Billy the Kid

Jesus Silva - Friend and Pallbearer to Billy the Kid

(In an interview with Jack Hull in 1937) "It was the night of July 14, 1881. The Kid had just ridden to town. He was hot and tired and we drank beer together. He told me he was going to the home of Don Pedro Maxwell for a cut of fresh beef for his supper. In a few minutes there were shots. I ran over to Maxwell's home and the Kid was dead on the floor, face down. We moved the body to the old carpenter's shop. We laid the body on the carpenter's bench and placed candles around the corpse. He was buried in the graveyard the next day.

Tom O'Folliard

1858 - December 19, 1880

Tom O'Folliard was the best friend of outlaw William Bonney (Billy the Kid). Both men were members of the Regulators during the Lincoln County War. O'Falliard was shot in the shoulder during the famous Five Day Battle in Lincoln. After the war ended, they spent the next two years rustling cattle before forming the "Bonney Gang" with fellow outlaws Charlie Bowdre and Tom Pickett. He was shot in the chest by Sheriff Pat Garrett on December 19, 1880 at Fort Sumner, NM dying approximately 45 minutes later.

John H. Tunstall (1853 - 1878 Alex A. McSween (1843 - 1878)

John H. Tunstall and Alex A. McSween are buried side by side behind the post office in Lincoln, New Mexico

Susan McSween Barber

"Cattle Queen of New Mexico"

1845 - 1931

Born Susan Hammer in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, she married Canadian-born lawyer Alexander McSween. Moving to the New Mexico Territory in 1875, the couple figured prominently in the Lincoln County War, joining forces with John Tunstall in opposition to the Dolan-Murphy faction's corrupt cattle business practices. In retaliation, Susan's husband was killed, and her house burned down. She lost a court battle due to the Santa Fe Ring's ties to the faction, but went on to challenge Lawrence Murphy in his own arena-cattle.