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On October 25, 2017, Theodore and Margaret Ellen (Noble) DeTarr were featured on The Good Cemeterian Facebook page which is a page run by the Good Cemeterian Historical Preservation Project at https://www.facebook.com/TheGoodCemeterian
I have obtained permission to use the story and photograph by both Andrew Lumish (The Good Cemeterian) and the photographer and researcher, Jen Armbruster. Would you please consider adding this information to their memorial? Thank you for your hard work!
Theodore DeTarr was born in Franklin County, Indiana on January 1st 1827. Theodore and his family settled on a farm in a sparsely settled portion of Tippecanoe County… Although education was limited in the area at the time, Theodore decided to pursue the profession of medicine. Theodore studied medicine for 3 years and attended a course of lectures at the Evansville Medical College…
Margaret Ellen Noble was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in November 1833. Margaret married Dr. Theodore Detarr in 1853. The couple moved from Indiana to Boonesboro County (Boone County) Iowa in 1854 where Theodore started a successful medical practice. Dr. DeTarr’s charity work was said to have been greater than any physician in the county (He rode hundreds of miles to minister to the wants of the suffering without any expectation compensation)…
During the Civil War, Theodore assisted in recruiting Company D, 32nd Iowa Infantry and was commissioned Captain… His Regiment was at the Battle of Nashville where Dr. DeTarr lost his right leg on December 16th 1864. Captain DeTarr was retained in the service until the close of the War and was discharged on May 15th 1865…
After he was discharged, the doctor returned home to Margaret (who was also a nurse for the practice) and their 5 children… Theodore resumed the practice of his profession…
Eventually, the family moved from Iowa to Bradenton, Florida… Dr. Theodore Detarr passed away at his home in Bradenton on November 27th 1893.
After her husband passed away, Margret moved to Tampa to live with her daughter… Margaret Ellen DeTarr passed away December 19th 1906… The following is quoted from Margaret’s Obituary published in The Weekly Tribune on December 20th 1906:
“MRS. DETAR DEAD - MOTHER OF MRS. W. R. FULLER PASSED AWAY YESTERDAY MORNING.
Mrs. Margaret E. DeTar, mother of Mrs. W. R. Fuller, died at 4:45 a.m. yesterday at the home of her daughter, 213 Hyde Park avenue, death claiming her illness of seven weeks. During this period her life was ofttimes despaired of, her condition having been regarded as critical for several days past. All her pains she endured with Christian fortitude, as was consistent with her life of 73 years here. The end was peaceful.
Mrs. DeTar spent the past summer with her daughter at Falls Church, Va. She is survived by two other daughters and a son, Mrs. C. P. Fuller, of Ellenton; Mrs. A. D. Hicks of Lasego, Nav., and Dr. W. T. DeTar, of Victoria, Tex. She was the widow of Dr. Theodore DeTar, of Bradentown, who died at that place in 1893, and whose remains have been brought to this city and interred in Woodlawn cemetery. Today the body of the deceased lady will be placed beside that of her husband.
Very early in life the deceased accepted the tenets of the Presbyterian Church, under whose rites the funeral will be conducted today at 10:20 a. m. from the Fuller home, Rev. James F. Winnard, of Heights Church, officiating. The following pallbearers are requested to meet at 9:30 o’clock at the Reed parlors: Craig Phillips, Henry Giddens, H.J. Watrous, B.C. Graham, Dr. S. W. Allen. And F. D. Jackson. The bereaved family have the sympathy of this city in their affliction.”


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