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OLD MAN ASA LANGFORD

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Mr. Williams said he could never understand why so many men seemed to be after Old Man Asa Langford to kill him. That it has worried him and puzzled him, though in those days he didn’t wonder or care in particular. Surprised at some of them whose names he wouldn’t mention. Once the old man came through in a two horse wagon on the way to see William Snell, and two fellows followed to kill him, but he out drove them.

Then one time Sam Nations (?) shot at him on the way from Gatesville to Evant; shot through his covered wagon and killed Langford’s little boy sitting beside him. Langford whipped up his horses and got away. That part of the people out there thought him a fine fellow. He helped lots of people. Others were afraid of him; and others always trying to get him. He did not think, as I suggested, that it was because he was against Secession. Belonged to the "Houston Party."

That he and Snell were acquainted and pretty good friends. He had mentioned some other time, I believe, that Langford first lived also down on the Leon River. He did not know of Snell ever going to see him. The old man was not part of any mob or gang there. Inasmuch as men were after both of them, I wondered if there was any connection. He said again Snell meddlesome, but a good man, a good man."

(One night Old Man John Hammack, of Gatesville, once sheriff was riding horseback along the road through Gholson Gap near Evant at the time narrow and fringed with bushes. He heard the sound he knew to be the cocking of a musket and yelled out, "This is the wrong man; this is John Hammack."  And he heard no more. (Judge R. B. Cross to writer.)

 

 
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by Elreeta Crain Weathers, B.A., M.Ed.,  
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