Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 422-423 [Graves]

     JAMES M. TARTT.  The Tartt family, like many in Kentucky, had its
origin across the mountains in North Carolina, where grandfather James
Tartt was born, being of the sturdy Irish stock which settled a large
part of that state.  He came to Tennessee in early life and was a prominent
farmer of Henry county.  He was married in that county and reared three
children: Thaddeus C. Tartt, a farmer of Nacogdoches, Texas; Martha V.,
the wife of John Wade, a timberman of Olive, Tennessee; and Penbrook S.
Tartt.  The last named, the father of James M. Tartt, was born in Henry
county, Tennessee, in 1835.  He was educated in the schools of Paris,
Tennessee, and then engaged in the drug business in that city, until
1861, when he came to Graves county, Kentucky; for the following twenty
years he farmed, and in 1881 moved to Wingo, Graves county, and from that
time till his death in 1902 conducted a hotel.  He was a stanch Democrat
all his life, and belonged to the Methodist church.
     Penbrook S. Tartt married Susan S. Morse, who was born in Graves
county, Kentucky, in 1837.  Her father was Mark Morse, a native of
Caldwell county, Kentucky, and of English decent; early in life he moved
to Graves county and settled near Brush Creek church.  Mr. Morse married
Emma Willingham and reared a family of five girls, all of whom are living
but one; Mary is the wife of Dr. A. B. Beadles, the first physician of
Wingo, and he died in 1875 at the age of fifty; Emily, who became the
wife of Porter Campbell, a business man of Fulton, Kentucky, died in 1893
at the age of fifty-eight; Frances is the wife of James Emerson, a farmer
of Graves county; Georgia is the wife of Alfred Crews, a hotelkeeper of
Wingo; and Susan S., who has survived her husband and is still living at
the age of sixty-six, having become the mother of two children, Anna W.
Dodson and James M. Tartt.
     James M. Tartt was born in Graves county, Kentucky, in 1867, and
after finishing his education in the Wingo schools, clerked for about
three months in the grocery store of E. T. Stephenson; he was next employed in
the same capacity in the Frost & Slaughter dry-goods house, and in 1891
he went to Mayfield and worked for R. E. Smith in the same business till
1892, when he returned to Wingo and engaged in the grocery business, the
firm being known as Plumbee & Tartt.  In 1894 he bought his grandfather's
farm and engaged in farming for two years; in 1896 he was elected cashier
of the Bank of Wingo, and at the present time fills this office and also
conducts a grocery store.
     In 1891 Mr. Tartt was married to Miss Della C. Myatt, the daughter
of A. M. and Rachel Myatt, of Graves county.  In politics Mr. Tartt is a
Democrat, and is a member of Landrum Lodge No. 448, A. F. & A. M., of
Mayfield.  He is one of the younger, but one of the very capable and
energetic business men of Graves county, and enjoys the respect of all
his associates.

Tartt Wade Morse Willingham Beadles Campbell Emerson Crews Dodson
Stephenson Frost Slaughter Smith Plumbee Myatt
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NC TN Henry-TN Caldwell-KY

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