Known as "Lake" most of his short life, he was born in Mississippi to Joseph Bell Tarpley and George Anna Hull Lake Lake Newton. He was one of six children plus two of George Anna's by earlier marriages: Robert Perry (1847), Joseph Alfred (1848), Mary Lucretia (1851, Sterling Lake (1853), Anna Jennette (1854), and Ella Georgia (1855). His father was in the Civil War as a doctor. This family was in Collin County (Plano Area) in 1866 on a post-census after the Civil War. Georgianna's earlier children: Charles Henry Lake, and Augusta James Newton.
Lake and Mary Frances Shrader (known as Frank) eloped in 1875 to a neighboring county to marry. Lake worked at a family store of the Shraders in Rock Hill. They had five known children: Henry 'Clay' in 1878, 'Sterling' Francis in 1880 (my grandfather), George in 1882 (lived less than a year), Carl 'Lee' in 1885, and William 'Lake' on 2 Apr 1886. According to passed down stories, Sterling Lake's gun holster fell from a wall, went off, and a bullet hit Lake. This was only about two days after William Lake was born. Sterling Lake died of the wound about three days later.
Mary Frances (Frank) is buried about ten graves to the south and shares a gravestone with her younger son, William Lake.
Lake and Mary Frances Shrader (known as Frank) eloped in 1875 to a neighboring county to marry. Lake worked at a family store of the Shraders in Rock Hill. They had five known children: Henry 'Clay' in 1878, 'Sterling' Francis in 1880 (my grandfather), George in 1882 (lived less than a year), Carl 'Lee' in 1885, and William 'Lake' on 2 Apr 1886. According to passed down stories, Sterling Lake's gun holster fell from a wall, went off, and a bullet hit Lake. This was only about two days after William Lake was born. Sterling Lake died of the wound about three days later.
Mary Frances (Frank) is buried about ten graves to the south and shares a gravestone with her younger son, William Lake.
Known as "Lake" most of his short life, he was born in Mississippi to Joseph Bell Tarpley and George Anna Hull Lake Lake Newton. He was one of six children plus two of George Anna's by earlier marriages: Robert Perry (1847), Joseph Alfred (1848), Mary Lucretia (1851, Sterling Lake (1853), Anna Jennette (1854), and Ella Georgia (1855). His father was in the Civil War as a doctor. This family was in Collin County (Plano Area) in 1866 on a post-census after the Civil War. Georgianna's earlier children: Charles Henry Lake, and Augusta James Newton.
Lake and Mary Frances Shrader (known as Frank) eloped in 1875 to a neighboring county to marry. Lake worked at a family store of the Shraders in Rock Hill. They had five known children: Henry 'Clay' in 1878, 'Sterling' Francis in 1880 (my grandfather), George in 1882 (lived less than a year), Carl 'Lee' in 1885, and William 'Lake' on 2 Apr 1886. According to passed down stories, Sterling Lake's gun holster fell from a wall, went off, and a bullet hit Lake. This was only about two days after William Lake was born. Sterling Lake died of the wound about three days later.
Mary Frances (Frank) is buried about ten graves to the south and shares a gravestone with her younger son, William Lake.
Lake and Mary Frances Shrader (known as Frank) eloped in 1875 to a neighboring county to marry. Lake worked at a family store of the Shraders in Rock Hill. They had five known children: Henry 'Clay' in 1878, 'Sterling' Francis in 1880 (my grandfather), George in 1882 (lived less than a year), Carl 'Lee' in 1885, and William 'Lake' on 2 Apr 1886. According to passed down stories, Sterling Lake's gun holster fell from a wall, went off, and a bullet hit Lake. This was only about two days after William Lake was born. Sterling Lake died of the wound about three days later.
Mary Frances (Frank) is buried about ten graves to the south and shares a gravestone with her younger son, William Lake.
Inscription
We only know that thou hast gone, and that the same relentness tide - which bore thee from us still glides on, and we mourn thee with it glide.
Gravesite Details
Henry Clay Tarpley (bur. in Evergreen Cemetery, near McAlister, Quay Co. NM; Sterling Francis & his wife, George Ella Smith Tarpley (buried in Oakwood Cem. in Waco, TX,); George (bur. next to his dad); Lee (bur. Gate of Heaven Cem., Albuquerque, NM)
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