CHALK ALSO DID

Sometimes later Chalk was in Marion Grave’s Saloon in the basement in the old northwest corner building, and Carter, remembered the whipping he had gotten by Carter [Fleming ?] in Chalk’s company, "abused." Chalk and [no name given] followed him upstairs. Chalk had on a pair of spurs, that the German had made in Austin, and finally stomped Carter and tore up his face with the spurs.

Chalk, Fleming, and Massie, who was later sheriff, were related. It seems that Jim Massie married a Fleming. Mixed up some way. (All connected with the "Blue Ridge" bunch.)

(The old building in which the Graves saloon was located in the basement, Mr. Williams said was erected by Eli Terry, a builder in the old days, brother to sheriff Terry, and was the first rock building put on the public square. Earlier this year (1976) a section of the north and exposed wall fell out. It had stood the weather about a hundred years. [This building was at the north end of the west side of the square and was occupied by J. M. Williams Hardware when the wall collapsed. The Knights of Pythias had occupied the second floor of the building at one time. The space occupied by the building is now a parking area.--Elreeta Weathers]

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