19 Aug 1945-The Paris News
TWO SCOUTS VAINLY TRY TO SAVE LIFE OF T. J. TALLANT
Though two Boy Scouts made every effort to save the life of T. J. Tallant when his team bolted with him Friday morning, the injuries incurred were so serious that he died at the Sanitarium of Paris about 7:15 o'clock Saturday morning.
He was using a planter in a field on his place on the North side of the road between North Main Street and the Paris airport, and near the Frisco Railroad spur. He was thrown between two of the points of the planter, and his left leg was almost severed.
Willie Sperry, 14, of 1821 Lamar Ave., and John Conner Yeager, 13, of 844 Graham St., out on a hunting trip at the time, saw what was happening, and stopped the run-a-way team. Unable to extricate Mr. Tallant from the planter, they applied a tourniquet to the leg and gave him water from a canteen. One stayed with him while the other one ran to the nearest telephone, half a mile away. This was the home of Mr. Tallant's daughter, Mrs Henry Smith , 1607 North Main St., and she took her father to the hospital in her car.
Mr. Tallant was the seventh person to whom the Scouts had given first aid this year, the others having been swimming rescues. Both are members of Troop 8, of which A. L. Brown is scoutmaster.
Funeral for Mr. Tallant will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Manton-Fry Funeral Home by the Rev. L. Morton Evans of the Bible Baptist Church, with burial in the cemetary at Hopewell. Pallbearers will be Henry Smith and Guy Smith, Clay Hale, Rex Dicken, John Griffis and Ed Porter.
Surviving are Mrs. Tallant, the former Miss Ollie Lula Huggins, and these children: Mrs. Henry Smith and Miss Wanda Lee Tallant here; Mrs. Otha Smith and Mrs. Glynn Hale, Nashville, Ark; Mrs. Alma Dicken , Sumner; Mrs Nota Boren, San Francisco, Calif.; R. B. Tallant, New Boston, ; Duane Tallant, U. S. Army in Germany, and Wendell J. Tallant, US Navy, California; 15 grandchildren; 1 sister and 5 brothers.
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What really happened as told by Wanda Tallant, his daughter. Wanda was the first family member there and she took a sash from her dress and applied a tournaquet. Mrs. Tallant sent Marguaret Butler who was on her bicycle, to call an ambulance. On the way to her dad's store she told Mr. Tallant's daughter, Hettie Smith and Mr. Bill Ingram and one of his brothers, who had a gas station on North Main and Center Street. They rushed to where Mr. Tallant was and took him to the hospital before the ambulance arrived.