Grayson County TXGenWeb

Sherman, Texas

Sunday Gazetteer
October 18, 1891

Several months since a young man by the name of William Davis was found unconscious in front of a drug store in Sherman, as he was without money and as there was no possible means of proving his identity, he was sent to the county poor farm. He lingered in the condition in which he was found until a week ago while recovering from an attack of brain fever. He began to show signs of returning to consciousness. He is now very nearly well and states that he had $240 in cash and a watch on his person when he entered a saloon on the square in Sherman and that the last he remembers is taking a drink from a bottle in the rear of the building.