John Wesley Hardin's horse was named Rondo. He was a fast race horse that Hardin won many horse races. He won a derby in Comanche and the next day he shot Charley Webb. Then he really need a fast horse! Jerry Cofffee ----Original Message----- From: Coffee <j.coff@verizon.net> To: Southern-Trails-L@rootsweb.com <Southern-Trails-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, May 21, 2001 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [SouthernTrails] John Wesley Hardin >My great great grandfather Rev. Joshiah Blanton (1808-1876) married Sarah >L.Westbrook of Fannin County Texas, had a son named Elijah H. that was >killed in Gonzales Texas during the Sutton-Taylor Feud. .He is memorialized >on Rev.J. Blanton's monument in the Porter Cemetery in Fannin County. The >inscription reads: " Son Eli Blanton, 1845-1867, Died in in Gonzales, >Texas. A Soldier in Christ". Whatever than means. Was Eli a lay-preacher >with a gun? Reverend Joshiah Blanton and Reverend J.G. Hardin were >Methodist circuit rider preachers in Fannin County when John Wesley Hardin >was born. Rev. Blanton's daugther, Nancy, was John W. Hardin's nanny until >they Hardin family left the county and moved to Moscow, Texas. > >Colonel John Henry Damron married Nancy Blanton in Sept.12, 1872 and >migrated to the Turkey Peak area in Brown County, which was about 10 miles >southwest of Comanche, Texas. Nancy's brother, Zacariah T. "Zack" >Blanton (1849-1943) also migrated from Fannin County to the Blanket Texas >community, 10 miles west of Comanche, Texas in 1872. Is it thought that >John W.Hardin stopped overnight at either the Damron or the Blanton home to >rest his horse when the posse was pursuing him after the Webb killing in >July, 1874. Hardin resumed his flight after a gun battle the next morning >through the Williams Ranch Community near present day Mullin, Texas and >south through Austin, San Antonio to Gonzales, Texas. > >Jerry Coffee > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jim <coach@Hillsboro.net> >To: Southern-Trails-L@rootsweb.com <Southern-Trails-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Monday, May 21, 2001 10:44 AM >Subject: [SouthernTrails] John Wesley Hardin > > >>John Wesley Hardin was also a school teacher in the Pisga Ridge area of >>Navarro Co, Texas immediately after the Civil War. He was involved in >>the Polk-Bowman fued that was taking place in the southwestern part of >>the county from Pisga Ridge to the Spring Hill area close to Dawson. >>Many Pisga Ridge settlers, including many of my Gleghorn family, >>migrated on to Gonzales, Texas about this time. >> Jim >> >>------------------------------------ >> >>> The 1870 - 1880 cattle drives on the Western and Texas Trails were full >of >>> gunfighters and lawlessness was common. The earlier cattle drives to the >>> east were before the Civil War and did not have the gunfighters that came >>> from the from the aftermath of the Civil War. According to his >biography, >>> the notorious gunfighter John Wesley Hardin joined a cattle drive in >>> Gonzales, Texas and went to Dodge City Kansas along the Western Trail. >The >>> Indians in Oklahoma would charge a "cattle-toll" to the cattlemen in >order >>> to let them cross their lands. John Wesley Hardin killed his share of >>> "Injuns" that were trying to charge a "unauthorized" cattle toll. He >later >>> backed down Wild Bill Hickok in Dodge City when Wild Bill told him to >turn >>> in his guns. I do not agree with some historians that called Hardin a >>> pathological killer. John Wesley Hardin was a merely product of the times >>> after the Civil War. Lawlessness and feuds were rampant in Texas after >the >>> conflict. Amazingly, I can still detect some animosity to this day when I >>> talk to people in the areas involved in the feuds. >>> >>> Hardin and his brother were involved in illegal cattle operations in >Brown >>> and Comanche Counties after John Wesley's trip to Kansas. Hardin's family >>> and some of his cousins moved to Comanche, Texas in 1873. His brother >and >>> his cousins are buried there. Deputy Sheriff Charley Webb was killed by >>> J.W. Hardin in a gunbattle in Comanche in 1874 and is buried in Green >Leaf >>> Cemetery in Brownwood Texas. Hardin eventually served 15 years of a 25 >year >>> sentence in the Texas State Prison in Huntsville for the killing of Webb. >>> The gunfight between Webb and Hardin was to really to settle a old score >>> arising from the Sutton-Taylor Feud in Gonzales, Texas. Deputy Sheriff >Webb >>> was from Brown County and had no authority in Comanche County. >>> >>> Jerry Coffee >> >> >>============================== >>Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >>Source for Family History Online. Go to: >>http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB >> > > >============================== >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >