WHEN THE PEOPLE CAME IN

                    
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There was a big migration of people here about 1876 and following years. Crews and others. Maybe a lot of Confederate veterans. The early bunch, the Claunches, Snells, Mannings, Rices, Jimmie and Henry Carter, had come earlier. Believe he said the Claunches came from near San Marcos, but not sure. This was the time that the Nesters started really coming in, and later began to run things.

(From subsequent information, it seems that prior to 1880 when the Santa Fe was planning to come into Texas, it was thought it would run by Hamilton. Some able men were here at the time, such as M. N. Baker, from Toledo, Ohio; Mr. S. D. Felt, first a sheep rancher then flour miller, and later Spindle top always in the oil business; Major C. W. Cotton, lawyer and county judge, later put on the River Oak Addition of Houston; Mr. W. W. Lynch, originally from South Carolina went to Amarillo in 1909, and put in the San Jacinto Addition, and so on.)

 

 
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