Records Contributed by Vicki Bell-Reynolds [email protected]

hat brim cutting the ribbon into, that went around his hat crown and the next bullet went through Stiff's right wrist and after all that Stiff over powered Allred and took him and locked him up in the calboose. The hard feelings never did die down between these two men.

At Xmas times there at Woodville was always drunks and people getting into fights and the people would always get into roman candle fights. Their were two brothers there by the name of Sam Gresham and Tom Gresham & one Xmas night Tom got into a roman candle fight with a gang of men and Tom got hit in the right eye and had enough to take his eye ball out. Time went on and a few years after that, Sam went to work as a section laborer on the Frisco Railroad that had been put in there, he was shoveling gravel on the track and a piece of gravel flew up striking him in his left eye causing him to lose his left eye ball, so there were two brothers with one each, one left eye the other his right eye.

The Frisco railroad put their railroad through Woodville in the year 1901 and that sure was a great sight for all the people in and around Woodville for many miles around. People would come to town and stay all day and watch the railroad men lay the track dumps was put up by mules and horses because that day in time there was no bulldozers.

The Frisco had all small engines that couldn't pull over 40 or 50 cars in any one train and the passenger train wouldn't have over 3 or 4 coaches in any one train. Frisco had 4 passenger trains through Woodville a day and about 4 to 5 freight trains a day.

After the Frisco went through Woodville got to be quiet a shipping place for cattle and hogs, mostly all cattle for the people would raise and fatten the cattle for market and ship the cattle over Frisco.

In the early days of Woodville, there was a gang of men that was called the dirty dozen of which consisted of 12 men and one of these men would be the leader of the gang. There was a ranch house out at the edge of town and a family by the name of Jim Thompson who owned it and lived there and this place was a hanging out place for all cowboys including the dirty dozen gang, so the dirty dozen gang went there one time and started a big fight of which several of the cowboys and one or two of the cowboys was shot but, not killed. Mrs. Thompson was quiet a cowgirl herself, she would buckle on her 45 and her chaps and would ride right along with the cowboys. She told the leader of the dirty dozen gang to get his men and get off of the place and stay off, the dirty dozen men left and stayed away quiet a long time, and was gone long enough for the leader he thought. One day on coming back to the ranch and the house at this ranch house was a two story house and anyone entering the place came up from the back of the place, there was a fence all around the house and a gate at the back. When the dirty dozen gang arrived at the back of the gate, Mrs. Thompson was up stairs, she raised the upstairs window and hollered down at the leader of the gang and ask him, did he remember what she had told him previously and he hollered back up to her and she said that he didn't give a damn what she had told him, so she told him that if he would come through the gate that she would kill him, when she said that he swung off of his horse and started through the gate and when he did, Mrs. Thompson from the up stairs window pulled her 45 and shot him through the left chest and when the bullet hit him he staggered and pulled his gun and

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