{"id":2272,"date":"2020-04-01T00:59:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T00:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2020-04-01T00:59:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T00:59:12","slug":"george-tarrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/biography\/george-tarrant\/","title":{"rendered":"GEORGE TARRANT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Texian Who\u2019s Who<\/strong><strong>, A Biographical Dictionary of the State of Texas,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Texian Company, Dallas: 1937<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>County judge; b. Blount Co., Ala., June 16, 1867; s. Samuel Levert and Nancy Ann (Smith) Tarrant; ed. Granbury Coll., 1890-93; Sam Houston Normal, 1894-95; m. 1st Lula Donathan, Oct. 20, 1895; children: Lucile, Lecil, Lizzie, Truett, Willard; m. 2nd, Mrs. Maud Byrns, Feb. 7, 1929.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pub. schs. tchr., Hood Co., 1893-1900; co. clk., Hood Co., 1900-04; tchr., farmer, 1904-18; co. judge, ex-officio co. supt. sch., 1918-22; city clk., treas., police judge, City of Borger, Hutchinson Co., 1926-28; apptd. justice of peace, by Com. Ct. when Hutchinson Co. placed under martial law by Gov. Dan Moody, 1928-31; lived in Amarillo, 1931-32; co. judge and ex-officio co. supt. sch., Hood Co., since 1934.&nbsp;&nbsp;Former chmn. bd. of trustees, Granbury, Hood Co., Ind. Sch. Dist.; former mem., Hood-Erath Tchrs. Assn.; treas. summer normal sch., held in Granbury by S.M.N. Marrs in 1898.&nbsp;&nbsp;Hobbies: gardening, cats, early rising.&nbsp;&nbsp;Motto: \u201cWhen you come to the end of the string, tie a knot and hang on.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Contbr. to farm jours.&nbsp;&nbsp;Baptist (deacon, treas., Granbury Ch.).&nbsp;&nbsp;Prohibition Democrat.&nbsp;&nbsp;(mem. Hood Co. Exec. Comm.).&nbsp;&nbsp;Address: P.O. Box 40, Granbury, tells. 30, 73.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"\"><tbody><tr><td>George Tarrent (note spelling) passed away August 10, 1953.He was buried in Acton Cemetery in Hood County, Texas.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texian Who\u2019s Who, A Biographical Dictionary of the State of Texas, The Texian Company, Dallas: 1937 County judge; b. Blount Co., Ala., June 16, 1867; s. Samuel Levert and Nancy Ann (Smith) Tarrant; ed. Granbury Coll., 1890-93; Sam Houston Normal, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/biography\/george-tarrant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}