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I discovered Wise County almost fifty years ago, a few months after its organization-I did not get here as early as my parents did-they had preceded me two years. Because of the fact that I was not one of the early settlers there are incidents connccted with the first settlement of the county about which my recollee- tion is not clear. It is a debatable question as to just how far back to date one's advent into the county to entitle one to wear the credentials " Old Settler." Now, until this disputed point is settled I will assume that any time prior to the discovery of Unele Sam Woody on the head waters of Deep Creek, including the time they were trying to capture him, and a few years after that memorable event, would entitle one to membership in that body.
You know tradition has it that when the first white man brav- ing the perils incident to the journey reached this far west, the- man since known as Sam Woody was found in a wild state,
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Our Three Floors and Warehouse are filled to capacity with the variety of wares and implements that make up the several branches of our business
WE SELL Shelf Hardware, Stoves, Glass and Queens- ware, Wagons and Buggies, Farm Imple= ments, Furniture, Carpets, Coffins and Undertakers' Supplies, Windmills and Piping.
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wearing not even a name, but as the timber was dense in parts of that country where the capture occurred they named him " Woody " from the surroundings. Tradition further says that he subsisted on such food as nature provided and drank creek water.
Now, as I said in the outset, my recollection is not good on events that occurred about that time, and so I could not vouch for the truthfulness of this mythical story-I have always doubted some parts of it, but not that part relating to drinking from a creek, for the oldest inhabitant cannot recall when he refused a drink from anything. I can remember when he had to take it straight, for in those days there was a patent right upon the process of manufacturing sugar, so that we could not make it in this country. The fact is, I was large enough to cat three pounds of sugar at one sitting before I knew such a luxury existed. All the sweetening we had in those halcyon days was "long sweetening "-of course it is unnecessary to explain the mean- ing of that term to the proverbial old settler, for to him the mean- ing is clear and the taste, like the measles, lingers with him yet.
But molasses making! How memory recalls that time. It was the event of events, the paramount occurrence in the life of every boy. To drive the old horse round and round, to listen to the screaking of the old wooden rollers that refused to be quieted, to eat foam from the tub; this was glory enough for one lifetime. And such molasses, barring color and taste, has not been equalled. This was "long sweetening." In those days all families did not have coffee. We had a substitute for coffee in parched wheat, okra berries, etc., and a cup of that beverage steaming hot, primed with a spoonful of long sweetening, was not dangerous to look upon. Now, some inquisitive person might want to know if we had anything else to eat. To be sure- we had meat in abundance. If our father hand't a hog to his name he usually had a wild hog claim, and this was sufficient for practical purposes. The fact that bread was sometimes scarce caused no worry. There was some anxiety among us children when on Sunday mornings and other rare occasions, we had biscuit that wouldn't hold out.
Now, chills and fever were among the other troubles we chil-
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We do not ask big profits but we want fast sales. We put the quality and prices of our goods by those of any other firm.
dren sometimes endured in that happy past, but for these simple ailments the remedy was at command, and even now I sometimes wonder if we have progressed beyond balmony, shuck and fodder tea, and other simple remedies that nature provided and which we were compelled to use in the treatment of those diseases. At least nothing has been produced that could beat them very far for taste. I well remember when at our house we as regularly gathered a sack of balmony as we gathered our little crop, and my recollection is that this was administered steaming hot and in broken doses to us children.
What I have mentioned were the necessaries of life. We were not altogether without some of its luxuries. Polk-salad and lambs quarter were known to the inhabitants then, and wild onions grew prolifically on the prairie. For pies we had wild plums, grapes and sheep sorrell. Of course sheep sorrell was served only on rare occasions. It is best served that way, and I might add, the rarer the occasion the better off you are.
I am trying to relate some things as they occured some forty
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or fifty years ago, from a boy's recollection of them. I have no Indian experiences to tell. I am glad I didn't scalp any Indians in those days and have always appreciated the fact that they didn't scalp me. I have never been offended by the fact that while they were calling in my neighborhood, they didn't leave their card at our house.
Of course boys had their imaginary troubles in those davs, but when I think of them now they were nominal and hardly to be classified under that name. Now, I might mention the seventh day head combing-I designate it that way because it usually occured on Saturday. Our combs were built from a cow's horn heated, flattened out, and teeth sawed with a hand saw. Of course such an implement of warfare only caught the larger game; the others run at large until they reached maturity. Boys didn't give as much attention then as now to the tonsorial part of their make-up, hence our locks were often badly locked. very long, sunburned, and inclined to turn up at the ends, and I distinctly recall the suffering that fell to my lot when it came my time to be combed. Had to take it by turns, and usually the job was over with in time for us to gather broom weeds and sweep the yards for Sunday so that our big sister's beau wouldn't get grass burrs in his feet.
But let me tell you that in my opinion the boys reared on the frontier were the happiest mortals under the sun. Our parents. God bless their precious memories, may have suffered great anxiety on our account-and we know that they did-but those dark days of struggle and privation were strangers to us. We thought the whole world was living like we were, and were foolish if not happy. If our father made us one pair of shoes and got them done by Christmas, that was as early as we expected them. If we didn't get them at all we were not much disappointed, and shoes or no shoes, it was woo to the grass burr that came in contract with a boy's foot. If we owned sheep and the spinning wheel and loom were put to work, we usually had our new suit by that time, and the boy who had a coat the nearest like Jacob's of old, and a pair of the loudest sereaking shoes, was the most popular among the girls and the most envied by the boys.
A very dark cloud came over the happiness of us boys about
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Highest Prices Paid for Country Produce
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NORTHEAST CORNER SQUARE DECATUR, TEXAS
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onee a year when soap making time came round. Some people contend that if a thing is full it can be no fuller-that it will not admit of further comparison, but I learned early in life that this is not true, because those old ash hoppers our mothers made out of three foot boards could hold all the ashes from a 3x5 fire- place through the winter, and when there was room for no more it would take twenty buckets of water per day for six days, or about three hundred and sixty gallons, to start it running. Of course the time and the quantity could be reduced some by punching holes down almost to the bottom of the hopper. But where this device was resorted to, the lye was not so good, and the boy's back usually made up the difference. Think of a boy having to draw that much water every day from a sixty-foot well with an old windlass that was equal to a gatling gun if it got loose from him, or carry it a quarter of a mile from the spring. I have often thought since then what a blessing it would have been to me if ash hoppers and windmills could have been invented at the 'same time.
The mode of punishment practised then by our parents was similar to what it is now. The biblical injunction about "sparing the rod and spoiling the child " was known to them, and if there was any difference it was in favor of the rod. I have always believed that our parents adhered very strictly to that doctrine. Now, at our schools it was different. They also believed in the principle laid down by Solomon, but they also believed in other things. You don't hear of a boy nowadays having to stand out in the middle of the floor on one foot until he gets so tired he forgets he has a foot, or stand for hours as I have done with my nose thrust into a crack in the rawhide plank of the old Deep Creek schoolhouse. Bob Walker was my first teacher and the originator of this mode of punishment. He would stand the boys on a bench against the wall, each one with his nose stuck into a crack of the house, and it was woe to the boy whose curiosity prompted him to withdraw that nose before his time was up.
But the little troubles that we had in those days are not worthy to be compared to the vanity and vexation of spirit of an up-to-date boy. Did you ever think of the trials a boy must
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pass through now in even keeping his wardrobe intact. His socks alone are enough to burden one mind. It takes twenty-five pairs a year and no two pairs flowered alike! It takes at least four pairs of patent leather Sunday shoes, high, low and medium quartered, and each with a different shaped toe; it takes two dozen shirts, each different from the others, and a tie to match each; it takes riding gloves, driving gloves, and dress gloves, and various and sundry other articles. Now, imagine if you can the consternation in the Deep Creek settlement forty-five years ago if a boy thus equipped had suddenly landed in our midst. Barnum's great " What is it? " could not have created greater curiosity, and I believe that Uncle Sam even would have changed his range.
In the early days my father ran a wood shop at our old home, and about my first work was driving an old sorrel horse to the lathe that turned out the various articles for the people, such as wagon hubs and spokes, bed posts, spinning wheels, etc. The Indians came along one night and borrowed the horse and forgot
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to return him. I have often regretted the day when that old lathe had to go out of business.
I have here one of my father's old account books during the time of which I have just spoken, and to show the needs of the people in those days and how conditions have changed, and to recall to these old settlers here the names of men possibly for- gotten, I will read from that book.
But, my friends, time, that remorseless destroyer of all things, has yellowed these pages and dimmed the writing so that it is scarcely discernible, and from the list of almost a hundred names within its folds, who were then mostly in the prime and strength of young manhood, the majority have long since passed over the great divide. Some have long ago abandoned hope of mak- ing this country a fit dwelling place and left it, but few of those who were here then are now with us, and it has been to add some- thing to their enjoyment that I read from these pages. And in conclusion I want to pay my tribute of grateful remembrance to a class of our pioneer citizenship that I believe have not received their meed of praise-I mean the physicians of that time. I mention Drs. Renshaw, Standifer, and the Stuarts. For years in a country infested by hostile Indians, through winter's cold and summer's heat, the distance was never too great nor the night too dark for them to mount a Texas pony and visit the sick. I say all hail to their memory. The hardships they en- dured through those troublous times only eternity can reveal. I believe that we, the descendants of pioneer settlers of Wise County, should in some way perpetuate the memories, not only of these men who were leaders in protecting us from Indian depredations, but of those good men who wore out the best years of their lives in caring for the health of our people. Since we cannot build these monuments of marble, I am glad a history of those times and of those pioneers is being prepared whereby their deeds of heroism and self-sacrifice will be preserved to us and our children. But few of those linger with us to-day, and they have almost reached the foot of the hill on the shadowy side. Not many gatherings like this shall pass until it will not be " Old Settlers' " day at the re-union, but a day for their children and grand children to come together in love and in
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"If you once come into my store and price my goods you will not leave without buying because you will be con- vinced that I sell sood goods ridiculously cheap."
J. M. ECHERD
Dealer in New and Second Hand Furniture, Household Equipments and Hardware, Stoves, Car- pets and Mattings
EXCHANGES MADE BARGAINS FOR ALL
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gratitude to the Giver of all good, that when He got ready to give Wise County to the white man for a habitation, He sent along the best material the wide world has ever produced.
EXTRACT FROM ACCOUNT BOOK.
Thomas Isbell, Dr .-
To making one wagon bed . $3.00
To repairing running works of wagon 4.00
John Reagan, Dr .-
To (2) bolsters. 10.00
To setting two tires 5.00
Mary McCright, Dr .-
To hooping four wheels 8.00
Peter Witsell, Dr .-
To repairing wagon 4.00
Madison Walker, Dr .-
To (2) pairs lasts. 2.00
To making one pair shoes 2.50
Mrs. Long, Dr .- 1
To stocking plow . 8.00
Smith McCall, Dr .-
To one coffin
12.00
John Mann, Dr .-
To repairing plow stock 2.50
To stocking płow. 2.00
To one pair lasts. 1.00
To one single-tree.
.25
To making one pair shoes. .50
To repairing spinning wheel. 1.25
To repairing cradle 2.75
.
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$1.00 Per Day Meals 25 Cents
NICE ROOMS, CAREFUL AND CLEAN ATTENTION GOOD FOOD, WELL COOKED AND A PLENTY YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED
EXTRACT FROM ACCOUNT BOOK .- CON'T
R. W. Boyd, Dr .---
To work on wagon $1.00
To repairing spinning-wheel 1.00
To one pair lasts. 1.00
To three straight lasts. 1.50
To making augur handle .50
To stocking scythe 3.00
To filing saw . .50
T. J. Prunty, Dr .-
To one tongue and rounds. 15.00
To one axle-tree and (2) bolsters. 15.00
CREDIT ON THIS ACCOUNT-
By three yards domestic 1.50
By cash paid 5.00
By one rasp. . 2.00
By 26 1b. tobacco. 24.00
By 20 gr. quinine. 2.00
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EXTRACT FROM ACCOUNT BOOK .- CON'T
Louis Parillard, Dr .-
To repairing scythe stock. $1.00
To repairing plow stock. 1.00
Samuel Woody, Dr .-
To making wagon. 31.00
To repairing spinning wheel 1.00
To making axle-tree. 1.75
To work on wagon 5.00
George Guinn, Dr .-
To (1) spinning wheel $5.00
Mary Russell, Dr .-
To repairing wheel rim . 2.00
To making winding blades . 50
John C. Paschal, Dr .-
To heading barrel
.50
C. J. Browder, Dr .-
To making one bedstead 8.00
To making coffin . 10.00
To one straight last .50
Joseph Hood, Dr .-
To filling wheel
4.75
Dr. Knight, Dr .-
To repairing buggy 50.00
R. W. Boyd, Dr .-
To making axe handle .50
To setting tires. 3.00
To making axle-tree 2.00
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S. A. LILLARD, PROPRIETOR.
NORTHEAST CORNER SQUARE. DECATUR, TEXAS
Lillard and Go.
East Side Square
Decatur's Oldest
Hardware and Implement Store
Stock full and complete in every de- partment, ranging from shelf-hard- ware to machinery and implements of all kinds. Studebaker Wagons-the best. Anchor Buggies. Harness and Saddles, home manufacture, therefore the best.
Twenty Years' successful business experience enables
Lillard and Co.
to fulfill your wants whatever they may be.
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EXTRACT FROM ACCOUNT BOOK .- CON'T
To making wagon tongue $ 2.00
To making handle. .50
To making two straight lasts 1.00
To making plow handles 1.00
To repairing sifter. .50
To repairing cradle
.50
To one coffin.
2.50
To work on sugar mill 2.50
To work on saw .40
Credit acct., two sides leather 6.12
L. L. Ward-
To work on wagon 1.00
N. H. Johnson-
Repairing fiddle
$0.75
A. Bishop-
To making one set buggy wheels 30.00
NAMES THAT APPEAR ON ACCOUNT BOOK.
Thomas Isbell, John Reagan, Sam Woody, Peter Whitsel, John Brown, Dr. Bowman, Wm. Perrin, Madison Walker, J. C. Paschal, John Mann, G. I. Webb, M. P. Paschal, Smith MeCall, R. W. Boyd, T. J. Prunty, Louis Pavillard, John Teague, Austin Dill, George Guinn, Mary Russell, Mary McCright, C. J. Browder, Thomas Crider, Benjamin Cloier, John Thetford, John Taylor, G. B. S. Crews, Joseph Hood, Samuel Gibbs, Jas. Looty, A. H. Reagan, Jess Standifer, Jas. Mann, Crews & Hardwick, W. S. Oates, Jas. Rucker, John W. Prunty, Thomas Rodman, Garner Birdwell, John Tyler, Barkley Bradford, George Birdwell, G. W. Belcher, Andy Scroggins, Silas Rogers, W. C. Bloomer, Whit Fain, Dr. Knight, Kenneth Bain, Ephram Locks, L. Hancock, James Tarkington, Rev. Witham, John Boyd, C. P. Jones, Milton Holmes, R. B. Walker, A. Birk, Wm. Lipsey, Joshua
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King, Jas. Broadstreet, Jas. Witten, Harvey Pesterfield, N. R. Etter, Benjamin Lewelyn, Nathan Sweet, Jas. Burton, Galley Stevens, L. L. Ward, J. B. Riddle, Earny Cutner, J. A. Gilley, J. L. McCall, W. W. Britt, Lycurgus Smith, Wm. Bradford, W. W. O. Standfield, Frederick Mershon, Chas. Nichols, Henry Bramlett, A. Bishop.
REGISTRATION AT THE OLD SETTLERS REUNIONS.
Upon the occasion of the Old Settlers' Reunions, held each summer in Joe Wheeler's Park, a book is kept for the registration of names of old settler guests. The following names, post offices and date of coming to Wise County, have been recorded:
C. E. Brown, Bridgeport. 1855
J. J. Woody, Ft. Worth . 1862
Wm. Perrin, Dickens. 1854
Mrs. E. P. Killough, Hobart, Ok 1871
SAM MCMILLAN
BARBER at Heck's old Stand SOUTH SIDE OF SQUARE
ATERS to the barbering trade of Decatur and com- munity, proposing always to perform high class work at usual prices. Prompt and courteous treatment to all. Let McMillan do your shaving, haircutting, shampooing, etc., and depend on him and his. capable assistants to do the work easily, smoothly and stylishly.
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REGISTRATION AT THE OLD SETTLERS REUNIONS .- CON'T
Mrs. S. J. Standifer, Rocky, Ok 1871
R. A. Rieger, Decatur. 1873
J. A. Proctor, Bridgeport 1854
Mrs. T. J. McMurray, Decatur 1860
Mrs. E. C. Terrell, Decatur 1854
Mrs. Savilla Young, Decatur 1860
Mrs. Jennie Perrin, Decatur 1860
Mrs. A. S. Badger, Decatur 1870
Mrs. Eliza Badger, Decatur 1856
T. V. Myers, Alvord. 1869
Mrs. T. V. Myers, Alvord 1865
D. S. Hunt, Paradise. 1881
W. M. Cates, Duncan, Ok. 1865
Felix Gose, Decatur. 1862
G. A. Andrews, Decatur
1861
J. G. Stevens, Decatur 1856
J. C. Gose, Krum. 1861
Mrs. J, C. Gose, Krum 1880
W. F. Perrin, Sayers, Ok. 1854
G. W. Perrin, Tulsa, Ok. 1854
Mrs. C. C. Burton, Decatur 1876
N. R. Etter, Decatur
1866
Mrs. N. R. Etter, Decatur
1866
J. F. Parsons, Blanket.
1866
B. E. Kincannon, Boonville.
1855
C. F. Kincannon, Paradise 1855
J. P. Parsons, Brownwood .
1860
N. J. Parsons, Alvord.
1860
J. S. Parsons, Blanket. 1860
G. W. Knight, Rhome
J. E. Ross, Boyd. 1873
G. H. O'Neal, Alvord
1873
J. H. Stokes, Decatur. 1870
Elijah Roberts, Decatur 1857
Jim Burton, Decatur. 1862
J. C. Dickinson, Decatur 1880
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ORGANIZED 1883 NUMBER 2940
FIRST NATIONAL BANK DECATUR, TEXAS
CAPITAL
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$ 50,000 00
SURPLUS FUND
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50,000.00
DIRECTORS
W. T. WAGGONER T. B. YARBROUGH MRS. SICILY A. WAGGONER SAM BELLAH J. P. HAYTER
One of Wise County's Oldest and Strongest Institutions. Banking facilities of all kinds afforded
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PIONEER HISTORY OF WISE COUNTY.
REGISTRATION AT THE OLD SETTLERS REUNIONS .- CON'T
W. N. Helm, Newark 1859
Tom Geary, Newark. 1860
Harris Andrews, Little Elm. 1861
J. R. Andrews, Grady, Ok. 1861
J. N. Bogg, 1875
J. E. McCraw, Newark 1875
C. Kincannon, Paradise 1875
C. C. Burton, Decatur 1862
W. P. Gilliland, Bridgeport 1860
S. L. Atkins, Boyd. 1869
Mrs. S. A. Knight, Boyd.
1858
Mrs. J. D. White, Decatur 1855
Mrs. John Waggoner, Decatur 1855
Mrs. Mary F. Gose, Decatur 1862
J. M. Burton, Decatur 1862
H. T. Boyd, Boyd.
1859
Mrs. Mary Browder, Luna, Ok.
1862
James Perrin, Decatur 1854
M. L. Crenshaw, Decatur
1871
P. D. Cates, Duncan, Ok 1867
J. L. Ward, Waco 1866
Mrs. M. L. Crenshaw, Decatur 1871
Chas. Hardwick, Decatur
1872
Mrs. Chas. D. Cates, Decatur 1855
Mrs. Mary E. Hale, Decatur
1855
H. H. Huff, Bowie. 1855
C. C. Leonard, Rhome. 1860
Mrs. M. J. Leonard, Rhome 1856
Mrs. M. L. Huff, Bowie 1861
J. D. Manning, Chico 1869
Mrs. Orey Arrington, Boyd 1869
M. Burris, Lindon, Ok .. 1855
J. P. Fullingim, Decatur .. 1860
Mrs. W. M. Rhodes, Decatur 1857
M. H. Cook, Decatur 1856
T. W. Prunty, Boyd. 1865
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No. 5665
S. A. LILLARD
PRESIDENT
J. F. LILLARD
THE
VICE-PRESIDENT
W. O. BAILEY
CASHIER
CITY
NATIONAL
BANK
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DECATUR
3
TEXAS
CAPITAL
STOCK, $50,000.
SURPLUS, $25,000.
Capably and Efficiently Managed
A Secure Place for Deposits
Prompt and Courteous Attention Given to Patrons
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PIONEER HISTORY OF WISE COUNTY.
REGISTRATION AT THE OLD SETTLERS REUNIONS .- CON'T
J. A. Watson, Decatur. 1856
Mrs J. A. Watson, Decatur 1869
W. L. Calhoun, Rhonesboro, Tex. 1855
T. Perrin, Decatur 1854
T. J. Waggoner, Wichita Falls 1861
W. D. Paschall, Decatur 1857
C. A. Cartwright, Decatur 1854
J. E. Boyett, Chico. 1SS3
H. R. Fullingim, Decatur 1865
G. B. Pickett, Decatur
1854
W. J. Mann, Paradise
1854
T. E. Miller, Paradise
1854
C. H. Miller, Decatur
1860
J. H. Wallace, Decatur
1857
W. P. Russell, Decatur
1856
Mrs. M. E. Blewett, Decatur 1861
J. K. Reed, Paradise 1859
C. L. Smith, Decatur 1857
W. A. King, Decatur 1854
Mrs. M. J. Jarrell, Decatur 1854
G. W. Mann, Balsora. 1857
T. L. Jennings, Alvord . 1855
W. H. Jennings, Alvord
1855
Mrs. S. E. Holmes, Decatur
1862
Mrs. F. M. Holmes, Decatur 1864
Levi Swinford, Saginaw. 1859
J. D. White, Decatur 1856
Mrs. M. A. Harding, Decatur 1859
Mrs. D. P. Newsome, Boonsville 1857
D. P. Newsome, Boonsville . 1872
C. I. Crockett, Hastings, Ok ..
S. J. B. Walker, Bridgeport. 1878
O. S. Lattimore, Ft. Worth 1881
S. A. Lillard, Decatur. 18S2
J. A. Renshaw, Decatur 1859
Rufus Booth, Chico 1859
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J. A. EMBRY C. H. KNOX
J. F. FORD
Embry, Knox & Ford PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS
DECATUR -
TEXAS
REGISTRATION AT THE OLD SETTLERS REUNIONS .- CON'T
J. T. Beatty, Alvord . 1876
D. S. Shaw, Rhome. 1870
Jasper Lynch, Paradise. 1876
Mrs. Jasper Lynch, Paradise 1876
N. Runnells, Greenwood. 1874
J. R. Davenport, Decatur
1876
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