Famous Last Words

[D. R. Greysun]

Hi Capt,
I don't want to keep ya in suppenders any longer. That's a "D R" original as long as someone else don't claim it. 
D R

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Kinda figgered that, D.R., seein' as how Slim couldn't come up with an answer.  Been me, Ida also made up a good story to go with the made up "quote".  Coulda had us all goin' there for a bit.

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Who said "This is funny." with his last breath?

[Russ T Chambers]

Doc Holiday,
refering to his boots not being on. 

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Fast and accurate, Russ T. 

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

"Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country. . . .  useless . . . useless . . ."

[Sidekick]

Would that be John Wilkes Booth

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

It most difinitely would be, Sidekick.


"Booth, John Wilkes (1839-1865)
   "Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country. . . .  useless . . . useless . . ."
   After John Wilkes Booth fired a fatal shot into the back of President Lincoln's head, he jumped from the box to the stage of Ford's Theater in Washington shouting "Sic Semper Tyrannis," the motto of the Commonwealth of Virginia.  As he leapt, his boot caught in some bunting causing him to break his left leg upon landing.  He fled the city with a co-conspirator, David Herold, and eventually ended up trapped by soldiers while hiding in a barn at Richard Garnet's farm in Virginia.  Herold gave himself up when called upon to surrender, but Booth yelled back, "Captain, this is a hard case, I swear.  Give a lame man a chance.  Draw up your men twenty yards from the door, and I will fight your whole command."  When his offer was refused, he shouted, "Well, my brave boys, you can prepare a stretcher for me."  The soldiers then set fire to the barn in an attempt to drive Booth from it as their orders were to capture him alive.  Booth began to shout, "Kill me!  Kill me!"   In the confusion, at least one soldier shot into the barn.  Booth collapsed, struck in the neck by a round.  He was dragged from the flames and onto the porch of Garnet's house where he died mumbling."

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

"I am not coward, but I am so strong.  It is hard to die."

[Silver Creek Slim]

Here's a hint. It was said in 1809.

Slim

[Sidekick]

Meriwether Lewis

[Silver Creek Slim]

Did you "cheat"? 

Slim

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Sidekick has it.

Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809)
   "I am not coward, but I am so strong.  It is hard to die."

Meriwether Lewis was appointed the first governor of Upper Louisiana by Thomas Jefferson following his return from his famous expedition to the Pacific Ocean.  He was a poor administrator and decided to travel to Washington to square some unreimbursed expense reports that had left him deep in debt.  He departed Saint Louis with $200 in his pockets for New Orleans, where he planned to finish his journey by boat.  In route, he suffered a breakdown near what today is Memphis, Tennessee.  He recuperated there for several weeks and again set out, this time overland. While stopped just south of Nashville at the home of Ms. Robert Grinder, whose husband was away, Lewis was said to have become very agitated about his personal affairs.  Ms Grinder later reported that during the night she heard a gunshot followed by the cry of "Oh, Lord," which was followed by a second shot.  A few minutes later, Lewis staggered to her door and pleaded, "Oh, madam! Give me some water and heal my wounds."  Ms. Grinder was too frightened to open the door until morning when she sought out Lewis's servants, and together they found him alive and intense pain with his skull shattered and brain exposed.  Ms. Grinder claimed that although he then begged her to kill him, she refused.  Lewis's death was never investigated, and while many believed it to have been a suicide, an equal number suggested that he was killed while being robbed by his servants, Ms. Grinder, her husband, or others.  Lewis's $200 was never found.

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Always want to give credit where credit is due.  As Slim will tell you, most of the quotes in this thread came from http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6537/realidx.htm

Hamp

[Silver Creek Slim]

Always want to give credit where credit is due.  As Slim will tell you, most of the quotes in this thread came from http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6537/realidx.htm

Hamp

How would I know that? 

Slim(whats got a friend named Google)

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Is it true what I hear that your back-up alias is "Google Bug"?

[Silver Creek Slim]

Is it true what I hear that your back-up alias is "Google Bug"?

Where have you heard that? Is someone talking behind my back again? Hext! Cheyenne!

[Cheyenne]

Must be Hext.

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

"Let me go.  The world is bobbing around."

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

"Baby, your brother Eddie shot me.
I turned and seen him cross the fence,
after he cracked down on me the second time."