The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-04-24
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that place to the Houston Chron-
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4 life OF deepest romance came
20 IT'S end a few weeks ago when an
elderly man Was found dead out on
one OF the great West Texas ranches
The man bad been employed as
common eo@ puncher by the ranch
for more than 20 years. and vet no
one who had worked with him aud
been by HIS side from the time he
came TO West Texas until the time
he was found dead knew hts history
| IN his younger DAYS he Vas an cX-
tremely handsome man Fun six
| feet tall black hair and eyes. and
with manners thar won him many
4 friends He seemed TO be a man of
god education and who had once
] been in the best circumstances of
life, SO With all this and the fact
| thar he was an extremely restless
man, who talked very little. led the
ranchmen who knew him only by
the name which he called his own,
| 10 believe that he had led roman
tic life and yet they did not know.
SO that when he died away out on
one of the big ranches he was buried
in a lonely spot where in two years
there will be no grave marks
Your correspondent had known
this mans history for many years,
but did not know that he was still
alive The description given by those
who had been with him in his last
years. however, proved him to be
| the same person whose history many
/ know and which is interesting in
Ievery detail
! When the civil war broke out
there lived near one of the best
| known Southern cities a family of
wealth and culture, who enjoyed the
| best society OF the Southland. There
were bur four in the household, the
| father, mother and two boys, the
/ Youngest about IL years and the oil
| der s. II was on a cold night dur
| ing the first winter of the great war
that a band OF marauders claiming
| to be a portion of the Northern army
surrounded this Southern home, set
fire to it and when the family ran
out in their night clothes they cap
tured all but the oldeset boy and
made them prisoners, refusing to let
them have any more clothes, and
thus leaving them exposed to the
cold and stormy winter night air.
The two parents and the younger son
We're soon taken from their Captors
and returned to their plantation to
rebuild their home, but the son who
had escaped capture, but who saw
how MS Old mother and father were
kept out in the freezing night and
not allowed more clothes, swore ven
geance upon the head of every mem
Der of that band of marauders. He
| Joined company of bushwhackers
who made it their purpose to kill
every one OF the Northern band
What they did history has recorded
/ When the war ended this young man
went to his home, but he could not
| stay there, for a price was upon his
! head. He remained at home, how
| ever, long enough to Kill another
Yankee. One night while he was
| there one OF the Northern troopers
walked in the house and demanded
a nights lodging. He got it-a bull
let through the brain.
The son left again that night Just
after he had done the killing and
came TO Texas. There were hun
dreds of men after him. He came
60 the home of some relative in Tex
as and remained about two weeks.
but one night disappeared. Events
proved that he STAYED at another
house for more than two years. dur
ling which time he was restless as a
Gagged lion His room was i'm the
, / garrett and when company came to
the house me- STAYED I'm his room for
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