The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
HE FOLLOWED HER TO TEXAS MANY YEARS AFTERWARD,
FOUND HER A RICH WIDOW, AND THEY WERE Welded
Strange Romance Which Celebrated Moonshner Bued -Four
People, Saved His Own Neck, and Afterwards Became
an Honest Man and Devoted Husband The
Tragedy Aroused Great Indignation
By COLONEL j. C. L. HARRIS.
(Adjutant-General of North Carolina.)

Like most of the mountainous, old
man Adair ana his boys despised the
law which forbade their. distilling the
grain which they had raised, without
the payment of two dollars on the gallon
as it was in 1871, and they did not hest
tate to violate the law By running a
blockade diStillery.
They resented what they were pleased
TO term the inherent right of the people
10 do as they pleased with the product Of
their own lands as their fathers and
grandfathers before them had done. y
They deemed it a most outrageous depri-
walton of rights of civil liberty that
they must pay a tax whiskey and
brandy. They never ceased TO be at war
with this law. il was the one black spot
on the record of the Republican party
that at times almost made old man Adair
and his boys and neighbors vote the Dem
ocratic ticket.
BEAUTIFUL WOM-.N. WAS SHE. !
A near neighoor Of the Adairs was a
man by the name of Martin Baynard
AT this time he was a married man with
three children. His wife, Sallie, was
known far and near as the prettiest wo-
man in the county. She had been well
educated at the Female College at Hen
Jacksonville she was perfect bru-
nette. Her hair and eyes We're as black
as the wing Of Il raven, and her checks
We're red and rosy with perfect health.
Her features and fern We're such as
would have made the admirers of the
Greek Slave OF Rogers die with envy. She
Wax: a most expert hcrse-woman. NJ
man had u more graceful or secure
mount than she. She rode to the
hounds" in al the fox hunts, and usually
carried off the brush. She handled q ri
fie and shot with great skill. AS a Giil
she was beloved and petted by all who
knew her. and as long as she lived in
this county she retained the goodwill
and esteem of all her neighburs. The
word of Mrs. Baynard in all the social
matters was equally the law and gospel,
as that Of old man Henderson Adair
Martin B:lynard was 4 rough uncouth
son Of the mountains. His education
was limited. He possessed very little
property, although .he earned Il good liv-
ing for his family. That he was very
inferior TO his wife in, every respect was
apparent so all who knew this ill-mated
couple How pretty Sallie Morgan came
TO marry Martin Baynard was a nys-
terry to all who knew her. IT was talk
ed that she had been engaged to some
young man while she was at school, and
that it had been broken off, and in the
rebound she had married Martin Bay
nard, who had been in love with her
ever since they went to school at the
white House in the Cove" as children.
Sucn was Inc rulnOr. but what was the
real truth was not then known
HER SWEETHEART JEALOUS
Years after the time of which | write
it came to be known that Sallie Morgan
when She went to school in the town of
lienderSonViIe, was the sweetheart OF
Territl W. TAYLOR, and that they were
engaged TO be married. For a time
these young people were all in all to
each other, and when together they
thought the world well lost But the
course of their affection did not run
smooth, and it was SAID that Taylor was