Tarbell, William Walter

Male 1860 - 1941  (~ 80 years)


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  • Name Tarbell, William Walter 
    Born Jul 1860  Wattsburg, Erie County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Died 12 Mar 1941  Bethel, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Buried 15 Mar 1941  Titusville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Address:
    Woodlawn Cemetery 
    Person ID I7877  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2014 

    Father Tarbell, Franklin Sumner,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother McCullough, Esther Ann,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married Y  [1
    • Details of the marriage are not known at this time.
    Family ID F2538  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Scott, Ella,   b. Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married Y  [5
    • According to an obituary in 1941, William Walter Tarbell graduated in 1881 from Allegheny College. A few years later, while in the Dakotas developing "several thousand acres of wheat land," he met and married Ella Scott. At his death, he was survived by his wife, one son, Franklin S. Tarbell, of Roswell, New Mexico, and two daughters, Mrs. James Aldrich, of Brookline, Massachusetts and Mrs. Tristam Tupper, of Hollywood, California.
    Children 
    +1. Tarbell, Franklin Scott,   b. 2 Feb 1888, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1979  (Age < 90 years)
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F2537  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S211] Article or notice, "W. W. Tarbell, Aged 80, Dies In Connecticut".
      Titusville Herald (Titusville, Pennsylvania); Friday, 14 March 1941; page 2, column 5. Accessed in June 2014 at Newspaperarchive.com (http://newspaperarchive.com/us/pennsylvania/titusville/titusville-herald/1941/03-14/page-2).
           William Walter Tarbell, a son of Franklin Sumner and Esther Ann (McCullough) Tarbell, was born in July 1860 at Wattsburgh, Erie County, Pennsylvania.

    2. [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1920 U.S. census, population schedule.
      NARA microfilm T625, roll 522, Image 187, page 1A. Kansas, Allen County, Iola City, Ward 1, Supervisor’s District 2, Enumeration District 9, census sheet 1A, enumerated on 2 January 1920; Scott F. Tarbell household, 848 North Jefferson, dwelling 13, family 13, lines 36-40. Access through Ancestry.com in June 2014.
           In the household was: 36) Tarbell, Scott F.; head; male; white; age 32; born in Pennsylvania; father born in Pennsylvania; mother born in Illinois.
           By calculation from the information provided, Scott would have been born about 1887-1888. For more details of this enumeration, see the notes on the 1920 U.S. census for this person.

    3. [S211] Article or notice, "W. W. Tarbell, Aged 80, Dies In Connecticut".
      Titusville Herald (Titusville, Pennsylvania); Friday, 14 March 1941; page 2, column 5. Accessed in June 2014 at Newspaperarchive.com (http://newspaperarchive.com/us/pennsylvania/titusville/titusville-herald/1941/03-14/page-2).
           William Walter Tarbell died during the night of Wednesday, 12 March 1941, at a hospital near Bethel, Connecticut, "where he had been receiving treatment for several weeks."

    4. [S211] Article or notice, "W. W. Tarbell, Aged 80, Dies In Connecticut".
      Titusville Herald (Titusville, Pennsylvania); Friday, 14 March 1941; page 2, column 5. Accessed in June 2014 at Newspaperarchive.com (http://newspaperarchive.com/us/pennsylvania/titusville/titusville-herald/1941/03-14/page-2).
           William Walter Tarbell's body was to arrive at Titusville, Pennsylvania on Saturday, 15 March 1941 at 9:05 a.m. was to be buried in the Tarbell family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery.

    5. [S211] Article or notice, "W. W. Tarbell, Aged 80, Dies In Connecticut".
      Titusville Herald (Titusville, Pennsylvania); Friday, 14 March 1941; page 2, column 5. Accessed in June 2014 at Newspaperarchive.com (http://newspaperarchive.com/us/pennsylvania/titusville/titusville-herald/1941/03-14/page-2).
           A few years after graduating in 1881 from Allegheny College, at Meadville, William Walter Tarbell and William Bayliss "took up land offered by the Federal Government in what is now South Dakota. Messrs. Tarbell and Bayliss developed several thousand acres of wheat land which they later sold for a considerable profit." While in the Dakotas, William Walter Tarbell and Ella Scott were married. William was survived in 1941 by his wife, one son, "Franklin S. Tarbell (Roswell, New Mexico)," and two daughters, "Mrs. James Aldrich (Brookline, Massachusetts)" and "Mrs. Tristam Tupper (Hollywood, California)."