San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-12

er we had eaten We would 20 way ii
among the trees as far away from tht
road as we could get, hiding from til,
Indians, and try to sleep where they
couldn't find US. 1t isn't as easy I.
hide nine yoke OF oxen, four children
two men and a woman as it sounds
but we never saw a single Indian OF
that whole trip, though we were al
ways thinking we heard them, an.
| knew they were very near US.
I'VE passed through San Antoni,
J on our way, and it looked more like 1
! big mud puddle than a town. They
had just had one OF the big floods and
| hadn't got the town good cleaned III
afterwards.
Hard Times Hanging On.
when we got settled here in Ken
dali county. we liked the place right
away. Everything was so convenient
We. were only about a quarter of d
mile straight up the hill from the
Guadalupe river, and it wasn't much
trouble TO bring all the water we
needed I'd to the house. There was d
good school only four miles away from
the house taught by a man named
Merritt, and he was n mighty good
teacher, and give the children all the
book learning they really needed and
was good and kind to them at the
time. They. used to ride an old gray
horse to schOOl--the Oldest in front
and 50 on petering down to Dick
Dick always was the baby-just above
the tail. They couldn't ride very fast
count of Dick slipping off in the back
Every time | saw them start out, ]
was sure the Indians would get then
before they ever got home again. In.
dians had plenty of children of their
own. but they always wanted another
horse if they could get him easy, and
of course, none of the children wa.
big enough to know what to do if the
Indians got TO chasing them.
Things went along pretty goct
until my husband got killed. He ant
l and the children. in the summer
and all the time they wasn't in school
used to work in the fields, hoeing anC
blowing, and the crops was better il
| those days than they are now. arc
| died when we had been here about
nine years.
TIE Father Is Killed.
He has killed right there aerOs'
| the road under that tree. and / nevni
| sit on the porch and look at the place
without it all comes back TO me again
He had fine young black horse thai
he had raised from n colt. and he haC
ridden over to have it shod for tn,
first time. and the horse felt uneasl
and uncomfortable in his new shoes
i always knew that was the reason thu
horse threw him, for there wasn't
bit of meanness in him. just as the
were getting home in the evening. hi
horse threw him. and the pommel 0
the saddle crushed his chest.
Il was out milking in the COW pen
after my days work. when | heard tn
children scream. and l ran. All tn
children was crying and John was trt
in- to give his father a drink of wa
ter. Soon as / saw him with the bloc,
all pouring out Of his mouth, | kney
how bad he was hurt.
Two ofthe bigger children wen
running after some of the neighbor
about three miles away to help IN
get him in the house. but i had go
him nearly dragged in by the tim
} they got back. John had 10 get O.
the horse and ride to Boerne for
doctor. lie was Just little fello.
then. and il l hadn't been so scared
l couldn't have let him go. for Their
were lots of Indians in the countr,
] and it was more than 20 miles away
but there was no one else to go, an
he Just had to.
My husband got hurt in the after
] noon, and it was dinner time the mex
d day before John and the doctors cam
back again. He died that same after
:. noon. and me and the children a
: helped TO bury him. We had bah
l or two buried in the graveyard a
e ready, so it wasn't so lonesome fC
i him as if he had been there all b
e himself.
q Honey, do you believe in KNOWN
j about things before they happen? We
+ the night before he got killed. ] WI
{ out in the COW pen. milking. and Il
children come running out to me, az