The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-12-05

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up the bluffs or foot hills and are
covered with mosquito brush, prickly
pears, rattle snakes, horned toads
and cotton tail rabbits, and is only
used for pasture land, but some is
very good land. He also has good
country store with a large stock and
a good trade, and has a nice house
close to his store. His store was
once the post Office of Dunlsp until
the Rural Route abolished the office.
He only has one child, girl nearly
grown. He has some cattle and
makes considerable money. Both
these brothers are enthusiastic men,
bers of the Decker Branch church.
Then there is the Adair family
from near Goldville, 8. G. j. I.
Adair isl brother of Tom, most of
the Laurens county people know him
as Tom Bully Adair, as he used to
be quite a pugelist when I was
boy. Tom still lives near Goldville
and spent a very pleasant time
with him when visiting Carolina lit
tic over year ago, but bis family
came to Texas about fifteen years
ago and the children are all grown
and many are married. There are
SO many girls that ! can't remember
their names, however one Of them
married Gus Copeland, from Clinton,
S. c., and he is foreman for j. N.
Littlepage on a large farm south of
Hunters Bend. Matte married
John Flow, who was born and reared
in Hunters Bend. Johns father
says he has been in that bend for
forty years and he never believed it
was worth anything until the price
got so high and land so scarce that
he could not get even q garden tract,
and it is fact he has spent all his
life and strength amid these rare op>
portunities and has saved nothing.
He is man of the utmost integrity
aud of the highest honor, but is very
feeble, in fact is helpless. John
Flow works in Littlepage's etore in
the Bend. 1 did not see all the
Adair girls, but there are Camilla,
Tense and Jessie who are single.
There are only two boys, Gus is
night watchman> in the hospital at
the Confederate Home, and j. I.
lives on the farm with his father and
sisters about IA miles north of Hun
tors Bend. They have just moved
there from the Bend. They are now
on the black waxy land and say they
like it foe, except in wet weather,
and they have had very little of the
latter since they went out there.
There is VIM. Verden also from
Goldville, S. G. He works for
wages on the place with Gus Cope
land. He is an old batchelor but is
putting on all kinds of style out
there with his new rubber tired bug
gy. says he thinks sometimes he may
20 back to old S. G. There is J. II.
Bailey who went with VIM. Verden
to Texas about ten years ago, though
he was from Union county. j. Fl.
Bailey married about four years ago
a Miss Fannie w. Brown. J. 81.
has lived in this Bend ever since he
went to Texas, except few months
he worked in Austin. He has saved
up few hundred dollars and seems
to like Texas fine. The Brown
family were from Virginia and I
consider them one of the most reli-
able, trustworthy and sociable fami-
lies that it was my pleasure to meet,
though they have not emassed for
tunes as many others have, still they
have good homes and make a good
living.
Then there is Joseph j. Bailey
from Union county, who has been
out there four years. He has tried
various kinds of employment saoh as
farming, dairying and working on
the public highways, but they seemed
too slow. for him. He was nurse
in the hospital at the Confederate
Home when I left Texas.
Last but not least, old Uncle Davy
Jones, as he is familisrly known all
over that part of Texas. He is from
Spartanburg county, s. c., and has
been out there more than forty y ears.
lie is very slender, tall, wiry look
ing old gent, of more than seventy
years and he gets acquainted with
anybody who goes along the Web
berville and Austin pike road. He
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