A. P. WHITE

October 2, 1932

Pink Higgins killed Merritt Horrell along about 1872. Ben Horrell was killed in New Mexico. They went from Lampasas to Mexico and got into trouble and Ben got killed out there and they came back. Mart and Tom was mobbed in Meridian jail.

When we moved to Lampasas in 1870 Sam Harrell was one of the best men there. The last time I saw him was in 1884. We passed along right by his camp on the head of the Concho. They had two or three hundred head of cattle. I told one of the boys, I know that fellow, so I turned around and rode back to his camp and asked for a drink of water. I said "You don’t know me do you?" He said no and I told him I was Perry White. He said, Perry I never was as glad to see a man in my life. He said I can’t stay in Texas. I see him at Newman’s ranch before that. He said that they didn’t have any more to do with the killing of Vaughn than I did. I saw Bill Babb several times going down there to the Horrell boys. When the ranger caught them Old Ike Richardson was in it.

G. W. WHITE -- A. P. WHITE, Oct. 13, 1932

A. P. W.: Hamilton County is a poor ... democratic county ... ... They have got Ras Doggett for a Democratic Chairman.

I see cattle and hogs are not worth a ... in the Star Telegram this morning.

I saw old Wright Moar several years ago when I went to the Rangers Reunion. I went out and spent the night with him. We was riding around his ranch the next morning and we rode up to a little narrow hill. He said, "Right here, I killed 92 buffalos at one stand." I asked him how did you get a stand? He said there is a "knack to it." The first one down if you would shoot ahead of them, waste a few shots, and if you could turn them back to where the first buffalo was down, they would get the smell of blood and then you would get a good stand. He killed 6,000 buffalos one year up around his ranch.

When we first moved to Texas, George, they wasn’t any more talk about Indians than there is now. In 1860 when our father and old Griffith (Jesse Griffith) started out they wasn’t thinking about Indians--didn’t know there was any in the country. We left Alabama in 1859. We stopped a few days in Coryell County and came over on the river and after the crops were laid by, we moved over close to Turnersville and spent the summer there. We moved to Hamilton in the late fall of 1860

There was some talk about the Indians getting hostile because of an old scalp a nigger boy showed some Indians, anyway the Indians come back at night and killed the nigger.

October 26, 1932

I was at Shipman’s birthday dinner Sunday. Had a good dinner, too. I told Shipman that Bill Evans had a birthday dinner the Sunday before, but I wasn’t there. I wasn’t invited.

F.C.W., Sr: Don’t old Bill like you, Perry?

A. P. W.: No, ... ... he ain’t by himself either.

I would love to see this ... Fergonism and raising ... quit. I don’t see nothing about old Morris Shepherd. All ... ... can do is make Prohibition speeches, and I don’t think there is a ... thing to Tom Connally. [Tom Connally was later a US Senator from Texas.] I think that old fellow that is Gov. Of Oklahoma is an ... ... . My man for President was old Reed of Missouri. I see where his wife died. I guess lots of ‘em wish Ma [Ma Ferguson-Governor of Texas] would die. George says that Jim [Jim Ferguson, former governor of Texas] will steal the Capitol, when she gets in this time, but I think Jim is almost petered now.

I have heard some people say if they had life to live over again, they wouldn’t make any changes. "... ... I would make ... ... of a lot of changes.

I go to bed about dark these nights. The other night I went to bed and was tossing around. I thought it must be about one or two o’clock, got up and looked at the clock, and ... .. It wasn’t but nine thirty.

I was talking to Mitt Witty one time. A fellow come in from around Goldthwaite, wanted to buy something on credit. After he left, Witty looked him up and the feller wasn’t good for the credit. I asked him it my name was in that book. He said, "Yes, I will look up your rating." He looked and said A. P. White--not worth a ... . I said, "... .., they got that just about right."

I saw Jack Woods over at Hico one time. You know John Dorsey had moved over here thought he was going to be post master. Jack said, ‘... Hamilton, we sent them some good men. We sent them a good man for the post office. It looks like we can’t be represented in Hamilton. But I guess ... ... we can be represented in Huntsville from the looks of things."

I was thinking about my insurance the other day. If I live to be 80 years old, I will have paid out $1,383.00 and my boys will get a $1,000.00

I was going to Lampasas one time and passed through Langford’s Cove. As I passed through I saw guns. I went on down the road whistling and I heard a fellow say just somebody traveling the road, and ... .. I was traveling the road alright.

I was in Hico Sunday, Dec. 4th, 1932. Didn’t see anybody I knew much. Some young fellow said, "Mr. White, where are all the old time cowboys?" I said, "... ... what wasn’t dead was in the penitentiary."