Hopkins Co. Tx - Obit for Festus O. Conner

Submitted by: June E. Tuck   <jparks@neto.com>

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Conner, Festus O. - Born November 27, 1839, died July 4, 1890. He had
been afflicted with consumption about nine years. During this time he has
gradually grown 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. While quite young, he enlisted in Maxey^Òs Regiment of
Texas Infantry. He was made color-bearer, a post of greatest danger. At
Nashville, his flag staff 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 over the bloody
scene, his flag, though torn and shattered, was not dishonored. He
carried with him to his grave the scars of the war.