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A recent note to the Advertiser staff enclosed a clipping from "The Illustrated Texian Scrapbook" snipped from the Sunday March 1st issue of the Fort Worth Press. The clipping headed by an engraved likeness of Davy Crockett from the New York Historical Society says " On February 6th 1836 while on their way to the Alamo on the Old San Antonio Road. Davy Crockett and his bar huntin friends" spend the night in the jailhouse at Mina (present Bastrop) charged with disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct." |
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"Davy's fiddle tunes and uproarious
stories may have disturbed the tranquility of Mina, but it is more
likely a friendly sheriff trumped up the charges so Davy and his 12
Tennessee volunteers could sleep indoors.
"The note, from Mrs. W. B. ATKINS says, "As a displaced Bastropian I was proud to find this article of history in a North Texas newspaper. "My weekly reading of the advertiser is like a visit back home."
The Advertiser is happy to pass
on the historical bit, and the staff is more than happy to have
learned from an old friend. Mrs. Atkins the former Miss Linelle
Turner, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Turner of Bastrop.
Transcribed by Lisa L taken
from the Bastrop Advertiser date unknown Pre-1900
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