The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 4, July 1900 - April, 1901 Page: 121
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The Reminiscences of M's. Dilue Harris.
Mr. Cotie and Uncle James teased Harvey Stafford every time
they met him about his special charge, the widow. They told him
he should have helped her hoe corn and cotton. He said he offered
only to cut wood and sell cotton after the other men had raised it.
Mother scolded them. She said their jokes were very wrong, as the
lady's husband had been dead but a few months.
March, 1835.
The Indians left the first of March. We were glad to see them go.
They sold their hides at Harrisburg. Clinton Harris, the son of
John R. Harris, deceased, had opened a store there. The Indians
left in the morning, the men with guns first, the squaws carrying
their pappooses tied -on their backs, and leading the ponies, and the
dogs following. The ponies were packed with buffalo robes, blan-
kets, bear skins, pots and kettles, and things too numerous to men-
tion. The children were riding in baskets suspended across the
ponies' backs.
The farmers were planting cotton, and corn was up and growing.
Father hired help that year. He was the only doctor in the neigh-
borhood, and he was obliged to hire two boys. He had been well
pai d for the last year's practice. The people of Texas were doing
well, and if it had not been for the uncertainty of the Mexican laws
father could have located land and got a home. Mother was very
much dissatisfied. She said she would go. back to the United States
if she could go by land. She said she never would cross the Gulf
of Mexico again in a sohooner. Father was well pleased with the
country. He said Texas would be a great State in the future, and
if it was not for the lawyers and land speculators there might not
be any trouble with Mexico. The Mexioans were fighting among
themselves, but he said Texas should not interfere.
Last week a schooner ran the blockade at Galveston Island and
brought several immigrants to Harrisburg. The captain did not
see 'anything of (the Mexican revenue cutter; he thought she had been
last in ta storm a few ,days before.
April, 1835.-English Immigrants.
About this time there was quite an addition to our neighborhood.
Ten families from England had just arrived in Texas. They came121
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