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John Wesley Tarver
Kosciusko, Attala County, Mississippi
Obituary: Kosciusko newspaper, 11 July 1946
John Wesley Tarver, native Attalan, died at Markham Hospital, Longview, Texas, Thursday after an illness of two weeks. The remains were brought back to this county for the last rites which were held Sunday at Bethel Church. Rev. T.B. Thrower, pastor of Kosciusko Methodist Church, officiated and interment followed in the Bethel Cemetery. Lee-Craney funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Tarver, who was 84, was a member of Bethel Masonic Lodge and a member of Bethel Methodist Church.
The deceased is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Rufus Rogers, Des Arc, Arkansas, Mrs. C.T. Keen, Laurel, Mississippi, and Mrs. T.B. Chadwick, Longview, Texas.
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John Wesley Tarver was the son of Eli Harper Tarver and Elizabeth Ann Holland, the grandson of Rebecca and Thomas B. Tarver and William Holland and Alcey Bramblett. He was born January 01, 1862 in Kosciusko, and married Minnie Dallas Sanders on January 11, 1900 in Kosciusko, Attala County, Mississippi. Minnie Sanders Tarver died in Attala County and is buried at Bethel Cemetery in Kosciusko.
John and Minnie Tarver had four daughters: Mary Elizabeth Tarver who married Rufus Zelle Rogers; Gertha Marie Tarver who died (at the age of 14) in 1918 with Spanish Influenza; Della Ethelyn Tarver who married Clarence Thurman Keen; and Jon Edna Tarver who married Tom Ben Chadwick.
John Wesley Tarver had two brothers: Thomas Beck Tarver, who married Carrie Virginia Miller, and William Kennedy Tarver who married Margaret Emma "Maggie" Gentry. Carrie and Thomas Tarver are buried at Bethel Cemetery in Kosciusko. William and Maggie Tarver died and are buried in Stephensville, Erath County, Texas (West End Cemetery).
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I am presently working to identify and distinguish between the several Thomas B. Tarver's that resided in Mississippi in the early to mid-1800's. If you can assist, please email me! Thank you, Lotus -- <lotus@cirilo.net>
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