Major Cotton came from about Huntsville in ‘78 [1878] or a little
earlier. That he saw him for the first time riding a little bald-faced
horse, with carpet bags or saddle bags. He wasn’t in the Civil War, just
called by that title, he didn’t know why. He was always honorable and
reliable, a lawyer, but not outstanding as such.
He said that Major Cotton as county judge married Old Uncle Perry White
out at the home across the river. White’s wife, he said, was a Preacher,
and had one or two children by the name ... ... seen them shoot up the
town. That they couldn’t understand why they made it so hard on Adam
Witcher.
(The man who with others shot up a church meeting and Adam and his
father were put in jail, taken out and shot.)
