Booth, the Garretts and an Invitation to Tea

[Linda Anderson]

There's an interview with W. D. Newbill in the April 7, 1929 Evening Star in which he says that he and and "two companions" were sharing a "rather slim meal of cornbread, salt pork and greens" at a table on the lawn when Booth, who was called "Boyd," hobbled up. He said Booth spoke little and refused Garrett's offer of a bedroom for him to rest in saying "that a soldier would not know how to rest in a bed anyhow."

The Garretts say they refused to let Booth stay in the house a second night.