If you paid close attention to his way of telling a story you realized that he ran the Indian to death by running away from him. This is the tall Glenn who used to demolish street signs he bumped his head on. His cousin John B. E. Glenn, my GGG Grandfather, was 6 ft 5 inches, according to his Mexican War discharge papers.
"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot"--Enobarbus in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, back in Rome after having been too long in Egypt.--------- Melville's PIERRE, Book 4, chapter 5: "Something ever comes of all persistent inquiry; we are not so continually curious for nothing."
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Cousin Samuel Donley Glenn who once ran a Comanche brave to death
If you paid close attention to his way of telling a story you realized that he ran the Indian to death by running away from him. This is the tall Glenn who used to demolish street signs he bumped his head on. His cousin John B. E. Glenn, my GGG Grandfather, was 6 ft 5 inches, according to his Mexican War discharge papers.
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