Anderson County, Texas - News: Palestine, Texas, 1881 ---------------------------------------------------------- Submitted by: Don R Brownlee USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ---------------------------------------------------------- From New York Times March 26, 1881 Page 5: ST. LOUIS, March 25. - Dispatches form Texas say two brothers, John and Michael Watts, 19 and 20 years old, respectively, living with their parents at Palestine, Texas, quarreled day before yesterday, and John killed Michael with a knife.