History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 519.
[Bourbon County]  [Millersburg Precinct]

ROBT. TARR, farmer; P. O. Millersburg; was born near Carlisle, May 2,
1828, where his parents removed a short time before his birth, from
Bourbon County, returned in 1838 and settling the farm on which Mr. Tarr
now lives.  His father was John B. Tarr, a native of Nicholas, born
March 4, 1801; he of Charles Tarr, born upon the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
The wife of Charles was Miss Bishop, who, soon after being united in
marriage, came to the western part of Nicholas County, on Hinkston, which
was soon after the year 1790, and became one of the prominent men of the
county at that early day.  In about 1831 he moved to Adams County, Ill.,
with all his family except a daughter, who married Richard Adair, "The
Tanner" of Nicholas County, and John B., the father of our subject, who
remained in the Blue Grass region, where he engaged in farming and
raised a family by Milly Turner. (See hist.)  The result of this union
was five sons and two daughters: Wm., born June 22, 1825.  He began
life a poor boy; his first enterprise was that of raising watermelons,
afterward engaged in framing upon rented land with his brother Robert,
when, after a few years, their labors having been crowned with success,
they dissolved partnership, each beginning business for himself; Wm.
subsequently engaged in distilling, trading and real estate speculation,
through which he has become one of the money kings of the Blue Grass
region; the second of the family was Charles, born Sept. 15, 1826, died
a young man; the subject of this sketch, who devoted his life to
agriculture and stock raising; he was for a number of years a director
in the Millersburg Bank, and at the death of the president he was elected
to that position; Martha, born Jan. 5, 1830, married Tice Hutzell, and
after his death, married a Mr. Penn, who is also deceased; James, born
Jan 21, 1832, married a Miss Piper and moved to Pettis County, Mo.,
where he died; his wife is now a Mrs. Porter, of Millersburg; John, a
resident of Flat Rock (see hist.); Mary E., born Aug. 30, 1841 became
the wife of Col. Sampson D. Archer, of Keokuk, Iowa, where he died and
where his family now reside.  The subject of this sketch was married
Sept. 5, 1861, to America Layson, daughter of Robt. Layson (deceased)
and Catharine Kennedy.  They have three children--Anna Lee, wife of Jas.
L. Shackelford, of Maysville, Robt. L. and John Bishop.

Tarr Bishop Adair Turner Hutzell Penn Piper Porter Archer Layson
Kennedy Shackelford
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Nicholas-KY Adams-IL Pettis-MO IA MD

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