G. W. WHITE AND A. P. WHITE, OCT., 1932

The first place we ever went to school, we went to Ransom Fuller’s house. It was right in there about the back of Emmett’s. Then we went to one down to Durham. It was at what they called the Tom Garrett house. Alex Powers lived in a little old house down about where Edmiston now is.

George and Tom Pierson belonged to a temperance society, I did too. I remember the time they took old Judge Snow in. They wouldn’t let old Josh Massingill join. He said, "... ... if they won’t let me in, I can wine down stairs." Tom and George wanted out so they paid 50 cents a piece and withdrew honorably. (G. W. P. We got a quart of mint juice. A. P. A. Me and Doc Wilson got out too, but we didn’t pay no four bits for the privilege. Me and Doc went down to Pull Tight and got drunk as ... . We got out alright and we didn’t have to pay nothing.

A. P. W. George did you ever know of Paige Massingill having a fight with Indians.

George: No, I never heard of it until Paige told the boys lately. Groomer married our sister Frances (Frankie, we called her) in 1860 in the fall. John Couch, Bill Oats, and a fellow named Hoover married their daughters.

A.P.W.: Red Carter went with me up to Colorado City once. They gave us tickets for dinner. They asked if we was rangers. I said, "Yes." Red said no, that he was not a ranger, but that he was an old Confederate. At breakfast I paid the restaurant man four bits and he gave me a ticket and said it you will present that you will get your money back. I told him," ... .. If its all that trouble, I will pay it myself."

G.W.W.: The first time I saw Cole Younger, he was getting a shave and I thought he looked more like a preacher, or a lawyer. He was getting up in years. He was intelligent looking. I talked with him a time or two. He asked me one time if I had been to the show any. He said we are going to turn all the old Confederates in free tomorrow night. I guess you will be there. I didn’t go but lots of old ... went in free claiming to be old Confederates that wasn’t as old as me.

John Wesley Hardin was killed at El Paso. He stayed around Junction after he got out of the pen. He was married when he went there, I think, and his wife died while he was in the pen, if not they was separated. Hardin got to staying at a little place called London in Kimble County. Her daddy was running a little old hotel. I was told that he would go up to Junction City and raise the .. I saw his wife at a picnic on the Llano.