GEORGE WASHINGTON WADE

                    
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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

 

 

 
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