FELLOWS, N. F., Beeville Bee, Friday, 27 Oct 1901:

N. F. FELLOWS, an eccentric old character, and one of the county's oldest residents, died at his 
home on Toro creek, near Normanna, last Sunday. Owing to his peculiar character, little of his early
 life is known beyond the fact that he was born in Alabama, March 22, 1824 and came to Texas in an 
early day. In 1856 he was married in Rusk County to Miss Nancy Jane PENNIWIT of Ohio who survives 
him. 

He came to Bee County about 1860 and settled on the Toro creek, where, with the exception of a couple 
of years spent in Kerr County, he has since resided. He was both a Mexican and a Confederate veteran. 

During the latter years of his life his vagaries increased and he made prodigious claims as to his age and 
relationship to royal personages. He acquired homestead rights to the land on which he lived by reason 
of his long residence, but owing to his refusal to sign the necessary documents, for years he was merely a 
squatter and the defendant in a continuous suit for his injectment on the part of the land owner in whose 
pasture he lived. 

Finally he was induced to sign the papers and a homestead of 250 acres was secured to him and his aged wife. 

A few years ago he conceived the idea he was the owner of the Aransas Pass railway with headquarters at 
Eagle Lake, and had gathered his stock preparatory to moving there. Kindly disposed neighbors interposed 
and had him adjudged non-compos mentis and a guardian was appointed. Beg. ROBERTS was appointed 
in this capacity and has since exercised a guardianship over him and his property.