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REPRESENT!!!

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Main Street, Denton, TX? I didn't know there was one! Try typing it into Google Maps - you'll be surprised. Still - shoddy research.

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In memory of........

John Barnard Denton (July 28, 1806 – May 22, 1841) was a Methodist Episcopal Church minister, lawyer, soldier, and political candidate for whom both Denton County, Texas and the city of Denton, Texas were named. His future wife, Mary Greenlee Stewart, who also taught him how to read and write. He later became a captain and was known for his battles against Native Americans. He died in 1841 after an attack on a Keechi village in adjacent Tarrant County.

Denton is now buried in his namesake county and city, on the southeast corner of the lawn of the Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square.

True John Denton died after a raid on the local tribes, but he is not burried in the grave on the square. He died in Tarrant County of injuries incurred in the 'battle' and was burried in a shallow grave. People went years later to find the body for the memorial grave that was to be placed on the courthouse property and came back with some bones to bury.

Decades later it was proven that the bones were not John Denton but instead from a Native American woman.

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True John Denton died after a raid on the local tribes, but he is not burried in the grave on the square. He died in Tarrant County of injuries incurred in the 'battle' and was burried in a shallow grave. People went years later to find the body for the memorial grave that was to be placed on the courthouse property and came back with some bones to bury.

Decades later it was proven that the bones were not John Denton but instead from a Native American woman.

Sounds like the famous statue of three lies at Harvard or something.

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True John Denton died after a raid on the local tribes, but he is not burried in the grave on the square. He died in Tarrant County of injuries incurred in the 'battle' and was burried in a shallow grave. People went years later to find the body for the memorial grave that was to be placed on the courthouse property and came back with some bones to bury.

Decades later it was proven that the bones were not John Denton but instead from a Native American woman.

So I should change my signature or leave it?

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I changed my signature.......

True John Denton died after a raid on the local tribes, but he is not burried in the grave on the square. He died in Tarrant County of injuries incurred in the 'battle' and was burried in a shallow grave. People went years later to find the body for the memorial grave that was to be placed on the courthouse property and came back with some bones to bury.

Decades later it was proven that the bones were not John Denton but instead from a Native American woman.

from buried to memorialized for those who want everything they read on the internet to be true.....

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