Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 1, Number 3, February 1990 Page: 74
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took the stage for Gonzales where mother's sister lived
(Aunt Lizzie Stulting). While there I got to be a chum of the
Glover boys. One of them was later sheriff of Gonzales
County and was killed by Cortise, a Mexican outlaw.3
We spent about a month out there and then
came back to Columbus. This was in the spring of 1867.
That fall my brother and myself was hired out to a man by
the name of Bridge to drive a horse gin. Mr. Bridge had two
boys and one girl, Gus, Dick, and Kittie. Kittie married that
winter to Bill Guynn and she still lives in Columbus and must
say a better girl never lived or at least I thought so.4
Well, we ginned all winter and up to sometime
in March of the next year, 1868, and now I started on my
long looked for cow drive and it came about in this way. It
was Sunday morning and my brother had gone to Columbus
to see mother and I had stayed out at Mr. Bridge's as I did
not like my step-father and only went home when I had to.
Of course, I was lonesome and I had walked out to the
Pinbick Roads and had climbed up a big live oak gate post and
sitting on top of same when I saw a bunch of horses coming.
There was a covered wagon and several men. The men was
driving the pony. Some of the men were white men, some
Negroes, and two Mexicans. I shall never forget the two
Mexicans. One was named Jesus and one named Leander,
two of the best Mexicans I ever saw alive. The negro driving
the cook wagon was Bob Jackson who now lives at Altair.
One of the white men was Quinn Walker. I never was as glad
3 Sheriff Robert M. Glover was at the head of a posse searching
for the fugitive Gregorio Cortez when he was killed in a wild shootout on
June 14, 1901.
4 "Bridge" was William E. Bridge, a prosperous farmer. "Gus"
was William August Bridge. "Dick" was Walter Eldridge Bridge, who was
later sheriff of Colorado County. "Kittie" should be "Kiddie", a nickname
derived from her diminutive stature. Her given name was Mary A. Bridge.
"Bill Guynn" was James William Guynn.
5 There is no modern road known by this name. There is,
however, a road known informally as "Pinchback Road". That road,
situated just west of Garwood, runs along a rice canal and parallel to Ed
Frnka Road, between F. M. 1693 and Daisy Schilling Road. It is officially
a part of the Rock Island-Nada First Class Road and is designated on some
maps as a part of County Road 1 16.74
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