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Judge M. P. Norton and family also lived out near the Webbs, and were
their close friends. Mr. C. G. Norton, who has. written a story of the life
of Col. Kinney, is a grandson of Judge Norton.
Somers Kinney, a brother or other close relative of Col. Kinney, ran
the "Ranchero," a newspaper, here. He was a big man, very erect, and always
wore black clothes and a linen duster. He would hang the duster on the
gallery when he went in to court Miss Josephine Cooper, whom he married. I
don't remember the date; but her father's home was at the corner of Mann
and Tiger Sts.
Warren Kinney was here, too. I always thought of him as a brother of
Somers Kinney and the Colonel, but I'm not sure just how they were related.
Col. Kinney was a popular man but not handsome; in fact, he was a very
ordinary-looking person. He died in 1865, I'm sure, even though others do
say it was in 1861.
The Bluchers also lived here long ago. I remember'the colored woman,
Phyllis, toting Miss Julia Blucher. Busse was an old German who lived on
part of the Blucher place; he was a gunsmith. He had a lovely garden,
with seedlings and plants of all kinds. My mother's calves would stray
over near Busse's place, and when I would go after them I would look through
the gate at the beautiful flowers. bther taught me that it was all right
to look at other people's flowers through the fence, but I must never reach
my hand through to pick one. There were no roses in this garden; at that
time there was only one rose bush in Corpus Christi and it was called the
Rose of Castillo; it was pale pink and very fragrant. It grew on a great
big bush in the yard of a Mexican woman, named Trinidad, living where
Perkins' store is now. Later Dr. Kearney bought some rose bushes and planted
them around the custom house office on Chaparral St.
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