career, but had to talk to him at his bedside. Parker died on November 17, 1896, of a number of health conditions, including heart degeneration and Bright's disease. His funeral in Fort Smith had the highest number of attendees up to that point. He is buried at the Fort Smith National Cemetery. In 2019, the city of Fort Smith unveiled a statue of Parker representing law and order. Representation in other media Charles Portis features Parker in his novel True Grit, which has twice been adapted as films of the same name. Parker is also a featured character in the sequel to the first film. He was portrayed by James Westerfield in the 1969 movie and by John McIntire in the sequel. He was played by Jake Walker in the 2010 remake of True Grit. Zeke Proctor, one of Parker's deputy marshals, is featured in Larry McMurtry's 1997 novel Zeke and Ned. Carlyle Mitchell was cast as Judge Parker in the 1961 episode "A Bullet for the D.A." on the television series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. Carole Mathews played Belle Starr recently released from federal prison. In the story line, Belle unsuccessfully plots the revenge assassination of U.S. Attorney W.H.H. Clayton (Don Haggerty) during a Wild West show in Fort Smith. In the pilot episode of the TV series Hec Ramsey, the title character (a former United States Marshal) briefly discusses having ridden for Parker for several years. In the 1968 film Hang 'Em High, the character of Adam Fenton loosely resembles the person of Parker, who is known by the epithet "the hanging judge." In the Steve Earle song, "Tom Ames' Prayer," the narrator Ames is sentenced to death by Parker. See also George Maledon, an American hangman aptly nicknamed "The Prince of Hangmen", who served in the federal court of Judge Isaac Parker Shannon Political Family References Books External links National Park Service (National Historic Site) entry about Judge Isaac Parker Judge Isaac Parker reference on About.com List of men executed at Fort Smith while Isaac Parker presided 1838 births 1896 deaths 19th-century American politicians Ohio lawyers Missouri state court judges School board members in Arkansas Judges of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas Pre-statehood history of Oklahoma People from Barnesville, Ohio Politicians from Fort Smith, Arkansas People of Missouri in the American Civil War Arkansas Republicans United States federal