Bud Joe on the base of the brain just as he passed. The confession said that at the first lick he threw up his head and said "Oh". Then the Negro gave the second lick, and he fell from the horse dead. The body was taken to a ranch near by and covered with leaves and brush.

The horse went and stood at the gate of the home where it had been fed while on the way to Houston, and the little boy recognized it. The Negro gave this little boy a knife, and the boy said to his father, "This is just like the knife Mr. English loaned me". These circumstances caused the neighbors to search and find the body and write Mr. Kennedy, who came and had the Negro arrested, while digging a well. He confessed at once, and was hanged. The body was taken to Ft. Worth and was the first buried there. I remember that Mr. Kennedy told me that as there was no burial place at Ft. Worth, the citizens then selected a site for a cemetery. The graves of Bud and Sis Effie Jane, who died a few months later, were enclosed by an iron fence within which bulbs from our home in Red River County were planted. Thirty years later I saw the flowers still blooming from these bulbs.

4.  The fourth child was Elizabeth, who became the second wife of Dick Kennedy, the mother of Joseph Rufus, Effie (Mrs. Wm. R. Miller) of Richmond, Va., Simeon Ross, M. D., Jr., English, Erina and Leland.

5.  I was the fifth child. My children were