HIS GRANDPARENTS

Grandma Pierson and Grandpa, he said, first had a place just this side of where Cranfills Gap is now. Then they moved to the Leon River right after the Civil War in 1865. He couldn’t remember for sure whether she came to Hamilton in 1873, but thinks so. Grandma lived in the log house in 1874, at the time Patrick Adamson was killed. (Drawing water from her well when Hughes shot him. Old house across road from Baptist Church.

Then grandma leased the two-story hotel on the corner January 1, 1896. Later she owned it. In the summer of 1873 they went on the fishing trip on the Cow House it seems. They came through Hamilton and picked up John Witcher. Thought Adam had already been killed.

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