Tarter, Glen D.

Melroe Tarter (right) and his son Glen.

Rutherford County Historical Society

Quick Facts

Significance:

SC 1 - United States Navy

Place of Birth:

Faubush, Kentucky

Date of Birth:

January 1, 1922

Place of Death:

Elsmere, Delaware

Date of Death:

April 25, 1957

Place of Burial:

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Cemetery Name:

Stones River National Cemetery

Glen Tarter was born on New Year's Day 1922. His father Melroe Tarter, a veteran of the Spanish American War and Philippine Insurrection, became the the superintendent of Stones River National Cemetery two years later.

As the fighting of World War II was expanding, Glen enlisted in the United States Navy on March 8, 1940. He served as a ship's or officer's cook (SC 1) throughout the conflict and was honorably discharged on February 6, 1948. We do not know much about Glen's service during the war. When this photo was published in 1942, he was serving at the U.S. Naval Air Station in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Glen became a restaraunt cook following the war. He was killed in a car accident on April 25, 1957. He is buried in the national cemetery his father cared for nearly twenty years in plot P-6336.