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INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS.
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who were caught in the act of destroying long
strings of fences. A fierce fight followed and several
of the cutters were killed or wounded, the rest
leaving the country, which finally put an end to
their depredations. The county was thus rid of
one of the worst troubles with which it had ever
been afflicted and all good citizens were heartily
glad of it. Such were afterwards permitted to enjoy
the fruits of their industry unmolested, and there
was a marked increase in the industrial growth of
the county as well as a change for the better in the
moral tone of the community.
Mr. Baugh abandoned stock-raising, after the
old style, when the country began to settle up,
and turned his attention to farming. He began
investing in land just after the war, and owns at
this time a ranch of 10,000 acres, all lying in one
body, about five miles north of Brownwood, nearly
half it valley land lying about Pecan Valley, all
of it under fence, 4,000 acres being surrounded
by a five-foot rock fence, making it the finest farm
in Brown County, and one of the finest in the State.
All of it is utilized for farming and stock-raising,
and is conducted according to modern methods.
To the task of acquiring, protecting and improving
this place, Mr. Baugh has devoted the best years
of his life, and is still following up his early laborswith the most persistent and arduous efforts. Incidentally,
and in a general way, he has interested
himself in public matters in the community where
he resides, but has filled no offices, nor had other
pursuits than those mentioned. He has contributed
to the upbuilding of some local enterprises,
helped to foster a spirit of industry, encouraged
the school interest, and lent his influence to every
thing of that nature calculated to benefit the country
in which he lives.
On September 23, 1868, Mr. Baugh married Miss
Frances E. Moseley, a daughter of Capt. Daniel
H. Moseley, of Brownwood, Mrs. Baugh being
a native of Cherokee County, Texas, where her
father settled on first coming to the State at about
the age of eighteen. He was from Georgia, and
married in Cherokee County, Texas, residing there
some years. He was all over the frontier, traveling
as far as Arizona, but settled at Brownwood in
1862, and lived there the remainder of his life, his
death occurring in 1892. He filled the offices
of Sheriff and County Clerk of Brown County,
and both as an official and citizen was well
liked.
Mr. and Mrs. Baugh have six children living:
Arizona Isabelle, John Morgan, Mary Blain,
Frances E., Levin P., Jr., and Urolla.E. M. SCARBROUGH,
AUSTIN.E. M. Scarbrough, though still in the vigor of
mature manhood, may truthfully be called a Texas
pioneer. He comesof a pioneer stock
people who
cut their way through the cane-brakes of the Southeast
and fought the savages in the early part of this
century. His father, Lemuel Scarbrough, died on his
old plantation, near White Plains, Calhoun County
Ala., in 1850, leaving a widow with the care of
twelve children
seven sons and five daughters.
E. M. was then four years old, there being one
younger boy. The mother, like the brave, strong
woman that she was, took up the affairs of her husband
and began the personal management of her
-plantation and slaves. Her fortitude and good
sense bore her bravely and business prospered.
She saw her older children settled in life and her
younger bidding fair to enter manhood and womanhood
as become the children of such a parentage.But ten years of peaceful success had scarce passed
over her head when the guns that startled Fort
Sumpter called upon this widow to sacrifice her
sons to her country. Five of them went into early
Confederate regiments, leaving E. M. to care for
the home and do local military duty as occasion not
infrequently required. Even this degree of quiet
was soon broken in upon by a demand for the active
military services of this sixth son of his mother,
and in June, 1864, he was mustered as a volunteer
into the depleted ranks of the Fifty-first Alabama
Cavalry. He followed the fortunes of his regiment
through the closing scenes of the bitterest civil war
the world has ever known, remaining at his post of
duty until the final surrender. It may be remarked
here that this trait of standing by his duty is characteristic
of his entire career. When he knew
positively that this was a ", lost cause" he turned
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