Ancestry of
Bob Barker

TV Game Show Host

Robert Eckler Tarleton

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• • Grandfather of Bob Barker — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Robert Tarleton 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret E. White   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT Aug 1872 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cairo, Greene, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Jan 1925 
  • Death Location:
  • Hot Springs, Fall River, South Dakota 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Elizabeth Kent
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Jan 1897 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dover, Morris, New Jersey 
  • Child:

  Matilda Kent Tarleton (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  • Notes: 

  • Rev. Robert E. Tarleton may have comitted suicide by taking poison.

• Sources for Robert Eckler Tarleton

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, Greene County, 1900, Durham, E.D. 77, Sheet 5B, Image 10 of 16.
  • ² Federal Census, NJ, Passaic County, 1880, Paterson, E.D. 170, p. 60, Image 60 of 73.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/17/2023).
  • ⁴ Lead Daily Call (Lead, South Dakota), 30 MAR 1925, pp. 1-2, "Poison Puzzle Still Unsolved, Stirs Springs".
  • ⁵ New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985, Marriage record for Rob't E Tarleton and Mary E Kent.
  • ⁶ The Morning Call (Paterson, New Jersey), 02 FEB 1925, p. 5, Obituary for Rev Robert E Tarleton.
  • ⁷ The News (Paterson, New Jersey), 21 JAN 1897, p. 3, Wedding of Robert Eckler Tarleton and Mary Elizabeth Kent.
  • ⁸ Barker, Bob and Digby Diehl, Priceless Memories, New York, et. al.: Center Street, Hachette Book Group (2009), 113.