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FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS
About 1900
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... the grape vine loose & landed in the corn eld. This was told from the Pulpit for a true story & I will vouch for its veri cation. This was the type of the rst Preacher I ever listened to.
About the turn of the century we had a place leased on the head of Camp Meeting Creek. Now the back part of the Hays Ranch. It was my job to farm the little eld & see after the cattle. Sometimes I would stay out there a whole week alone.
There was a grove under a big oak tree in the pasture. I used to camp near it for company. Do not know if it was an outlaw or who was buried there.
Further up the creek an old Batchelor - Uncle Phil Bundick had a small cedar Break Ranch. He wore a ...
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... heavy gray beard with side pokes. That was a long twist of beard poking out of each cheek. I used to visit & eat with him many times. Also there lived a family named Surber out in the same woods. Black Jonnie he was called. The old Lady dipped snuff & he chawed tobacco. They had a top glass out of the kitchen window. On cold days they would sit around the wood cook stove & dip & chaw. They both could spit a stream through that open window top glass without getting up out of their chairs.
They had come from Tennessee to these hills. He was a great storyteller. Told me of an old nester in Tennessee who had lost a member of his family. Said one day he was in town.