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James Wilson Medlin

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James Wilson Medlin

Birth
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25 Feb 1915 (aged 68)
Burial
Trophy Club, Denton County, Texas, USA
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James Wilson Medlin was about one year old or slightly less when his father, Charles Simpson Medlin, and his father's brother, Lewis Medlin, led a group of settlers from Missouri to Texas to settle property then known as the Peter's Colony, in what is now southern Denton County, Texas.

The pioneer spirit, no doubt, played a role in the construction of a very unique barn on James' property. In a Fort Worth Star Telegram article written around 1981, it is called the "Grand Old Barn." Built in the early 1870's, it was a two-story barn, but having been built on a slope, the second floor was at ground level when approached from the front.

There is a legend that famous outlaw Sam Bass used this barn as a hideout, but, in the article, Mary Carpenter, a family relative, is quoted as saying that this was not true. Sam Bass, she said, stole horses from the Medlins, but used an old cave near Grapevine Lakes North Shore as his hideout.

The old barn was used as a setting for an episode of the TV series Walker Texas Ranger. But the building, through the years, deteriorated to the point that is has been torn down.

James and his wife, Henrietta, had a total of eleven children, nine of whom lived into adulthood.

James Wilson Medlin was about one year old or slightly less when his father, Charles Simpson Medlin, and his father's brother, Lewis Medlin, led a group of settlers from Missouri to Texas to settle property then known as the Peter's Colony, in what is now southern Denton County, Texas.

The pioneer spirit, no doubt, played a role in the construction of a very unique barn on James' property. In a Fort Worth Star Telegram article written around 1981, it is called the "Grand Old Barn." Built in the early 1870's, it was a two-story barn, but having been built on a slope, the second floor was at ground level when approached from the front.

There is a legend that famous outlaw Sam Bass used this barn as a hideout, but, in the article, Mary Carpenter, a family relative, is quoted as saying that this was not true. Sam Bass, she said, stole horses from the Medlins, but used an old cave near Grapevine Lakes North Shore as his hideout.

The old barn was used as a setting for an episode of the TV series Walker Texas Ranger. But the building, through the years, deteriorated to the point that is has been torn down.

James and his wife, Henrietta, had a total of eleven children, nine of whom lived into adulthood.

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