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to travel.4 They then started to Belknap, but when they reached
Parker County he was too ill to go on and was confined to bed
at the home of William Fondren who lived about ten miles from
Weatherford on the road to Belknap.c0 Dr. John J. Inge was
called in on June io, 1858, before Tarrant left for Buchanan.
When he returned to Fondren's, the doctor was called again. He
made the last of fourteen visits on July 30,96 and on August 2
the general died.97 His body was temporarily laid to rest, it is
supposed, in the Fondren family burial plot, but removed to his
farm on Chambers Creek in Ellis County on January 28, 1859.
The remains reached Waxahachie on Thursday, January 27. The
next morning at 8:oo A.M. a procession was formed under the
direction of the Masonic Lodge to proceed to his late residence
on Chambers Creek where the second burial rites were performed.
Nat. M. Burford delivered the funeral oration.9s Seventy years
later, the body was removed to Fort Worth and on March 3, 1928,
with proper ceremonies, was given its third burial, in Pioneer
Rest Cemetery.99
The passing of General Tarrant was widely lamented. The bar
associations of Parker, Young, Dallas, Ellis, and Navarro counties
at special meetings passed resolutions deploring his loss.oo He
was eulogized by an old friend, Charles DeMorse, editor of the
Northern Standard, as a "pure minded man of great natural
simplicity and character and habit, good sense, energy, patriotism
and an ambition to render service to his fellowmen."101 The
Waxahachie bar characterized him as an "enlightened statesman,
profound lawyer, the kind and hospitable neighbor, the warm and
devoted and self-sacrificing patriot, the man without a superior,
and scarcely with a parallel."''2
"Ibid., August 14, 1858.
"Dallas Herald, August 14, 1858.
"Probate Court Minutes of Ellis County (County Clerk's Office, Waxahachie),
B, 335.
"?Dallas Herald, August 14, 1858.
"Ibid., January 26, 1859.
"Fort Worth Star Telegram, March 3, 1928.
1ooFrontier News (Weatherford), August 19, 1858.
x10Northern Standard (Clarksville), August 14, 1858.
102Civil Minutes, District Court of Ellis County (District Clerk's Office, Waxa-
hachie), B, 201.322
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