Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 1, Number 3, February 1990 Page: 73
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A Sketch of My Life
sheep stories when there was a knock at the door. My
brother opened the door but slammed it shut and squalled
out,"Beggar", but the beggar would not stand for a door to
shut in his face so he pushed the door open and rushed in.
Mother yelled that you could have heard for two blocks, "It's
your father" In a few minutes, all the neighbors had
gathered and there was no sleeping at our house that night.
My father only lived a short time and died with
yellow fever. My mother married again in about one year,
thus giving us kids a step-father (Eli McNatt). Soon after that
we took boat for Texas, my mother having three sisters and
four brothers living in and around Columbus.
We left New Orleans sometime in August and
landed in Galveston. We stayed in Galveston until the middle
of October then started for Columbus via GH&SA
[Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railroad]. We was
about four hours getting to Harrisburg - the road, the trains
did not pass through Houston. We finally got to Richmond
about night. Arriving at Richmond we found the railroad
bridge gone so we tied up there until the first of December
when the bridge was rebuilt and we started to Columbus,
leaving Richmond about daylight, arriving in Alleyton at
night. Alleyton was the terminus of the road.
We stayed all night at the only hotel in the town
(The Estes). Next morning we took the stage for Columbus,
stopping at my uncle's (Owen Slonicker). We kids was
happy but had some fear of meeting a lot of Texas kids with
horns or a bunch of long haired Indians.
After spending a few days in Columbus, we
moved out to Skull Creek as (Sam Slonicker) another uncle
lived out there. Uncle Sam had married Malissa Walker, she
being a sister of Quinn Walker. Quinn was then cow driving
for Tup Townsend. We all wanted to see Quinn as we had
never seen a live cowboy so one day Quinn came home and
we kids were entertained by telling us about wild cows and
bucking ponies. Right then I made up my mind to be a
cowboy.
After spending a few days at Uncle Sam's, we73
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