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ALLEYTON,
TEXAS Colorado
County, Central Texas South
FM 102 just South of I-10
4 miles SE of Columbus
Population:
165
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Alleyton is
hardly a household name, yet its importance to the Confederacy
is well known by Texas Civil War buffs.
Since it was
the end of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railroad
line, it was also the point for distributing supplies that
came in from England via Matamoros, Mexico on the "Cotton
Road". Even cotton farmers from as far away as Warrenton
(Fayette County) would make the trip to Brownsville.
Alleyton
is also the the burial place of Dallas Stoudenmire, a local
Confederate veteran turned gunman who became both an El Paso City
Marshall and a U.S. Deputy Marshall in El
Paso.
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Tombstone
denoting Dallas Stoudenmire's participation in the Civil War
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Eager to get
into his new job in El Paso, he killed 3 men within 3 days of
taking the job. It sounds worse than it was since they were all
killed in the same fight. Dallas bullied and cursed the city council,
but openly apologized when sober.
The apologetic side of his nature shows his good Colorado County
upbringing. His homicidal streak he acquired elsewhere. Dallas
returned to Columbus long enough to get married in February, 1882
but was shot dead within the year back in El Paso. This occurred
some 13 years before John Wesley Hardin (from nearby Gonzales)
was also shot dead in El Paso.
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The
former Alleyton Post Office
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Citizens of
Alleyton have progressed from the old wooden Post Office to the
nice and neat modern metal drive-up boxes. It does make visiting
with neighbors a little difficult, but now they can honk at one
another.
Today, Alleyton sits undisturbed just East of Columbus
and makes an interesting drive-by visit on the way to Eagle
Lake and points south.
©
John Troesser
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