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The original food trucks. Ross @RossRYoung note Young’s Hats umbrellas, early 1900’s.

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Thanks for the link, Reagan. The county history books have a pretty accurate telling of the facts. I’ll add a couple of interesting things from them or from my grandfather told to him when he was a kid.

While waiting for their sentence to be carried out the Taylor Bros managed to get out of their cell. The jailhouse is a two-story (still stands today). They found a canvas fire hose to aid them in their escape, first breaking in to the attic & from there out on to the tin roof. Tying the fire hose around the chimney, George Taylor was the first to climb down. Hearing the commotion the Sheriff rushed outside in time to catch William Taylor still coming down, & to see George Taylor escape in a buggy.

George Taylor was never seen again. When the Spanish-American War broke out in Cuba in 1898 the rumor was that George enlisted & served in the first war fought off shore.

For some yrs after the turn of the century there was a hermit seldom seen but living on a small island in the Mississippi River down stream from St. Louis. At some point the hermit just seemed to disappear (most likely died) & was forgotten about. During the cleanup after the flood of 1951 old skeletal remains thought to be those of the hermit were found, & speculation at the time was that the hermit may have been George Taylor.
 

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