There was a widow that lived at Woodville, by the name of Mattie Brewster and she had two children a girl and a boy and there was a widower by the name of Drew Duckett that had 4 children, Mattie and Drew got married and they lived in the country and was one of the biggest farmers in that part of the country. There was a banker in Woodville that bought him an automobile so he goes out to the Duckett place to take Draw and Mattie automobile riding. He drove them around all over the country and when he delivered them home instead of Mattie opening the car door, she just climber over the door and on to the ground.
After they were married for sometime they had children and there was 3 sets of children in that one family, one day all 3 sets got into a fight and Drew was out at the barn and Mattie just stepped to the back door and hollowed for Drew to come to the house quick, she said that my children and your children was just beating the whey out of our children and to come and separate them.

There was one man that lived there by the name of Jim Shepard, he had killed a man over in Tennessee before coming to the territory, he was always getting into trouble after he came there.
The town of Woodville was putting on a 4 day picnic and there was lots of drinking and gambling going on there at this picnic, they had a steam swing there also.
This man Jim Shepard had two boys and a girl and his boys had been to this picnic that night,  being the last night but they had left there about 10 pm and went  home to bed.  There was a man by the name of Edd McCuan that  run around with one of these boys.
Jim Shepard went to the picnic that night and started a fight with a man and was getting into trouble in every way, Edd McCuan went out to the Shepard place to get one of the boys to go and get his dad and bring him home, the boy got up out of bed and dresses and went to the picnic ground to get his dad to bring him home, after arriving at the picnic ground he found his dad and was trying to get him to go home and one of the men that he had been in trouble with saw them and pull his pistol and shot at Shepard but just as he pulled the trigger this boy stepped in the way of the bullet and was killed. There was a friend of the boy that was riding the steam swing heard the shot and upon looking in that direction saw who had been shot and he jumped off the swing and went running to the boy and grabbed him just as he was falling, the friend sit down on the ground and lay the boys head into his lap and the boy died laying in the friend lap.
The other boy of this man died, with typhoid fever, the doctors there starved this boy to death, and the girl grew to womanhood and married a Charlie Crow and they still live in the part of the country. I understand that Jim Shepard and his wife are both dead now.

There was a man that was in business in Woodville, by the name of John Taylor, he run a general merchandise store, and he was one of the most peculiar men that you ever saw or even had any dealing with.  At his  store and also his home he had a place for everything and everything  in its place or it had better be there when he went after it.  He had a delivery hack , that hack had to be parked a certain way and the horse that pulled it had to stand a certain way at the hitching post, then when he delivered his hack home after the days work was through, he had to put the hack a certain way in the horse lot, then the horse had to stand a certain way while he ate his supper and after the horse got through eating Taylor would hobble the horse front leg to keep him from running all over the horse lot of a night. Taylor chickens, he had certain limb on the tree for each hen and a certain way for her to sit on the limb and if they didn't he would take them off the limb of his tree and pull her heard off, and his shoes that he wore, he  would have one shoe on each foot and then in the morning the shoe that he would have on his left foot he put it on his right and the shoe that he had on his right foot he would put it on his left foot in the morning, his hat he wore in wearing position and within a few minutes he would change it.

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