ABOUT JOHN BOND

John Bond would do most anything. Finally he married Katie (or Kittie) Kemp, who was the sister of David Kemp, who shot and killed Smith. She had first married Robins or Tom Barron--he forgot which. Her first husband was killed by David Kemp or he had him killed. The other one died. Mr. Williams said Barron was high hearted, a good fellow, but pretty wild when drunk. That Grandma Pierson thought lots of him, he would do much for her.

(Think he was the man who in a St. Louis Hotel after a cattle drive or delivery picked up a newspaper, upside down, he couldn’t read and seeing a ship upside down, remarked there must have been a storm at sea.)

(Don’t think John Bond was too good a man. Saw him at a Sweetwater picnic on July 4, 1906, when he was sheriff there. One of his girls hit me with a rubber ball on a string.)

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