After graduating from Lake Charles High School, author Bruce Tarver joined the US Air Force and served four years as security police. He is a Vietnam veteran, having traveled quite a bit during his tour of duty, and was married to his first wife for twenty-nine years, which brought him two loving daughters. After an honorable discharge and several campaign medals, Bruce went to work as an aircraft mechanic and graduated from Sowela Technical Institute in 1987 and earned a degree in science and technology from McNeese State University. Following the deaths of his first wife and his second wife of fifteen years, Bruce devotes his time to genealogy and shares his days with his companion and five puppies.
Bruce shares, “Featuring the Tarver, Rollins, Cook, and Laird Families of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas; including their migration north, east, and west. Families migrated to and from the old South, settling in places from California, Virginia, Florida throughout these United States. Cultures and traditions were passed down, merged, and spread from generation to generation.
“Throughout the history of this family, God is ever-present in the lives of all of them. They were God-fearing, Jesus-loving, Bible-believing people whose lives centered on their family and their church. There are over eight hundred names of our family spanning the pre–Civil War and post–Civil War era agrarian society to the modern mechanized culture—farmers’ families turned into pastors, factory workers, mechanics, philanthropists, businessmen, doctors, nurses, and soldiers. This family is particularly focused around ‘the Greatest Generation,’ the generation that provided the men and women needed to stop the spread of the dictators’ empires of World War II.”
Published by Newman Springs Publishing, Bruce Tarver’s engaging tale utilizes census, marriage, social security, birth, and death records to document each of the author’s generations so that their memories and lives will forever be remembered. Through experiencing the author’s incredible research, readers will be moved by the author’s dedication to his ancestors and be inspired to research their own family trees through extensive genealogical research.
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