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ttrtJ WEEKLY DEMO0RAT-UAZETTE, TIMItsDAY, MAltf'H 17. 19*1.
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sinnons
CHAIMS
Guaranteed for 20 years
Prices from
$.3.40 to $7.50
Tidweh's Jewelry Store
McKlnney, I'exas
MINI. sl'l.1,1. < | sli KM:s\
r. n.
Cuuuiugliam Out Alter i'oui
Htucks Typhoid Fever.
We had I he pleasure of :i visit to
our office from T H. i limit Cunning-
ham, who bus just risen from a long
continued Sick bed. Hf wus down with
typhoid fever for practically four
.mouths, during which time lie suffer-
ed four distinct attacks of typhoid
fever. Several times his life was al-
moin despaired of. Mr. Cunningham
moved from his farm near Kheu
Mills to McKlnney last year. He is
one of the most successful farmers
and stockmen In the county. Ills nu-
merous friends are Kind to see him
out and about again. T. 11. is one of
the most cheerful and optimistic fel-
lows one rarely ever meet*. He looks
on the bright side of life and delights
to speak a good and cheerful word to
his follow man and to help hltsi along
at every opportunity. Ureater praise
cannot be spoken of any man lhan to
suy these things of him.
A (iOOI> FARMER.
Taylor Horry Owns Well Improved
I'laco On I'lke Near Town.
Q. T. (Taylor) Berry, who owtn a
pretty little well improved farm Just
North of McKlnney, states thai t!>.-
green bus pest is not so bud on hi.
volunteer oats as they have been. He
thinks that the groan bug situation Is
decidedly Improving. Mr. Borr.v will
reduce his cotton acreage substan-
tially this year. He thinks it is mces
sury for farmers to decrease their < ot -
ton production. Mr. Merry has two oi
throe acres In onions and will plant
more corn and feed stuff this year
than usual. Mr. Berry is a member of
one of county's pioneer families. Hi"
wife Is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B.
F. Mearn of this city. For a numlicr of
years. Mr. and Mrs. Berry have been
regular readers and subscribers of The
Daily Couler-Oazetto.
RANHKIL TKU' EAI)S
11 Dili, ON HI SI N ESS
Stale Hanger Tip Ends is in McKln-
noy visiting relatives uud friends. He
was called here as a witness in a fel-
ony case in the Fifty-ninth Dlstiict
Courl, in connection with an arrest liu
made while on tho city law enforce-
ment force. Mr. Kads has been in
Ranger with tho rangers the past ten
days and will return to that city to-
morrow. Mr. Kads says tho Texas
rangers are on the Job in hunting
down and bringing to Justice the viola-
tors of the law.
NEW GROCERY ON
EAST ANTHONY" STREET
Willie A. Wood has opened up a
new grocery storo on East Anthony
street. For sevoral years Mr. Wood has
been working at the Katy Freight Of.
flee in this city, and got his foot
mashed some time ago. and
was forced to quit his work In tho
freight office.
COLE ACQUITTED;
JURY OUT ON
CASE 2 HOURS
S M i Vi|e charged with the murder
I Of W. IJ. Ifr<'• ut Maples last Au-
jgust. uho was tried liui'i lasl week in
I Kitty-Ninth Inutilet Court. wa ac-
quitted by the Jury Satuiday aitd-
Ini.on. The i ate rs given the Jury HI
| <1:30 und it nrouiiht in u verdict
about 0:80.
I The defendant Is represented h>
llughston .V Neilson and Hon. Wood-
(vide J. Rogers. The State is repre-
IsenU'd by County Attorney A. M \V'o|
j ford and his assistant II Grad>
Chandler and Smith A. AbernaHiy.
Cole 'Was a tenant on tin Jeff* o.-e
farm und the killing resulted follow
Ing a dispute over the use of a team.
W. A«. Jeffross was siiot and fatally
wounded at s o'clock Tuesday morn-
ing, August ^4, of lust year. The shorn
ing occurred ill the Maples commun-
ity about twelve miles west of Van
Aistync. i 'ole was a sharecropper on
the Jeffross place. The weapon use.l
was a 88-callbre pistol.
A second shooting, an outgrowth oi
the first, took place when J, W Jef-
fross, a brother of W. I. Jeffres*,
shot and wounded •'ole with a chai'.a
of No. U shot from a shotgun, Cole
was a patient in a local sanitarium
hero following his injury There is a
charge of assault to murder pending
against J. W. Jeffross.
After Cole was shot and broughi to
McKinney for medical treatment It
Is said that before being brought here
Physicians picked five hundred and
seventy-five shot from his body. It Is
said that he wns shot four times with
a shotgun, the cartridges containing
blrdshot.
W. Tj. Jeffress whom It Is alleged
shot Cole was 22 years of age, a vet-
eran of the World War and was a mn
of Mr. and Mrs. .1. K. Jeffress. The
shooting occurred Just across the line
In Collin and all parties Implicated re-
sided on the same farm.
The Jury in the S. M. Cole case was
completed at 4:30 o'clock Thursday
afternoon. The last two jurors select-
ed were: It U. fierce of Mine Ridge
Hid i. !•' Kerhy of Nevada. Immed-
iately after 'he jury hail been colli
P|ei(d tlii' Introduction of testimony
was la gun. Tin stale's tlrst witnes s
is mis. ,1. K. .leflress, mother of the
i'e« ,! :;(.d young man. W. I.. Jeffress.
Sin told of the rental contract which
she uud with Cole, who was a share
ciop'i'i mi her farm. She said thai
her son who was killed was also farm-
ing on the place with his brother. She
said that Mr. Cole wanted a certain
team of mules to work ami she told
hiin that she had promised her son
ehoiec of the teams. The killing is
said to have resulted over the dispute
ius to the teem.
Mrs. Jeffress said that her husband
was an invalid and at present wa.i at
the point of death and was noi able
to appear at the trial. She said that
she and her husband were living In
(Junior and that two sons were cul-
tivating part of ihelr farm which Is
Just over tho line In Collin county.
She said that her son, who was killed,
would work on the farm during fav-
orable weather, but would spond Sat-
urday night and Sunday at her home,
She said her son was In the World
War and was wounded. The wound
was lu the neck and side of tho face
and that he was not as healthy and
strong after ho returned home.
Mrs. Jeffress was the only witness
i Nuinlned Thursday.
When court convened tliis morning
l_>r. Bounds was the first Witness
placed ou the stand. He attended Jef-
fress and assisted In dressing l h-
wound. Or. Bounds said that his
death resulted from the gunshot
•wound.
answered the wtlnoas
When tho pioseeituyn presented u
pistol, Jeffress said that it looked like
(he one < ole dreu on hun it' the Units.
"Wlie.tt did >'ou nefci set' Con)," ask*
• i..Mr. Hutfh l hi. 'i'ile witness toUl tin
i Line.
' vVtoat did rou do." ask*- Mr. H'ttCi-
.-ton. To thia the prosecution n|d«"'l
and I lie objection wss sustained'tiyt he
jcourt. Mr. Ituglutum then Inforjji'd
the court that thi* dai'eimo woull
isrpvo sodietline latftr In the duly thai
tho 4*>< <MUNH VM "we'll get ><m y«f
1T1 Vpr.hklng.tej Cole afUr the showi-
ng. The courts Sim sustained fjif oh
jectlon of the prosecution. i■
"'fou are under ludlctniyht
felony offeQM ure you niR'T"
i Mr H
"Yes" OTswered the witness
He • 1(
Knew
n>d
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and
for a
asked
BECOMING TO MATRONS
J. W. .leffriiw Tesllflc*.
J. W. Jeffress, brother of the do-
ceasod, was next placed in th" witiu. .>;<
chair He testified that three shots
were fired by I 'ole, Jeffress wuld: "I
was at. home when a negro who w is
working for me came and told me
Colo had shot my brother. I Went t.>
the scene and found my brother about
two hundred yards west of Cole's
house. Ho told me Cole shot three
times and thai he was hit in the lefi
side with a bullet and for me to lake
him to a doctor. I got on my brother's
horse and went to a neighbor's house
who lived east of Cole and had him lo
gel his car to take my brother to a
doctor. I rode back on the horse and
stopped In front of Cole's house and
waited there until the car arrived. The
car stopped In front of the house. We
remained here about flvo minutes. I
got off my horse and asked Mrs. Col •
who was in her yard what tho trouble
Wits that Mr. Cole should shoot my
brother. 1 started back toward the
car. Mrs. t'ole called to her husband
who was at tho oar to watch out. Cole
pulled a pistol from his pocket and
told mo to drop that rock and go on
and he wouldn't hurt nie. I had a roe it
The line art of dressing up to one's j in my hand. 1 then sent the ear to get
ugo demands dignified, brilliant and n,5' brother and lake him to i. doctor,
beautiful lints for middle life. Matrons 1 1101 K'" with them.'
wear sucu lovely and flattering hits • i i .l* if «j ,l
of millinery as the lint at the top of .... ' * * ' .
1 .1 When questioned bv the defenses
the group above with braid crown and j,.ffri.HM M;lid that he pieked
nullities brim In brown. A wreath of jo,,, iu,.|, U|, for a purpose. That h '
metallic silk roses Interspersed Vilth Uvenl to Cole's house for a purpose. H,
grasses livens II with rich color. Theltild not State what purpose was. Mr.
lint at the left Is a favorite shape llughston asked Mr. Jeffress if h
with ii|> rolling brim and a soft crown
of silk I.raid.
Joe H. Wilcox
COTTON I If V Kit
Representing
IwnjJ Collie & Co.
Kxporters ttntl Splnn Buyers,
Oftlce over Central State
Biink. I'hone No. TiiX or till.
McKlnney, Texas.
IHP——
threw the roeli down when Mr. Coh
told him to and he said he did.
"Cole did not hurt you did h< ."
asked Mr llughston.
"No" replied Jeffress. Mr. llugh-
ston asked the witness how far he was
from Cole when Cole drew the pistol
and he snld about 15 feet.
| "Wns there Anything to keep Mr.
Cole from injuring or shooting you If
lie had desired to," asked Mr.
Hughs! on.
I Jeffress said: "None at all."
"He did not hurl you, did he?" ask-
ed Mr Hugbston.
"No," wns Jeffress' answer.
• "Had you before this time had nhv
trouble or ThlsnndetWundlug 'With
t'ole," Mr. Hugbston asked.
I "None lo amount to anything."
.1 W. Will lis Cullttl.
J W W.ilbs was the next v iti s
He said he Uved about one mile from
I Cole's house und on the mortilt ■
I before he had eaten breakfast he
heard three shots. |r. n northen.rly .11-
reetion from his house lie said th.'
might have heen east or west of tV
j house a couple ot hundred yards, toil
they were north of him He vild he
diil not learn of the shooting until
,iibout the middle of Unit afternoon
uud then told the Cussady hoys tha'
lie had heard the shots When iskvd
h> Mr. llughston If the shots he heard
could not have been from i - hot gun.
I the witness said that he didn't think
they were.
♦ ♦ ♦
State Item's
At this time 10:80 the statu rested
und Or. Miller was placed on :ho
stand by the defense. Ho sa'd lie was
called to help probe the wound of the
deceased. When asked by Mr. ilugli-
ston what Colo * gone ul rsiniuit.on ► s
a good iarmor, good cltlxon and ..i>v
abiding cltl7.cn wus tho wlti.oss si,hi
that It woh good.
Mrs. S. M Cole, wife of the do-
fondant, was on the witness stand
Just before court recessed for noon.
She said thai JeffresM, whom her hus-
band shot, i time lo their home on the
morning of the killing and cursed
her husband about I lie mules. Itan I lie
mules out of the barn and drew t
stick on her hiMband.
♦ ♦ ♦
IHifenilanl Take- stami.
The defendant look the stand at
I this a ft ei noon. lie said that he
hud llv'd in Texas since 191^ and was
111-v i11' arrested and never paid a line.
He gave his aue as II years und said
he had resided in the Hunter neigh-
borhood ior seven years.
The defendant testified that on the
morning of the killing W. I. Jeffreys,
(Us e iHi'd "Itode past inv bouse. I was
silting on the porch. He rode down to
th" lot gate and hallowed and saiii
"I till man Cole have you fed I lie to&lll."
I told lilni "no," that I was ready lo
feed them and was going to town aftei
some groceries. He said that Jeffross
said, "I'oed H , 1 eattie after tip
mules.' My "wife went down to the
barn and my two children were at the
barn. 1 heard Jeffress talking loud
and using abusive language. I went
to the barn and Jeflress had his list
drawn like lie was going to strike my
wife. I asked him to lot the mules
alone; that 1 wanted to go to town and
that he could have them when I re-
turned. He srild again he was going to
have tho mules are 'tear up the whole
I)—place ' I went ha ill to the house
und got my pistol and en the back 1 o
the barn. When I reached the burn I
heard Jeffress in tho barn b< aiin;t
the mules; as lie ran the mules out of
the barn 1 reached in the stall dooi
and grubbed my little three year old
son, fearing that the mules would run
over and kill him.
♦ « ♦
Threatens Itolcmluiii.
Then Jeffress came out of the st ill
with a stick drawn und said '
your old grey-headed soul, I ani going
to kill you,' and still hud his stick
drawn. 1 shot him before he had time
to strike. Jeffress then walked a step
or two, dropped the stick went back
and got his horse und suld 'Old iinin
Cole, I'll till: you yut—-we'll get you
yet.' 1 went back to the house, put ui:>
pistol on the table and changed
clothes to come to McKlnney to sur-
render to the officers and was sitting
in my dining room when J. VV. Jef-
fress, brother ot the deceased, eume
around the house with a brick in Ins
hand. About that time an autonomic
stopped In front of my house I went
out through the house to the enr In
the road north of the house, picking
up my gun whon I passed the table
and carried It In my hand to the oar.
I walked around on the north sido ol
the car to got the driver to bring m>
to McKlnney, As 1 walked o,ut of th'
yard J. W. Jeffress called to me. 11"
had his hand drawn back aa though
he was going to hit mo with the bri"l<
I told him to drop the brick and I
wouldn't hurt him. I then gave gun
to my wife and went down tho road
and had gotten about one-fourth mil-
from home.
"Then what happened?" asked Mr.
llughston.
The prosecution objected which ob-
jection was sustained by the court.
t did my best to get to McKlnney.
Cole said
What prevented yon from coming '.o
McKlnney." nsked Mr. llughston
The prosecution again offered ar
objection which was sustained
"Old you get back home." asked
Mr. llughston.
"No." was the defendant's answer.
T was Just recovering from a spell
of the fever when the shooting occur-
ed, said Cole.
♦ ♦ ♦
(Imraoler Wltni'swrs.
Cole said during the latter part of
1IM 9 or the first of 1920 that .leffreis
took bis team and kept It a few days,
causing him to have to lay off some
hands which he hnil pulling hollies 1
IVen told him thai I must have the
t' mi. Jeffress said I couldn't get them
1 If I did lie would bent H out
of me.
'ole said thai he hnd lived on lef.
f ->k farm for three years and that he
i■'• us lei thorn haw tho team whon
I wasn't using- It.
'inies B ed. Mr. Raker, and W. M
*' '>lln of the Onnter neighborhood
w. re put on ns diameter witnesses
Koch snld that the genernl reputation
of the defendant as n penceful and law
abiding cltu n wiw gi>'H\. .Mr
I a-4 known I itu tor po yeuis
it>m uitwi} y. j.i>- lu , Miss sMpnl
s*.(t repui.itloti H-s a pttuccl'il
law ahull ii> cltlXeli 111 Mls-sisslpiu
good.
Mi i alu said lliyt a lew yom ^
\\ . 1. Jel tio*s, eauie to Ius house
hid a wrench In his hand and Invit-
ed him out in the road Ihhmuh«> 1 did
luit want tili>< to lake a water tank
M,-i 'nin w .is living on ihti J off less
farm ut i lie tune.
The eoiuplele Jury is composed ol
VV T l' i«-, |'|jin el.ui; M J, llox,
l.ivon; Sam siihurne, Yuldasui; J. 1,
j t'U'ldur, Josephine Charles Shell.ill
M< Kinu y; I; I'. Helen. I.avon; W. A.
Maim ews. Rentier; K. A. Rob lUoil.
; Cleurhike; M. i". Reynolds, li".'i> burg;
l lal McUee, McKinney, R. II. fierce
llllie Ridge K. l \ Kerhy, Neui.la.
. Tliu Inking ol testimony iu tin c.is"
ot the Statu of Texas \s S M. Cole,
chained Willi the minder ot \\ i.
.)e!iii.-is was concluded Saturday
at 9 SO oi loi k, ut which u ni tliu
ienui'I rvci'.*' -ed lor I I'teoit miu.itcs dilr
lliu which llllie the alloi'iie. s on holh
Sides examined the court's charge
1 lie Jlldgo t lien lead Ills . hill i to Ihi
jury and aiguineuls were begun. Tin
attorneys for tho prosecution in.
iCounty Atloruoy A. Al Wolioi I and
Ansmtaut County Attorney II. Urudy
i.'handler and Smith >v Aheruathy. I'll
defendant's attorneys are Wallace
llughston it ml II. II. Neilson and Sen-
ator Woodville J. Rogers.
Mr. Cleaves, the man who carried
Jeflress to a doctor, was one . of tho
State's witnesses yesterday afternoon.
He testified that J. W. Jeflress came
after hiin to get him to take his car
and take his brother, W. U Jeffress. to
Hunter to a doctor. He said that whon
he stopped lu front of Cole's house
Cole came out and wanted him <0
bring him to McKlnney. He said th.'t
lie told Cole that lie couldn't becuuso
|h" was going to lake "Tools" (Jef-
lress) to u doctor. Mr. Cleaves suld
while en route lo Hunter that he asked
i Jeffress wllill the trouble wus and J- l
ft ess suld 1 went to get the mules und
i oil* hit uit' with u scanning ami then
shot me. This itppiirenlly ut I ho ease In
ihi entirely dili'eieul•angle us none ot
jtllu Other wilesses had testified that
■Cole bud struck Jell less with i scant-
|llng, hut on the contrary that Joffres
jWits In the uel of lulling < 'ole with a
stick when Cole shot him.
♦ ♦ ♦
defense OiiCMlhuiH Witness.
The defense then took the witness,
who suld h was not related to it her
|Of the purlieu concerned in litis ease
•'111• I that ho was friendly to both
:sides .ilr. Hugbston asked liiin if I'oui
|Or li\<- days alter Uie killing Ii W"
(llughston lllld Woodville Itniltii'is)
I didn't <:ouie out to your homo to nsh
;you what you know about the killing.
I "Vest," answered the witness.
"And didn't you tell us tluit vou
'were dining tho cur and didn't pay
;any intention to what Jeffress said?"
asked Mr. Hughs ton.
"I don't roinomber," repllod
Cleaves.
"And Isn't It u fact that you promis-
ed us that you would coino down and
be a witness for Mr. Cole," askod Mr
Hlighsloti. ' .
"i don't remember," said the wit-
ness.
Charles Neoly, constable, of Cellna,
while on the stand said that he wenl
to Colo's house tho morning following
the shooting and found Colo's condi-
tion such that ho did not move him.
Cole said bore Is tho pistol do you
want it 1 told him 1 did. Cole told me
that one shot hud been fired. I brought
the pistol to McKlnney and turned It
over to County Attorney Wolford nnd
Mr. Wolford snld that the gun w.is
"loaded all the way round." He did
not examine tho pistol himself, ho
said.
Mr. Stockton placed on the stand by
the State after stating what he saw ut
the Cole home after the shooting said
that he saw Mr. Cole slarl for MoKIn
to y after the shooting of Jeffress and
that, he heard three gun shots that
morning about ono-fourth mile from
Cole's houso.
♦ ♦ ♦
Often* IMschurgc.
The statu offered in evidence ' ho
discharge from the U. S- Army ol tho
deceased, which the defense called for
Friday. County Attorney Wolford
read the discharge. It stated tliut 'lie
deceased participated in the battles of
St. Mill el, the Toul offensive ami Hip
.M' use-Argoniie. That he was wound-
ed In tho face anil nock by a shell
plosion—that he was in good health
al the lime of his discharge.
Mr. Woodvillo of Hunter, unothei
witness, for the stole, was recalled to
the stand and said that he assist el in
washing and preparing the body of
Jeffross immediately following Ills
death. He showed Where the bullet en-
tered Jeffress' left side and also ho
saw. a bruise between the deceased's
shoulders Just below the neck.
♦ ♦ ♦
Statu (^includes Testimony.
When the defense took the Witness
the latter said that ho had described
the positions of tho wounds ns iicur
as he could. He said ho could have
missed tho positions an inch and ho
would not say thoy were tho exact
locations as those on the dead boy's
body.
With Mr. Woodvllle's testimony the
state concluded lis Introduction of
evidence.
The defense called for A. .T. Smith
of Hunter, who snld he had known W.
1,. Jeffross since the latter came back
from the army. He said, when asked
tin question by Mr. Hughston, that
one Sunday afternoon In Hunter about
two weeks before Cole shot Jeffross
that Jeffress bit him In the face. The
( prosecution objected to Smith answet-
Ing the question Hint he was struck In
i tho face, but the court allowed tho
witness to answer It.
I Cole wns then placed back on the
stand, He snld that while he nnd Jef-
fress were brenklng atMbblo land one
day tbnt Jeffress told him that "lie
|knocked h out of Smith Inst Snn-
|dn.y afternoon In Ounter."
With this statement from Cole th«
defense announced thnt It hnd finish-
ed nil evidence II eared to Introduce.
♦ ♦ ♦
! Minister on Stand.
' The 'Mate placed Rev.' Obhte S*etsrn.
pastor of the Ounter Rnptlst church on
the atnnd yoWerdny afternoon to prove
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;; Speclul attention given extract-
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that the deceased made a dying state-
ment and that he offered u prayer be-
fore ho died. Theso questions wore met
with objections from defense and the
court would not permit tho statu to
prove the alleged (lying declaration.
Aflor both sides had finished this
morning at 9:30 o'clock, the Judge In- jj
structed the Jury that It should not1,,
consider what was said between the 11
deceased anil Itev. Nelson or what Vol
son had hoard or tho prayer said to ■■
have boon offorod by tho deceased
before Ills death.
Dr. F. G. Hedges !:
Sanitary Dentist
Olllce over Collin County Na- ' •
tlonal Hunk, McKlnney, Texas. • ■
Olllce phone 412, residence 23.
MICII OltAVHfi WIMi III:
I'SI'Ji ON i:.\.\l,Ii IIKilUVAV
As soon as the ground beconxs
dry enough tho work on the lUxall
Highway from Piano South to the
I)nlias county line will be begun as
will ulso the work from I'lano north
towards Alien. Thirty'car loads of
gravel has already boon unloaded tit
Piano and forty or fifty more carloads
uro In transit from Gainesville.
NOVEL STYLE IN SUIT
;-l I I I I I III I II IIHIIII l l-l-i
*
DR. J. P. PARK
1! 10ye, Bar, Nose and Throat J
• ■ specialist. OHIco, Central Bnnk •
J| Hldg., McKlnney, Texas
"M"i-I"I"H"I-M-1"M"I"M"I-H"!"l"l"l'
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Dr. J. Knight j
OSTEOPATH
Offitt*, Fm Hullillnc. Phone I
Connection
Caldwell's !;
Sanitarium
McKlnney, Texas
.. For treatment of C.VNCBR.
11 Special attention to all chronic
I| diseases, especially diseases of
ii i women and rectal trouble.
W. O. W. CONVENTION.
For those who tire looking for some-
thing entirely new, suits like tlwt
fthowti above are provided In the
spring displays In which enpes or
cnpellke ovcrgurmeuta or blouses with
short close-tilting pepliuns take th*
place of the regulation suit cont. This
| hew Idea litis been worked out with
line success in the model pictured.
Was Turbulent, So Rc|iorts Two Al>
togn Delegates l'|Nin Their
Return.
Mrs. W. T. Dunn nnd Mrs. John T.
Man tooth both of Altoga arrived In
McKlnney Saturday from Houston,
where they went ns delegates from
the Woodmen Circle of Altoga to tha
State Encampment. These ladies re-
jport a very turbulent session of thia
:stole Woodmen Convention. In fact,
|the order was deHnltoly split, ao It
I seems, this year and two seta at state
officers were elected.
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Perkins, Tom W. & Wilson, Walter B. The Weekly Democrat-Gazette (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1921, newspaper, March 17, 1921; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291698/m1/3/?q=%22Wilson%2C%20Walter%20B.%22: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.