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Billy the Kid Rest Buried In Fort Sumner Plot 1962 Ruling
Eighty years after Billy the Kid died at the hands of Sheriff Pat Garrett a New Mexico court upheld the Kid's burial site at Fort Sumner. The 1962 ruling kept the grave beside Bowdre and O Folliard in the old military cemetery, amid fading headstones from a past flood.
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Sumner
N.M
Billy the Kid
New Mexico
Pat Garrett
New Mexico Territory
the Kid
William Bonney
New York City
William H
Katherine Bonney
Coffeeville
Kan
Colorado
Santa Fe
Billy
Billy Benney
Silver City
Peter Maxwell
Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell
Maxwell Land Grant
Garrett
Beaver Smith
Lincoln County
John S. Chisum
Alex A. McSween
John H. Tunstall
L. G. Murphy
California
John Chisum
Rio Pecos
Fort Sumner
Texas Line
McSween
Lincoln
Chisum
Murphy
Bonney
John Tunstall
Tunstall
Kid
Ft. Sumner
Roswell
Charlie Bowdre
Ton O’folliard
Tom O’folliard
Stinking Springs
Mesilla
Young Billy
Maxwell
Army
Maxwell’s
Laval Guitierrez
Guitierrez
Maxwell House
Billy the
Old Military
Maxwell Home
Bowdre
O’folliard
Lois Telfer
Dist
E. T. Hensley