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James Robertson, Jr. — had a rough
go of it.
“When he was 16 years old, he
and his father had a fight, an argu-
ment,” explained Parker County
genealogist/historian Linda Murdock.
“The father, JR Couts, picked up a
chair, a child’s chair, and hit him
over the head with it. And from then
on, he was put in an institution [in
Austin] with brain damage. I think he
lived to be 50-something years old.”
Tragedy marked the family. A
daughter also was institutionalized.
“After she had two children, two
girls, she was locked up in a state
hospital in East Texas,” Murdock
said. “You know, back then, it could
have been postpartum depression;
who knows what it was, why they
locked her up. Because back then,
if you were depressed after you
had children, I think they thought
you were crazy; and I think that
happened quite a bit.”
Margaret “Maggie” Couts and her
husband Hillary Mosley, Murdock
said, were killed in a train wreck in
1925. Apparently, this happened near
Brazos where the couple owned a
ranch. (Another account places the
accident near Weatherford.)
“I’m telling you, the whole family
was just tragic,” Murdock declared.
“They had gone out to the ranch to
take Christmas presents to their ranch
crew. They were either coming home
or going, and the train snagged their
bumper and dragged them along,
killed them both.”
Mary’s troubles were of the matri-
monial kind. She first married Claude
Barradel, a young physician who also
died tragically.
According to Suzanne Slay, a
descendant of the Mosleys, the
young doctor kissed his wife good-
bye before heading out on foot to
his office. On his way, he decided
to stop off at the barber shop for a
shave. The barber had put hot towels
on the young doctor’s face and was
mixing up the lather when a still-
unidentified man kicked open the
door to the barber shop and unload-
ed his pistol into the young doctor’s
body.
The barber pulled the hot towels
off the bleeding doctor and the man,
who was still standing in the doorway
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