Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2012, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and Submitted by Rhoda Taylor Fone for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== DALLAS MORNING NEWS August 29, 1907 BELIEVES QUANTRELL ALIVE Col. Tuck Hill of McKinney Does not Think Him Dead McKinney, Tex., Aug. 21.—Col. Tuck Hill, one of McKinney’s and Collin County’s best known and most highly esteemed citizens, who served under the famous guerilla chieftain, Col. William Quantrell, during the Civil War, together with Frank and Jesse James, who were his cousins, has been much interested in the recently published reports that Quantrell is alive. Concerning them he said: “A great deal has been said about how Col. Quantrell died, and in fact his death is a matter of history, but I have yet to see the man who saw him die or even saw him after he was dead, and I have taken some trouble to find out if such a person existed. I have never believed that he is dead. Personally, I have not seen him since he left Texas and went back to Kentucky during the last days of the Civil War, but some time after the war, when I was on a business trip to Shreveport, I met Dick Loyd, one of Quantrell’s right hand men, and Dick told me that he had seen Quantrell, sound and well. He said that he rode on a steamboat up the Mississippi River with him, and Quantrell told him that he was going to a certain point on the river and get some gold he had buried and he was then going to leave the country and begin over again. I believe the man the papers have been printing stories about lately is Quantrell.” Col. Hill then went on to relate how Quantrell was wounded in a barnyard fight, in which a young soldier named Clark Hawkins Smith, who was a fiancé of Mrs. V. A. Monroe of this city, then Miss Cathey, was killed and Quantrell was wounded. He stated that a lady who witnessed the encounter wrote to Miss Cathey informing her of Mr. Smith’s death and stated that Col. Quantrell was wounded, though nothing was said about it being a fatal wound. In view of all the facts and circumstances of the case, Col. Hill is inclined to believe Quantrell is yet alive and says he would like to shake hands with him one more time. ===========================================================================