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Born in 'teaso' ins I~-t4
wa' born Oct. 21 184, in toe heuse i
Swil:h 1 now re.side. Five brrt ILrs anl
three sisters were also born here in the old
homestead. My three oldest brothers
were born in a log cabin which once stood
about fifty feet east of the present frame
house. The log cabin was one of the first
ever built in this part of North Texas, in
the year 1838, when the yell of the blood-
thirsty Indian and the scream of the pan-
ther were heard in the land. .Bear, buffalo,
deer, turkey, quail, squirrels and prairie'
chickens innumerable were here. Wild
Spanish horses roaimed the boundless- prai-
riles at till; beautiful waving nutrftous
grass, which came up to a horse's side,
interspersed with beautiful sweet fragrant
flowers, presented nature's grandest
scenery, which is ever grand and magnifi-
cent to contemnplate.
The difference between then and now is
wonderful; tre rapid unD ard and onward
progress and development causes us to
realize that we are rapidly hastening on
life's journey to a more perfect day as re-
gar0s this life and the home where the
sun never sets and the leaves never fade
in that beautiful city of gold, where we
trust we shall meet in happy reunion,
tried and true friends and relatives of the
pioneer days of the long ago, also those
of the present and future.
Our pioneer settlers are fast passing
away.' Let us ever appreciate our pioneer
mothers, fathers and friends who so heroic-
ally and patiently endured dangers, hard-
ships and inconveniences that we, their
posterity,might have prosperous, contented,
happy homes. All live of my brothers have
c'rossedI the last river My three sisters
are still living They are scattered far
Away Only a few of my old schoolmates
are now living. What little schooling we
got was in the first log cabin school and
church house.--Taylor Allen, R, Fi. D. No.
7, -oney Grove, Tex.
