PIONEERS OF TRIGG COUNTY, KENTUCKY, by Cyrus Thompson [edited by Barney Thompson]
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These articles are the complete text of the publication, “Pioneers of Trigg County, 
Kentucky, as Seen Through the Biographical and Genealogical Articles of Cyrus 
Thompson in the Kentucky Telephone and the Cadiz Record, 1889-1899,” which I edited 
in 1996.  They discuss many of the earliest settlers of Trigg County, and include an 
interesting account of a Fourth of July celebration in the earliest days of settlement of the 
Trigg County lands between the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers.
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The index begins on page 71.
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Cyrus Thompson was the son of James Thompson and Sarah Steele Baker, who married 
in Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1797. In about 1805 James and his family migrated 
to Logan County, Kentucky; in 1814, according to Perrin's History of Trigg County, 
Kentucky, James moved to Cadiz and became one of the town's first settlers and its first 
hotel keeper. Cyrus, the youngest of James and Sarah's children, was born June 20, 1819, 
and was fond of referring to himself as the "first white child" born in Cadiz. 
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Following a long career as a commission merchant in New Orleans and in Galveston, 
Texas, Cyrus moved to Creedmoor, Texas, where his articles about Trigg County pioneers 
were written. It is not possible to determine how many articles he wrote, as there exist 
virtually no complete issues of the two Cadiz newspapers for the years prior to 1905. 
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The articles on this page were found in the “John Mabry Record Book,” which contains 
hundreds of news stories, birth and marriage announcements, and obituaries from late 
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century copies of the Kentucky Telephone and its 
successor, the Cadiz Record. The “John Mabry Record Book” is available at the Division 
of Special Collections and Archives, Margaret I. King Library, University of Kentucky. 
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Perhaps the remaining, "lost" articles of Cyrus Thompson will be found someday. 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
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Chapter 1: Thomas and Hopson Families, PAGE 1-5
Chapter 2: Thompson Family, PAGE 6-10
Chapter 3: Cannon Family, PAGE 11-14
Chapter 4: Husk, Adams, and McCain Families, PAGE 15-19
Chapter 5: Short, Dyer, and Soery Families, PAGE 20-24
Chapter 6: Boyd Family, PAGE 25-29
Chapter 7: Scott, Reynolds, and Street Families, PAGE 30-33
Chapter 8: Hollowell, McWaters, and Slaughter Families, PAGE 34-40
Chapter 9: Cox, Noel, and Barnes Families, PAGE 41-47
Chapter 10: A Fourth of July Celebration in the "Free State”, PAGE 48-53
Chapter 11: "Store Boys" of Early Cadiz, PAGE 54-57
Chapter 12: Daniel Family, Cerulean Springs Families, and Linn Boyd, PAGE 58-62
Chapter 13: Landes Family and Trigg County Families in Texas, PAGE 63-67
Appendix: Cyrus Thompson's 1898 Genealogical Letter to Emma Thompson Bristow. PAGE 68-70
INDEX: Page 71-
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Cyrus Thompson’s PIONERRS OF TRIGG COUNTY, KENTUCKY
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Chapter 1:
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Thomas and Hopson Families
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				Creedmoor, Travis Co., Tex.,
					October 16, 1889
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Editor, Kentucky Telephone:
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	In some of my previous communications I made mention of
Stanley Thomas, titled Colonel, as having been a merchant in Cadiz in
about 1836 and a partner of Maj. Alfred Boyd, and I now propose to
speak of him at some length because he became a noted citizen.  His
family-- the Thomas'-- were North Carolinians of English descent, and
emigrated to Kentucky in about 1806, and settled in Christian, now Trigg
county, on the waters of Donaldson Creek-- being pioneers of that section-
- where Stanley Thomas was born in 1808, being the youngest of the
family of five sons and two daughters.
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	No family stood higher in Trigg county in all the years when I
knew them, than did the Thomas family.  The brothers, who were all
farmers, consisted of Cullen, Perry, Starkey, James and Stanley, and I
learn that their character was never tarnished; and more that their children
and grandchildren have well sustained the reputation of their fathers, who
were noted for their honesty, morality, industry, general intelligence, and
usefulness.  They, too, were all, I think, Christians of the Baptist faith, and
were all members of the grand old Whig party, and friends of Cadiz, in her
contest with Canton as to which place should be the county seat.
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	Stanley Thomas, after going to Cadiz, first embarked in the goods
business with Frasier Y. Lawson, who was a well-known citizen of
Cadiz, a rather handsome man of pleasing address, and a tailor by trade. Then
with a man by the name of Burkley or Buckland, a northern man who, it
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was said, did not "tote fair," and lastly with Maj. Alfred Boyd.  Neither
copartnership lasted over a year or two-- that with Boyd the longest.
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	After retiring from the mercantile business Mr. Thomas became
the acting Sheriff of Trigg, and filled the position for six years under the
leasing or farming system; and afterwards for four years by election by the
people under the present constitution-- being all the while a popular
officer.  He was for a short time the proprietor of the old Hotel previously
owned and kept by my father, and in 1849 was elected to the Kentucky
legislature as a Whig, besting Col. Daniel Landes, the nominee of the
Democrats in a Democratic county, thereby showing his personal
popularity; and here allow me to digress by saying that Col. Thomas and
Col. Landes were brothers-in-law, having married sisters, and altho' the
contest was heated and the race an exciting one, they were as good friends
after the election as before.
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	Stanley Thomas was a man of generous impulses, social,
honorable and liberal.  He had a sunny countenance and pleasing manners,
and scarcely a man ever lived in Cadiz-- so well known, and for so long a
time, so prominent before the people in some public  capacity-- who was
so popular.  He was very convivial in his nature and disposition, and this
characteristic came very near destroying his usefulness.  In the first years
of his residence in Cadiz, by association with frolicsome young men and
indulgence in the social glass, he acquired a taste and formed a habit that
injured him and threatened his destruction, but he had the moral firmness
to throttle the "monster," and became an instance and an example of
permanent reform.  He soon thereafter joined the Baptist Church, and
lived thereafter a consistent Christian life.
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	In 1843, Stanley Thomas married my sister, Sarah Thompson,
then the widow of Noah W. Rothrock, and they had and reared three
children, two sons and one daughter, who, if they have not or shall not
honor their parents, certainly have never brought reproach upon them--
they were Robert B., Henry C., and Sarah.  Robert is a respectable and
honorable merchant of Louisville, having been quite successful.  Henry
came to Texas in the latter years of his boyhood, and in early manhood
married and sold goods at Weimar, until his death some years since,
having been honored and respected; and Sarah married Thomas Moore, a
respectable merchant of Comanche, Texas, a brother of Mollie E. Moore, the
gifted Texas poetess.  Stanley Thomas died in Cadiz in 1858 in his 50th year,
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an honored and respected citizen, and was preceded by his wife, who died in
1853, she having been an honored member of the Methodist Church.
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	Cullen Thomas, the oldest of the Thomas brothers, was a man of
much personal worth.  He was plain, matter of fact, sensible, moral and
industrious, and a practical farmer.  He was for many years a Magistrate
and a member of the County Court, succeeding under the old Constitution
to the Sheriffalty in 1835, which he leased or farmed out to his brother
Stanley, and I am safe in saying no man looked more closely after the
interest of the county than did Cullen Thomas, seeing that its dues were
collected and the disbursements properly made.  He continued to reside at
or near his first home on Donaldson Creek till his death, which occurred
in 1862, in his 71st year.  He reared three sons and one daughter, but I
learn that all are now dead except Peyton, who is himself now an old
man, having reared a large family of children, who have well sustained the
good reputation of the father and grand-father.
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	Perry Thomas, next in age to his brother Cullen, was quite unlike
him, whether in size, looks, manners or temperament.  He was small of
stature, of sanguine temperament, quickspoken and of active movement. 
His manner was prepossessing and his countenance pleasing.  He was a
farmer by occupation, but much of his time was given to the service of the
public in some public capacity.  For twenty-one years he was the County
Assessor, and he was the enumerator of the census of 1870 and of 1880,
and no man in the county was better qualified for the discharge of these
arduous and responsible duties than he was, for he always discharged his
duties and met his obligations faithfully.  The positions he filled brought
him in contact with the people of the entire county, and no man in the
county knew so many people and so much about them through a period of
more than a quarter of a century.  His long continuance in official
positions was abundant evidence of his business qualities, his honor and
his industry, and he went down to his grave without a stain upon his
reputation, dying at his old homestead on Donaldson Creek in 1886, in his
90th year.  His progeny were numerous, having raised nine sons and four
daughters, all of whom I learn are yet living save one son, Benjamin F.,
who died in 1883.  These sons and daughters and their children, largely all
living in Trigg county, have so lived and deported themselves that they are
honored and respected by all who know them.  The oldest son, Albert
Thomas, studied medicine, became a physician, and is said to be the
oldest practitioner in Trigg county.
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	Starkey Thomas, the next of the Thomas brothers, was a plain,
quiet man, but sensible, practical and useful, much less showy and less
social, as I recollect him, than Cullen, Perry or Stanley.  He was a farmer
but filled the office of Constable in his district for about twenty years and
went to his grave in 1881 aged 88 years, leaving a reputation of truth,
honor and morality of which his large family of children-- eight sons and
one daughter, who I learn [ . . . ] dying-- may justly feel proud.
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	James Thomas, the next younger than Starkey, I knew less about
than any of the Thomas brothers.  I think he bore a striking resemblance
to Starkey in looks and manners.  I remember him as a highly respected
citizen who was a clever gentleman, sustaining well the reputation of the
Thomas family for honor, usefulness, and morality.  He filled the office of
Magistrate for several years under the old Constitution, and then for
several years under the new, elected by the people, as having the hold he
had upon their confidence, and died at his home in Trigg county as
honored and respected citizen in 1864 in his 60th year, having raised three
sons and one daughter, only one of whom (his son Carroll) is still living.
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	I remember quite distinctly William Hopson, titled Major, by
appointment in the Kentucky Militia.  He was known as Major Bill
Hopson, and was a conspicuous citizen of Cadiz through many hears.  He
was from Christian county, where his father died, being an old citizen.  He
was a carpenter, a bachelor, and good looking.  He came to Cadiz in about
1830, and worked as a journeyman for several years with Richard G[ . . . ]. 
He was an amateur violinist and exceedingly fond of dancing.  He was
fond of fine clothes, and when dressed in his military suit, with his
shoulder straps, his red sash, and his glittering sword dangling by his side,
he was as broad and self-important as General Scott ever was, and Scott's
pride and conceit was notorious to an extent that won for him the
cognomen of "old fuss and feathers;" and allow me here to say that Genl.
Scott towered above all the military men I ever saw, having seen him in
his palmy days, in his prime.  He had come to be vain if any man had.  He
measured about six feet four inches, was as straight as an arrow, was well
proportioned in body, weighed probably about 200 pounds, and had a full,
round face and an intellectual look.  His magnificent personal appearance
together with his military fame, because of the victories he won at Lundy's
lane, and in the battles of Mexico, ought to have excused him for being proud.
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	William Hopson was much given to conviviality, and was
something of a wag; was greatly given to [ . . . ] vulgarisms and slang in
his mirth and frolics, even when he was thinking too much himself, he
never forgot to be a gentleman, and would hold himself aloof from the
low and vulgar inebriate.  He had many noble traits, and his association
was largely with gentlemen.  He had great contempt for bold, brazen faced
and conceited youths, who imagined themselves men when they had
scarcely ceased to wear petticoats or doned pantaloons.  He denominated
all such "two-year-olds."  He was a good worker, but lived up to his
income, saved nothing, never married, and has long since gone to his
reward.
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	Sidney Hopson, a brother of William Hopson, went to Cadiz in
about 1832 and became a citizen, going there from Christian county.  He
was a saddler by trade, and a gentleman by instinct and habit.  He was an
honest, industrious, good citizen, and quiet and unpretending in his
manners, being moral and exemplary in his habits.  I have a faint
recollection that he was a Christian.  He had a pleasant family, but I knew
but little of them personally, and after I left Cadiz I lost the run of them
entirely.  My recollection is that Mr. Hopson continued his residence in
Cadiz, maintained his reputation for honor and usefulness, and has been
dead some years.
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Chapter 2:
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Thompson Family
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				Creedmoor, Travis Co., Tex.,
					December 20, 1889
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Editor, Kentucky Telephone:
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	As to my own family, the Thompsons were among the first settlers
of Cadiz and conspicuous citizens, noted, at least for their numbers.  I
trust it will not be considered in bad taste if I refer to them again, and
speak of some of the family who have not before been noticed.  I have
before spoken of James E. and Hiram, and several times alluded to my
father, James Thompson, who was a native of Prince Edward County,
Virginia, and of English extraction, whilst my mother, whose maiden
name was Steele, was a native of Campbell County, Virginia, and of Irish
extraction.  My father immigrated to Kentucky prior to 1810, and located
first in Logan County.  He then removed to the immediate neighborhood
of the present town of Cadiz, it then being Christian County, and where
the town was located and laid out; was one of the first persons to move
into it, and continued to reside there until his death in 1840, preceding my
mother a number of years, she having died in Cadiz in 1851.
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	As I have before said, my father was the first hotel keeper in
Cadiz, and for a number of years the only one.  He was one of the best
known men in Cadiz through many years, during all the years from 1819,
when the town was established, until he gave up hotel keeping in about
1832.  Indeed, he had a large acquaintance throughout South-western
Kentucky, Cadiz being then the only great thoroughfare leading from
northern and central Kentucky to the country west of the Tennessee River.
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	My father and mother reared a family of nine children, seven sons
and two daughters-- the four oldest sons having been born in Virginia, and
your correspondent being the youngest of the family.  My brothers were
John C., Thomas S., William C., James, Moses, and Hiram, and my
sisters were Adaline and Sarah, all aged in the order named.
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	John C. Thompson, a plain sedate, moral and industrious man, a
farmer by occupation, spent the most of his early manhood in Logan and
Butler counties, where he married a Miss Margaret Hutchinson, a
sensible, industrious and amiable lady.  Some years after his marriage, say
in about 1830, he removed to Trigg County, and settled on a little farm
belonging to my father and situated one mile from Cadiz on the south side
of the road leading to Hopkinsville, but remained there only one year or
two, when he emigrated to Missouri and settled in Clarke County.  In
Missouri he came in contact with slaves and slave labor --the State being a
slave State-- and disliking that, not being a slave owner himself, he
transferred to Hancock County, Illinois, on the opposite and east side of
the Mississippi River, where he reared a respectable family of children--
being himself honored and respected, and where he continued to reside
until his death, some ten years since.
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	Thomas S. Thompson was a well known citizen of Cadiz through
many years.  He was a saddler by trade, but more of a trader by practice. 
He dealt more or less in stock, butchered, packed and shipped beef to New
Orleans, and sometimes drove cattle to Nashville; and it was when I was a
little boy and accompanied him on one of these trips that I first saw
Nashville, then a little city, but it looked larger to me (and was more
imposing) than London did when thirty years afterwards I saw that
greatest city of the world, thus showing the contractedness of the ideas
and estimates of the young.
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	Thomas S. Thompson was an industrious, amiable, honorable,
moral and social gentleman, and a member of the Baptist Church.  He
married Miss Penelope Bayliss, of Montgomery County, Tennessee, and
after a residence in Cadiz for many years he removed in about 1833 to
Tennessee and located on the Cumberland river about 12 miles below
Clarksville and engaged in farming and continued his residence there until
his removal to Louisiana in about 1844.  He located near Farmerville, in
Union Parish, and remained there until his death in 1873-- his death being
hastened by grief for the loss of his favorite son (a noble young man)
[Virgil Thompson] who was killed in battle in one of the Seven
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Days' fight with McClelland, around Richmond.
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	His wife and another son, a promising and useful young man, and a
widowed daughter, with her two children, survived him, and I think the
widow and son are yet living, and upon the old homestead.  The daughter,
Augusta Thompson married in Cadiz when quite young, Mr. [Mayes],
who lived only a few years.  After his death she accompanied his father's
family to Louisiana, and resided with them for several years, when, with
her two daughters, (the Misses Mayes, interesting young ladies), she
removed to the neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, and soon thereafter died. 
One of the daughters then married, and she, with her husband and sister,
moved to Dallas, and afterwards, when I met them in about 1878, they
removed to Terrell, Texas, where they were residing when I last heard of
them.
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	William C. Thompson was pretty much reared in Cadiz, and
resided there until about 1835, when he removed to Missouri, and located
at Osceola on the Osage River.  He was a saddler by trade, and for a
number of years carried on the saddler's business in Cadiz in copartnership
with Thomas S. Thompson, and he also worked at his trade when living
in Missouri.  He was an unusually good looking young man, possibly the
best looking in his young manhood of all the Thompson family, and was
amiable, honorable and then moral.  He married in 1828 or 1830 Miss
Lucy Daniel, a sister or niece of George Daniel, one of the first sheriffs
of Trigg county, who was thought to have been one of the handsomest
young ladies in the county at that time, and in her day.  His family
accompanied him to Missouri, but about two years after going there his
wife died, leaving four children, all daughters, and these he soon
thereafter took back to Kentucky and to Cadiz and placed with my mother,
who reared them..  He remained in Missouri until about 1843, when he
returned to Cadiz and remained there until his death in about 1869.  He
was a generous man and warmhearted young man, unobtrusive in his
manners, but smartly lacking in energy, and was not, I think, a success in
any line of business he ever pursued-- dying poor.
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	Moses Thompson was a man of more industry and, I may say, of
pluck and push than any member of the Thompson family.  By pursuing
his trade, that of a tanner, which he carried on extensively, without any
variation and using industry, he soon built himself up-- beginning without
a dollar, to comparative independence.  He, on starting out in life, then
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quite a young man, bought of Levi Harlan, on time, a tract of land lying three
miles south of Cadiz, upon which there was a tan-yard, and going
industriously to work at his trade he soon paid for it; and from that time on
'till his death (continuing to reside on the same place) he was
accumulative and financially independent.
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	In about 1828-30 he married Miss Clarissa Smith, a sensible,
practical, energetic and economical and most worthy woman, a sister of
John Wharton and Jonathan and Firman Smith, and this marriage
proved a most happy one.  They both pulled at the same end of the string
in all matters connected with their social and pecuniary interest, and so far
as I know and believe no discord or dissension ever characterized their
married life.  There was scarcely a family in the county more given to
hospitality, or one who entertained more people than they did, and none
who lived better.
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	Moses Thompson was a man of prepossessing countenance, and
of pleasant address, though plain in dress and address.  He was amiable
and moral, and had the friendship of all who knew him.  He and Wayman
Crow, of St. Louis, were warm, personal friends, and whenever he visited
St. Louis, which he did frequently did, selling his leather in that market,
he was always the guest of that distinguished merchant.  The sons and
daughters were left an example by both father and mother, who have both
died in the last few years, worthy of imitation, and if they have followed
in their footsteps, they will place the world under obligation for their
having lived, for they will have been useful, honorable, and virtuous
citizens.  They are so well known to the present citizens of Cadiz (better
than to myself) that I shall not speak of them beyond to say that Jonathan,
the oldest son, I learn is living in Nebraska or Iowa, and is in poor health;
and that Lou [Louisa C.], the second daughter, who married Mr. [James]
Gaines, has been dead for some years.
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	Amongst other characteristics of Moses Thompson I remember
that he was a splendid shot or marksman.  As a still hunter for deer and
wild turkey, both of which were numerous in the county in close
proximity to his tan-yard, particularly south of it, in early times he was
one of the most successful I ever knew.  He rarely went in search of a deer
that he did not bring one home with him.  It was only when his old flint
lock rifle 
snapped-- there were no percussion in those days-- that he failed to kill or
wound a deer when he took aim.
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	In my early days, when I was a very little fellow, and he was a
young bachelor, I spent many a week, between Monday and Saturday
when not in school, with him at his tan-yard, and rarely was his table
spread without having game of some kind upon it, and yet he did not
neglect his business or use valuable time in hunting.  He got many a good
day's work out of me when with him, grinding tan bark, or in the forest
stacking bark in the spring of the year, as it was stripped from the oak
trees, which he felled.
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	Noah W. Rothrock, of whom I have before made mention,
deserves a more extended notice.  I have spoken of him first as a clerk in
the store of Spotswood Wilkinson, afterwards as a partner of the
mercantile house of Landes, Rothrock, and Baker, and lastly as a partner
of James H. Carson in the goods business of a little place called New
York on the Cumberland River some twelve miles below Clarksville,
Tennessee.  He was from Greenville, Kentucky, and was, I think, trained
to business by James Weir, a veteran merchant of Greenville, who was
one of the best known and most successful merchants of early times in the
Green River country.  Mr. Rothrock went to Cadiz in about 1833, and in
1834 married my youngest sister, Sarah Thompson, [who was] afterwards
Mrs. Stanley Thomas, and in 1838 died in Cadiz of consumption, after
nearly a year's confinement to his bed.  Two children were the result of
this marriage.  One daughter, Emily, an amiable and sweet girl, who
afterwards married Mark Smith and died in Cadiz in about 1860; and a
son, John, a kind-hearted boy, who grew to manhood and died in Cadiz in
about 1861-- I having taken him with me to Louisiana in his boyhood and
had him educated, after which he returned to Kentucky.
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	Mr. Rothrock was a man of many peculiarities.  He had a large
amount of personal pride.  He dressed well, in exceeding good taste, and
was neat and cleanly in person.  He was polished in manners but cold and
distant.  He was a decided critic and had but few associates, because very
few came up to his standard of social and intellectual worth.  He was
moral and strictly honest.  He boasted on his accomplishment as a scribe,
and his qualifications as a bookkeeper.  He was a thorough accountant,
and his chirography was superior.  He, too, was something of a literary
character, at least was very fond of reading, and read a great deal-- would
rather read than sell goods when a merchant.  He was a great admirer of
the English poets and English historians, and thought there were none
equal to Hume and McCaulay.  He had certainly fine literary works and
spent much money for costly standard works.
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Chapter 3:
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Cannon Family
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				Creedmoor, Travis Co., Tex.,
					April 12, 1890
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Editor, Kentucky Telephone:
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	It affords me much pleasure to pen biographical sketches of the
people who resided in Cadiz and vicinity in early days, from the fact that it
reflects upon my youthful years and the many happy days I enjoyed while
there.
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	I will now mention Mr. John J. Cannon, Sr., who resided at the
mouth of Little River, at a point on the upper side, was a brother of
William Cannon, the old and first County and Circuit Court Clerk of
Trigg county, and was a man of much interest.  He bought the land and
located there probably as early as 1828, and kept a wood yard; and whilst
he was a farmer, his principal income was from the sale of wood to
steamboats.  He was characterized by truth, honor, pride of character,
morality and intelligence.  He went to Trigg county shortly after its
formation, and married a Miss Holland, a sister of A. W. Holland, once a
well-known man about Cadiz, and the daughter of a highly respected old
lady, whom the children, in my young days, called "Granny Holland,"
and who, as far back as I can recollect, lived in an humble log cabin, on
the hill three-eighths to a half a mile north of the Court house square in
Cadiz, and where, I think, she died having been one of the first settlers of
Cadiz.
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	William Cannon was a Virginian and an educated man, and when
he met an intellectual equal and a congenial spirit, which he rarely did, he
was a fine and fluent conversationalist, and he was eccentric beyond
almost any man I ever knew.  His idiosyncrasy was remarkable.  Besides
being a scholar, he was a man of extensive general information, and was
very interesting in conversation when you could call him out, but he was so
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reserved and unsocial that you could hardly get anything out of him but
monosyllables, tho' never discourteous or impolite.  He almost always
wore a look of pleasant melancholy.  Had always in company a sad smile,
and knowing him pretty well, being sometimes a visitor at his house, I
never knew him to laugh aloud, not even in his own house; and was quiet
and reserved when alone in his family.  He was a severe critic, and had but
little to do with his neighbors or fellowmen-- rarely or never visited his
brother William, although he frequently visited Cadiz.  He had the looks,
manners and actions of one who had met with some great misfortune or
disappointment in life.  He had been a midshipman in the U. S. Navy, but I
never knew whether he resigned or was removed.  He reared quite a
family of children-- sons and daughters-- the oldest of whom I personally
knew, and I think they all turned out well.
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	Charter, the oldest son, studied medicine, came to Texas a
number of years since, and located in Kaufman county, where he engaged
in the practice of medicine, and has become a successful if not an able
physician, and socially stands high, being yet alive and a resident of either
Kaufman or Cherokee county.
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	Chasteen, the second son, was placed in the Naval Academy at
Annapolis, Md., a number of years since, through the influence of 
Hon. Linn Boyd, and is now, I presume, in the U. S. Navy, where he was
during the war.
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	Douglass, the third son, was killed in the late war, whilst in the
service of the Confederacy, at Baton Rouge, and Walter, the youngest
son, came to Texas some years since and settled in Denton county.
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	Mr. Cannon had two daughters, one of whom I am told married
Hazard Baker, who proved a good soldier for the South in the late war,
and the other married R. M. Rogers, who came to Texas and is living in
Sherman, having a son, who has already distinguished himself as an artist.
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	Mr. and Mrs. Cannon have, I presume, been dead for many years. 
Here I wish to remark that it was through the influence of Mr. Cannon
that the first steamboat ever ascended Little River to Cadiz-- say in the
winter of 1832-33-- the boat being loaded with Kanawha salt.  Mr. Cannon
agreed to take the whole cargo if the Captain would deliver it at Cadiz, which he
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successfully did.  Wayman Crow was then a merchant of Cadiz, and took
and paid for the salt.
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	Again I am reminded of another circumstance of interest in which
Mr. Cannon was a prominent actor.  It was an encounter with 
Lt. R. B. Randolph, a Virginian, and formerly of the U. S. Navy (a
midshipman at the same time Mr. Cannon was, and known to him) at
Grace's brick hotel in Canton in about 1839-40-41, it growing out of
conflict in the survey of lands.  Randolph, on his arrival in Cadiz (coming
to look after form old military surveys and land claims), renewed 
Mr. Cannon's acquaintance pleasantly, but Randolph's surveys lying in
fact adjoining Mr. Cannon's land, took a part of it (land that he had bought
in good faith and paid for years before), and out of this grew a quarrel.,
which terminated in a fight, in which Randolph was painfully though not
seriously hurt by a pistol shot fired by Mr. Cannon.  His nephew, John J.
Cannon, Jr., Mr. Cannon, and servant man, Willis, all of whom
Randolph declared rushed into his room at the hotel without notice and
assaulted him in solido.  They denied, however, that any participated in
the fight except Mr. Cannon and Lt. Randolph, and that the pistol was
accidentally fired.  Randolph was wounded all the same, and had to return
to Cadiz for medical treatment, where he remained some weeks before he
was able to travel.  He had completed his business and had reached
Canton, where he was awaiting a steamer on his way home, when and
where Mr. Cannon and his attendants interrupted him, and the fight took
place.  Mr. Cannon was prosecuted for his assault, but was acquitted.
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	Another circumstance, of which I am just here reminded, which I
will relate (one almost forgotten, and yet a matter of history, or a least a
fact), and in which the same Lt. Randolph played a conspicuous part.  It
was his pulling, or attempt to pull the nose of Gen'l Jackson, when
President of the United States, probably in about 1832-33, on the occasion
of a steamboat excursion upon the "Potomac."  Whilst on the trip the
steamer landed at Alexandria, when a great crowd of people rushed on
board to see and shake hands with the President, and among them was 
Lt. Randolph, who, instead of taking Gen'l Jackson's hand when
extended, took hold, or attempted to take hold and pull the old hero's nose,
whereupon the indignation of the people was so great that Randolph had
to make a rapid exit to avoid punishment.  The old man arose to his feet,
and said he would himself punish him if he could but lay his hands upon him.  
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Randolph had been removed from his position in the Navy, and he
charged it to the President, hence his act and conduct.
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	In my communication of February 26th, I inadvertently wrote 
Smith Dabney married a Miss Utterback, when I should have stated a 
Miss Middleton, a half sister, whom I pleasantly recollect.
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Chapter 4:
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Husk, Adams and McCain Families
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				Creedmoor, Travis Co., Tex.,
					May 26, 1890
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Editor, Kentucky Telephone:
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	I take pleasure in now speaking more in detail of some others of
the citizens who lived in early times in the northern part of Trigg county,
whose names I have before incidentally mentioned, and if all were not
highly educated and prominent, they were highly honorable and useful
men.
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	William Husk was one of them.  His family acquaintances,
without intended disrespect, frequently referred to him as old Billy Shuck. 
He lived about six miles from Cadiz, almost due north, and owned a good
tract of land.  He was one of the earliest, if not the very first, settlers of
that section, and when it was Christian county; coming, as I believe from
Virginia.  He was almost, if not altogether, without education, but was a
man of good, natural mind, with good judgment and good business
qualities.  He was plain in dress, rather unpolished in manners, quiet in
conversation, honorable in his dealing, and temperate in his habits.  He
was a farmer, though not an extensive one; nevertheless, he was in very
independent circumstances.  He almost always had money, and generally
paid his way as he went.
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	His leading trait was his fondness for good horses, and it was said
that he never rode a poor one either in flesh or form.  It was told of him
that when going to Cadiz he would stop and secret himself in the brush just
without the town, rest his horse, let the sweat dry, and then rub him until he
was as sleek as when taken from the stable, when he would remount him,
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ride into town, and as he passed through the streets was happy at the
attraction and admiration which his horse would win. 
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	Of his sons there were two I remember-- Isaac and Lewis Husk--
who lived in their father's neighborhood.  They were farmers, and were
clever, quiet men and good citizens, but were not the equals of their father
in intellect, although they had the advantage of him in having received a
limited education.  I lost sight of both father and sons after I left
Kentucky, and conclude all are now dead.
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	The Adamses, Wesley and Jesse, who were small farmers and
lived on the Muddy Fork below Wallonia, and who lived there as far back
as I can recollect, were good citizens.  They were plain, honest and
industrious men, with limited educations, and but little known outside of
their neighborhoods.  They dressed very plainly (in brown, homespun
jeans), and were very quiet and unassuming.  They were noted for their
integrity.
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	Jesse Adams was a member of the Methodist Church, and I think
Wesley was also.  Mrs. Adams [Elizabeth Cooper], the wife of Jesse,
was the salt of the earth-- a good woman-- and as long as I retain my mind
I shall never forget her, because she often made my heart glad in my
childhood.
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	She was plain and unstylish in dress, comparatively poor in this
world's goods and peddled cakes in part for a livelihood; but she was pure
and good and as gentle as a lamb.  Looking back through the vista of time-
- the sixty years that have elapsed-- I can see her as I saw her in my
childhood, with her good face and kind look.  On all public days she came
to Cadiz with her large split basket of ginger cakes covered with a snowy
white cloth and took her stand on the side walk in front of my father's
tavern.  Nothing was looked to with so much interest by myself-- then a
little boy-- and the other little boys of the town as the coming of 
Mrs. Adams.  Each had saved in the interim since she had last been there
enough of his little earnings to have a feast on her cakes which she sold a
four pence ha'penny-- 6 1/2 cents-- the U. S. Government up to that time
never having coined anything less than 12 1/2 cent pieces, and not many
of them-- the specie currency was then of Mexican coinage.  Those were
the days of shin plasters, when bills from 6 1/2 to 50 cents were issued by
mercantile firms, and which furnished mainly the circulating medium
through a number of years.
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	But let me go back to Mrs. Adams' cakes; they were just splendid-
- great, big ones 5 x 8 inches, and nearly an inch thick, and in those days
there was no confectionery or public baker and pastry cook in Cadiz,
hence the children hailed her coming with delight.
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	At the same time that she came with her cakes, her husband would
come, bringing along a basket or two with chickens or eggs, or both, for
sale, and in this way these good people made a comfortable living, if they
did not grow rich.
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	They also had a forest of sugar trees in the Muddy Fork bottom,
and made, without adulteration, maple sugar, which the good wife sold
along with her cakes; and here I call to mind a pleasant visit I once made
in my young days to their camp and ground during sugar making time, and
recollect how I enjoyed drinking the fine cold saccharine water from the
troughs-- lying flat to do it; drinking the half-boiled syrup from the kettle,
and eating the sugar just grained and yet hot.  Those were happy days, and
I am half inclined to exclaim, "O, would I were a boy again, when life
seemed full of sunny years;" but alas! I cannot be, and must content
myself with drawing upon memory for my youthful pleasure.
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	Of the families of the Adams (the heads having been dead, as I
learn many years), I had no recollection, but I met, when in Kentucky last
summer, a son each of Wesley and Jesse Adams, who greeted me warmly
as the friend and acquaintance of their fathers, and they left the impress
upon my mind that they were both worthy citizens and clever gentlemen;
and here I beg to tell of a conversation I had last summer when in
Kentucky with your worthy citizen and my good friend, the Hon. William
Wharton, touching and concerning Wesley Adams.
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	He told me of a circumstance which reflected imperishable honor
on him-- he having been a soldier in the Northwestern war, or the war of
1812 with the British and Indians, and having had as one of his comrades
the great and good man, John J. Crittenden.  The circumstance was the
meeting of Wesley Adams and Mr. Crittenden in Princeton-- probably in
1844 when Mr. Crittenden was canvassing Kentucky in behalf of 
Mr. Clay, who was then a candidate for President.
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	Mr. Crittenden was standing upon the street, surrounded by a
crowd of the most prominent men of the town and county, who were
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listening to his conversations, when his eye happened to rest upon a very
plainly clad countryman standing on the outskirts, and scanning him more
closely he recognized his old soldier, friend and comrade, whom he had
not seen for more than 30 years; whereupon, without explanation to his
audience, and almost abruptly leaving them, he rapidly approached 
Mr. Adams, seized and shook his hand, and gave him a warm and hearty
greeting, and then introduced him to his elegantly dressed and stylish
audience as having been his comrade and friend in trying times; said he
was as good, true and brave a man as he had ever known; and coming
from that source, no greater compliment could have been paid him.  Nor
could Mr. Crittenden's actions upon any occasion have done him more
credit; but he had a heart as well as a head-- he was one of nature's
noblemen.
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	It is generally men of low origin and bad hearts who refuse and are
ashamed to recognize and acknowledge honor and personal worth,
although it may be clad in rags.
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	Robert Hawkins, who lived on the Muddy Fork in early times, not
far from Wallonia, was another good man.  He was not rich in this world's
goods, indeed, he was poor, but the good name to which he was entitled
because of his manly virtue, was worth more than Jay Gould's fortune.  He
was a small farmer; had a crooked leg and a hopping step, went plainly
dressed and had only a limited education; beyond this I need only say that
he was a devout and zealous member of the Methodist Church, and having
passed away many years ago, I doubt not his spirit was wafted to heaven,
where it is not certain that Jay Gould's will go unless he releases his grasp
upon his purse strings, and gives more freely of his millions in the future
than he has done in the past for the cause of Christianity, and for
ameliorating the condition-- the sufferings-- of the poor and needy. He
may not find a home in heaven, for our Saviour has said that a rich man
shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of heaven, and yet how many in this
world are seeking riches at the expense of comfort, health and [ . . . . ].
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	The McCains, who, as I remember, first settled near Wallonia,
then afterwards moved lower down the Muddy Fork and on to the old
McWaters place.  The father's name, if I do not mistake, was James
McCain, and came from North Carolina in about 1830-35.  He was a quiet,
amiable, and plainly educated and genteel old gentleman.  He was a small
farmer, and like all the people who came in that day from northern North
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Carolina or southern Virginia, was a tobacco grower.  He was, I think, a
Christian man with a good name.
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	I have only a distinct recollection of one of his sons, Lewis
McCain, who was a most gentlemanly young man.  He was modest,
moral, upright and intelligent.  I think after my days in Kentucky he
became a merchant and sold goods at Wallonia, and maybe at Cadiz also. 
I lost sight of him and of his father and family after I came South, and
know nothing of their after life.
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	Hezekiah R. Watkins, who at one time lived in the Wallonia
settlement, was a well-known, honorable and useful citizen.  He was a
man of good sense, had some education, and was a progressive man.  He
both read and thought.  He was a farmer and a tobacco grower, and I think
a Virginian.  He had some taste for mercantile pursuits, and about the time
I left Kentucky-- in about 1843-45-- he moved on to the Cumberland, in
Caldwell county, just below the Trigg line, and established a steamboat
landing and a store, where he sold goods and took in exchange every kind
of produce raised, made and grown by the farmers, which he shipped to
New Orleans; and when he did not accompany his shipment, he consigned
them to me for sale-- I then living in New Orleans and doing a commission
business.  He was, as I remember, a Methodist, and in the days when I
knew him held in high esteem.  I lost sight of him many years since, and
do not know of the after part of his life or anything concerning his family.
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Chapter 5:
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Short, Dyer, and Soery Families
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					Creedmoor, Travis Co., Tex.,
						November 3, 1890
Editor, Kentucky Telephone:
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	After a suspension of several months I resume my correspondence,
giving my personal recollections of persons and things connected with
Cadiz and the county of Trigg.
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	In early times sometimes going outside of the county, when
speaking of notable persons and events, as I shall now do, in giving a short
history of Col. Robert H. Short, who, although never a resident was well
known in Cadiz and in the county.  Col. Short, who died in New Orleans
August last, in the 77th year of his age, was a Virginian by birth.  He
came, along with is family, to Kentucky in the latter part of his boyhood,
and located at Louisville, where he remained till early manhood.  He then
went upon the river as a steamboat clerk.  It was during the period of his
steamboat life that he first saw and made the acquaintance of his wife, on
the occasion of a "ball" given at the old hotel in Canton, kept by good old
uncle Davy Campbell.  The steamer Pacific, upon which he was clerking,
was a large boat, and ran in the Nashville and New Orleans trade.  The
boat was on a voyage from the latter place; and, upon reaching Canton, it
was unable to ascend the Cumberland, on account of its low water.
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	While she was there awaiting a rise the ball took place, and he
being young, gay and frolicsome, attended it.  He expected to see an
assemblage of plainly dressed, unstylish and homely country girls, but
instead thereof he met an assemblage of handsomely dressed, good
looking, well educated and well mannered young ladies.  Among them
were the Misses Ford, notable and admirable young ladies and the
daughters of Mr. Philip Ford, who resided on the Hopkinsville road, ten
miles above Cadiz, just within Christian county. 
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It was on this occasion that he made the acquaintance and was
captivated by Miss Margaret Ford.  He lost no time in wooing her,
marrying her soon thereafter; and the marriage proved a most happy one.
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	After his marriage his wife induced him to give up his occupation,
and he located in Hopkinsville.  He engaged in the grocery business, and
became one of the best known and most popular men in the town and
county.  After some six years residence in Hopkinsville, having been fairly
successful in business, he, in 1844, formed a copartnership with G. B.
Long and Tandy H. Trice, both of Hopkinsville.  Under the firm name of
Long, Trice & Short he engaged in the storage of tobacco in New
Orleans, renting one of the warehouses of that city.  In 1844 all the
tobacco grown in the West was shipped to that point, as it was the largest
tobacco market in the world.  After one season this enterprise was
abandoned, and Col. Short then engaged in the commission business in
New Orleans on his own responsibility.  He took up his permanent
residence in that city, and pursued the business until the breaking out of
the war, during which time he [ . . . ].  Shortly after the occupation in New
Orleans by the Union Army, the war broke up his business, as well as that
of every other commission house in New Orleans.  He then left with his
family and spent the three or four years thereafter of the war in Alabama,
where by speculation and business operations of one kind or another he
accumulated riches largely.  But this he largely lost by robbery and
confiscation by the soldiers and government.
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	Shortly after the close of the war he returned with his family to
New Orleans and found his elegant and elegantly furnished residence
occupied (as it had been during his absence) by some of the prominent
officers of the Federal army.  With some difficulty and delay he got
possession of it, and I aided him in doing so, through an influence I
controlled with Gen. Canby, a liberal and gentlemanly officer then in
command of New Orleans.  In the years after the war Col. Short did not
engage in commercial pursuits, and led largely a quiet and retired life. 
With his means-- he made investments of one kind or another, and was the
owner of one of the largest sugar plantations in the interior of Louisiana. 
Had he not been wronged by 
the [ . . . ], in whom he reposed confidence, he would have died rich; as it
was, however, he left a handsome estate of over [seventy?] thousand
dollars.  He liberally and generously bequeathed the greater portion of his
fortune to his own and his wife's relatives, not forgetting some true and
faithful servants of his and his wife's.  He set apart $5,000 for the erection
of a tomb in Hopkinsville in which his, his wife's, and Mrs. Mary Henry's 
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(his wife's sister) remains are to be placed-- they having been interred in
New Orleans.  He also gave to the Baptist and Christian churches of
Hopkinsville $2,000 each.
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	Col. Short was a man of much energy and business foresight.  He
was generous, genial and hospitable, was always cheerful, had a bright,
sunny countenance, and was popular.  He dispensed hospitality liberally
and elegantly, and to no one more frequently than myself in all the years
that I resided in New Orleans after he went there.  To him and his noble
wife (one of the best friends I think I ever had, and of whom I shall speak
in some future communication) I am, or was indebted for much enjoyment
and many social privileges and pleasures.  The good, elegant and faithful
wife preceded the husband several years in death, and I trust are meeting
the reward prescribed the good and true in the spirit world.
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	It is now my pleasure to speak of General John J. Dyer, who in
early times, was long a conspicuous citizen of Trigg county.  He held a
commission from the Governor of Kentucky as a brigadier general.  From
my earliest recollection, till I left Kentucky, he was commander of the
Trigg county militia, and maintained well the dignity of his position.  I
think he was a native of South Carolina, and probably settled upon a farm
seven or eight miles below Cadiz, on Little River, soon after the
organization of Trigg county.
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	He was a man of prepossessing appearance, of slight build,
weighed about one hundred and fifty pounds, of a nervous temperament,
was about five feet eight inches in height, possessed a fair education,
though considered rather opinionated.  He had a polished manner, good
address, good principles, and good social qualities, but did not mix a great
deal in society, and consequently was not widely known except in his
official capacity.  A prominent characteristic was his personal pride.  He
was a commanding figure at the annual and semi-annual militia reviews in
Cadiz, when mounted upon a fine horse and clothed in a splendid uniform,
and surrounded by his [ . . . ] in uniform, mounted upon their prancing
steeds.  Those were great days in Cadiz in early times.  Those subject to
military duty came from all parts of the county.
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	General Dyer, I learn, died many years ago, leaving a highly
respected family.  Of them, however, I know but little except two sons,
Alfred B. and John J. Dyer, Jr.
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.	Alfred B. Dyer I knew best and well.  He was a very clever and
polished young gentleman, beloved by all and had a promising future
before him, as his after life proved.  I learn that he was a very useful man
in his day.  He began life as a school master, was elected sheriff several
terms, making an excellent official, and besides other honorable positions
which he filled, he long held the office of County Judge, and died while
serving in that capacity, only a few years ago, leaving a family who are
among the best and most highly esteemed  citizens of Cadiz and Trigg
county.
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	John J. Dyer, Jr., I also learn became a useful and deservedly
popular man, having served his county as sheriff two terms.  He too, I
learn, died a few years since, leaving a good and unblemished reputation.
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	Another very notable man in his day was William Soery, for many
years a prominent citizen and merchant of Canton.  Indeed he was a
remarkable man.  He arose from a very humble position to one of
respectability, usefulness and honor.  He sprung from obscure though
respectable parentage, and without education or influential friends to back
him, worked his way up, as before said, to usefulness and honor.
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	He came from Tennessee "when scarce a man, yet not a boy," in
about 1832.  He first stopped at Cadiz and undertook to learn the trade of
a saddler under my brother, Mr. Thomas S. Thompson, but he soon gave
that up and went to Canton, where in a short time he obtained means or
credit sufficient to open a little grocery store, selling cheese and crackers,
cakes and candy, tobacco and more or less [ . . . five or six unreadable
lines] . . . in that line was not a success and soon thereafter came a
financial crash, and he went overboard having his stock of goods seized
and sold by the sheriff for the benefit of his creditors.  But this failure did
not seem to discourage him.  Because of his industry and his energy and
morality he was again given credit by some of the same parties who had
him sold out [and in] a number of years [he] was one of the prominent and
successful merchants of Canton.  He then removed to New Orleans and
engaged in the commission business, continuing to [ . . . ] till within a few
years of the breaking out of the Civil War, going then probably to
Memphis, where I learn he died some years since.
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	[The remainder of the sketch, about forty newspaper column lines,
is unreadable in my copy.  It could probably be read from the microfilm, but
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would not be readable if copied.  Some names mentioned are Mr.
Harper, of Cerulean Springs, who may have married a daughter of 
William Soery.--BT]
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Chapter 6:
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Boyd Family
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				Creedmoor, Travis Co., Tex.,
					November 29, 1890
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Editor, Kentucky Telephone:
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	Continuing with the Boyd family I will commence this
communication with John, the second son of Maj. Abram Boyd, who
lived and died at Canton.  John, like his brother Linn, was born in
Tennessee, but came with his father to Kentucky in early boyhood, and
was reared at Canton.  He inherited his father's good sense and resembled
him in build, looks and manners more than any of the sons.  He had but
little schooling, because in those days the schools were few and far apart,
and generally very poor.  With the schooling he received, his association
with an intellectual father, and his application to books, he obtained at
least a plain, practical education, and in after life was a gentleman of
much intelligence.  He was a farmer, and worked with his father until he
was grown, then married and farmed on is own account until his removal
to Texas in 1835-36.
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	He was accompanied to Texas by Lipscomb Norvill, a reputable
and more than ordinarily intelligent man, who once represented Trigg
county in the Legislature of Kentucky, from the neighborhood of Lindsay's
mill, and who became a prominent man in Texas.
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	John Boyd, who was titled Colonel, after he came to Texas, was a
very unassuming and retiring man in manners.  He was staid in looks,
ready in gait and talked but little, though pleasant in conversation, and
talked intelligently.  He neither aspired to nor gained notoriety in
Kentucky, but became somewhat prominent in Texas, becoming a
member of Congress in the Republic of Texas.  I do not think he was in
the memorable battle of San Jacinto, where less than 1,000 Texans whipped,
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killed, captured and put to flight Gen. Santa Anna's army of 4,000 to
5,000 Mexicans--capturing the General-- but I venture to say that
Col. Boyd was on duty somewhere.
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	Col. Boyd had no taste for politics, and shortly after [ . . . ], or
about the time of her admission into the Union, he retired from public life
and settled upon his herd right of land, a league given him for his service
to the government, and went to tilling the soil, which was in accord with
his tastes.  His land was in Limestone county, near the center of Texas,
and was in a rich and beautiful section.  Upon is land the celebrated
Tehuacana Springs bubbled forth from the earth, and was also traversed
by the no less celebrated Tehuacana hills, from the summit of which you
could see to an area of distance, and into three counties.  In 1853, when I
first visited Texas, paid Col. Boyd a call at Tehuacana Springs, were he
resided, and spent several days with him, and was most kindly received
and hospitably treated.  Again in 1869 I spent a night pleasantly with him,
while en route from Galveston to Navarre county, and probably a year
later I met him on a visit he paid to Galveston.
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	He was a most revered and upright gentleman and Christian; was a
prominent member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church; was
charitable, hospitable and liberal and beloved by all who knew him.  He
contributed large and more than any other to the endowment of Trinity
University for boys and girls.  The University was established in about
1871 at Tehuacana, Texas, and located upon lands, given by him, under
the supervision of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  The institution is
a flourishing one, and is considered second to none in the State or in the
South.  Col. Boyd, who died some years since, probably in about 1880,
had a son and daughter, whom I met at his house in 1853; but in the
several years that have elapsed since, I have lost sight of them.
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	Alfred Boyd was the third son of Maj. Abram Boyd, and was
reared in Canton, though I think was born in Tennessee.  He, too, was
titled Major, and of him I have spoken in a previous communication, as
having been a citizen and a merchant of Cadiz, and a partner of Col.
Stanley Thomas-- having previously sold goods in Canton in connection
with Capt. Wm. Burnett.  He encountered the same difficulties in
procuring an education that his brother did, as there were but few schools
in his boyhood and they very poor.  With the schooling he received, by
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he became fairly educated and was numbered with the intelligent
men of his day.
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	He was a stout, fine looking man, slightly corpulent, with a bright,
sunny countenance and pleasing manner; so modest and unassuming that
he never passed for what he was really worth mentally, morally and
socially.  Indeed, he was a man of usefulness and steady business habits;
and, in point of honor and integrity, no man stood higher.  His manner
invariably impressed a stranger favorably upon first forming his
acquaintance, nor did his after conduct ever give chance for a change of
opinion.  He was esteemed by all who knew him; was very popular, and
had he possessed as great an amount of political ambition as his brother
Linn, he would have become noted as a politician.
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	The great difficulty with him was his lack of self-confidence; he
underrated his mental ability and had too much pride and refinement to
court favor with ignorant and dissolute men, those of gentlemen, and who
generally hold the balance of power in [ . . . ] was elected a member of the
State Senate of Kentucky, and filled one term from the district composed
of the counties of Trigg, Calloway, and (I believe) Marshall.
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	In his candidacy for the Senate he had an opponent-- a Democrat--
named Bryan (as I remember) from Calloway county, who in a speech that
he made in the Court House in Cadiz, excited my disgust and contempt. 
He had been invited by Major Boyd to accept of his hospitality when he
visited Cadiz, which he did; and in his speech he alluded to Major Boyd
as an aristocrat living in great style in a fine house, elegantly furnished;
then he described the furniture at length, declaring that he was dazed upon
entering, and said he hesitated at the door whether he should enter or not,
and looked along the sides of the walls to see if he could find a part of the
floor not covered by a carpet that he might get in without treading upon it;
said he was unused to carpets, and that they did not have them in
Calloway county, and that the people there never put on style.  
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	And yet Major Boyd in his reply never alluded to his ingratitude
and mean attempt to prejudice the poor against him.
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	After I left Kentucky I partly lost trace of Major Boyd and his
family, both he and his pleasant, though quiet and retired wife, having died a
number of years ago.  If I am not mistaken Mr. Boyd died at Paducah.  He,
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.I think, removed from Cadiz several years before the war, and went to
Memphis or Paducah, and probably re-engaged in the mercantile business. 
Two of his sons I remember well.  They were clever young men, of
gentlemanly, moral habits, and excellent principles.
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	John, the eldest, married a daughter of Capt. John W. Cook, of
Christian county.  Capt. Cook was an intelligent and hospitable
gentleman and farmer, and the greatest talker in the county in his day. 
John, I think, settled on a farm near the home of his father-in-law; but I
have not heard from him for a number of years.
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	Abram, the second son, was of gentlemanly, taciturn and sedate
disposition.  I met him, during the war, in Arkansas; and, I think, he did 
have a store on either the White or the St. Francis river [ . . . ]  Since that
meeting, I have never heard from him.
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	Rufus Boyd was the fourth and youngest son of Major Abram
Boyd.  He was reared at Canton, and lived [ . . . ] getting an education
better than those of his elder brothers, but I doubt if he improved them, or
even became the equal of his brothers in point of general intelligence.  He
married young, and died young; died before he had an opportunity of
becoming prominent or useful as a citizen.
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	He was a handsome young man, well formed, pleasant, and
honorable [ . . . ] and, I think, moral in habits.  His wife was a Miss
Bennett, of Christian County, and either a sister or cousin of Mr. Linn
Boyd's first wife.  She was a very worthy lady, whose acquaintance I
pleasantly [ . . . ] Rufus Boyd's death.
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	She married the second time, Morgan Miller, who [ . . . ] always
dressed well and resided between the rivers, some three to five miles west
of Canton, and at or near the road leading to [Wadd . . . ].  He was a
strange man, and his countenance was as immovable and unchangeable as
a marble statute.  He talked but little, although he was educated and
intelligent.  He cared nothing for society, and, indeed, he seemed  to avoid
his fellow men.  His look and manner showed that he allowed of no familiarity.
He was regarded as a man of truth and honor, and had abstemious habits.
In about 1860-70 he removed with his family to Texas, and Galveston being
in his route, he coming from New Orleans by steamer, he spent several days
there, and our acquaintance was pleasantly renewed.  He took up his
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.residence in Bell county; and, save shortly after he went there, I have not
heard of him or his family.
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	Mr. Boyd left some children, probably two, who accompanied
their mother and step-father to Texas.  When in Kentucky and Canton the
past summer, and visiting the old grave yard, now in ruins, I noticed the
resting place of Rufus Boyd in proximity to his memorable father, and
think he died before his father.
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Chapter 7:
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Scott, Reynolds, and Street Families
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				Creedmoor, Travis Co., Tex.,
					December 30, 1890
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Editor, Kentucky Telephone:
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	Stephen H. Scott, Hamil Scott as he was familiarly called, was
another youth or young man who made his home in Cadiz for several
years in about 1831-2-3.  He came from Smythe county, Virginia, and was
a brother of W. P. M. Scott, the old merchant of Cadiz, and a nephew of
Esq. Richard Poston, who was, for many years, a prominent citizen of
Cadiz.  He was a clerk in his brother's store during his stay in Cadiz,
afterwards returning to Virginia to make it his permanent home.
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	If he was not naturally good, he was made so by almost constant
and severe affliction, being one of the severest sufferers from asthma and
phthisic that I ever knew.  He was always thin and emaciated, and often
looked like a walking skeleton, nevertheless he seemed to enjoy life.  He
was very social, and his social qualities made him many friends, whilst his
bodily sufferings won him much sympathy.  When not suffering he was
lively and pleasant, and participated in all rational amusements.  he was
characterized by nearly all the good qualities which attach to human
nature, and I knew of none that were bad; I knew him well, he being about
my age and one of my associates.  He returned to Virginia in early
manhood, having, I think, despaired of ever being restored to health-- to
regain which was largely the object of his coming to Kentucky.  After he
returned to Virginia I lost sight of him, but think he died soon thereafter.
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	Y. P. Reynolds, or familiarly known in his boyhood as Pike
Reynolds, was once a merchant clerk in Cadiz.  He is now living in
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.Paducah; and very recently both honored and made me glad by writing me
a kind and pleasing letter.  In his youth he was full of mirth and humor,
and the jolliest of all the young men and boy clerks in Cadiz.  He was the
eldest son of John G. Reynolds, a lawyer by profession and an educated
gentleman, who lived on what was then known as the Montgomery farm, a
large tract of land now embraced in the Montgomery district, as I
understand it.  He was a clerk in the store of J. F. & J. H. Lander, who
did business at Cadiz in about 1832-34.  This firm removed from Cadiz to
Belleview (which name they gave the place) and were the first merchants
who ever did business there.  Reynolds was popular with all who knew
him, indeed, with his fine social qualities, was an almost universal
favorite.  Well do I remember, after a lapse of fifty years, his frame and
features, his chubby form and round, full face, with cheeks as rosy as a
mountain lass.  He was a favorite with all the merchant clerks of Cadiz. 
he was chuck full of fun, and amiable and always in good humor, with
characteristics, as I remember, which partook, to some extent, of the
humorist and mimic, and largely of the antic.  Many were the nights when,
after supper, his fellow boy clerks would assemble in the counting room
of his employer's store, which stood about where Mr. Torian's livery
stable now stands, and was the house in which Wayman Crow first sold
goods, and would have a royal good time-- amused largely by the antics of
Pike.  He had more fun in him, and could do more laughable things, than
any of the boys.  He could trip the light fantastic toe with more agility and
finish than any of the crowd, and would often dance whilst some of the
boys whistled, others patted on their knees and others beat time on the
crown of their hats.  He danced the clog dance or double shuffle to
perfection, and that never failed to call forth roars of laughter.
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	Should this come under his eye he may complain (now that he is a
man, like myself, and looking to be called to the spirit world before many
more years shall pass) at my indulgence in such a recital, one in which he
is made to play the most conspicuous part, and determine that it is not
only a little embellished, but out of place; although I believe he will be
more likely to smile at it than grow angry.  We were both boys then and
our pastimes were innocent.
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	After he left Cadiz my intimacy with him ceased, and shortly after
I left Kentucky, I lost sight of him [ . .  missing lines . . . ] of his published
in the TELEPHONE .  My recollection of him is most pleasant.  I hope he has
enjoyed life, and that there are many who can say that they are glad that he
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.has lived and that they have been profited because thereof.  May he keep
oil in his lamp, and that trimmed, that he may triumphantly cross the river
of death.
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	In writing these brief sketches of my early associates, which call
forth a mingled feeling of pleasure and melancholy, there is called up in
my mind incidents and circumstances connected with the life of each of
them that had been well nigh buried in oblivion, and that are full of
interest to me, and I should be excused if now and then some of my
sketches are considered too long, and I mention incidents and
characteristics which may be without interest to the common reader, and
to those who did not know the characters written about.  If there are such I
beg to say that they were my friends, and I beg leave to be permitted to
give vent to my feelings of esteem and attachment.  If those who complain
will pause and reflect in their active pursuit of the evanescent pleasures of
life, it will afford them pleasure if they shall be assured that they, too, will
be kindly written about after death.
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	I cannot forego the pleasure or omit the duty of mentioning in my
brief sketches John L. Street, who so recently died in Cadiz after a
residence of more than fifty years.  It may seem to those in your
community, who knew him so long and many so intimately, like a work of
supererogation on my part to write anything about him, but I like to
contemplate his beautiful character, and shall only, or more particularly,
speak of some of the characteristics of his early life-- of which but few
now living know anything outside of myself.
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	He was, I think, born in Virginia, but may be claimed as a
Kentuckian, as he came to the State in his infancy and was reared there,
save a few years he spent with his uncle, John P. Wilkinson, at
Jacksonville, Illinois, where he received a part of his education, going
there after the death of his most estimable father, who lived about eight
miles east of Cadiz, and who was one of the best citizens, intellectually,
morally, and socially, that Trigg county ever had.  After his short stay in
Illinois he returned to Kentucky and entered the store of his uncle,
Spotswood Wilkinson, amongst the first, and for several years, one of the
most extensive merchants in Cadiz, and in his store and under him, Mr.
Street received his mercantile education, which was thorough, as was
evidenced by his success in business.
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	He was one of my intimate associates in boyhood.  I knew him
well and was familiar with all of his prominent and leading
characteristics, and a more lovely character in a boy I never knew.  He was
honest, modest, amiable, moral, liberal, kind, polite and cheerful, tho' the
latter was not a characteristic of his family.  I never knew him angry, sad,
dejected or despondent in his boyhood.  He had an unusual flow of spirits
for one so quiet and unobtrusive as himself.  He was mirthful and fond of
anecdotes, with which he was well stocked.  He enjoyed them when told
by others, and told them himself with much zest.  He was withal a pretty
good mimic, and could personate to perfection some of the characters who
used to come to Cadiz.  He had an ear that quickly caught the sound and
an eye that quickly observed and detected all that was unusual and
ludicrous in dress, looks, manners or tune of conversation that
characterized his fellow man, particularly the rough and uncultivated-- and
there were some notable ones in Trigg county in those days-- and he could
as accurately describe and imitate them as any one I ever saw.
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	That he became a Christian and lived the life of a Christian was
only what might have been expected with his characteristics in boyhood. 
It was an easy thing seemingly for him to become a Christian, as his
thoughts, acts, and habits in boyhood, and doubtless from childhood, so
closely conformed to the requirements and commands of our Savior that
there was apparently neither room nor necessity for reform; and he
seemingly had nothing to repent of outside of inherited or original sin.
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	The world was undoubtedly made better by his having lived; and
to him, it seems to me, that life was worth living; as it has been, is now,
and will be to all who have in the past, are now imitating, and shall in the
future imitate his example of life.  With me his name was a synonym of
honesty, and I believe it has been with all who ever knew or had dealings
with him.  I have been told that for many years no higher compliment
could be paid a man in the section where he lived than to say that he was
as honest as John Street.  His children have much to reconcile them to
their loss if they will meditate upon his pure, spotless, and useful life.
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	I made the acquaintance of his children, and his gentlemanly son-
in-law, Doctor Crenshaw, when in Kentucky the past summer, and was
pleased to see them polite and accomplished in manners, and to learn of
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Chapter 8:
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Hollowell, McWaters, and Slaughter Families
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					Creedmoor, Travis Co., Tex.,
						May 9, 1891
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Editor, Kentucky Telephone:
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	If perchance, in giving the birthplace and States of nativity of the
persons about whom I have been writing, or about whom I may hereafter
write, I may have gotten some of them into North Carolina instead of
Virginia, or may hereafter do so, I trust it will be attributed by the living to
my forgetfulness and will not disturb the spirits of the departed, or anger
their living descendants, even though some of them may entertain the
sentiments of the old lady who had always "heered Noth Caliny was a
mighty sickly State,"-- in other words, a State where the people were poor,
ignorant and unstylish, and not aristocratic like the Virginians.  This old
lady had been born, reared, and had lived all her life in North Carolina,
but when the boundary line was run by the commissioners from Virginia
and North Carolina to settle a dispute about territory which had existed for
many years, Virginia took a slice of North Carolina, and took in the home
of the old lady in question, and when the announcement was made she
was filled with ecstatic delight, and gave vent to her feelings by jumping
off her feet, clapping her hands and exclaiming, "lordy me, how glad I am
that I'm in Virginny, for I always heered North Caliny was a mighty sickly
State."
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	In olden times the Virginians, who were always proud of
themselves, were much in the habit of having their fun at the expense of
the North Carolinians, telling of their primitive ways and outlandish and peculiar
manners and habits-- such as that the men and women always wore
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copperas-colored cotton clothes; that persimmon beer was their only
beverage; that they lived on persimmons in the summer and black-eyed
peas in winter; that they could tell a North Carolinian by examining his
breast-- when, if there was no hair on it, it was certain he was one, as they
always wore all the hair off climbing persimmon trees.  These, with other
jokes, absolutely made some foolish people ashamed to own that they
came from North Carolina, the most grand old State.  Some of the most
cultured, refined and elegant people I have ever met were North
Carolinians.  It was my good fortune some years since to have been a
visitor at Wilmington, where, for a few days, I mixed and mingled with
and enjoyed the hospitality of as elegant people as I ever met; and since,
my social intercourse and business association with North Carolinians
justifies me in saying they are a noble people.  And with this preface, I
proceed to speak with brevity of others of the clever and noted men and
their families who lived in the northern part of Trigg county in my
boyhood days.
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	The first claiming attention is Dr. William C. Haydon, who lived
not a great distance from Wallonia, and had lived there as far back as I can
recollect.  He came from the northern part of Kentucky, and was a
liberally educated gentleman, and a practicing physician of good standing. 
He associated farming with his medical practice.  He was characterized by
probity, quiet and retiracy.  He was a matter-of-fact man, and took much
interest in public affairs.  He was an old line Whig, and was at one time
one of the county magistrates, which led to his becoming a sheriff, but he
farmed out his privileges and the emoluments to Col. Daniel Landes, who
became the acting sheriff.  There were but few, if any men in the county in
his day who were more intelligent, honorable and useful.  I recollect with
some distinctness one of his peculiarities-- that of his effeminate voice
being much like that of a woman.  His family I never knew, I presume he
has been dead many years.
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	The Hollowells, of the Wallonia neighborhood, in early times were
people of good standing.  Miles Hollowell was an old man when I was a
small boy.  He was old enough to have been in the Revolutionary war, and
I rather think he was.  He was a very plain and quiet old gentleman; was a
man of sense, reputability and considerable force of character.
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	His only son, as I remember, was Sovereign Hollowell.  He was a
man of some pride of character.  He had a liberal education for the times,
and was an intelligent man with good principles and good habits.  He read
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law and had a good deal of legal lore, but from some cause never
practiced law, but instead, farmed in a small way.  He led a very quiet
and retired life and was but little known away from his home.  When I
came South he passed out of my mind and I never knew what were his
characteristics in after life.
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	Doubtless he has been dead many years, and both his father and
himself almost, if not entirely, forgotten by the oldest citizens of the
county; and it will doubtless be so with myself.  I most likely will not have
been dead fifty years, aye, twenty-five years, until I, too, shall have been
forgotten, unless an epitaph upon my tombstone, if I shall be so fortunate
as to have one to mark my resting place, may or shall call me to mind by
the passer-by, who listlessly reads the inscription.  Sad thought! and the
saddest to me connected with my life and death.
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	The McWaters family was a noted one in early times, and in my
boyhood days.  The father, Moses McWaters, lived on the Muddy Fork at
the crossing of the Cadiz and Princeton road, where Mr. McCain
afterwards lived, and which place I think is known as the McCain bridge
or crossing.  He was one of the early settlers of Trigg county, and was well
known.  He was a man of some force of character; had a plain education,
and was rather striking in form and features.  He was sedate in looks, quiet
in speech and unassuming in manners.  In principles he was considered
correct, and his habits were good.  Whilst he was a farmer, he was at the
same time a horse trader, and was considered a shrewd one.  He was a
useful man in that he bought and sold the peoples' stock-- horses and
mules-- which he generally drove to Alabama and Georgia for a market. 
He long since died.
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	He had several sons and I knew all of them, but I only remember
with distinctness the three oldest-- John, Samuel (Sam as he was called),
and Moses McWaters, who were well known in their day.  They had
received some schooling, and were all sensible and sprightly.  John and
Sam were great talkers, and Sam was jolly.  Moses was more quiet and
retired.  All dressed well, and stood well in society-- being moral and
considered honorable.
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	Sam, like his father, was a horse trader.  He bought and drove to,
and sold in, Alabama, where he ultimately took up his residence.  I never
knew what became of John.  Moses, I think, continued to reside in Trigg,
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and was living there the last I ever knew of him.  I think he reared a
family, and it may be that some of them are now living in Trigg; he
doubtless having "crossed the river" long since.
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	Presley Slaughter, who was called Judge Slaughter (but I never
knew why) and who lived in early times on the Muddy Fork, about 3 miles
[missing line] respectability.  He belonged to the noted family or families
of Slaughters, both in Kentucky and Virginia, and they were of the best
blood in either State.  He was one of the very early settlers in the county,
coming to it when it was Christian county, and reared a very reputable
family of sons.  He had been respectably educated and was a man of
intelligence, of force and pride of character; such a man as reflected credit
upon his neighborhood, his country and his family.  He was a farmer and
owned a few slaves, but did not farm extensively.  He liberally educated
his children and lived a quiet and retired life; having been dead about fifty
years.
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	His sons, who I knew familiarly, were Edward R., James W. and
William H. Slaughter.  All of them grew to manhood, but were short
lived-- dying in the prime of manhood of consumption, which, I suppose,
they inherited.  They were all intelligent, honorable, moral, social and
useful men.
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	Edward R. Slaughter, the oldest, and who built the mill on the
Muddy Fork, long known, and possibly now, as Slaughter's Mill, though I
have heard it now belongs to Mrs. William D. Grace, was a tall, thin
man.  He had an intellectual though a sedate look; had dignified manners;
was a farmer, and resided on the old homestead until he built the mill.  He
married Miss Margaret Savills, a daughter of old Mr. Absalom Savills,
who lived 2 miles north of Cadiz, and died soon thereafter, leaving an only
child, a boy named Alphonso.  His wife, a year or two thereafter, married
Alfred Wimberly.
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	James W. Slaughter, a quiet, kindly disposed and upright
gentleman, married, if I remember aright, a lady of Caldwell county,
where he took up his residence, and where he soon thereafter died.
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	William H. Slaughter, the youngest of the brothers, and who was
my school boy associate, was a more stylish and pretentious man than his
brothers.  He aspired to prominence and high social position, and was not
egotistical in doing so, for he was justified because of his intelligence, his
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ambition and pride of character, his good habits, his high sense of honor
and his finished and pleasing manners.  After growing to manhood he took
an interest in the struggle then going on in Texas for the achievement of
her independence, and came South and to Texas, and connected himself
with the Navy-- becoming a midshipman-- under Commodore Moore,
commander of the fleet composing the Texas Navy, which was sort lived,
but he soon returned to Kentucky, and shortly thereafter married a Miss
Fauntleroy, an estimable lady of Boyle (then Mercer) county, and went to
farming on his father's old place, and remained there until his removal in
about 1857-58 to Washington county, Texas, where he died, honored and
respected, a few years afterwards, leaving his wife and two or three
children (all daughters) far away from kindred and friends to struggle with
adversity, for they had but little left them, but Mrs. Slaughter proved
equal to the occasion and the requirements.  She reared her children well,
gave them respectable educations, and they, with herself (she marrying
again and I think still alive and living in Brenham) are persons of good
social standing, and in cozy pecuniary circumstances.
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	The Texas Navy, to which I have alluded, was a small affair, and
was short lived.  It consisted of only two or three small ships (sail vessels)
and they were poorly equipped in the way of arms.  It was under the
command of Commodore Moore, an aspiring middle-aged man and a
graduate of the Annapolis Naval School, who Gen. Houston, then
President of the Republic, did not like, and he quashed the Navy, and for
doing which Commodore Moore denounced him, saying he was a usurper
and a hypocrite.
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	And here I take occasion to say that Gen. Houston never allowed
any man to rise to importance and authority in Texas in its early history,
particularly whilst it was a republic, who was inimical to him, real or
imaginary.  He controlled an influence which no man could overcome. 
Texans generally revere his memory.  He was a calm, quiet, good thinker;
was a patriot; was brave enough, and was a good ruler, but he was not a
great man.  He was neither an orator, a statesman, or a scholar.  He never
made a great speech.  He never originated or passed through Congress any
great measure; and was never in but one important battle, or won but one
important victory, and yet he was a remarkable man, and his historians
have made him out a great man; and, be it so, I would not if I could, and
could not if I would, snatch a single jewel from the crown of honor which was
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placed upon him, which he wore to his grave and which his memory now
wears.
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	Asking pardon for digression, I take much pleasure in introducing
the name of William H. Martin, than whom there was not a better
known, and a more deservedly popular gentleman in or about Cadiz [ . . .
.] to 1845-50.  He was the son of [illegible] Martin, a most worthy old
gentleman, a farmer, who came, I think, from upper Kentucky in an early
day, and settled three miles east of Cadiz on or near Little River-- his farm
adjoining the old Jackson's Mill tract.  He had an only son and daughter--
the daughter marrying Samuel Light, a clever, jolly gentleman, and a
farmer, who resided four miles south of Cadiz, and who had a rotund
form, a ruddy complexion, a beaming countenance, pleasant manners, and
was a zealous Methodist, and, as I remember, sometimes got happy
enough to shout.
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	William H. Martin was a bright and promising boy.  He had only
the ground work of an education, for the schools were then few and poor,
but he built himself up on that foundation to a very respectable position of
intelligence, and having a sufficiency of personal pride, he sought and
attained association with the best men, and the best society of that day. 
He was an example of what pluck, pride and perseverance will do for any
young man endowed with a reasonably good mind.  He was moral,
honorable, good-looking and dressed well, and was social, genial and
gentlemanly.  He was a farmer, and resided for many years upon the old
homestead, and until he became the owner of the Slaughter's Mill
property, where, I think, he lived at the time of his death-- having been
dead a number of years.
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	He was twice married.
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	His first wife was a Miss Fauntleroy, of the neighborhood of
Danville, Ky., and the last was a Miss Johns, a niece of Dr. [Thomas
Tennessee] Watson, of Stewart county, Tenn.,-- in his life time known
throughout Trigg county for his connection with the Iron Works on and
near the Cumberland; who was a man of honor and indomitable energy,
and who came to an untimely end by the explosion or bursting of an improvised
cannon at the Dover Iron Works on the occasion of the celebration of 
the election of Gen. William Henry Harrison as President in 1840.  The 
second wife of Mr. Martin, as so also his first, was an estimable lady, and
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survived him, but I conclude she has now passed to her reward; and I am
not sure that there were any children by either marriage.
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Chapter 9:
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Cox, Noel, and Barnes Families
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				Creedmoor, Travis Co., Tex.,
					August 21, 1891
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Editor, Kentucky Telephone:
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	The first town I ever saw next after Cadiz, where I was born and
reared, was Canton.  When I was a small boy I was chaperon to my aunt,
Mrs. [Elizabeth Thompson] Hill-- the grandmother of Mrs. [Martha
Addie Grinter] Gunn and Miss [Bettie] Grinter, of Cerulean Springs--
on a trip to Canton, and well recollect with what trepidation I entered the
little town, though it was then nearly as large as Cadiz, and then its hated
and dreaded rival, as it was a candidate for the location of the county seat,
which had not then been permanently located at Cadiz, and the question
was then in agitation.  My aunt and myself were the guests at Canton of 
Mr. James Cox, a merchant and a very pleasant gentleman, whose wife
was a kinsman of my aunt.  His residence was a single story double log
house, separated by a passage, which occupied a very picturesque site
(where I think Mr. C. H. Major now resides) just in the rear, a few steps,
of a steep bluff-- to the north of it-- affording a fine view of the beautiful
Cumberland, looking down the river; and it was at Canton that I saw my
first steamboat-- the Gen. Coffee, named in honor of one of Tennessee's
brave generals, who won distinction under Gen. Jackson in the battle of
New Orleans.  She was a large steamer for the times and ran between
Nashville and New Orleans, but because of low water, was tied up to the
shore awaiting a rise in the Cumberland to enable her to reach Nashville.
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	Mr. Cox was of the firm of Cox & Jameson-- Thomas Jameson--
merchants selling goods at Canton, and was away back yonder-- so long
that I don't want to speak of it, because I dislike to think myself, or be
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thought, old.  It has been so long, however, that I venture to say that there
is not now a man or a woman in Canton or in the county who remembers
either of the clever gentlemen who composed the firm.  Mr. Jameson,
like Mr. Cox, being an educated gentleman, with good manners, good
morals, good principles and fine business qualities.
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	Canton first and last has turned full her quota, and quite a number
of good and useful men, some of whom made their mark high up,
particularly in the line of politics-- the Boyd family notably so, but all
have now passed away.  I have written of most of those who lived and did
business there in my day, but remember that I have not spoken of James
T. Gore, a lively and sprightly young man, who, for a long time, lived in
the store of William Soery, and , I think, finally succeeded him in
business as a merchant.
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	He was a self-made man, was a thin, light weight, bright faced and
active young man.  He started out in life a very poor boy, and whatever he
may have achieved in the way of respectability and usefulness, may and
should be ascribed to his industry, laudable ambition and application to
business and study.  Through many years he was well known in and about
Canton, and I think bore the character of an honorable gentleman.  For
fifty years, until the beginning of my series of letters, I had not thought of
him, and suppose he has now gone to his grave.
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	When in Canton last summer I renewed my acquaintance with that
intelligent, honorable, useful and highly respectable gentleman, Mr. W. J.
Fuqua, the only old time acquaintance of Canton now living in the place--
the estimable Mr. C. H. Major, whom I also pleasantly met in Canton,
having lived in my day in Hopkinsville, or in the vicinity of Canton.  Mr.
Fuqua is the only link which connects the present with the past of the
many merchants of Canton whom I knew.  I knew him in his boyhood as
so also one or two of his brothers, and no dishonor was ever connected
with the name of Fuqua.  I might speak further of Mr. Fuqua, but he still
lives and can speak for himself-- I am writing more particularly of the
dead.
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	Sixty years ago there lived in Canton or in the immediate vicinity
George H. Gordon, a most honorable, excellent and well known gentleman, 
who although then a farmer, had been one of the earliest and most 
prominent merchants in Canton.  He was a gentleman of strikingly good 
appearance, and of more than ordinary intelligence.  He possessed all the
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characteristics of a gentleman, and in his day I remember no man who
stood higher in the county-- intellectually, socially and morally.  He
removed with his family, whom I never knew, in my early boyhood as I
remember to Missouri, after which I lost sight of him.
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	The Noel family, who lived in and about Canton in early times,
was a notable one.  They were largely known throughout the county.
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	Edwin Noel, the head of the family, who was a farmer and a slave
owner, lived on Blue Spring Creek, coming to the county at a very early
period from either Virginia or Georgia.  He was a gentleman of sprightly
mind, was active in movement and was quick in thought and speech.  He
was plausible, pleasant in conversation, somewhat loquacious and not
lacking in self esteem.
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	His eldest son, Simco A. G. Noel, became quite a conspicuous
man, having once represented Trigg county in the Legislature of
Kentucky.  He, I think, resided in the town of Canton.  There was much
intimacy between the Noels and my father's family.  One of my brothers
and S. A. G. Noel were warmly attached friends.  He was a genius, with
one or two screws loose in his makeup.  He had so many peculiarities that
I can scarcely describe him-- suffice it to say that he was a showy,
dashing, dressy and sprightly man.  He had been fairly educated, had a
good figure, was agile, dressed tastefully, was a good talker, was
consequential, was plausible, and was impatient, impulsive and
impetuous.  In evidence of his quick and ungovernable temper, it was said
of him, and it was doubtless true, that upon one occasion, when returning
to Canton from Cadiz, his splendid steed (and he never rode any other
than a fine horse) provoked him, and in his anger, he drew his pistol and
gave him a deadly shot, and for which, because of his social standing, he
was not prosecuted.  Whilst he was a farmer, as I remember, by
profession, he was a trader by practice, and traded in both horses and
negroes, for which he formed a market in Georgia, and to which State I
think he removed in my boyhood days, when I lost sight of him.
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	There were two younger brothers of the Noels, Oscar and _____,
who were a different style of men.  They, too, were sprightly, but were
cool and calculating men.  They were reared on their father's place in or
about Canton.  They received a common school education, and in early
manhood went to Nashville to live, and at first engaged in a cigar and
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tobacco business, afterwards, having made money, they went into the
wholesale grocery business and built up a good business and good credit. 
They were amongst the first merchants of the south and west to make
corners as speculators in articles of produce and merchandise.  Amongst
their early enterprises and successes they, one season, bought up all the
peanuts, or goober peas, in all the markets of the United States, then raised
and fixed the prices, and, it was said, made a great deal of money out of
that apparently insignificant article of produce.  I lost sight of them at the
beginning of the war, and do not know whether they are living or dead, or
whether they died rich or poor; but they were men of energy, enterprise
and sagacity, and made their mark as merchants.
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	Franklin G. Noel, a nephew of Edwin Noel, was a well known
and highly respectable gentleman and farmer who resided in the
neighborhood of Canton fifty years ago.  He was a quiet, unobtrusive
gentleman, in tolerably well-to-do pecuniary circumstances.  He was
respectably intelligent, and had good habits and good principles.  At the
same time that he was the nephew of Edwin Noel, he was his son-in-law,
in that he married (his first wife) his own cousin, but incompatibility of
temper, sentiment and habit brought abut a separation, and a divorce
followed; and that was the first and only case of a separation and divorce
that took place in Trigg county during all the years of my residence in
Kentucky.
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	In those days men and women married for love, and not, as many
do in these days-- for money and convenience.  Matrimony was then
regarded as something sacred, and the ties were not sundered as in this day
because of caprice.
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	I conclude that Mr. Noel has been dead many years, and because
that I never notice the name of Noel when from time to time you speak in
your paper of the present citizens of Trigg, I suspect the name is now
extinct in your county.
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	William Deason, who once lived in or near Canton in early times,
was a well known and reputable gentleman.  He was a man of good
appearance, had a fair education, was honorable and had some pride of
character.  When I knew him I think he farmed on a small scale, but
believe he sold goods in Canton at an earlier day.  I think he removed to
Louisiana in about 1834-- in any event I lost sight of him . . . [missing lines]
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[The following sketches probably came from a different article, for which
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	John Mabry was a highly respectable gentleman, and was well
known in the early days of Trigg county.  He was one of the early settlers,
and lived on lower Little River, or near it, some five to seven miles west
of Cadiz.  He was an intelligent man, and probably the best educated of
any man in his neighborhood.  I think he had read law with a view of
practicing it but never did in my day.  He was for several years county
surveyor and was a plain, unpretentious man of good social standing.  I
think he had a family of sons, but they did not reflect credit or honor upon
their father in that they never equaled him in intelligence, in morals or
social standing.  The father must have died many years ago and the sons
have doubtless, ere this, followed him to the grave.
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. . . two or three attractive daughters and the youngest one made her
impress upon my then youthful heart.  It was love at first sight, and I was
vain enough to believe is was reciprocal.  I was about thirteen years old. 
We met at a ball given at the lower tavern in Cadiz which stood on the
north side of Main street, one block below the Court house square, and
was kept then by Mr. Martin Turner, a brother-in-law of your clever
townsman, Mr. P. G. Jones.  She was pretty, dressed handsomely and
danced elegantly, but we never afterwards met.
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	West from Cadiz, four to six or eight miles, on or near Little River,
was a neighborhood in early times of good, plain, honest and generally
moral people.  It was the stronghold in the county of the Hardshell or
Freewill Baptists, whose Church or place of worship was called Mount
Pleasant-- though derisively called Wolf Pen-- situated three to five miles
west of Cadiz, and where, in olden times, many of the people of Cadiz
used to go.  I recollect the Rev. Joseph Barnes, who resided near the
Church, who was a member of it, who was a local minister, and who was
its pastor through many years.  He was a tall, raw-boned, square shouldered 
and sedate looking man, was slow motioned and had a long and measured 
stride.  He eschewed and condemned fashion, and objected to persons being 
liberally or highly education upon the ground that too much education made
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them fools.  I once attended his preaching and remember his appearance
as he approached and took his seat in the improvised pulpit made of poles
and riven oak boards under an arbor.  He wore neither coat or vest though
his coat was laid across his arm.  His shirt was of brown domestic, and his
suspenders were made of the material.  He wore no collar or cravat.  His
shoes were coarse brogans, and he used as a cane a big rough hickory
stick.  In this attire he appeared in the pulpit and preached to the people,
indulging in a good deal of homely satire in his criticism of all other
Churches and modes of reaching heaven other than his own.  He was cold
in looks, blunt in manners, and quite illiterate, hence was not edifying, nor
was he eloquent.  Nevertheless, he met the requirements of his
congregation, and I think served them acceptably through many years.
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	Solomon W. Barnes, who lived some four miles west of Cadiz,
and near the Mount Pleasant Church, was a good man.  He was not related
to the Rev. Joseph Barnes, though was a leading member of the same
Church.  He was one of the earliest settler of that section, coming I think
from South Carolina and settling there long before Trigg county was
organized.  He was I think one amongst the best men I ever knew.  He was
a small man with a pleasing countenance, and was seemingly the
embodiment of goodness, was a plain, meek, modest, quiet Christian.  He
was a small farmer, without much education, and dressed very plainly.  It
was said that he was one of the few who made his promise good amongst,
or out of, the large number who promised God that if he would spare their
lives at the time of the terrible earthquake in 1812 that they would
thereafter love and serve him.
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	The most frightful earthquake ever felt in the United States was
that of 1812, and the center of the convulsion was just west of New
Madrid, Mo.  The convulsions lasted and were felt at short intervals
through several days.  They were severely felt throughout a circumference
of several hundred miles, which included all Southern and Western
Kentucky, the people for hundreds of miles around ceased in labor,
gathered in groups and went to praying.
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	In Mr. Barnes' neighborhood there was a gathering, and they did
not cease to pray day and night during the disturbance to God that he
would spare their lives.  Mr. Barnes held out faithful, but many went back 
upon their promise and to the world like the sow to her wallowing in the mire.
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	At the time of this earthquake hundreds of thousands of acres in
land in southeast Missouri and northeast Arkansas sunk to the depth of
hundreds of feet, and for the past eighty years water has stood thereupon
forming 
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Chapter 10:
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A Fourth of July Celebration in
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				Creedmoor, Travis Co., Tex.,
					October 27, 1891
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Editor, Kentucky Telephone:
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	The favorable notices which I have seen and read from time to
time in your well printed, well edited and well conducted paper touching
and concerning the people living between the Cumberland and Tennessee
Rivers in Trigg county, indicates to me that there has been a great change
in their intellectual, moral and social characteristics since the early days of
the county.
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	When I first recollect that section, it was a comparative terra
inconito and did not bear an enviable reputation, being greatly wanting in
intelligence and virtue.  It was known then and always referred to as the
"Free State," a name given to it because in early times it was the abode of
many evil doers-- men who had laws of their own, did as they pleased,
violated the State laws, and when an attempt was made to arrest and
punish them they escaped by fleeing into Tennessee, or crossing the
Tennessee River into the Purchase, where they were comparatively safe;
besides, it was made up of a class of people, who, with few exceptions,
were illiterate, and ignored the manners, habits and customs of a more
intelligent and refined people.  They had their own social laws, indulged
in the plainest dress and rudest manners, and had no regard for fashion, or
the laws of etiquette as practiced by an educated people.
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	There were others doubtless whom I did not know within that
district of country that were intelligent and reputable citizens in the early
day, but I remember only George Grace and his son, William D.,
Morgan Miller, Levi Davis and a Mr. Wallace, who lived about two
miles below Canton on the Cumberland, the Redd brothers and
Spottswood Wilkinson going there at a later period.  As late as 1840 that
section was very sparsely settled, and away from the Cumberland River
bottoms, by farmers who tilled only a few acres of land each-- relying
largely upon hunting and fishing, and their mash fed hogs for the food
which supplied their wants, and with 50 cents per gallon for pure whisky,
they were a happy people.  On many occasions-- generally on public days-
- I have seen wagon loads of fish brought from the Tennessee River to
Cadiz and sold to the town and country people.
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	Dispensing with elegant and costly dress, they had but little use for
money.  They were all on an equality, having no upper, middle or lower
classes.  They were in the main indolent, and if for no other reason,
because that it required very little labor to live.  They were very much
given to fun and frolic, and danced from the word "go."  Schools were
almost unknown, as well as Churches.  I doubt very much if there was a
Church house or a Church organization within the district up to 1840.
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	I well recollect a 4th of July celebration with a barbecue and barn
dance which I attended in about 1839 at a big spring some 1 1/2 to 3 miles
from the Cumberland, opposite Rock Castle, which brought together a
large number of people, mostly the denizens of that then wild country, and
a primitive people they were, being simple in manners and plain in dress,
though hospitable.  The Declaration of Independence was read and a few
short speeches were made by the candidates for the Legislature, who were
in attendance, but it was soon evident that that people cared more for the
food which gluttons love than for mental food, for they fled from the speakers' 
stand before the speaking ceased to the improvised bush arbor--covering an 
area of 50 feet in circumference, from which the grass and leaves had been 
scraped and the ground leveled-- and went to dancing upon the bare ground, 
there having been neither bran nor saw-dust spread upon it, and (using an 
expression which I have not heard repeated for fifty years) they went it "hark 
from the tomb," with the thermometer registering 95 degrees in the shade.
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	Soon the perspiration began to trickle down their foreheads and
faces, and then the men began to shuck their coats and shoes, and went at
it in their socks and short sleeves; I never having before witnessed such a
thing, nor since, amongst American born citizens, save the negroes, but
frequently since with the working classes of Germans I have seen them
dance for hours at a time in the heat of a southern mid-summer, the
thermometer standing at 98 degrees in the shade, and their clothing
drenched with perspiration.
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	It was on the occasion of that celebration that I heard for the first
time a woman play upon the violin-- a lady who played fairly well (the
breakdowns and old Virginia reels, including "Natchez Under the Hill,"
which, in that day was a great favorite) and who did most of the fiddling
for the dances.  In those days the disgusting and indecent waltzes (which
are now danced by many intelligent and would be considered refined and
decent people, and which had their origin in the dens of infamy in Paris)
and Germans were unknown.
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	My observation of that day, not being then quite grown, taught me
much of human nature that I had not before known, having gone as a sight
seer.  I then came to the conclusion that that section had not been
inappropriately named-- the "Free State"-- but then and since made up my
mind that it was under rated-- having advantages of water, soil and
mineral-- and some day would be peopled by a moral, intelligent, and
financially independent class, such as I am pleased to believe already and
now composes its citizens.  I take it that the present citizens of that section
are divided in their political sentiments, whereas, in early times they were
almost solidly Democrats.  They were Jackson Democrats and Linn Boyd
men-- believing that the latter was the greater of the two men, and friends
of Canton as against Cadiz for the permanent seat of justice.
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	In the north-western part of Trigg county, that section lying east of
the Cumberland, north of Little River to the mouth of the Muddy Fork,
and to McCain's bridge on that stream,  west of the public road leading
from Cadiz to Princeton and south of the line of Caldwell county to the Cumberland 
there were in my days many most excellent citizens, a few of whom I have 
before written about or incidentally mentioned, and I have a very distinct 
recollection of many of them, even remembering their forms, features and habits.
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	They were mainly from North and South Carolina, though a few of
them were from Virginia, and most of them were amongst the earliest
settlers of the county.  They were small, plain, honest farmers (several of
them, however, were slave owners) and made no pretentions to style, nor
did they care much for the laws or rules of etiquette-- there was not a
Chesterfieldian in all the district.  As a body they were intelligent, and
were a practical, moral and upright people, though very few had been
liberally educated-- remembering but a single one.  They were industrious
and frugal in the main, made an honest living, and paid their just debts
promptly (which a great many people in Texas do not do, nor do they pay
at all), having only one prominent drawback and objectionable
characteristic; some of them drank more whisky than they should have
done, and on almost every public day (when all that class were certain to
come to Cadiz) they would get on a bender and then get up and into a
fisticuff and knockdown, which they greatly enjoyed, though the fights
were rarely characterized by malice.
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	Many a time in the early days of Cadiz have I witnessed pugilistic
encounters on public days.  
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	After enough whisky had been imbibed to make the men feel rich
and brave, and make them boastful, a quarrel was certain to ensue, and
then a fight-- though generally with deliberation.  A ring would be formed
around which the spectators stood and the contestants-- each having a
second-- were marched into the ring and the fight begun, and fought to a
finish a la "Sullivan and Killrain," and when ended the seconds would
make the belligerents shake hands and then all the crowd would march to
the grog shop and liquor up again.
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	The battle ground, when the Circuit Court was in session, was in
the hollow or flat north of the Court house and about midway between that
and Mrs. Redd's present residence; on other occasions in the backyard of
some of the houses fronting on the public square-- generally the rear of the
whisky shop where the infernal stuff had been dealt out.
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	I remember distinctly a fight which then to me, a little boy, seemed
amusing-- but also disgusting-- that took place just in the rear of a house
that occupied the same ground as Mr. Torian's livery stable.  The
belligerents were W. J. _____ and J. O. _____.  The former was just about
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grown, had never had a fight with a man, and lacked pluck; the latter was
a middle aged man, also lacked pluck, and was staggering drunk.
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	The crowd were about to fail that public day to get up a fight
between fighting men, but they were bound to have a fight of some kind,
and by flattering and coaxing, made each of these men believe he was a
warrior, and although neither wanted to fight-- each being afraid of the
other-- they were ridiculed and blackguarded until they consented, but
when they were stripped to their waists and the ring formed it was with the
utmost difficulty that either could be enduced to enter, and it was not until
the seconds slapped them on their bare shoulders until they were red and
blue (being worse bruised than they were by each other) that they would
move from the sides of the ring; and when the fight was begun it was
much like two cowardly chicken cocks-- without spirit.  Each dodged the
other's thrusts, rarely getting in a lick that told, until at last O _____ made
a lunge at his opponent, missed his mark, and being quite drunk fell to
the ground when J_____ mounted him, and, after a few poundings,
O_____ cried "enough," when the battle ceased, and J_____ was declared
the victor; and a more elated man I never saw.  Ever thereafter in my time
he considered himself a great fighter.
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	Amongst the most notable familes and individuals in early times in
the section of country under consideration were the Bakers, the
Standrods, the Thetfords, the Creekmurs, the Burnams, the Grastys,
the Battoes, the Hollands, Mordeci Fowler, Reuben Harris, Asa
Reddick, Stephen Peal, Miles Osburn, Wiley M. Kearney, Richard
Jones, the Mitchells, Mrs. Savills and the Hanberrys; and at Snelling's
old landing on the Cumberland, just at the Caldwell county line (where,
in olden times, a large amount of tobacco was shipped for new Orleans--
particularly from the Wallonia settlement) there resided a Mr. Mercer, a
clever gentleman, who was the warehouseman.  At that time Rock Castle
had not been established-- at a later period, say in about 1838, and in
addition to Dr. Calloway, 
Dr. Inge, a good-looking, gentlemanly man, and an able physician,
located there, and soon thereafter, say in about 1836-37, Marshall &
Bradley, of Eddyville, established a store there, and it was the first store
established in Trigg county outside of Cadiz and Canton, unless it was that
of Maj. Braxton Wall at Wallonia, which was established about the same
time.  In those days the merchants of Cadiz had the patronage of nearly all
the people of that section of country, Canton doing a little, and Eddyville
and Princeton getting a larger share of the business.
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	In this communication, I cannot personify or enter upon a detail of
the individual characteristics of the persons referred to, and it must now
suffice for me to say repeating, in substance at least, what I have before
said-- that they were a plain, unpretentious, law abiding, honorable and
useful people; were esteemed good citizens, and of whom their progeny, if
not proud of their record, have no reason to be ashamed.
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	In your issue of the 22nd inst, wherein you published my letter of
8th inst., your type makes me say that Gustavus A. Henry removed to
Clarksville in about 1822, when it should have been 1832, and that John
G. Patterson lived 15 miles south of Cadiz instead of 5 miles.
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Chapter 11:
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"Store Boys" of Early Cadiz
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				Creedmoor, Travis Co., Tex.,
					January 1, 1892
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Editor, Kentucky Telephone:
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	I have from time to time in my previous communications
mentioned the names and written about quite a number of the worthy and
promising young men (youths at the time) who resided in Cadiz in early
times, but there are several others who I have hitherto failed to mention
that were but little less-- if I may now enter upon that pleasant duty I owe
their memories, as they were all my friends and associates.  Concluding
that all are now dead and most probably forgotten, unless two or three of
them, who had kindred in Trigg, are remembered.  Dudley McAtee,
Frank Patton, J. W. A. McGarvey and Newton Chalmes were store boys,
and Richard Bennett and Miles Kennedy were tailor boys.  There were
all well mannered and gentlemanly, with good habits; all evidently had
been well reared, and all promised to make good and useful citizens,
though two or three of them, I think, died in early manhood.
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	Dudley McAtee was a Trigg county boy.  His father, John
McAtee-- a farmer and a man of honor and good social standing-- was
among the very early settlers of the county and resided near the Cerulean
Springs.  Dudley was a store boy, and was employed in the store of I. and
Daniel Landes in Cadiz in about 1834-35, when he was about 18 years of
age.  He only remained, however, a year or two, when he relinquished his
situation, returned to his father's farm and turned his attention to farming. 
He was a handsome, active and sprightly young man, and had a pleasant
face and agreeable manners.  I remember nothing of his after life, but am
impressed with the belief that he died in a very early manhood.
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	Frank Patton was a Hopkinsville boy, a son of David L. Patton, a
well-known lawyer, who practiced in the Trigg Circuit Courts through
many years.  Frank was a store boy and lived with P. C. Frazier, a
merchant of Cadiz, in about 1835-36.  He was somewhat demure in looks,
taciturn, and a little lacking in energy, though he was intelligent.  He
promised to make a useful man, but when he returned to Hopkinsville
after his residence in Cadiz I lost sight of him and knew nothing of the
after part of his life.
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	Newton Chalmes was a Christian county boy, who lived in the store
of Wayman Crow in Cadiz in about 1833-34.  He was a cousin of Mrs.
Crow, and belonged to a very reputable family.  His father lived in about
1830-35 on the old stage road, leading from Hopkinsville to Princeton,
about two miles north of the Cerulean Springs-- his being the stage stand
where stage horses, stage passengers and travelers were fed, and from
which place in 1837 I walked to Cadiz, having landed there from a stage
coach whilst en route from St. Louis to Cadiz.  Young Chalmes was about
17 years old, small for his age, with curly, coal-black hair, black eyes and
a bronzed complexion, and whilst he had a serene look, he was joyous and
happy.  He had no vaulting ambition, and took the little hardships and
disappointments of youth philosophically.  He was social, kind hearted
and honorable.  He left Cadiz Shortly before Mr. Crow's removal to St.
Louis, and I entirely lost the run of him thereafter.
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	J. W. A. McGarvey, Aleck as he was always called, was a youth
of some sixteen or seventeen years when he came to Cadiz, and lived in
the store of Spotswood Wilkinson, Mrs. Wilkinson being his aunt and
Robert S. Moore, of Clarksville, then one of the largest and most
influential merchants of that place, being his uncle.  He was a step son of
James Miller (a brother of Josiah H. Miller of Cadiz) a much esteemed
and intelligent gentleman, with rather polished manners, who removed
from Christian county in about 1830-32 to Jacksonville, Ill.  Aleck
McGarvey was good looking, sprightly and pretentious.  He was
characterized by a good deal of pomposity, and to such an extent that he
was never a favorite with the other boys of the town.  He had an air of
superiority, and relied pretty heavily upon the  . . . [illegible] . . .good habits 
and principles and promised to become (which he did) a prominent and useful 
man.  He, I think, inherited some means from his father's estate, then married 
an heiress-- a young lady of Todd county-- who had a handsome fortune for 
the time, and with that capital he engaged in both selling goods and dealing
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in leaf tobacco, and at one time, as I remember, was a prominent business
man and merchant of Hopkinsville, but I think he was not in the end
successful in business; though I did not keep up with his movements and
adventures after I left Kentucky, and am not advised as to whether he is
living or dead.
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	Miles Kennedy was a kind hearted, amiable and well mannered
youth of seventeen or eighteen years when he came to Cadiz to live and
learn the tailors trade with Lawson & Crutchfield.  He was a Trigg
county boy with good habits and good principles.  His parents, who were
very reputable people, lived just west of the road leading from Cadiz to
the Cerulean Springs, some seven or eight miles from Cadiz.  He was
much respected because of his industry, good habits and pleasing
manners.  He was delicately framed and frail, and I do not think lived
long.  He left Cadiz after learning his trade and I do not remember that I
ever knew where he went or what became of him, but am sure he was
short lived.
.
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	Richard Bennett, Dick as every one called him, was of the once
numerous and much respected family of Bennetts of Christian county, and
was born and reared near Belleview, and was a brother of the first wife of
the Hon. Linn Boyd.  Dick was a good fellow.  He was good natured, kind
hearted, generous and honorable.  He came to Cadiz when he was about
sixteen or seventeen years old, and learned the tailor's trade with Lawson
& Crutchfield, and was a great favorite with the young clerks of the
town, who much enjoyed his old expression and dry jokes,
notwithstanding that in that day as in this there were many silly persons
who thought that their reputations would be soiled if they associated with
a mechanic.  Silly, thoughtless and contemptible indeed are all those, in
my opinion, who do not respect moral and personal worth, however
humble the calling and occupation.  After Dick Bennett mastered his
trade he left Cadiz, and I have no recollection that I ever afterwards heard
of him.  I conclude that he is numbered with the dead.
.
.
	And now allow me to digress.  I want to speak of my pleasure in
reading, and my appreciation of the communication or composition
published in the issue of the TELEPHONE of the 10th of December, titled
"Kindness," written by Maggie Davis.  It does credit to both her head and
heart.  If it is an emanation of her own brain, it does her great credit, and
she should cultivate her talent.  It needs to be placed in a frame, hung in
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every house, and read every day by everybody, as then men and women
would come nearer doing their duty to their fellow beings.
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Chapter 12:
.
Daniel Family, Cerulean Springs Families, and Linn Boyd
.
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				Creedmoor, Travis Co., Tex.,
					February 8, 1892
.
.
Editor, Kentucky Telephone:
.
	I have not hitherto mentioned in any of my communications the
family of Daniels, who, in early times, resided in the vicinity of the
Cerulean Springs, and who were conspicuous.  
.
.
	The progenitor, James Daniel, was one of the pioneers of the
county.  He came, as I believe, from Virginia in the early part of this
country, long before Trigg county was organized, and settled near the
Cerulean Springs.  Of him and his sons, save George Daniel, I have no
recollection, as they died before my day.
.
.
	George Daniel, Maj. Geo. Daniel as he was titled, and his
nephews and nieces (three or four of each), children of a deceased brother,
I very distinctly remember, particularly Joshua Daniel, the youngest of
the sons, who I pleasantly met on my visit to Kentucky in the summer of
1890, who lives near Cadiz, and who was one of my school mates, and
Lucy, the eldest of the daughters (whom I knew), and who married my
brother, William C. Thompson.
.
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	Maj. George Daniel never married as I remember, at least he
never reared a family unless it was that of his deceased brother.  He was a
man of much prominence in his day.  He had a fine physique, was about
five feet eleven inches in height, with a well filled frame, and weighed about 190 
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pounds. He had a pleasing face and prepossessing manners.  His fine form
and pleasing address made him attractive.  He had a good mind and fine
business qualities, although he had been only plainly educated.  His other
characteristics were truth, honor, dignity and sobriety.  With these
attributes, he could not have been otherwise than popular.  He was the first
active Sheriff of Trigg county, having been a deputy under Capt. Thomas
Raleigh, the first appointee, but soon succeeded Capt. Raleigh by
appointment, and filled the office through several years and with credit to
himself and satisfaction to the people.  He was once a candidate for the
Legislature, being a Whig and the candidate of the Cadiz party, running
against Maj. Abram Boyd, a Democrat, who was the candidate of the
Canton party as against Cadiz for the permanent location of the county
seat, or seat of justice.  He was defeated by Maj. Boyd, who was
considered invincible, by a very small vote, less than half the majority of
the Democrats in the county.  He died in my youth, and in the prime of
manhood honored and respected.
.
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	Green Daniel, a nephew of Maj. George Daniel, and the oldest of
the brothers, was reared on a farm near the Cerulean Springs.  He was a
good looking, sprightly and active young man, but was truthful, honorable
and respected.  As I remember he was a carpenter, but had a penchant for
trading and never worked assiduously at his trade, nor did he ever succeed
well in any pursuit in which he engaged, and in my time never laid up
anything for a "rainy" day, which every man ought to do.  He married in
early manhood and soon thereafter came to Cadiz to live, and spent
several years there.  His wife was a Miss Grant, a lady of more than
ordinary mind and culture, with much personal and family pride.  She was
a sister of Dr. Joshua Grant, who was much about Cadiz in his boyhood,
but after studying his profession, located and practiced medicine for
several years at Lafayette.  She was also a kinswoman of Maj. Malcolm
McNeill, of the neighborhood of Lafayette, who, in his day-- about 1835-
40-45-- was one of the wealthiest and most cultivated and courteous
farmers and gentlemen in Christian county.
.
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	Jacob Daniel, brother of Green and Joshua, was a quiet,
unpretentious, honorable and good looking young man.  He, too, was a
carpenter, worked at his trade, and for some time had his home in Cadiz. 
His habits were good, and he promised to become a good and useful man,
but in his early manhood he left Cadiz and I then lost sight of him entirely.
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	Joshua Daniel, the youngest of the brothers, was in his boyhood
quiet, amiable and honorable, and bid fair to make a good citizen, and I
am sure he has done so.  His habits and principles were good in boyhood,
and as the "twig is bent the tree is inclined."  He has been blessed with
longevity and a most excellent wife, who did me the honor of making my
acquaintance when in Kentucky in 1890, and with whom I had a long and
pleasant talk; but as Mr. Daniel lives in your immediate neighborhood and
is well known, I leave him to speak for himself, and when he passes away
it will be near the finish of my school mates, remembering now only two
others who are alive.
.
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	The eldest of the Daniel sisters that I know was Lucy, one of the
handsomest young women of her day.  She was a tall, well formed and
graceful brunette.  She became the wife of my brother, William C.
Thompson, who, for some years resided in Cadiz, but then removed in
about 1838, to Osceola, Mo., where, after a short residence, the wife died,
leaving three or four children, who were brought back to Kentucky and
largely reared by my mother.
.
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	Frances Daniel-- always called Frankie by the family-- was the
youngest sister.  She married John Cameron, then of the county, but who
afterwards removed to Cadiz, where he resided for a number of years.  He
was, as I remember, a gun smith, worked at his trade, and was a good and
useful man, was industrious, honorable and kind hearted.  Within the last
year or two I saw a published notice of his death as occurring in Princeton,
and conclude that he removed from Cadiz and probably had been living in
Princeton several years.
.
.
	I remember with some distinctness many others of the old settlers
who lived in early times in the vicinity of Cerulean Springs-- from 1832 to
1840-42.  The forms and features of some of them I can now see in my
mind's eye as I saw them fifty years ago, and well remember their social
and moral standing.  The Goodwins, the Goodes, the Pools, the
Sizemores, the Stinebaughs, Rogers, Guthries, Adam Thompson,
Elisha Harbor, David Haggard, John Jones, and the Wilsons, were all
good men-- amongst the best citizens of the county.  The heads of most of
these families came to the county in the early part of this century, and
nearly all from Virginia and North Carolina.  There were all farmers,
nearly or quite all were slave owners, and they were all tobacco growers.
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	I well recollect the forms particularly of the Goodwin family, all
of whom were tall with commanding figures.  And I remember John
Jones, who lived nearer Wallonia, and who his friends, as I remember,
familiarly called "Johnny Hack Jones."  He had a figure the opposite of
the Goodwins.  He was not over five feet six inches high, and would have
weighed about 200 pounds.  He was nearly as thick through as high.  He
had a bright, sunny countenance, and was a good man.
.
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	Adam Thompson I bear in mind distinctly.  He was a devout
Christian-- a member of the Christian Church-- one amongst the earliest
converts to that religion, and Sunday after Sunday would ride on
horseback in bad winter weather from his home to Cadiz to "break bread"
and partake of "the wine" with his brethren, of whom Wayman Crow was
one, and at whose house he always stopped.  He, poor man, had an only
son, William, a promising young man who died in Cadiz in about 1835,
and it nearly broke his heart.  He had studied medicine and had just
entered upon the practice with bright prospects of success.
.
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	Felix G. Wadlington, who resided in Caldwell county about
fourteen miles from Cadiz, on the east side of the road leading from Cadiz
to Princeton, was well known in Trigg, and was a frequent visitor of
Cadiz.  He was a nephew of old Mr. Thomas Wadlington, of the upper
Little River settlement, and I believe was born and reared in Trigg.  He
was a gentleman of some prominence and much pride of character.  He
had a respectable education, had good manners, always dressed genteelly,
was good looking, and won attention and commanded respect in all
assemblages.  In very early manhood he removed to Mississippi, where he
engaged in cotton planting, and in a few years amassed a handsome estate. 
He then returned to Kentucky and became a tobacco planter and a patron
of mine in the sale of his crops whilst I did business in New Orleans as a
commission merchant.  He had a cultivated and pleasant family and lived
in good style.  He was a Democrat of the deepest dye and a great friend
and admirer of Linn Boyd.
.
.
	I well remember meeting Mr. Boyd at his (Wadlington's) house in
both a business and social call I made him in the summer of 1844-- at the
time when the political excitement was intense, growing out of the run for
President between Mr. Clay and Mr. Polk, and when nothing was
discussed but politics, and when nearly all discussions ended unpleasantly. 
Had I known that Col. Boyd was a guest I think I should have passed by, being
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enroute from Cadiz to Princeton, Smithland, and the Purchase, for when I
found I was in the hands of two veteran politicians-- one of them then
distingished in the councils of the nation--I being a Whig, was seized with
trepidation.  I expected to be devoured; but I did not then know that Col.
Boyd was so kind hearted, noble and gentlemanly, so divested of
prejudice.  I feared he was prejudiced against me because I was a Whig,
and because my father and brothers, who were Whigs, had always actively
opposed him and his father in all their political races.  
.
.
	To my surprise and pleasure neither my host or Col. Boyd
introduced the subject of politics; and my visit of several hours-- dining
there-- proved a most pleasant one, and resulted in an invitation-- which I
accepted-- from Col. Boyd to accompany him in a travel of several days,
and a visit to several towns (he being then on his way) where he had
engagements to speak, terminating in the Purchase; he voluntarily offered
to introduce me and trying to further my interest as a tobacco seller, I then
doing business as a commission merchant in New Orleans.  Of this trip,
which resulted most pleasantly and made me the warm friend of Col.
Boyd, I may hereafter speak, taking occasion now to say that Col. Boyd's
social qualities were unsurpassed by any man I ever knew.
.
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Chapter 13:
.
Landes Family and Trigg County
Families in Texas
.
				Kenneyville, Austin Co., Tex.,
					June 15, 1892
.
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Editor, Kentucky Telephone:
.
	I was unexpectedly called to this place nearly two months ago by
the illness of my nephew, James E. Thompson [Jr.], formerly of Cadiz,
but now and for several years past a merchant of this place, and have been
detained here, having had charge of his business whilst he traveled in
extreme western Texas, breathing the pure, dry atmosphere of that region
for the restoration of his health, and am pleased to report that he has now
returned and is greatly improved, and apparently will soon be himself
again.
.
.
	This call and demands upon my time, with a similar one at home
immediately preceding my depature, has prevented my furnishing you
with others of my communications giving my recollection of persons and
things connected with Cadiz and the adjacent sections of yours and the
adjoining counties in the long, long ago.  It is my purpose, however, to re-
engage in that pleasant pastime when I return home (which I propose to do
in a few days), being encouraged so to do by reason of having recently
received several approbatory letters-- amongst them letters from two of
your county's worthy ladies; and who would not wear his fingers' ends off
writing when encouraged by the fair sex?
.
.
	My trip here has been mingled with both pleasure and melancholy-
- pleased at meeting several old-time acquaintances, some the acquaintances 
and friends of my youth in Kentucky, and some whose acquaintance and 
friendship I made as I journeyed along life's pathway, and whom I had not
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met for many years, and pained at seeing some of them so worn by age
and sufferers from disease.
.
.
	I saw disease strike down and death claim for his victim Col.
Daniel Landes during my stay, he being a resident of this section.  On my
arrival and first call upon him I faced him in good spirits and fair health
for a man of 88 years, having very little impairment of mind, but more of
locomotion.  He died on the 11th instant of paralysis, and seemingly
painless, surrounded by his aged wife, all of his children, and numerous
friends and neighbors, without a stain upon his reputation for truth, honor
and generosity.  He was born in Botecourt county, Virginia, but reared and
educated in Muhlenberg county, Ky.  He resided for some years in
Hopkinsville, then removed to Cadiz, where he sold goods and was
postmaster for a number of years, marrying in the meantime Adaline
Thompson (my sister), who survives him, and who is wonderfully
preserved for one of her age.  He then became the acting Sheriff of the
county, afterwards built the merchant mills at Cadiz, now owned by Mr.
W. C. White, and lastly represented the county of Trigg in the Kentucky
Legislature of 1850.
.
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	Upon first coming to Texas in 1851 he settled in Washington
county, but in 1857 came to this (Austin) county, where he bought land,
lived and died.  He farmed until the liberation of his slaves by Mr.
Lincoln's proclamation.  He then (immediately after the close of the war)
turned over his place to his son, James E. Landes, and having ample
means left him, has since lived a quiet,  peaceful and pleasant life; and
lived to see his children grow to high social and pecuniary prominence,
and Texas developed into greatness; he having been one of the organizers
and aiders in building the first important railroad in the State.
.
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	This is a beautiful and thickly-settled part of Texas.  The landscape
(being a prairie country) is not surpassed by any country I have ever seen. 
Much of the land (all being under fence) has been in cultivation for more
than fifty years.  Lands range in price in this section from $20 to $25 per
acre, but near to Bellville, the county seat, ten miles south, on the
Brenham, the chief commercial town, ten miles north, they command 
from $30 to $40.
.
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	A very considerable portion of the population are Germans or
Bohemians, and like nearly all that class of people, are industrious and
thrifty, but they do not readily or rapidly assimilate themselves to the habits
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of the American-born citizens, and they are not, therefore, socially
welcomed by them.  It is safe to say that now one-third to one-half of the
whole population of this county are Germans or Bohemians-- their
manners and customs being much the same-- and that in twenty-five years
more they will possess all this country, as one by one the old and
American-born citizens are being elbowed out, and are selling their lands
to Germans and going West.  The social and moral habits of the Germans
are in the main very objectionable.  As a people they are industrious, and
as agriculturists they are a success, but largely they are immoral-- not
particularly dishonest or untruthful, but atheists and sensualists.  The
masses are beer guzzlers and Sabbath breakers, and with few exceptions
fight prohibition, fight the Sunday laws, and use the Sabbath in
objectionable and frequently unlawful pastimes and pleasures.  In as many
as six or eight counties in this State they hold the balance of power in an
election, and no man seeking a political position can secure their votes
who does not sanction or endorse their sentiments and habits, and in the
counties where they have a voting majority they almost universally
support their own countrymen for positions of honor or trust, regardless of
morals, manners or qualifications.
.
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	The attractions of this section of Texas drew to it in early times
quite a number of Trigg county people, most of whom have passed to their
reward "across the river."
.
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	There came to Independence, in Washington county, in about
1853, Edward Cannon (reared in Cadiz) and his family, and Capt. Felix
Robertson and family-- his wife having been Miss Susan Cannon, reared
also in Cadiz-- the two having jointly sold goods there for some years. 
Hiram Thompson and D. B. (Douglass Baker) Carson came to Chappell
Hill, in Washington county, in about 1850, and each sold goods there for
several years.  In 1851 Col. Daniel Landes and William S. Slaughter
came out, bought lands, and settled near Chappell Hill.  A year later
Gamliot Corbin and Mr. Dickie Chappell-- the father of your Mr. John
W. Chappell, removed to Texas and settled in the same neighborhood;
W. and Isaac Dabney (brothers of your late Judge Dabney), and Thomas
Nichols (son of your late Maxey Nichols), Robert A. Husk, Arle Battoe
and Jesse O'Bryant, who settled in Austin county, and a little later Dr.
Alphonso Cannon (reared at Cadiz) and William Young, who settled at
Hempstead, in Waller county.  Of this large number all are dead save
Edwin W. Dabney, Robert A. Husk and Jesse O'Bryant, whose whitened 
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locks tell what time has done for them.  With all these I have met on this
visit, and had social interviews.
.
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	Edwin Dabney and his good, though infirm, wife, are residing in
this village, and are greatly esteemed.  He is a minister of the Christian
Church, and has been the means of leading hundreds into the Church of
Christ, but the infirmity of his wife and his own age and infirmity (that of
his avoirdupois, weighing nearly 300 pounds) prevent his going much
from home or actively engaging in ministerial work.
.
.
	Robert Husk is a well-to-do farmer, residing about three miles
distant, is an esteemed gentleman, and looks as though he might live for
20 years, being stout and strong, and as active as most men at 59 years.
.
.
	Jesse O'Bryant, who now resides in Bellville, is much respected
by those who know him.  Time has told upon him.  His frosted locks and
shriveled face indicate that there are not many more ups and downs to be
experienced before he shall be numbered with the dead; but he told me he
had no fear of death or dread of the grave.  When he shall have passed
away the last of my school associates will have gone.  He was joined a few
years since by his sister, who was Miss Susan O'Bryant, but now a
widow, who, in her girlhood, removed to Illinois.  She, in her girlhood,
was a tall, straight brunette, and still retains her form.  She resides in
Bellville, where I met her a few days since, and had a few moments
pleasant conversations with her.  I also met here the wife and widow of
Isaac Dabney, who was the daughter of Esq. James Garnett, and had a
few moments of pleasant conversation with her.  She now resides in


Hood county.  She looks well, and is active for one of her age.  She has reared
quite a family of sons and daughters, who are honored and respected
people.  One of her sons, Dr. H. C. Dabney, resides in this vicinity, and is
a man of high social position and much professional promise.
.
.
.
[The following is a fragment of an undated letter]
.
	In some of my previous communications I have incidentally made
mention on Maj. George Street, Joseph Waddell and Turner Crump,
who came to Trigg county about the time it was organized, and settled in
the eastern part of the county, about eight miles from Cadiz--1 1/2 to 2
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miles south of the old road leading to Hopkinsville-- their farms adjoining
each other; and now it is my pleasure to speak of them at some length.
.
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	Intellectually, morally and socially, no men in their day stood
higher.  They were all Virginians; were all brothers-in-law; were all
educated; were all amiable and high minded; all occupied high social
positions; all were farmers and slave owners; all were in well-to-do
circumstances; all reared interesting families of sons and daughters, whom
they liberally educated; all were in accord with each other morally,
socially and politically, and all were Whigs.
.
.
	Maj. George Street was an unusually attractive, pleasant and
popular gentleman.  He was a fair type of the "Old Virginia" gentleman,
and that means much in the way of character.  He was intelligent, moral,
honorable and unassuming; was characterized by much of the "suaviter-in-
modo."  He was a man of dignity, and in his day was personally and
deservedly popular-- in evidence of which he, as a Whig candidate for the
Legislature in Trigg, overcome a majority of fifty Democratic votes, and
triumphed over Major Abraham Boyd, a Democrat-- the father of Linn
Boyd-- who had before been considered invincible.
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Appendix:
.
Cyrus Thompson's Genealogical Letter
to Emma Thompson Bristow
.
.
	My Father was James Thompson a native of Prince Edward
County Virginia and whose Father came from England.
.
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	My Mother was Sarah Steele a native of Campbell County Virginia
and whose Father came from Ireland.  She first married Mr. Baker by
whom she had three children, two sons Robert and Alexander and one
Daughter Elizabeth.  Mr. Baker dying she married my Father by whom she
had nine children, seven sons-- John C., Thomas S., William C., James E.,
Moses, Hiram and Cyrus (Myself) and two Daughters-- Adaline H., who
married Col. Daniel Landes and Sarah, who Married N. W. Rothrock and
after his death Col. Stanley Thomas.
.
.
	Early in the present century My Father and Mother with their
Children (several of whom had been born in Virginia) Moved to Kentucky
and settled in Butler County some 12 or 15 miles [northeast] of
Russellville where they lived until about 1810 or 12 when they moved to
Christian County, Now Trigg and located where Cadiz Now stands.  My
Fathers Brother's William, Hezekiah [sic], and Obediah [sic] [. . .] from
Virginia about the same time and located in Kentucky, but a [. . .] years
thereafter Hezekiah and Obediah removed to Louisiana and . . . reared a
family of Sons and Daughters who were useful and reputable.  William
lived and Died a Bachelor, Dying in Cadiz in about 1830.
.
.
	My Mother's family the Steele's several brothers came West about
the same time as My Father Some Settling in Kentucky and Some in
Tennessee.  One brother Doctor Moses Steele an Eminent Physician
settled in Hopkinsville and reared a reputable family of Sons, viz William,
Rezin D., James, Doctor . . . and Dr. Moses Steele (the latter Father to this
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young Man Who Married Miss Watson, Your Cousin, all of whom are dead. 
Elizabeth Steele, My Mother's Sister Married Oliver McReynolds and they
Came to Kentucky and Settled in Christian Co. in about 1830-- they were
the Mothers and Fathers of Robt S. and Oliver McReynolds as well as of
Doct. James A. and Mrs. Geo. P. Street Who lived, and died in [. . .] I
believe leaving Several Children Each.  Robert Baker My Mothers oldest
Son died [. . .] a Number of years ago leaving an only Son Robert D. who
grew rich at Cadiz, Went to Louisiana and died there leaving a Wife and
Several Sons Who I am told are Now Dead.  Alexander Baker lived and
died in Cadiz leaving three Children, "Charles" and "Edgar" and "Ella?"
Who Married (I think) a Mr. Torian.  Elizabeth Baker Married [. . .]
William Carson Who lived Many years 3 Miles West of Cadiz and died
there leaving a Number of Sons and Daughters all of whom I think are
dead.  Mrs. James S. McAllister--now Dead (the Mother of the
McAllisters about Cadiz) was one other Daughter, and Mrs. Oliver
McReynolds of Christian Co. (Now I believe dead) was another Daughter. 
The Sons all Came South to Louisiana and Texas and they too have all
died.
.
.
	John C. Thompson My oldest brother Moved to Illinois in About
1828 or 30, Settled in Hancock Co. and reared a reputable family. 
Thomas S. removed to Louisiana in about 1840 and reared two Sons and
One Daughter.  The Father, Daughter on One Son Virgil (Who was Killed
in Battle near Richmond, Va.) have been dead for a Number of years. 
Hiram came to Texas and died in 1869 or 1870.  His Wife and One of his
two Sons Alexander preceded him to the grave and the other Son Charles
is living in Limestone County Texas.  Adaline (My Oldest Sister) with her
husband Came to Texas in about 1854.  Col. Landes the Husband died in
1892 and (Mrs. Landes) My Sister in July 1897.  One Son Charles Died in
New Orleans in 1855.  One Son James (a friend) lives on the Old
Homestead in Austin Co. and the youngest Son Henry and Daughter Sarah
live in Galveston-- Where the Mother died.  Sarah Married a Mr. Wallis
and he and Henry are partners in the Wholesale Grocery and Commission
business and are rich, Worth probably 200,000 dollars Each.
.
.
	I Need not tell you of the families of your Grand Father James E.,
William, and Moses Thompson presuming that you Know as Much or
More than I do about them.  Your Uncle Jimmie as you Know lives at Kenney,
Texas, is a Merchant and a quiet Christian gentleman.  He has a handsome 
and sprightly Daughter "May" 15 years old and bright boy "Ned" 12 years
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old, both of whom he idolizes.  His friends suppose he will Never Marry
again.  Your Uncle "Walter" as you probably know died at his house.
.
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	I am Myself nearly an Octagenarian and the youngest and only
living Child of the once large and prominent family of Thompsons who
lived in and about Cadiz in its Early days.  The town was located in the
lands of My half brother Robert Baker and My Father was almost the
Founder of the town, being probably the Very first Settler.  I lived in St.
Louis in 1836-7, in New Orleans in 1839-40 and afterwards from 1840 to
1865 less 4 years During the War lived in Galveston from 1866 to 1881
and have been in this Section of Texas 16 years and am . . . . 
.
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[Cyrus Thompson]
Lock[hart] Texas
[    ] 24, 1898
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Adams
   Wesley  16-18
   Jesse  16-17
.
.
Baker
   Alexander  68-69
   Charles  69
   Edgar  69
   Elizabeth  68
   Ella  69
   Hazzard  12
   Robert  68-70
   Robert D.  69
.
.
Baker Family  52
.
.
Barnes
   Joseph  45-46
   Solomon  46
.
.
Battoe
   Arle  65
.
.
Battoe Family  52
.
.
Bayliss
   Penelope  7
.
.
Bennett
   "Miss"  28
   Richard  54, 56
.
.
Boyd
   Abram  25, 59, 67
   Abram  28
   Alfred  1-2, 26-29
   John  25-26
   John  28
   Linn  12, 25, 28, 50, 56, 61-62, 67
   Rufus  28-29
.
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Burnam Family  52
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Burnett
   William  26
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Calloway
   Dr.  52
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Cameron
   John  60
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Campbell
   Davy  20
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Cannon
   Alphonso  65
   Charter  12
   Chasteen  12
   Douglass  12
   Edward  65
   John J., Jr.13
   John J., Sr.  11
   Susan  65
   Walter  12
   William  11-13
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Carson
   Douglass Baker  65
   James H.  10
   William 69
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Chalmes
   Newton  54-55
.
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Chappell
   Dickie  65
   John W.  65
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Cook
   John W.  28
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Cooper
   Elizabeth (Mrs. Adams)  16-17
.
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Corbin
   Gamliot  65
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Cox
   James  41-42
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Cox & Jameson  41
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Creekmur Family  52
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Crenshaw
   Dr.  33
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Crittenden
   John J.  17-18
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Crow
   Wayman  9, 13, 31, 55, 61
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Crump
   Turner  66
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Dabney
   Edwin W.  65-66
   H. C. 66
   Isaac  65-66
   Judge  65
   Smith  14
   W.  65
.
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Daniel
   Frances  60
   George  8, 58-59
   Green  59
   Jacob  59
   James  58
   Joshua  58-60
   Lucy 8, 58, 60
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Davis
   Levi  49
   Maggie  56
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Deason
   William  44
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Dyer
   Alfred B.  22-23
   John J.  22
   John J., Jr.  22-23
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Fauntleroy
   "Miss"  38-39
.
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Ford
   "Miss"  20
   Margaret  21
   Philip  20
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Fowler
   Mordeci  52
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Fuqua
   W. J. 42
.
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Gaines
   James
.
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Garnett
   James  66
.
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Good Family  60
.
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Goodwin Family  60
.
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Gordon
   George H.  42-43
.
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Gore
   James T.  
.
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Grace
   George  49
   William  49
   William D.  37, 49
.
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Grant
   "Miss"  59
   Joshua  59
.
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Grasty Family  52
.
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Grinter
   Betty  41
.
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Gunn
   Martha Addie Grinter  41
.
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Guthrie Family  60
.
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Haggard
   David  60
.
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Hanberry Family  52
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Harbor
   Elisha  60
.
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Harlan
   Levi  9
.
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Harper
   "Mr."  24
.
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Harris
   Reuben  52
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Hawkins
   Robert  18
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Hayden
   William C.  35
.
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Henry
   Gustavus A.  53
   Mary  21
.
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Holland
   A. W.  11
   "Granny"  11
.
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Holland Family  52
.
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Hollowell
   Miles  35
   Sovereign  35-36
.
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Hopson
   Sidney  5
   William 4
.
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Husk
   Isaac  16
   Lewis  16
   William (Billy)  15-16
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Hutchinson
   Margaret  7
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Inge
   "Dr."  52
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J. F. & J. H. Lander  31
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James
   Richard  52
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Jameson
   Thomas  42
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Johns
   "Miss" 39
.
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Jones
   John  60-61
   P. G. 45
.
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Kearney
   Wiley M. 52
.
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Kennedy
   Miles  54, 56
.
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Landes
   Charles  69
   Daniel  2, 35, 54, 64-65, 68
   Henry  69
   James  69
   James E.  64
   Sarah  69
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Lawson
   Frasier Y.  1
.
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Lewis & Crutchfield  56
.
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Light
   Samuel  39
.
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Lipscomb
   Norvill  25
.
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Long
   G. B. 21
.
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Long, Trice & Short  21
.
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Mabry
   John  45
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Major
   C. H.  41-42
.
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Marshall & Bradley  52
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Martin
   William H.  39
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McAtee
   Dudley  54
   John 54
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McCain
   James  18-19
   Lewis  19
.
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McCain's Bridge  50
.
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McGarvey
   J. W. A. (Aleck)  54-55
.
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McNeill
   Malcolm  59
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McReynolds
   James A.  68-69
   Oliver  68-69
   Robert S.  68
.
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McWaters
   John  36
   Moses  36-37
   Samuel  36
.
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McWaters Family  18
.
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Mercer
   "Mr."  52
.
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Middleton
   "Miss" 14
.
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Miller
   James  55
   Josiah H.  55
   Morgan  28, 49
.
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Mitchell Family  52
.
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Moore
   Mollie E. 2
   Robert S.  55
   Thomas Oscar 2
.
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Nichols
   Maxey  65
   Thomas  65
.
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Noel
   Edwin  43-44
   Franklin G.  44
   Oscar  43-44
   Simco A. G.  43
.
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O'Bryant
   Jesse  65-66
   Susan  66
.
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Osburn
   Miles  52
.
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Patterson
   John G.  53
.
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Patton
   Frank  54-55
.
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Peal
   Stephen  52
.
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Pool Family  60
.
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Poston
   Richard  30
.
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Raleigh
   Thomas  59
.
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Randolph
   R. B.  13
.
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Redd
   "Mrs."  51
.
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Redd Brothers  49
.
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Reddick
   Asa  52
.
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Reynolds
   John G.  31
   Y. P. (Pike)  30-32
.
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Robertson
   Felix  65
.
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Rogers
   R. M.  12
.
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Rogers Family  60
.
.
Rothrock
   Emily  10
   John  10
   Noah W.  2, 10, 68
.
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Savills
   Absalom  37
   Margaret  37
.
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Scott
   W. P. M.  30
   Stephen Hamil  30
.
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Short
   Robert H.  20-22
.
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Sizemore Family  60
.
.
Slaughter
   Edward R.  37
   James W.  37
   Presley  37
   William H.  37-38
   William S.  65
.
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Slaughter's Mill  39
.
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Smith
   Clarissa  9
   Firman  9
   Jonathan  9
   Mark  10
.
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Snelling's Old Landing  52
.
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Soery
   William  23-24, 42
.
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Standrod Family  52
.
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Steele
   Elizabeth  69
   James  68
   Moses  68
   Rezin D.  68
   Sarah  68
.
.
Stinebaugh Family  60
.
.
Street
   George  66-67
   George P.  69
   John L.  32-33
.
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Thetford Family  52
.
.
Thomas
   Albert 3
   Benjamin F.  3
   Carroll 4
   Cullen  1, 3-4
   Henry Clay 2
   James  1, 4
   Perry  1, 4
   Peyton 3
   Robert Baker 2
   Sarah 2
   Stanley  1-4, 10, 26, 68
   Starkey  1, 4
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Thompson
   Adaline  7, 64, 68-69
   Adam  60-61
   Alexander  69
   Augusta  8
   Charles W.  69
   Elizabeth (Mrs. Hill)  41
   Hezekiah  68
   Hiram  6-7, 65, 68-69
   James  6, 68
   James E.  6-7, 68-69
   James E., Jr.  63, 69
   John C. 7, 68-69
   Johnathan  9
   Louisa C.  9
   Moses  7-10, 68-69
   Ned  69
   Obediah  68
   Sarah  2, 10, 68
   Sarah  7, 10, 68
   Thomas S.  7-8, 23, 68
   Virgil  7, 69
   Walter  70
   William  61
   William C.  7-8, 58, 60, 68-69
.
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Torian
   "Mr."  31, 51, 69
.
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Trice
   Tandy H. 21
.
.
Turner
   Martin  45
.
.
Utterback
   "Miss"  14
.
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Waddell
   Joseph  66
.
.
Wadlington
   Felix 61
   Thomas  61
.
.
Wall
   Braxton  52
.
.
Wallace
   "Mr."  49
.
.
Wallis
   "Mr."  69
.
.
Watkins
   Hezekiah  19
.
.
Watson
   "Miss"  69
   Thomas Tennessee  39
.
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Weir
   James  10
.
.
Wharton
   John  9
   William  17
.
.
White
   W. C.  64
.
.
Wilkinson
   John P.  32
   Spottswood  10, 32, 49, 55
.
.
Wilson Family  60
.
.
Wimberley
   Alfred  37
.
.
Young
   William  65
.
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