This is my grandmother. She is buried next to my grandfather, "Sterling" Francis Tarpley and one of her sons, Sterling "Beale" Tarpley. She was born in the Little Elm area to Ella Beale Smith. Her father, George Andrew Smith, had died a few months before she was born. Her mother later married Robert Hawkins. For more on her, see the biography of my grandfather, Sterling Francis Tarpley. In the top photo shown, she is on the left, my mother (Everal Tarpley Miers) is in the center, my grt-grandmother, Ella Beale Smith Hawkins is on the right, and I am the baby. All but me have their own memorial pages on Find-A-Grave.
She moved in with my family in Dallas when I was three. She taught me to play Solitaire and Dominoes. When she moved up to Frisco, in 1947, I would stay with her for a week several times in the summers. I loved those days with her. We would walk everyday to the two-block business area of Frisco to get the mail. She had a large black umbrella. In the summer, she called it a parasol because it was used to keep shade on us as we walked. Have lots more wonderful memories of my visits with her. She and my grandfather, married on 28th Aug 1901, in Collin County Texas. He was a farmer the first couple of years of their marriage, but after a drought, he became a salesman for J. I. Case Implements (Tractors). He traveled as far north as North Dakota as a salesman. I have a photograph of his car parked on the boundary line between N.D. and Canada. It is on his memorial page.
They had three children: Everal Alma Tarpley (my mother), Sterling Beale Tarpley, and Frank Smith Tarpley. They were born in Little Elm, Denton Co., & Frisco, Collin Co., Texas. The family moved several times between 1910 (Texarkana, Denton, and finally to Waco) and 1914. Here they stayed as first Frank married, in 1934, then Everal in 1935. Beale never married. Frank married Verna Wotawa in Dallas and Everal married Wesley Scott Miers in Waco. George stayed in Waco untill she moved to Dallas to live with Everal and Wesley. She stayed with them (and me) till about 1948, when she moved back to Frisco.
Everal & Wesley had to be moved to Whittier, CA, in 1984, to be near my home and are buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, and Frank and Verna are buried in Restland Park in Dallas.
She would be really surprised to see Frisco today, and to see that we can now play solitaire on a computer (although I still love to shuffle the cards and lay them out).
If you are related to this family in any way, please contact me at [email protected]. Would love to share information.
She moved in with my family in Dallas when I was three. She taught me to play Solitaire and Dominoes. When she moved up to Frisco, in 1947, I would stay with her for a week several times in the summers. I loved those days with her. We would walk everyday to the two-block business area of Frisco to get the mail. She had a large black umbrella. In the summer, she called it a parasol because it was used to keep shade on us as we walked. Have lots more wonderful memories of my visits with her. She and my grandfather, married on 28th Aug 1901, in Collin County Texas. He was a farmer the first couple of years of their marriage, but after a drought, he became a salesman for J. I. Case Implements (Tractors). He traveled as far north as North Dakota as a salesman. I have a photograph of his car parked on the boundary line between N.D. and Canada. It is on his memorial page.
They had three children: Everal Alma Tarpley (my mother), Sterling Beale Tarpley, and Frank Smith Tarpley. They were born in Little Elm, Denton Co., & Frisco, Collin Co., Texas. The family moved several times between 1910 (Texarkana, Denton, and finally to Waco) and 1914. Here they stayed as first Frank married, in 1934, then Everal in 1935. Beale never married. Frank married Verna Wotawa in Dallas and Everal married Wesley Scott Miers in Waco. George stayed in Waco untill she moved to Dallas to live with Everal and Wesley. She stayed with them (and me) till about 1948, when she moved back to Frisco.
Everal & Wesley had to be moved to Whittier, CA, in 1984, to be near my home and are buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, and Frank and Verna are buried in Restland Park in Dallas.
She would be really surprised to see Frisco today, and to see that we can now play solitaire on a computer (although I still love to shuffle the cards and lay them out).
If you are related to this family in any way, please contact me at [email protected]. Would love to share information.
This is my grandmother. She is buried next to my grandfather, "Sterling" Francis Tarpley and one of her sons, Sterling "Beale" Tarpley. She was born in the Little Elm area to Ella Beale Smith. Her father, George Andrew Smith, had died a few months before she was born. Her mother later married Robert Hawkins. For more on her, see the biography of my grandfather, Sterling Francis Tarpley. In the top photo shown, she is on the left, my mother (Everal Tarpley Miers) is in the center, my grt-grandmother, Ella Beale Smith Hawkins is on the right, and I am the baby. All but me have their own memorial pages on Find-A-Grave.
She moved in with my family in Dallas when I was three. She taught me to play Solitaire and Dominoes. When she moved up to Frisco, in 1947, I would stay with her for a week several times in the summers. I loved those days with her. We would walk everyday to the two-block business area of Frisco to get the mail. She had a large black umbrella. In the summer, she called it a parasol because it was used to keep shade on us as we walked. Have lots more wonderful memories of my visits with her. She and my grandfather, married on 28th Aug 1901, in Collin County Texas. He was a farmer the first couple of years of their marriage, but after a drought, he became a salesman for J. I. Case Implements (Tractors). He traveled as far north as North Dakota as a salesman. I have a photograph of his car parked on the boundary line between N.D. and Canada. It is on his memorial page.
They had three children: Everal Alma Tarpley (my mother), Sterling Beale Tarpley, and Frank Smith Tarpley. They were born in Little Elm, Denton Co., & Frisco, Collin Co., Texas. The family moved several times between 1910 (Texarkana, Denton, and finally to Waco) and 1914. Here they stayed as first Frank married, in 1934, then Everal in 1935. Beale never married. Frank married Verna Wotawa in Dallas and Everal married Wesley Scott Miers in Waco. George stayed in Waco untill she moved to Dallas to live with Everal and Wesley. She stayed with them (and me) till about 1948, when she moved back to Frisco.
Everal & Wesley had to be moved to Whittier, CA, in 1984, to be near my home and are buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, and Frank and Verna are buried in Restland Park in Dallas.
She would be really surprised to see Frisco today, and to see that we can now play solitaire on a computer (although I still love to shuffle the cards and lay them out).
If you are related to this family in any way, please contact me at [email protected]. Would love to share information.
She moved in with my family in Dallas when I was three. She taught me to play Solitaire and Dominoes. When she moved up to Frisco, in 1947, I would stay with her for a week several times in the summers. I loved those days with her. We would walk everyday to the two-block business area of Frisco to get the mail. She had a large black umbrella. In the summer, she called it a parasol because it was used to keep shade on us as we walked. Have lots more wonderful memories of my visits with her. She and my grandfather, married on 28th Aug 1901, in Collin County Texas. He was a farmer the first couple of years of their marriage, but after a drought, he became a salesman for J. I. Case Implements (Tractors). He traveled as far north as North Dakota as a salesman. I have a photograph of his car parked on the boundary line between N.D. and Canada. It is on his memorial page.
They had three children: Everal Alma Tarpley (my mother), Sterling Beale Tarpley, and Frank Smith Tarpley. They were born in Little Elm, Denton Co., & Frisco, Collin Co., Texas. The family moved several times between 1910 (Texarkana, Denton, and finally to Waco) and 1914. Here they stayed as first Frank married, in 1934, then Everal in 1935. Beale never married. Frank married Verna Wotawa in Dallas and Everal married Wesley Scott Miers in Waco. George stayed in Waco untill she moved to Dallas to live with Everal and Wesley. She stayed with them (and me) till about 1948, when she moved back to Frisco.
Everal & Wesley had to be moved to Whittier, CA, in 1984, to be near my home and are buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, and Frank and Verna are buried in Restland Park in Dallas.
She would be really surprised to see Frisco today, and to see that we can now play solitaire on a computer (although I still love to shuffle the cards and lay them out).
If you are related to this family in any way, please contact me at [email protected]. Would love to share information.
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