>From stories told by my grandma, Annie Pearl Barefoot Daugherty, to her daughters. They took them down in shorthand and on tape and then transcribed them. ------------------- While Jason Daugherty was in the Ranger Service (Fannin County TX Rangers-my aunts confused this with the Texas Rangers. Jason was not in that group, but the local county Rangers), his company had a young man under arrest named Garl Vinson/Vincent who had been one of Quantrill's band. He had come from Missouri and had never taken the oath of allegiance to the United States (after The War) and the Texas Rangers had a warrant out for him They captured him and had him under guard in a tent. Jase Daugherty and another Ranger were guarding the tent that night. When morning came and they passed the prisoner his breakfast, Vincent was gone. A hole was cut in the tent with a pocket knife and the man was gone on a horse which was saddled and standing behind the tent. When Jase Daugherty and family came to the Indian Territory, he met Garl Vinson/Vincent's younger brother, Grant. (Also Garl's son, Charlie). Charlie held leases through his Indian wife and he let Jase and his sons Ed and Osborne have leases in the Indian Territory near Wynnewood for no charge. When Grant was 9 years old, he was hung from a tree by the Union soldiers because he would not tell where his brother, Garl, was. A Negro crawled out of the brush and cut the boy down. Uncle Grant was the sheriff of McClain County (OK) in 1911 and Ed (my grandfather and Annie Pearl's husband) went from Blanchard to Purcell to work as his deputy for about six months. John Swain, a U.S. Marshall in Purcell, OK, killed Garl Vinson/Vincent over lease land around Paoli. Then Charlie, Garl's son, immediately killed Swain, but surrendered himself to the authorities and was exonerated at the U.S. courthouse in Purcell. It was never proven that Charlie did kill Swain. It was thought that the two men killed each other. - ---------------------------- Now.. I don't have this written down, or I can't find it. But I remember them telling the story with a little more detail. I guess they were being careful about what they put down in print because the families were still around Purcell. But as I remember how they told it: They said that Swain, was really McSwain and that he had been a member of a gang in the El Paso TX area. (A brother of my grandma lived there and told about that part) Anyway, after one robbery, the gang split up and McSwain disappeared. He appeared later in Oklahoma as a US Marshall and under the name Swain. But the Barefoots and Daughertys knew who he was. Anyway. The way I heard