GEORGE WASHINGTON WADE
Wade was a good man. He married a Boulding. J. T. James
and Law, his partner in the drug business for a time, both coming from
Missouri, though James was born in Virginia City or in California. Wade
had plenty of courage but was sool [sic] and slow to act. Mr. Williams saw
him on one occasion deputize Tom Pierson and Bob Shockley, and go to a
saloon to arrest Henry Carter, who had been raising ... . Wade pulled a
big gun, followed Pierson and Shockley, who pounced on Carter and arrested
him.
As they came out on the way to jail, Wade waved the big
pistol at the crowd to get out of the way. He didn’t know but that they
might interfere. He did not have the crowd with him, and he realized that,
but he didn’t run. George Gentry himself was elected next. (Understood
him to say.)
(G. W. Wade moved to Bell County and there
served two terms as sheriff, and his family remained there. His grandson,
Wilson Wade, at Temple, was a friend of mine. Told me on visiting his
step-grandmother, he found in the attic tied up in oilcloth, a diary
written by G. W. Wade. Either I saw it or heard some of it how Wade had an
adventurous career before coming here, including service on a whaler and
so on. Wilson wanted me to go with him some Sunday to Sherman and
interview Dr. Ed Phillips, history, who at the time had the document and
was studying it. Made some correspondence with Phillips on other matters
and he did not tell me if he still had the diary, but that Wilson was
dead. It is my understanding that in World War One Wilson was the private
secretary of General Douglas MacArthur.
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CHESLEY'S HAMILTON COUNTY INTERVIEWS
BY
HERVEY EDGAR CHESLEY, JR.
Born: 21 November, 1894
Died: 17 July, 1979