The transcript of W.W. Arnett's memoirs can be read at http://sagemckenzie.com/ancestors/memoirs.html .
A transcription of the History of Uvalde can be found at http://sagemckenzie.com/ancestors/uvalde.htm
1So I will conclude by telling you of yours truly. I, William Washington Arnett was born in Franklin Co., Ala. on the fifth day of January 1823. That makes me about 66 years old or as the Mexicans say "Poka Paho". I left Miss. on the 21st day of August 1845 and fooled along the 25 day of August before I crossed the Sabine. All of a sudden I got in a hurry and crossed just at sunrise on the 25th day of August, 1845, 24 years in Texas. Now don't that make me an old Texan and you have been in Texas longer than I have. Well, I came to your Pa's at Town Bluff in September. There I first saw you, your Ma, your Grandpa K. and Zeke Fulgive, but don't you think that Bob was a better man than Zeke. I then went to Wolf Creek to see C.C. and Family (Cullen) and got acquanted withe the Wolf Creek ticks. Do you remember them? While I was teaching that school you spoke of, I wrote resolutions to govern myself by one was "I will never kill a tick in Tyler Co. with the expectation of lessening their number". While I was writing this George K. was making love to Frankie, you were asleep and I was winking at Ana Liza Rigsby. Poor Frankie, poor Ana Liza and poor me, little did we know about the "Sweet Bye and Bye", but we do know now you see. |
