Frank was born March 25,1891, in Bellevue, Clay County, Texas, the eighth son of eight sons and one daughter of Benjamin Tarrant and Lavenia Victoria Cole Hewitt. While growing up, his family lived over a great portion of West Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico trading land and cattle. They traveled in covered wagon and were attacked by Indians at times. Frank got his education in the schools that happened to be wherever his family lived. He learned the cattle and farming business as he worked with his father. He furthered his education at Goodnight College in the Texas Panhandle and played football there. He married Minnie Jackson in Burkburnett, Texas, on Oct, 13,1911. The couple along with Bud(nickname) and Venia Hewitt Jackson who was Minnie's brother, Walter, and Frank's sister Venia, with their first of three daughters, Ocle who was born August 12,1912, and Bud and Venia's son Clarence, moved to Wheeler County in a covered wagon in 1913. While there, during a severe drought, they cooked on a wood stove with dried cow chips instead of wood which was very scarce in the Texas Panhandle with cow chips being plentiful. They starved out there and in 1914, they moved to the Plainview Community north of Seymour, Texas, purchasing over 200 acres and farming wheat and cotton until he retired in 1956 and moved their house to 601 N. Browning St. in Seymour where they lived until his death on May 31, 1970. While living in the Plainview Community, they had two more daughters, Modena and Orene. Frank loved to hunt coyotes on horseback with his greyhounds in his pasture and in the brakes north of his place on the Waggoner Ranch along with W.T. Waggoner.
Frank was born March 25,1891, in Bellevue, Clay County, Texas, the eighth son of eight sons and one daughter of Benjamin Tarrant and Lavenia Victoria Cole Hewitt. While growing up, his family lived over a great portion of West Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico trading land and cattle. They traveled in covered wagon and were attacked by Indians at times. Frank got his education in the schools that happened to be wherever his family lived. He learned the cattle and farming business as he worked with his father. He furthered his education at Goodnight College in the Texas Panhandle and played football there. He married Minnie Jackson in Burkburnett, Texas, on Oct, 13,1911. The couple along with Bud(nickname) and Venia Hewitt Jackson who was Minnie's brother, Walter, and Frank's sister Venia, with their first of three daughters, Ocle who was born August 12,1912, and Bud and Venia's son Clarence, moved to Wheeler County in a covered wagon in 1913. While there, during a severe drought, they cooked on a wood stove with dried cow chips instead of wood which was very scarce in the Texas Panhandle with cow chips being plentiful. They starved out there and in 1914, they moved to the Plainview Community north of Seymour, Texas, purchasing over 200 acres and farming wheat and cotton until he retired in 1956 and moved their house to 601 N. Browning St. in Seymour where they lived until his death on May 31, 1970. While living in the Plainview Community, they had two more daughters, Modena and Orene. Frank loved to hunt coyotes on horseback with his greyhounds in his pasture and in the brakes north of his place on the Waggoner Ranch along with W.T. Waggoner.
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