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borne some interesting letters landlordism in Scotland and and other kindred topics. I forgotten his first name. The was* Dan Gannon. The rude of the school always called him fere was an “m” before the “n” bflrst name, which did not seem p on this good nature. He was Mt in all games and all manner »bc and fun. I never knew them of bis people and think they have been of short residence in laty. There were a number of iarly schoolmates whom I cannot ;j*b as attendants at Mr. Dun-session or that of his successor, ilbanasius Mudd. Among them L Ed. Rector, who was killedU twenty years ago at a picnic |ABbnrn, and his older brother sons of James Rector, a very I honest, law-abiding man; jidd, his three ciSters, the eld--tBvlngin Calirornia, the otherlUncoln county, and his young-Jj»r, Samuel J. of California;A, Sitton, son of Hankerson Ikon, and two or three of his |n, the eldest of whom marriednao C. Clare and died severalh »go; Martin Sitton and his iser Prospect, sons of Guyan Sit-Itbowas a son (and I think the H) of Philip Sitton, and died K forty-five years ago; Prospect Itbont the same time and Martin It few years after the civil war, hg been somewhat prominent inity, having gone there from Maryland in 1835. He was the father of • lt;' —i 'wBen E. Fletcher, mentioned in a former letter. Thomas Hammonds was living near where the road from Troy to Millwood crosses Null’s creek in the autumn of 1818. In the first election held in the county August 2,1819, he did not vote and it may be that at that date he had not acquired a resic dence entitling him to vote. He wasthe father of Capt. Richard Worn •mack’s second wife. Mrs. Frances Hammett. Miss Margaret Hammett, Richard Hammett and Thomas Hammett; I think the last named lives on the farm B. J. Bowles now owns. My father afterward got tired of having the post office at bis house, made Mr. Hammett his deputy and had the office removed for awhile to the lat-ter’s residence. I remember MissMargaret Hammett as a handsome, intellectual woman, but of the other two I have no recollection. Edward Hawkins lived southeast of Millwood.If I mistake not his wife was a sisterof James Rector, Ed’s father. He had no children. He was a modest, unassuming man, but an excellent citizen. Robert Gililland lived threemiles west and one mile south of Millwood. He was the father of Ben, Dock and George Gililland. James F. Moore lived a mile and a half north of Millwood; he possessed a good education and much more than an average intellect and was a very successful farmer and business man.
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Troy Free Press
Troy, Missouri, US
Fri, Mar 15, 1901
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