General Edward H. Tarrant

Tarrant was buried three times, and the Handbook of Texas dates each. He fell ill on the road from Chambers Creek toward Fort Belknap and died on August 2, 1858, at William Fondren's home about ten miles from Weatherford, where he was buried. On January 28, 1859, he was reburied on his own farm on Chambers Creek in Ellis County. On March 3, 1928, he was buried a third time, in Pioneer Rest Cemetery in Fort Worth, in the county that carries his name. The plaque places his death in Parker County; the Handbook names the Fondren home instead.

What the plaque says

General Edward H. Tarrant Veteran of the War of 1812, member of the Texas Congress and a courageous indian fighter. Born in North Carolina, 1796, died in Parker County, Texas, August 2, 1858. Reburied in Ellis County near his former plantation, 1859. His remains removed to the county named in his honor in 1928 and reinterred in Fort Worth.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ellis County Courthouse — 14 mi
  J. Riely Gordon's courthouse of 1897 in Pecos red sandstone and pink granite, with twenty-one carved stone faces and two cornerstones left by a quarrel over its building.
• Hill County Courthouse — 19 mi
  Wesley C. Dodson's limestone Second Empire courthouse of 1890 on the Hillsboro square, gutted by fire on New Year's Day 1993 and rededicated in 1999 after a rebuilding that two Willie Nelson concerts helped pay for.
• Petroleum Industry Park — 25 mi
  The pipes and drilling tower mark where a city water well struck oil on June 9, 1894, the start of the first Texas field to produce oil and gas in important quantities.

More markers nearby

• William Hobart Stafford — 0.6 mi
• Italy Colored City Hall — 0.6 mi
• Site of the Plantation Home of Edward H. Tarrant — 3.2 mi
• Cotton Industry in Ellis County — 3.8 mi