HENDERSON COUNTY - Newspapers- Wills Point Chronicle 1895-1896 ************************************************************************ This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Scott Fitzgerald Copyright. © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ From Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, Nov. 14, 1895: County Judge Appointed. Athens, Tex., Nov. 12. - The commissioners' court met yesterday and appointed J. A. McDonald county judge to fill the term of W. R. Dickerson, who died on Friday. From Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, Nov. 14, 1895 (Canton Chronicles column): Jno. S. Jones, lawyer, of Athens, attended court last week. From Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, Jan. 16, 1896: James Baldwin and Bob Shaw, two farmers living in the Fincastle neighborhood, in Henderson county, got into a quarrel the other day over the hog law in that neighborhood, and Bob Shaw was mortally wounded. From Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, March 26, 1896: SHOCKING ACCIDENT THREE SMALL BOYS MEET THEIR DEATH. No One Knows How It Occurred-Ran Away from Home and Run Over by a Cotton Belt Passenger Train-A Very Sad Sight. Athens, Tex., March 24. - One of the most horrible accidents that ever occurred in this county happened on the Cotton Belt track, three miles south of Brownsboro, Sunday night. Boone Smith, Arthur McMillan and Tommy Shiflet, ages 14, 12 and 10 years, were run over and killed by one of the night trains. How it occurred no one will ever know. Smith and Shiflet, fathers of Boone and Tommy, are well-to-do farmers, who live in the vicinity of Brownsboro. McMillan lives near Durant, I. T. The remains of the three boys were picked up by the 11:30 a.m. passenger train yesterday, carried to Brownsboro and placed in the depot. Messrs. Smith and Shiflet, who had gotten as far as Malakoff in the search of the boys, were notified and come on the north-bound local. They were joined by Justice Adams, County Attorney Jones and a number of other citizens. On arriving at Brownsboro the scene was indescribable. A large crowd assembled at the depot. Among them were the heart-broken mothers, with the brothers and sisters of the unfortunate boys, awaiting the arrival of the fathers. When the parents entered the depot, a more affecting scene was never before witnessed in this part of the county. Strong men wept like babies. Boone and Tommy could each be recognized by their parents, but their bodies were a mass of blood and flesh. Arthur's head has not yet been found. Mr. Shiflet said that Boone Smith and Arthur McMillan came to his house Sunday morning to spend the day with Tommy. About noon they missed the boys, but thought they were about the place. At 8 o'clock Sunday night he and Mr. Smith started out to hunt them and learned they had told some one that they had started for Corsicana to see Boone's uncle. They boys were seen at Murchison Sunday evening. It is generally believed that they decided to go back home, and being tired after walking about fourteen miles, they fell asleep on the track and were run over by the 11:30 north bound passenger train Sunday night. From Wills Point Chronicle, Thursday, May 28, 1896: Prof. Bill Hammel of Henderson county was in our midst this week.