Draft Book Section - Paul V. Tapscott

Major and Sarah (Dinsmore) Tapscott had three sons, no daughters. The oldest son was Paul. Here is what I have written. Comments, suggestions, changes, additions?

Major and Sarah’s first born, Paul V., arrived 18 Sep 1880 in Hendricks Co, Indiana. About Jul 1909, when he was approaching age 29 (Major’s male descendants tended to marry late), Paul married Pearl D. Johnson, daughter of a Lebanon, Indiana, brick mason. Pearl was born to Willis D. and Emaline (Lee) Johnson on 10 Jan 1879, presumably in Lebanon. Pearl may have lacked documentation of her birth since in 1942 she asked the Morgan Co, Indiana, Circuit Court “to have the time and place of her birth determined.”

Paul and Pearl, a truly alliterative couple, started out married life in Montgomery Co, Indiana, northeast of Indianapolis, living there for a while in the 1920s with Paul’s widowed mother in the town of Crawfordsville. By 1930 Paul and Pearl were residing in the village of Brooklyn, Indiana, just a forty-minute drive to downtown Indianapolis. There, they lived out their married lives.

Brooklyn, Morgan Co, Indiana

When he retired in 1949, Paul had worked forty-seven years for Bell Telephone Company, where Pearl had also worked, as an operator. It may have been due to Paul’s and Pearl’s jobs that two Tapscott nephews, George William and Marion John, ended up working for Indiana Bell.

Paul died suddenly, passing away at his Brooklyn home 20 Jul 1950. Widowed, Pearl moved to Lebanon, Indiana, where she had spent her childhood. She died there on 14 Jan 1963, while living with a niece. She and Paul were laid to rest in the Knights of Pythias Cemetery, Lizton, Indiana. The couple had no children.