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would fail to portray the scene, and the historian's memory will
not relax into forgetfulness.
But, hail happy day, the moccasin tracks are now gone, the
Indian's war-whoop has ceased to come, and the hoot of the owl
has ceased to alarm, and the bruised souls begin to heal. But
few who suffered these horrors are left to tell the tale. (In the
city of Denton we have but one). The government has taken
the Indians under their control and the old savage generation
has passed away. The new Indians are being sent to school
and educated into useful lives.
THE AUTHOR.
T. R. ALLEN'S INTERESTING LETTER
"Justin, Texas, August 31, 1916.
"Hon. Ed F. Bates,
"Historian for the Old Settlers and ex-Confederate Reunion,
"Denton, Texas.
"My dear Sir and Friend:
"In the latter part of August, 1847, or sixty-nine years ago,
about twenty or twenty-five families of us left Monitea County,
Missouri, bound for Denton County, Texas. How we knew there
was such a place the Lord only knows. This little colony was
composed of the following-named families who were most all
related to each other by either blood or marriage. Grandmother
Allen and her three married sons, Jesse, Thomas and Richard,
Grandmother Medlin and her three sons, Lewis, Charles and
Hall, and Uncle Cage Reynolds and his two sons, Sam and John,
Daniel Barcroft, Ranos Niece, Owen Dunham, John Freshour,
Abe, Joe and Jesse Loving, Taylor Stewart, Archie Robertson, Mr.
Ellis and a Mr. Revis, and perhaps some others who my treacher-
ous memory will not now recall.
"This was quite a long and tedious journey. Think of twen-
ty-five or thirty large freight wagons on a six-hundred-mile
journey being drawn by work oxen and milk cows. What! milk
cows did you say? Yes that is just what I said, we could use
the cows that way for a two-fold purpose, they helped to draw