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Submitted: 8/30/10 • Approved: 2/21/12 • Last Updated: 7/29/12 • R368462-G368462-S3
Martin
US Army
Civil War Union
September 15, 1839 - May 7, 1922
*Obituary
Rogers Democrat
Thursday, May 11, 1922
Martin F. Tygart, aged 82 years, died at his home in Gentry Monday. Mr. Tygart had been a resident of Benton county for 71 years. He was a representative from Benton county in the Lower House of the Arkansas Legislature when the Arkansas University was established. As there was no other means of transportation at that time Mr. Tygart rode a mule from Gentry to Little Rock and back in order to attend this session of the legislature. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.
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Gentry Journal-Advance
Friday, May 12. 1922
TYGART, Martin F. - Martin F. Tygart was born in Tenn. on Sept. 15, 1839 and departed this life at his home in Gentry, Arkansas May 7, 1922. He came to Benton county, Ark. in 1860 and was married to Miss Mary Lefors on December 13, 1860. To this union ten children were born. His wife and six children remain to mourn his loss. Mrs. Ellen Hogan of Jay, Okla, Mrs. Clarissa Gibson, Decatur, Ark., Mrs. Arizona Tuttle, Chanute, Kan., Mrs. Dot Coffelt, Plainview, Ark., Vic and Cooper Tygart of Gentry. He served his country in the Federal army from 1862 until the close of the Civil war. He was a loyal, patriotic citizen, respected and highly esteemed by his countrymen, a quiet and accommodating neighbor. He was retiring in nature, preferring the pleasures of his home and family to that of a public life, unassuming and pleasant in all his relations in life; an honored member of the Masonic fraternity, ordering his life by the Square and Compass and hoping to attain to that perfect life which is promised to the faithful by the Grand Master of the Universe. Funeral services were conducted from the home at 2 o'clock last Monday afternoon by the Rev. T.A. Martin, assisted by the Masons. The remains were followed to their final resting place by a large number of relatives and friends. The Masons had charge at the grave.
Mary
Apr 25 1843 - June 16 1924
Married Dec 13 1860
*Obituary
Gentry Journal—Advance
Friday, June 20, 1924
TYGART, Mary Jane - Mrs. M.F. Tygart died last Monday afternoon at 5:30 at her home in the south part of town after several weeks illness from a paralytic stroke. The funeral was held from the home Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock conducted by Rev. T.A. Martin of Fayetteville and interment was made in Flint creek cemetery. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire community in their bereavement.
*Obituary
Gentry Journal—Advance
Friday, June 27, 1924
Mary Jane Tygart was born April 25, 1843. Departed this life June 16, 1924 at her home in Gentry, Ark. She was married to Martin F. Tygart December 13, 1860. To this union ten children were born, eight of whom are now living: Mrs. G.W. Hogan, Mrs. Clarissa Gibson, Mrs. B.F. Tuttle, Mrs. Claud Coffelt, Cooper and Vic Tygart. All were with their mother during her last illness. Mrs. Tygart was true and faithful in her relations to all through her life, to her husband, her children, her friends and neighbors. She was modest and reticent, a lover of house and home associations. Though she has gone to her heavenly home she will be lovingly remembered by all who had the pleasure to know her.
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