Tryon Juett VIVION

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    "I remember my uncle, Tryon Vivian, was a fine man and had he lived , my life would have been different in later years. I was his favorite of all his nieces. When he was quite a young man, the gold rush in California was on and he went there and made a fortune. After he made his fortune, he came back to Texas and stopped at San Antonio. He married a beautiful, young girl there, her name was Miss Adams. He had been in San Antonio about four years and decided to go back to Nevada, California. So he wrote my mother to be ready that he was coming to take her and we children with them. Mother was all excited and wanted to go. It was close to Christmas time and she went to work and cooked up pies, cakes and all kinds of good things to eat till she had the old safe full. But in the meantime, my uncle had gone across to Old Mexico and bought a big bunch of fine horses and brought them over to his ranch. Well, some Mexican bandits followed him across and had slipped up to his ranch and was in the pens where he had the horses, ready to steal them. When my uncle and his men heard the commotion, they hitched their horses in the brush close by and slipped up on the bandits and got the drop on them, and took their guns. They put the guns up by a tree and went on about their business. I will never understand what made my uncle do it but he left those bandits and they got their guns. So of course, they started shooting at my uncle and his men. One old fat Mexican shot my uncle and broke his arm and back, and after that, my uncle grabbed his pistol and shot the Mexican. But he had a silver dollar in his shirt pocket and the bullet hit this dollar and it turned and the shot didn't hurt him. That is what he told the rest of the cowboys when they caught him. He didn't last long after that. Those cowboys cut his head off right there and stuck it up on a post for the rest to look at. My uncle only lived an hour after he was shot, but he talked to the last telling the other boys what to tell his wife and my mother." As told by Mary Holt Jennings, daughter of Frances Ann Vivion and niece of Tryon Juett Vivion