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, Putts! wife of Colonel John l Pot£ lam t.luntallon owner of tnu i n»-r^rcom-n.,. in the north-; western part of Uroyran county. AOf lOOarau which •— *------county produced••This product wan rawed by a sort or tithing pro* **. ►Tom them*-..IB U. iltmwnwestern part of Crayon corumlasnrlm ration* could be drawnthe time the letter was ' jJ'by pamtng nMIrt .nd «l» war wld-Grayson county bordered on owg. wore priced to draw m-ladtan Territory, colonel I otu. »||0fUI alwC. The number of war wld-%t.~Mn«i cotton *ow»- won very large in Uroyoon coun-' 101 ty ;md many of thorn needed these«bou« 10slaves to Texas. At that time lied I Ititer was navigable for part of the ',ar clear to ITrston Band, and thol Isas a shipping point to outlets oa ST Mlssbwlppl river. Colonel bought a large acreage of land in Grayson county aud had several thousand acres leased In the IndianTerritory. He »« *««« “** men to Improve his cattle, and took an interest in the offspring of the first Red Durham cattle ever brought t., America, these having been ship-to Colonel It. G. Shannon of I Sherman by Queen Victoria direct from England.One of the biggest problems that Colonel Potts had to deal »;th ^ j the problem of cattle I thieves.wetrulnc« I cottoi piled II mu I in co roofs the f IvolyThe Potts home was the social center of North Texas and the Indian Territory. This family ed Saui Houston. Janies NN. Throckmorton and other men of the day.were several young ladles and.th**mwar rations very mu. b.••The officer lu charge of the Sher-was Major Hlalne. .» veteran of th« T vas war for Independence, and the father of John M. Blaine for nuny years chief of police of Shcn m. By reason of bountiful crops, the Sherman com-intuitury was unusually well supplied with gTOli'. flour and meat and become well-known to all the war widows in the county. However, they became gissatufled with the sameness of th- rations they were permitted to dm* By this time the trade between T« ia* and Mexico hud „ developed into great proportions. Cot-il with *‘w*.ton raised in Tex.' was hauled to the rustlers, or lR|o GramU,. for . big price and■the money Invoeu it. such necessaryMethefromcotto j r wof wformSI:part:lllesthee.[balebclnrcmwenf«su'ppllea nn the blockade had deprived the peep of and ou could buy mom nnythnc In the principal town* if you had good coin with which to pay for it...........I- - -Now. some pioj.agandlst Startedyoung men in the family, and WL, report among the war widows elite for miles around would •»t*-|of county that this tradecr at the Potts home and enjoy ‘laDC*|WM a» being carried on by the moving and other social diversions- lernment. and that all of these com-Barly la Itil moa who modiUse. mrtugmg the luxuries,want to go to war began «o drkf* |ainon* which wu» coffee and t.-o. had into the old Indian Territory-, and COW Stealing grew worseexp*froi622SiU• been purchased by the governmentw. —--- —■ , ln' for the u-e Of the families of thespring of that year Quantrell. Loidlers. but that the officers laand 1-Tank James. Allan Palmer -nd chargc w,re w.IUng them to the poo-thethetheisthlt;th.ceibl.
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Mckinney Weekly Democrat Gazette
Mckinney, Texas, US
Thu, Oct 14, 1926
Page 19
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