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A History of Collin County, Texas
had committed in North Texas, and the command broke into several
groups. On May Io, 1865, Quantrill was wounded in Kentucky by a
group of Federal soldiers under Captain Edwin Terrill, and died in
Louisville on June 6.14
Among the members of Quantrill's group who returned to Texas
after the war and were respected and prosperous citizens were the Hill
Brothers, who settled in McKinney. Another was Allen Palmer, who
married Susan James, a sister of the James brothers, in I869. She had
previously taught in the Sherman schools. They lived for a while in
Grayson County, where he engaged in the cattle business. He later
became a pr .ninent contractor. In 1920 they moved to Alpine where
he remain led until his death on October 25, I927.15
Jesse James married in 1874 and immediately moved to Sherman
where he spent most of the rest of his life. Frank James became one
of Sanger Brothers' most efficient clerks in Dallas. Both Frank and
Jesse often visited in McKinney. On December Io, I92I, Jesse's son,
Jesse, Jr., visited in Sherman. He was a lawyer from Kansas City, Mis-
souri, and was described as being a "modest man." 16
In Collin County, as in other sections of the South, the official close
of the Civil War did not bring peace or order. While T. B. Wilson
was serving as deputy sheriff under his brother, George Wilson, tough
characters roamed through this area and acts of violence were not un-
common. On one occasion a Mr. Wilson from Missouri had collected
a large sum of money in Texas and was returning to his home by way
of Collin County. While in McKinney he made a number of purchases
and in doing so he displayed a large amount of money in the presence
of two renegades from Missouri, Wm. O. Blackmore and John Thomp-
son. Wilson spent that night at the home of Colonel Wilmeth and the
next day resumed his journey. Blackmore and Thompson followed him
to a grove northwest of the present Van Alstyne, where they shot him
and took his money and his horse. Farmers living near by saw the at-
tack from a distance and tracked the murderers to Stewart Mallow's
"W. E. Connelley, Quantrell and the Border Wars (Cedar Rapids, I9I0); Wil-
son, Book 5, p. 7; Handbook of Texas, II, 423; Dallas Morning News, November
II, 1927.
16 Dallas Morning News, November II, 1927; Lucas and Hall, History of Gray-
son County, p. 122; Wilson, Book 6, pp. 85, 86.
"6McKinney Daily Courier-Gazette, December o1, I921; Rogers, Lusty Texans
of Dallas, pp. I20-123.
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Stambaugh, J. Lee, b. 1889; Stambaugh, Lillian J., b. 1888 & Carroll, H. Bailey. A History of Collin County, Texas, book, 1958; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth61096/m1/84/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .