BLANSIT'S BARN BURNED

                    
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HAMILTON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION

July 30th, 31st and August 1st, 1930

DIRECTORS:

F. C. Williams
G. M. Carlton
E. A. Perry
C. D. McKinley
C. B. James

 

FINANCE COMMITTEE

Joe Cleveland
J. E. Moore
C. B. James

BLANSIT'S BARN BURNED

Blansit had been in on the hanging of  Shad Howard, so one night one of the Howard boys and another fellow rode up and set fire to Blansit’s barn, figuring that when he came out they would ambush him. We lived just a little way from Blansit’s house and the light woke father up.  He saw Blansit start to the door and hollered at him not to come out. I was just a kid of a boy and I ran out to the fire. There was a stake and rider fence that was on fire, too, and  Blansit had a big hog in the pen that could not get out and the fire was so hot that it was singeing the hog, I let the hog out and it makes me laugh yet … … … …

Old man Pierson had just died but Johnnie brought the blood hounds up the next morning and tried to put them on the trail but it had come up a norther and a slight rain and the dogs never did pick up the trail. I am confident that we had the dogs there that night we could have caught whoever it was.  We knew in reason, however, that it was one of the Howard boys and another fellow retaliating for the hanging of Shaderick Howard.

 

 

 
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