SNELL AND CLAUNCH, COWMEN
Claunch and Snell were partners, had a reasonable bunch of cattle. He
had supposed they were always good friends, but Will Claunch, the son, had
just a few years before said he had thought Snell had caused some way the
killing of Adamson, their relative. That shooting happened down on present
Bell Avenue when Adamson went to Grandma Pierson’s at the log house, to
get some water.
(See the "Case of Adam Witcher" in
which there is recited the auction of the Witcher effects, at which
Patrick Adamson bid off a well pulley wheel. Evidently he did not get to
use it. Dock _ippie , who still lives here was telling me that his mother’s
father was digging a well, the kind they had in those days. Became
asphyxiated, and was taken to the Bell residence - a log house down the
street. Understood this was just across the street from here, where the
old Ford Building is
