Great Foundation

[CYJ]

Hello Big Easy. I believe I have gotten my wires crossed. What I have said about R. Williams is all true. But I believe his Red Boy crosses were built around Truett's Prince dog.

As I looked at your pedigree some more. I noted the Gambler dog. I believe this Williams is L. Williams that was part of the Pee Dee Kennels group. His partner was M. Matthews. I knew both those fellows when they got their first dog. One of their first dogs I believe came from H. Hargrove and was off ole Molly Bee. A great looking and acting dog.

Fellows put the cart before the horse before they had learned much. Showed that dog against Tant and Mr. Burns. They had a great dog and was deep game, but lack of proper conditioning and in the middle of the summer. They lost a great dog. It was later that they got into some good dogs with the Gambler dog/Nitro. They too at one time had some Red Boy crosses off Truett's Prince along with some Garner's Chinaman as well. L. Williams and M. Matthews were good friends with Hanton.

Another dog man in that group was R. Nelson. We grew up together and even played some high school football. Nelson spent time on Katie's yard and helped her with the dogs as well. Nelson died some months back due to Diabetes. Nelson was the last owner of my little Young's Jake dog. Nelson wanted to breed Jake to one of his Red Boy bitches. Jake was around 11 years old when Nelson got him. Do not think Nelson had any success with getting any pups. Now I have my facts straight to the best of my past memory. LOL