The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-02-28
So 1t Was written Down.

| There was a weddin match over in
the hill country one night last week
| and consequentially Dave Singleton
and Miss Bessie May Turner are now
| hangin their clothes on the same peg.
| On the followin day after the we'd
in me and mother we went over to
the Turner place to see if everything
had come to pass in the right and prop
er way, which of course it had. They
had fine infare dinner over there that
day, and the gonebyest biggest layout
of good things to eat had ever saw
in all my born days. In the run of the
day pitched in and climbed up around
so tremendous much rich kitchen
physic till by gracious l have been
down with a bad case of the grunts
hcnceforwards from that time. But
that fine weddin match between Dave
Singleton and Miss Bessie May Turner
put me to looltin back down the din;
and dusty road which leads into the
past, and brung on a whole passle of
thlnlzin.
Hit was go years ago, come next
June. Col. Wash Turner anS Bob
Singleton are dead ond gone the COM
mon way OF all human flesh now, but
both of them were with US in the flesh
then. At that time Bob Singleton was
livin on the Turner place and rentin
land from the colonel, and him and
Col. Wash were powerful strong
friends. They run together so con-
slant and so thick till by gatlins you
couldn't of stirred EN- with red hot
stick. In them days Bob Singleton
was flat on his back, and Col. Wash he
was way up yonder-in regards to this
worlds goods. But that didn't make
a continental bit Of difference with
them. They had went to the war and
fit plum through together, and they
was both bad medicine i'll big doses
hot stuff and heap of it.
Nobody never did know and never
coul1 say for certain how it come to
pass, but finally at last Bob and the
colonel they fell out, and went right
on home after their weapons. The
very next Saturday they met up to-
gether in the big road, and when the
firin ceased and the smoke cleared away
Bob Single con was dead.
All of BoD Singleton's folks had gone
on ahead, exceptin little Dave, which
at that time he was nothin but year.
lin boy, with his first pair of breerhes
on. After the funeral the next great
question in the settlement was what to
do with little Dave, and it was right
there that Col. Wash Turner come
forth and give it out that he would take
the boy and give him a good home, and
send him 10 school and raise him up
like he was member of the family
II loved Bob Singleton better than |
any man, Twin or Dead" says the |
colonel, and the water backed up in
his eyes when he said it. And I was |
as much in the fault as he was when we
both got our guns. But that is all over
with now. The past is past, and the |
best that I can do now is to take the T
boy and give him the run of my place. I
Henceforwards so long as live my |
home will pc his home"
SO it come to pass one sad, hot day in
June that little Dave Singleton, with /
nothin in this green world but his lit
tie wallet of plain clothes, went up to
tie big house to live with Col. Wash
Turner, the man that had killed his
flther. In the run of few years the
10y growed up and turned out TO be Il
man, and him and the colonel was good
friends from the jump. Time didn't
wait for nothin, but time was pIayin
for even and bringin things around
to a dead level.