Obituary - Festus O. Conner, born Nov. 27, 1839, died July 4, 1890. He had been 
afflicted with consumption about nine years. During all this time he had been 
gradually growing weaker. He, with his family, attended the picnic last Monday 
at Old Tarrant where neighbors met in social reunion and to beautify the last 
resting place of loved ones. Festus Conner was no ordinary man. When quite young, 
he enlisted in Maxeys Regiment of Texas Infantry where he distinguished himself 
as one of the coolest and bravest soldiers of that famous regiment. He was made 
color-bearer, a post of greatest danger. At Nashville his flag was twice shot 
into and more than forty bullets penetrated the folds of the flag. Still the 
heroic bearer kept it waving defiantly amidst the smoke of battle, the screams 
of shot and shell, and the groans of the dying, and when night closed the bloody 
scene, his flag, though torn and shattered, was not dishonored. He carried with 
him to his grave the scars of war. In time of war, he was a hero. In time of 
peace, he as a model citizen, a Christain gentleman, a fond husband, an indulgent 
father. He leaves a wife and children.)