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Sketch Of LocalMan’s Life GivenIn News ColumnsThe Fort Worth Star-Telegrafni!► j recently published the following |”B sketch of the life of J. L. MauldinIof Big Spring ArMarauding Indians, buckskin-clad government scouts and big black bears are romantic figures Sti in the West Tex.is reminiscenses of James L. Mauldin of Big Spring, |th a native and resident of Texas for Hi 69 years. ficBorn three miles south of San Ja Saha Peak on May 8, 1864, Mauldin says he is not a greenhorn” but is a 100 per cent longhorn. Except for six times that he crossed the Rio Grande for a few minutes* visit into Mexico and one night that he accepted shelter in Carls-J acohewithbad, N. M, Mauldin has neverbeen outside Texasla.Both his father and grandfather were scouts. Others Williams Mc-peMahon, Sidney Meares. Bill and Ellis Seward, John Conner, John |°* y W. Pennell, Joe Burleson and Fred (*( p! Larkin. They patrolled Burnet, f Lampasas, Brown and San Sabn Counties. I*®BicijiBifoiai)titwMauldin recalls vividly the time his father, J. B. Mauldin, killed a |al a huge black bear at the south foot j0f1 fjof San Saba Peak and “what good eatin* it was.*10 | The old Seymore crossing near ►. Water Valley, between the Twin w1 Sisters of Comanche Peaks, on the h North Concho River was the meeting place for the scouts, Mauldin •aid. He still remembers a huge_ rock near the southeast edge of - Upan Flat. Inscribed on it waa r*1 s “Turn me over and see what is on;0* the other side.” The inquisitive Wl ►- would work laboriously to turn it o over only to find inscribed on the, e other side the words, “Thou fool, s turn me back and let me fool an-iOT other.” j *e Wild yells of the Indians that w v killed all but two of the Jackaonj® ill family still ring in Mauldin s ears, r. The Indians carried off the two n oldest children, a boy and a girl. f* Tha children escaped later and 01 ^4were found by the scouts.Mhifc
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Big Spring Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Fri, Mar 03, 1933
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