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

Joe Hardin was hung on that land sealing business. "... .. They ought to have been lots more hung besides Joe." Old Steen was mixed up in that. Joe Hardin would come down here and he and old Steen would stay in the clerk’s office all night fixing things. Joe was hung in Comanche. Joe Hardin had a lot of seals he used in making fraudulent titles. I know of several parties that had to buy their places over again and some them bought back from old Col. Freeman. Joe was hung in the late seventies. 

G. W. W. The first time I saw Joe Hardin, I met him in the road up about Mark Manning’s place, just a little way from where I live.

A. P. W. I was talking to old man Blank one time and he said he wanted to borrow some money from me. I told him I didn’t have it. He said, "He had to borrow from Peter to pay Paul, and that he wanted to get Peter paid and let old Paul rest awhile.

Ole man Beall was the ... ... old liar I ever knew. One time he was talking to me and Joe Schriver. He had been to three centennials, and ... knows what else. We let him talk and Joe said, "Are you done now?" Old Beall said, "Yes, I am done." Joe said, "You are an old man." He said, "You are over 1100 [sic] years old.

John O. Forrest, if you would give him a few drinks, you couldn’t name a place but what he had worked there all the way from 2 to 15 years. Joe Ables was listening to John O. talk one night and was taking down the number of years John O. had worked on various ranches. When he wound up, Joe told him that he was a mighty old man. That according to what he had told, he was 127 years old.