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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.

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