TX BIOS:  Mrs. Fayette Randal
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   00011
   
   Pioneer Stories
   
   Anne B. Hill
   
   McLennan County
   
   District #8 Pioneer History
   
   no. of words 338
   
   file no. 240
   
   page 1
   
   A. Mrs. Fayette Randal, 2218 Homan Avenue, Waco, Texas. Mrs. Randal is
   the daughter of William C. and Ella Walker Patterson.
   
   Mrs. [Randal?] has some valuable old papers, now in the Texas Room of
   Baylor University.
   
   Her grandfather, William C. Walker came to Waco from Chapel Hill in
   1851, and bought 650 acres of land on the Bosque for $2.50 per acre.
   Part of the land is now under Lake Waco. Walker's Crossings on the
   Bosque was named for him. He built a home on the land he had bought.
   He built a brick house in 1851 and this house is still standing. The
   sills are made of cedar logs and the floors are of cedar planks, all
   in a good state of preservation. The cedar used in the building was
   grown on the place; the cedar shingles and the lime used were made on
   the place and after eighty five years the wood is as good as when it
   was built.
   
   The windows were brought by ox team from Houston, Texas.
   
   When her mother was a young girl, the James and Younger boys,
   notorious desperadoes, camped for several days at the Sycamore Springs
   in the pasture near where the Beulah Lane now runs. One night when the
   young people were having a party at the old home place, two of there
   outlaws walked in, with pistols and spurs on, and joined the other
   guests.
   
   About seventy five years ago, a man named Lindsey was hanged by a mob
   in the ravine that is an extension of North Fifth Street, Waco, and
   so, today that is known as Lindsey Hollow. He was hanged from an old
   crooked mountain cedar tree that grew on the left hand side of the
   road going north out of Waco. It leaned way out over the roadway.
   
     NOTE: C.12 - 2/11/41 - Texas
     
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   Miss Laura Herring, daughter of Captain M. D. Herring of Herring
   Avenue was married by the minister of Central Christian Church, Dr.
   Bagby. It rained about two days and nights before the [edding?]. We
   didn't have paved streets those days and 6th St. was black, waxy mud.
   When the carriage, drawn by two horses carrying the bride and groom to
   the train reached 6th St., the wheels stuck hard and fast. Two men
   made a saddle of their hands and carried Miss Laura to the side walk.
   She was picked up on Maryland Avenue and carried to the station to go
   on her honeymoon. (A)

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