MR. WILLIAM SNELL

                    
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MR. WILLIAM SNELL

(INTERVIEW ON March 6, 1943)

For some time maybe several years Snell knew they were after him. He moved to Bosque for a time to get out of the way. He came back with three of the Terrell boys from Clifton, nephews, I believe, with the intention, in necessary of fighting it out with the bunch. They camped in a cave or dugout down on the Leon and waited to fight it out, but it seems never met them or come into collision. Before that time they had shot Snell up on the mountain and wounded him. That was Ault Ferguson.

In the early days Mr. Snell and Mr. William Claunch were partners in the cattle business. Uncle Tom Pierson went up the trail with a herd for Claunch, or with Claunch to Kansas. At that time the Claunches, Piersons, Blansits, and most of the families lived on the river at Old Hamilton.

Mr. Williams said at one time this was called Hampton, after Wade Hampton, but was changed because there was another postoffice by that name.

(Recently the local library was given an old U. S. Census in which Hamilton was written "Hampton" and it was called a mistake. I called the attention to the paper to this fact and it was explained. Part of Hamilton is on the James Hamilton Survey, or one of them. The records shows he held various tract of land in trust for the South Carolina Land Company, composed of himself, Wade Hampton, and George Trenhelm. Hampton [Hamilton], of course, was later the Confederate General and governor of South Carolina, and I think Trenhelm was the famous blockade runner at Charleston. Hamilton was drowned at Galveston in May in 1857 in a ship collision, having given his life preserver to a lady with a baby. The next year the county was named after him.. Years ago I had the privilege of going through his papers at the U. of N. C. Courtesy of a descendent.)

(Old maps show "Hamilton" where Burnet now is. I think there were also James Hamilton Surveys near there. A rancher out in Menard County told me some years ago when his mother came to Burnet, it was called Hamilton.)

WILLIAM SNELL

THE ASSASSINATION OF MR. SNELL

MORE ABOUT MR. SNELL

BACK TO THE SNELL STORY

THE SNELL CASE

SNELL AND CLAUNCH

WILLIAM SNELL, AGAIN

THE DAY SNELL WAS KILLED

MR. SNELL, A GOOD MAN

AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF SNELL

TOMBSTONES OF WILLIAM M. SNELL

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CHESLEY'S  HAMILTON COUNTY INTERVIEWS

BY

HERVEY EDGAR CHESLEY, JR.

Born: 21 November, 1894

Died: 17 July, 1979

 

 

 
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