Family of Hiram W. Tarkington(1896-1996)
I am trying to locate descendants of Col. Hiram W. Tarkington who was Commanding Officer of the 61st Field Artillery Regt. on the Island of Mindanao in the Philippines at the beginning of World War II and was captured by the Japanese when U. S. forces there were surrendered in May 1942.Col. Tarkington survived Japanese POW camps and was liberated at the end of World War II.Apparently, he lived until 1996 and then died in Orange Park, FL.My Father was Executive Officer of that same regiment, but he died on a Japanese POW ship on January 25, 1945.I am hoping that Col. Tarkington's family may be able to give me some information from his memoirs or a manuscript of a book he prepared but did not publish.
If any one has anything that may help me locate this Tarkington Family, please contact me at [email protected].
Thank you,
John B. Lewis