{"id":1847,"date":"2016-11-22T17:07:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T23:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2016-11-22T17:07:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T23:07:58","slug":"tarkenton-asa-1935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/tarkenton-asa-1935\/","title":{"rendered":"TARKENTON, Asa &#8211; (d. 1935)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at the Baptist church in Roper for <strong>Asa TARKENTON<\/strong>, well-known farmer of Washington County, who succumbed from the infirmities of age Wednesday afternoon after being in failing health for four months.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Burial took place in Zion&#8217;s Chapel Christian church cemetery. \u00a0<strong>Rev. W.H. AMBROSE<\/strong>, of the Christian denomination. \u00a0Mr. TARKENTON was 81 years of age and was the last of his family, leaving no brothers or sisters. \u00a0His wife was the late <strong>Mrs. Ellen Ainsley BATEMAN<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Surviving are the following: one sister-in-law, <strong>Mrs. W.H. TARKENTON<\/strong>, Roper; nieces, <strong>Mrs. C.N. REYNOLDS, Mrs. D.A. HUDSON, Mrs. W.B. MASSENGALE<\/strong>, all of Roanoke Rapids; <strong>Mrs. Hugh McCabe<\/strong>, Norfolk; <strong>Mrs. Lula BARNES<\/strong>, Tarboro; <strong>Mrs. Nellie Oliver<\/strong>, <strong>Mrs. J.C. PHELPS<\/strong>, <strong>Mrs. John FURLAUGH<\/strong>, all of Roper.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nephews: <strong>H.W. TARKENTON<\/strong>, <strong>Frank TARKENTON,<\/strong> Roper; <strong>L.D. TARKENTON<\/strong>, Manteo; <strong>U.W. TARKENTON,<\/strong> Belhaven;<strong> J.W. PHELPS,<\/strong> Tarboro;<strong> Clinton TARKENTON,<\/strong> Creswell;<strong> J.M. TARKENTON,<\/strong> Norfolk; <strong>H.W. TARKENTON<\/strong>, Elizabeth City. \u00a0Active pall-bearers were relatives of the deceased.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Obituary originally published in the April 12, 1935 issue of the <em>Roanoke Beacon<\/em>. \u00a0Also published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wcgs-journal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fall 1993 Washington County Genealogical Society Journal.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at the Baptist church in Roper for Asa TARKENTON, well-known farmer of Washington County, who succumbed from the infirmities of age Wednesday afternoon after <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/tarkenton-asa-1935\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,52,47,55,49,50,51,53,54,48,45],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary","tag-ambrose","tag-barnes","tag-bateman","tag-furlaugh","tag-hudson","tag-massengale","tag-mccabe","tag-oliver","tag-phelps","tag-reynolds","tag-tarkenton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}