 years old and a merchant, living in Hartford, Vermont. This was his second marriage.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Tarleton, Charles William. The Tarleton Family. Concord, N.H.: I.C. Evans, 1900.
2. ↑ "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLXW-PLT : 2 April 2020), Horace Tarleton in entry for Grafton W. Tarleton and Mary Isabel Pike, 13 Mar 1884; citing , Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,001,312.
3. ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6Q13-7D2?cc=1784223&wc=MFVC-7Z9%3A1029368501 : 22 May 2014), 004358394 > image 4758 of 6465; Citing Secretary of State. State Capitol Building, Montpelier.