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	Our Singing Country
	THE ROWAN COUNTY CREW d'K No. 932. Mr. and Mrs. George L. White, Grand Saline, Texas, 1937. See Cox, p. 203; Tho.2, p. 5; Co, p. 185. Note from Cox, p. 203. "A man named Bowling was one of the men who went after Martin, whose wife happened to be visiting him at the time. They brought them back togethery but removed her before the killing occurred. Bowling just stepped up to Martin and shot him several times. "Martin lived a mile east of Morehedd, where, some years later, a big lumber company located. Martin had two sons, lads at the time of his mur­der, and one of them went West. Bowling left the country, too} but after a number of years he came back. He got a job with the lumber company as an inspector of timber, and one day} while he and some others were looking at Martin's grave} which they could see from the camp, Bowling said to them, CI shot that---------and I wish he were alive so that I could shoot him again/ "Martin's younger son overheard the remark, went home, and tried to get his father's pistol-, but his mother would not let him have it. Then he sent a telegram to his brother out West, who came home, waited in the wood, shot Bowling, and then went back. The body was rotten before it was found. No one ever knew who shot Bowling, but really everybody knew." —C. H. Ellis.