The Family of Patrick Floyd (Pat) Garrett/1850 & Apolinaria Gutierrez/1861
son of John Lumpkin Garrett/1822
Born: 5 June 1850 Place: , Chambers Co., Al Died: 28 Feb 1908 Place: Alameda Arroyo, , NM Buried: Place: Masonic Cem., Las Cruces, , NM Married: 14 Jan 1880 Place: Anton Chico, , NM Actually not married as was the custom on the frontier .. due to no judge, no courthouse ... but marriage was consummated in Fort Sumner. Source : Cal Traylor Mother: Elizabeth Ann JARVIS Spouse: Apolinaria GUTIERREZ/1861 Born: Abt 1861 Place: , , Mexico Died: Alameda Arroyo, , NM Death : 1935 October 21 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. In her final years she suffered from Alzheimer as did her daughter Pauline and granddaughter Helen. Source : Cal TraylorBuried: Place: Masonic Cem., Las Cruces, , NMFather: Mother: Pat Garrett was shot dead by Wayne Brazel on February 29, 1908, near his Las Cruces, New Mexico ranch.
Buried: Place: Masonic Cem., Las Cruces, , NM
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Children of Patrick Floyd (Pat) Garrett/1850 & Apolinaria GUTIERREZ/1861
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1. Ida GARRETT /1881
Born: Abt 1881 NM Died: Abt 1896 Buried: Masonic Cem., Las Cruces, , NM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2. Dudley Po GARRETT/1882
Born: Abt 1882 NM Died: 1932 Buried: Masonic Cem., Las Cruces, , NM GARRETT, Dudley Poe Poe 1882 1932, buried with Family in Masonic Cemetery, Las Cruces, NM. Poes name was from Pats close friend and valuable deputy, see: John William Poe of Lincoln, NM. 1882 -- 1932 Dudley Poe . child fever, partial paralasis - hump back, never married, lived at home with family. -- Named "Poe" to honor Pat's friend John William Poe.
Source : Cal Traylor
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3. Elizabeth GARRETT/1885
Born: Abt 1885 NM Died: Roswell, , NM GARRETT, Elizabeth Death : 16 Oct 1947 Roswell, NM, and buried in Roswell. blind from birth on the family ranch on Eagle Creek Elizabeth probably was named to honor her aunt Elizabeth Ann Garrett: 31 Jan 1853 Chambers Co., Al --18 Mar 1874 age 21.
1880 –1947 Elizabeth, blind at birth, became accomplished music teacher of voice, piano, and organ; wrote state song Oh Fair New Mexico.
GARRETT, Elizabeth –
born 12 Oct 1880 at home ranch, Eagle Creek, Lincoln County, NM –
dead 16 Oct 1947 Roswell, NM, and buried in Roswell. In a thunder storm, her seeing eye dog guided out of the house seeking safety, crossed the street, and Elizabeth tripped on the curb, fell and bashed her head on the curb and died shortly after that.
Source : Cal Traylor
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4. Annie GARRETT/1890
Born: Abt 1890 NM Died: 1932 Buried: Masonic Cem., Las Cruces, , NM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5. Patrick Floyd GARRETT Jr. /1896
Born: Abt 1896 NM Died: 1927 Place: Buried: Masonic Cem., Las Cruces, , NM 1896 – 1927 Patrick Jr., lost a leg to infection. Was buried with his peg. Never married.
Source : Cal Traylor
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6. Pauline GARRETT /1900
Born: Abt 1900 NM Died: 1981 Las Cruces, , NM Buried: Masonic Cem., Las Cruces, , NM 1900 – 1981 Pauline, never married, died in Las Cruces. Her mother lived with Pauline until her death.
Source : Cal Traylor
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7. Oscar Lohman Garrett/1904
Born: Abt 1904 NM Died: 1951 Las Cruces, , NM Buried: Masonic Cem., Las Cruces, , NM 1904 – 1951 Oscar Lohman, died in TX.
Source : Cal Traylor
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8. Jarvis P Garrett
Born : 1905 , , New Mexico
Death: 1982 Burial: 1905 Jul 28 -- JARVIS POWERS per oituary -- or PATRICK per many records,
born at the ranch east of Las Cruces -- dead 20 May 1991
Spouse : Mary MCCARTHY Born : Nov 1904 in Providence,RI Children : HelenSource : Cal Traylor
1880 United States Census
Census Place 5th Precinct, Lincoln, New Mexico
Patrick F. GARRETT Self M Male W 29 AL Farmer GA AL
Polinasia GARRETT Wife M Female W 20 NM Keeping House NM NM
In 1873, John L. Garrett Jr. purchased a Louisiana plantation in Claiborne Parish.
Pat went to school and grew up there until January 25, 1869, he leaves Louisiana to become a buffalo hunter in Texas. Hesettles down in Fort Sumner, New Mexico in 1878, after the slaughter of buffaloes became unprofitable, where he marries Apolinaria Gutierrez. They had 9 children.
In July 19, 1878, The Lincoln County, New Mexico, War draws to an end following the Five
Days Battle at Lincoln. Billy the Kid is one of many outlaws still loose and running. While
he likely knew Billy the Kid, saying they were friends is an overstatement. Neither had much in common, except both were expert with guns. (Garrett was not in the Lincoln County War.)
He was elected as Sheriff of Lincoln County on November 2, 1880. He vows to bring the current reign of lawlessness to an end. On December15, 1880, Lew Wallace, the Governor of New Mexico, puts a $500 rewardon the head of William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid), through a newspaper notice. In December 20 & 21, 1880, Pat and his posse trap Billy the Kid and others in a one-room rock house at Stinking Springs, near Fort Sumner. the posse mistakenly kills Charlie Bowdre (one of Billy's most loyal friends). The Kid and the others surrender that
afternoon. Garrett takes the shackled prisoners by buckboard into Las Vegas, where
Garrett has to fight off a mob at the train station before he can move on to the state prison
at Santa Fe. (The mob was after one of the prisoners, Dave Rudabaugh).
In Mesilla, New Mexico on April 15, 1881, The Judge turns Billy the Kid over to Sheriff Pat
Garrett, after a trial, and orders that he Kid be hanged in Lincoln on May 13, 1881. Billy the Kid escaped from the Lincoln County jail on April 28, 1881 after killing both his guards, James Bell and Bob Olinger.
At Midnight on July 13, 1881, Sheriff Pat Garrett shoots Billy the Kid dead at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, when the Kid walks into Pete Maxwell's darkened bedroom. Garrett was
squatting alongside the mattress talking with Maxwell as Bonney entered. Billy saw Garrett but did not recognize him due to the darkness and the fact that Garrett was sitting or stooped down. The Kid cocked his revolver and hoarsely whispered "Quien es?" ("Who isit?"). Garrett fires twice, one bullet striking the Kid squarely in the heart. The other shot goes wild. (Some believe that the Kid only carried a knife into Maxwell's room.)
A book was published in 1882 entitled "The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, the Noted
Desperado of the Southwest". Garrett's name is on the cover as author,but Ash Upson, a
close friend, newspaperman, and notary, said he (Upson) wrote everyword of it. The book
sold poorly, but it was also poorly written.
He runs for Sheriff of the newly instated Chaves County, New Mexico in1890. He is defeated and bitterly leaves New Mexico to live in Ulvalde County, Texas. He purchases a ranch in the San Andres Mountains, New Mexico in 1899. His family countinued to reside there while Pat works in Las Cruces, Mesilla and Dona Ana Counties in New Mexico.
On December 16, 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt nominates PatGarrett as United
States customs collector at El Paso, Texas. He was a controversial appointment. In December of 1905, President Roosevelt refuses to reappoint Pat Garrett as El Paso collector of customs, there on the border with Old Mexico. Garrett andhis family return to their ranch in the San Andres Mountains.
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Birth: 5 JUN 1850 in Lafayette, Chambers County, Alabama
Death: 28 FEB 1908 in Almedo Arroyo, New Mexico
Note:
while on his way to Las Cruces, New Mexico's most famous lawman was shot and killed near Alameda Arroyo on the Mail-Scott Road. Garrett was riding in a buggy with Carl Adamson, one of two partners who were prospective buyers for Bear Canyon Ranch, property Garrett had been trying to sell. About four miles east of Las Cruces, they met Wayne Brazel, a cowboy who had leased Garrett's ranch for a goat-raising venture. Garrett, angered at the presence of goats on his property, had tried unsuccessfully to break the lease with Brazel. The only way Brazel would agree to cancel the lease was if Garrett's prospective buyers would purchase the goats. The idea of purchasing eighteen hundred goats did not appeal to the buyers, and the deal was on the verge of collapse.
As the men made their way west, Garrett and Brazel argued about the goats. Garrett was infuriated, and he told Brazel that he would get him and the goats off the land one way or another. Adamson stopped the buggy to get out and urinate, and Garrett decided to do the same. Bothmen had their backs to Brazel. A shot rang out, followed by another,and Garrett fell to the ground, mortally wounded. The first bullet smashed into the back of Garrett's skull, the second hit him in the stomach while he was on the ground. The famed lawman died withoututtering a word. He was 57 years old.
Adamson turned to see Brazel astride his horse, a smoking .45 caliberrevolver in his hand. Wayne dismounted and handed the revolver to Adamson, and the two men rode in the buggy to Las Cruces where Brazel surrendered to authorities. A bond of ten thousand dollars was set, and it was quickly raised by a group of local men led by W. W. Cox, a Rancher for whom Brazel worked. In April, a grand jury indicted Brazel on a charge of first-degree murder, and on April 19, 1909, the trial opened.
Albert B. Fall had been retained to defend Brazel, and his defense was something of an old standby in New Mexico: a preemptive strike in the face of mortal danger. Brazel admitted the shooting, but denied shooting Garrett in the back. He claimed Garrett threatened him with a shotgun, and he shot in order to save his life. The prosecution was a lackluster, indifferent affair, and when the jury was given the case that evening it took less than half an hour to return a verdict of not guilty. A barbecue was held at W. W. Cox's ranch in celebration of the trial's outcome, and many New Mexicans concluded it was as much a celebration of Garrett's death as it was an expression of relief at Brazel's vindication.
As time passed, fewer and fewer people in Southern New Mexico who thought about the case accepted Wayne Brazel's story. How could an obscure cowboy have killed the killer of Billy the Kid? How could an experienced manhunter of Garrett's caliber have allowed himself to be killed while urinating? Why did the prosecution conduct such an obviously inept case? Why did so many prominent men rush to assist Brazel? The trial itself seemed too simple, too cut-and-dried, and too contrived; it had been unworthy of the murder of a man of Garrett's stature. Many people came to believe that there was another story behind the murder, and that led to a number of conspiracy theories, many of which are current today.
Conspiracy theories are easy to construct and difficult, if no timpossible, to refute. The most elaborate conspiracy story regarding Garrett's death begins with an alleged meeting at the St. Regis Hotel in El Paso in the fall of 1907. In attendance at the meeting were W.W. Cox, Oliver Lee, Jim Gililland, Albert B. Fall, A. P. "Print" Rhode(Cox's brother-in-law), James P. Miller, Carl Adamson, and Mannie Clements. They were there to decide how to rid themselves of PatGarrett.
There were a number of motives:
1) Vengeance for Pat's activities while a lawman, fear that Garrett was continuing his investigation of the Fountain case, the desire for the water on Pat's ranch, and a seething anger over Garrett's killing of an alleged fugitive harbored on Cox's San Augustine Ranch.
2) The alleged conspirators offered Jim "Killer" Miller ten thousand dollars (accounts vary) to kill Garrett. He accepted, and the money was delivered to him at Fall's El Paso law office. The goats were part of the plan, as was the compliance of Wayne Brazel. Wayne was intensely loyal to W. W. Cox and could be depended upon to obey the cattleman's orders, no matter what they were. The goats would assure Garrett's anger, and his anger would lead to threats. Adamson would assure Pat's arrival at the predetermined spot where Miller would do the shooting, Brazel would take responsibility, and Adamson would swear to the truth of the matter.
A number of variations of the conspiracy theory have developed. One has W. W. Cox doing the actual shooting, and a surprised Brazel offering to take responsibility. George Curry, Governor of the Territory at the time, advanced this theory. A third, names Carl Adamson as the shooter, this being the theory accepted by the Garrett family. A fourth theory has Oliver Lee as the shooter. Lee was widely known as a deadly shot and, according to some contemporaries, had proven it on at least eight occasions. A fifth theory names Print Rhode as the assassin. This theory identifies Rhode as the man Brazel was seen talking to on the road to Las Cruces shortly before Adamson and Garrett caught up to him.
Carl Adamson, a federal prisoner who was in the buggy with Garrett the day Garrett was murdered. Adamson was sentenced for smuggling Chinese into the U.S.
Two men who were widely accepted as privy to reliable information about the case were Attorney General James M. Hervey and Captain Fred Fernoff of the New Mexico Mounted Police. Governor Curry wanted more information about the murder, and Hervey and Fernoff visited the murder site with Carl Adamson. Near the place where the buggy had stopped, they found an empty rifle cartridge, boot prints, hoofmarks, and horse droppings. Both wondered if they had found an ambush site, particularly because they had come to doubt the stories of Adamson and Brazel. Curry, too, was concerned and began to talk of a conspiracy. The territory had no funds for a lengthy investigation,and Hervey and Fernoff decided to pursue the matter on their own.
Hervey's ardor for the case cooled somewhat when Emerson Hough,novelist and folklorist, told him, "I know that outfit around the Organ Mountains, and Garrett got killed for trying to find out who killed Fountain and you will get killed for trying to find out who killed Garrett. I would advise you to let it alone." In El Paso,Fernoff heard that Jim Miller had been paid fifteen hundred dollars to kill Garrett, the money furnished by "a wealthy rancher near El Paso,"who also provided a man to say he had shot Garrett in self-defense.Hervey continued quietly to collect information about the killing, and shortly before he died in 1953, he was persuaded to write what he had learned. He did so with the understanding that it would not be released until eight years after his death.
In 1961, Hervey's story was published, and it implicated Jim Miller as the killer. According to the story, the rancher who hired Miller and provided both the witness and the man who would confess to the shooting had died "recently." W. W. Cox died in 1923, Lee died in1941, and Hervey's account was seen by some as "proof" of Oliver Lee's implication in Garrett's murder. Hervey's account rested on theassertions of one Joe Beasley, a petty thief and generally worthless individual who was frequently in trouble with the law. According to Beasley, Miller was to ride to Fort Worth after the murder and send atelegram to a party in Portales confirming his where abouts, thus providing an alibi. Hervey accepted the story as confirmation of his suspicions, and concluded that Miller had, indeed, assassinated Garrett.
Conspiracy theories have occupied the attention of most writers who have studied the Garrett case, and few writers have applied a literary Occam's razor requiring that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex. Wayne Brazel had reason to fear Garrett. Pat had become increasingly quarrelsome and violent as his economic fortunes declined, and he saw Brazel as the major obstacle to a deal that would bring an end to his troubles. Aware of Garrett's reputation as a cold-blooded killer, Wayne had to take Garrett's threats seriously. In the end, he did.
