Crockett Hendrix was about five feet ten, with a very thick and light colored beard. Mr. Williams had been at his house different times but if he had it to do over he would not have because he might come to think that Mr. Williams knew something that Hendrix wanted suppressed. In those days, even though your conduct was beyond reproach, it might be dangerous to know too much.

That John Livingston told of riding along with Hendrix and meeting John Ballard, and that Hendrix said he was going to whip him and told him to get off of his mule. That Ballard nearly beat him to death and he had to call on Livingston. For some reason Hendrix was mad, couldn’t control him, or he did something he didn’t like, and he wanted to run him off. But if Hendrix liked a man he would do anything for him. But he was an entirely different man from William Snell, William Snell , Williams Claunch and others.

That Mr. Claunch was a very good man, was pleasant. He also thought that Williams Snell was a good man, but that old Captain Francis Gentry was about the best character of all. (The portrait of William Claunch, with the wide cravat, first master of the Rock House Masonic Lodge, hanging in the hall, shows him to be a pleasant faced man. Captain Gentry was a veteran of San Jacinto, once captain of local rangers, had ranch in the hills west of town, gave his name to Gentry’s Mill village on present State Highway 36. I can’t remember him, but knew the family. Mr. E. A. Perry, banker, told me he went out and took Gentry’s deposition in some sort of case in East Texas, couldn’t remember where, that was very interesting, maybe some sort of libel suit among veterans of the Revolution. Had a copy of it.

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