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Added: May 21, 2008. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 26973877. Source citation. John Henry Tunstall was born 6 March 1853 in England. He arrived in Lincoln, New Mexico in 1876. There was one mercantile and banking outfit in the entire canyon, Murphy and Dolan, and Tunstall felt that they were taking advantage of the townsfolk, and the surrounding ...
John Henry Tunstall (6 March 1853 – 18 February 1878) was an English-born rancher and merchant in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States. He competed with the Irish Catholic merchants, lawmen, and politicians who ran the town of Lincoln and the county. [citation needed] Tunstall, a member of the Republican Party, hoped to unseat the Irish ...
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The Murder of John Tunstall. by J. Young. John Tunstall was buried behind the Tunstall Store to the NE. The burial site is on private property, but there is a marker placed behind the Tunstall store in his honor. On the evening of February 17th, 1878, Tunstall arrived at his modest ranch after a disappointing trip to South Springs Ranch.
Jun 17, 2022 · The 1878 ambush killing of English rancher John Henry Tunstall set Billy the Kid on the path to murder. (Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico) In 1926 author Walter Noble Burns published “The Saga of Billy the Kid,” the first book-length biography of the Kid since Charlie Siringo’s “History of Billy the Kid ...
John Henry Tunstall was a rancher and merchant in Lincoln County, New Mexico, who dared to compete with the Murphy & Dolan Mercantile and Banking Company, which resulted in the Lincoln County War. Born in England on March 6, 1853, Tunstall emigrated to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 1872, where he worked at the Turner, Beeton & Tunstall ...
Nov 7, 2023 · One of Tunstall's employees was the 18-year-old William Bonney. He was later dubbed as "Billy the Kid" when leading a gang of his own. On 18 February 1878, Tunstall, Dick Brewer, John Middleton, Henry Newton Brown, Robert Widenmann, Fred Waite, and Billy the Kid were driving nine horses from Tunstall's ranch on the Rio Feliz to Lincoln.
Sep 25, 2010 · Tunstall’s body was buried, without a marker, in a lot just east of his store in Lincoln. Over time, the exact location of his grave has been lost. But his family back in England never forgot John Henry and how he died. For more than 130 years, his descendants have honored their memories of him, keeping his letters and journals and documents.
