Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-20

eye, (perhaps the eye was lost after he
owned him).
ANs.-I never knew anything about his
horse.
8. This is the horse we are trying to
get trace of. The statement has been
made that Mr.. Bedinger owned two colts
that were from the same mare owned by
Absalom Mexican, from whose brother,
Samuel, he bought them. Is it possible
that your brother Absalom raised this =
white legged stallion?
ANs.-My brother never owned Blue /
Bull stallion and never sold Bedinger /
one.
6. Do you know if Robert Laughlln \
is still alive, and if so, his address?
ANs.-His address is Alert, Ohio. | !
have not seen or heard of him since 1868
he lived then in Ross township, Hamilton
Co., Ohio.
Z. Harry Diamond wrote me that he
had learned, he did not state how, that
the mare your colt was from that you
sold to Mr.. Bedinger, raised a colt, when
owned by your father, that had white
legs and was sold at the administrator
sale and bought by Robert Laughlin.
ANs.-Harry Diamond is making
wrong statements to you. You need not
lose any time writing to Mr.. Laughlin,
because he wont tell the truth; he is a
drunken Irishman.
If you can help me out of all this snarl,
please do and still further oblige.
Truly yours,
JOSEPH BATTELI.
From SAMUEL mexican.
This is bottom line testimony. We
have, then, from the breeder, Samuel Nc
Kean, the fact that he bred dark yell
low colt with black stripe from with
ers to the root of tail, and "clouded"
from knees to shoulders. 1t is apparent
that the colt was not marked with white.
He was got by William Grisley's Blue
Bull, "a blue horse with bald face and
glass eyes, black name and tail and white
hind feet up to the pasterns; the colts
dam was a chestnut sorrel, 15t hands,
trotting gait, not fast mare, bred by
Daniel Mexican, father of Samuel, and
got by the Lewis Harris horse, an IRON
gray horse also of Blue Bull blood. The
colt was sold as yearling to solomon
Bedinger. This Solomon Bedinger was
a well-to-do farmer and prominent horse
man of Harrison, o. 1t is apparent also
from this correspondence that those who
understand that the McKeans bred more
than one Blue Bull stallion are mistaken
this was the only one bred by any of the
family, and is the only one Bedinger got
of any of them. In fact there is no eYi-
dence that Solomon Bedinger ever got
any other Blue Bull stallion from any
one; there is evidence that he raised colts
from this stallion, and satisfactory testi.
, mony that "Old Sam" or "Pruden's Blue
Bull'' was one of these colts.
The statements of Mr. Bedinger's fam
: lily. taken by us and published in the REG
IsTER of June IS, 1886, all tend strongly
, to this conclusion. 1t is proven tina
niger between 1910 and 1915. John Bed
D niger, son of Solomon, said that he wa
married in 1916; that before he was mar
f red his father got Blue Bull stallion
t colt of Mexican; thought about 1912 o
%; it was yellow horse with a blacl
streak, no white, 16 hands, 1900 or 100
Y pounds and thought that Little had col
|, of the old gentleman.
5 Jacob Bedinger, another son, born
4 1888, remembered Michael Titles havin
a sorrel stallion colt that his fathe
e raised may have had white on hind feet
u called him Sam; Little kept him ther
q until he had broken him and driven hin
1t some. He (Jacob) was not more than
years old when Little got the colt of hi
u father; thought Little traded him for
"a house and land; said this must have bee
It at the time when his father owned tn
!: Blue Bull stallion.
/ Mrs. Bedinger, widow of Solomon
J. stated as follows: "Kind o seems I
a me he CLittle) got a colt from my hus
o band. Appears to me like it was kind c
" a spotted colt. Appears to me my ma
# had the mare kept here till the colt wa
n pretty good size. | think she was kin
of red had her a good while, | kno'
:. that; thought a good deal of her.
= think it was a stallion colt. Little worl
N ed here that summer and kept the colt
la the pasture. 1t was before John Wa
~ married. TOlerable good-siZed mare, a
awful nice mare, a sorrel; pretty goo
)r stepping mare. 1t appears to me h
tie raised other colts from her. Think tn
!" colt might have been sired by the sta
20 lion we had. | understood the stalio
u was a Blue Bull. / think the colt had
tie white face and three or four white leg
~ and was kind of red color"
a James X. Pruden of Harrison, O
" (from whom comes the name. Pruden
ct Blue Bull) said that his son, William II
81 traded for the horse, Sam, in Elizabetl
W town, o., about the time of the Morga
raid, which was July -, 1868. Though
81 the horse then II or Is years old. D
n, scription: Rather short, good height, so
rel bald face, white legs, stripe oy,