Grandfather Research Paper

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Back in 1896 my Great, Great, Grandfather was a Kentucky horse wrangler. Mr. Stiles Stackhouse Gaddie was the son of John Gray Gaddie and Margaret Ann Willett. He lived in Campbellsville, Kentucky which is in Taylors County. He started out as a farmer and when his father died in July in 1894 he took over his father’s business of horse wrangling in the West. In 1897, He 9idecided to head to the Wild West to bring back wild horses to the Bluegrass state. Once he returned with the herd of horses, he took them to the stockyards in Campbellsville, Kentucky located on the family farm. On one of his trips he made, he and his horse Big Red, was out in a field in the West, wrangling some horses when all the sudden the ground underneath him was gone.…show more content…
When he awoke, he thought he was out for about two days because of the sky, it was dark. He knew it has been about two days because of his pocket watch, on his it told the date. His head was spinning in circles and his eyes were so blurry that he had thought that he had on old seeing glasses so hard time seeing what was around him. While trying to get his eyes to refocus, he hears a sound. He looks around him, with his eyes till blurry all he could see was a big reddish, brown blob. It was his horse, he crawls over, since he was too dizzy to walk and puts his ear to the chest of Big Red. He did not hear anything; he does it again, doesn’t hear anything. Couple hours past, he hears a sound, he could not make it out what it was. A few minutes later, he hears it again. The first time he wasn’t able to figure out what it was. But after the second time, he knew what it was, it was the rattle of a Rattle Snake. He closed his eyes, trying to figure out what he should do when he heard it
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