Stiles LaRue Tarpley was a real estate broker in Louisville, Ky. He married (1) in 1916, Mary Catherine Dixon (1896-1961), daughter of George William (1852-1935) and Martha J. Pryor Dixon (1870-1947). Their children were Herbert Stiles (1918-88), and infant Tarpley (1919). He married (2) in 1924, Hazel Medley (1899-1979), daughter of William Eugene (1874-1945) and Lydia Downs Medley (1879-1909), of Meade County, Ky. Their four children were Ladonna "Donna" May (1925-2011) who married James Andrew Spellman (1922-2003); Beatrice Paul (1927-92) who married Winston Deane Kreachbaum (1923-91); Marilyn Frances (1928-) who married William C. Daugherty (1926-2009); and Lydia H. Tarpley who married (1)James Elwood Dowd, and (2) a McDaniel.