ORIGINAL Lincoln New Mexico Sue McSween Document 1881
Two Months BEFORE Billy the Kid Death, Tunstall Cattle
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Your browser does not support JavaScript. To view this page, enable JavaScript if it is disabled or upgrade your browser. Click Here. Double your traffic. Get Vendio Gallery - Now FREE! Original Lincoln County / Billy the Kid / Lincoln County War related autographed document signed, dated Lincoln N.M. May 9th (?), original hand written receipt of Sue E. (McSween) Barber, for $8.00 for the search of Tunstall Cattle. 5.25" x 4.25". Reads: " Recieved of Sue E. Barber (see below) the sum of $8.00 for going to 3 Rivers in search of stray Tunstall Cattle. Jose Romero (signed) witness her mark, bears mark of (?) Leuceia (?). Filed May 11th signed to verso by clerk Ben Ellis who's family owned the Ellis Store, see below for additional information and importance of this family and relationship with the Kid & McSween). Good condition, very scarce Lincoln County artifact. 100% FULLY GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC ~~~~~~ Sue E. (McSween) Barber, Lincoln County New Mexico Territory ca 1880s - Susan McSween (Barber) was born Susan Ellen Hummer in Adams County, Pennsylvania on December 30, 1845. After the Civil War ended, she left Pennsylvania to Ohio to live with her sisters there. In 1870, in Illinois, she met Alex McSween, and they soon became engaged. She went with him to Kansas, and there they married on August 23, 1873. They left for New Mexico shortly after, settling in Lincoln. Like her husband, she was an important figure in the Lincoln County War. Unlike her husband, she was not afraid to speak her mind and was far more realistic about what was going on. She was hated by every Murphy-Dolan-Riley man. After the war and after her husband was killed and her home burned to the ground, she hired a lawyer named Huston Chapman to bring the men she blamed to trial. At the top of her list was Lt. Col. Nathan A. M. Dudley, who was a Dolan man and who was present at the Five-Day Battle in Lincoln, in which her husband was killed and her home destroyed. During the battle, she had pleaded to Dudley to help her husband, but he basically laughed in her face. Her lawyer, Chapman, was murdered by Dolan and three other Dolan men, one of which basically announced he was hired to kill Chapman by Dudley. Dudley did go to trial for arson, but was acquitted. Before that, he faced a court of inquiry to decide whether he should be court martialed for his activities during the Five-Day Battle. Susan got past this and became the owner of not only her late husband's property, but that of the dead Tunstall and Dick Brewer's as well. She started a ranch near Three Rivers, New Mexico and became known as a cattle queen. She married a man named George Barber in 1880, but later divorced him. She died in White Oaks, New Mexico on January 3, 1931. " *Eventually Pat Garrett and his posse tracked down and killed Billy the Kid some two months after this document was written in July 1881. Related Historical Importance: Billy was a member of the Tunstall-Mc Sween "Regulators". A portion of these men took refuge in the Ellis Store during the five day gun battle. Located inside were Doc Scurlock, Charlie Bowdre, John Middleton, Frank Coe, and several others. About twenty Mexican Regulators, led by Josefita Chavez, were also positioned around town. In the McSween house were Alex McSween and his wife Susan, Billy the Kid, Henry Brown, Jim French, Tom O'Folliard, Jose Chavez y Chavez, George Coe, and a dozen Mexican cowboys. Billy was later held in house arrest at the Ellis Store awaiting his pardon from Governor Lew Wallace. In 1938 Mrs. Ella Davidson, formerly of Lincoln, New Mexico was interviewed about this fascinating chapter of her life. "On the Sunday evening before the terrible days that ended the Lincoln County War Mother said: 'Ella this is the week that will end all this bloodshed and fighting and, I thank God your father is away and won't be mixed up in the shooting, but I an afraid to stay here with you children unprotected.' So that night after supper she took us to stay with the Ellis family, in their house which was built with all the rooms in one long row. About ten o'clock we heard someone with spurs on, come clattering down the whole length of the house. The door where we sat opened and there was Billy the Kid! He was followed by fourteen men who took possession of the house. We went back to our home but Mother was afraid to stay there after she thought our water supply would perhaps be cut off, so we went to Juan Patron's house and about midnight that house was taken over by some of the fighters. We then went to Montonna's store where we went to bed and when we got up the next morning about twenty men had taken possession there, but we stayed there from Sunday evening, until the next Friday morning. Mother got up and after we saw men fired on and one killed, she said, 'I am going to take you children out of this danger!’ So she took us two miles out of town to where there were some tall poplar trees - they are still there - and about noon we saw heavy smoke. It was the McSween store that had been set afire by the Murphy men to burn out the McSween men (one of them was the Kid) who were surrounded, so they couldn't escape. When the fire was under way Mr. McSween calmly walked to the door as if surrendering and was shot down. Then, two others that followed were riddled with bullets. George Coe, Henry Brown, and Charlie Bowdre were among the crowd that escaped. Billy the Kid was the last one left in the building. During the excitement of the roof crashing in, he rushed out with two pistols blazing. Bob Beckwith, whose shot had killed McSween, was killed by one flying bullet and two others were wounded. The Kid, with bullets whizzing all around him, made his escape. After this battle that took place in July, 1878 everything quieted down, and my mother took us home. Mrs. McSween, whose home was burned, stayed with us all night, and the next morning she asked me to go with her to see the ruins of her house. We found only the springs and other wires of her piano that was the pride of her life. She raked in the ashes where her bureau had stood and found her locket." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Check out our other items ALL items are guaranteed genuine! SquareTrade © AP6.0On Aug-13-08 at 15:34:34 PDT, seller added the following information: Sellers: Get your own map of past buyers. Fast. Simple.
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