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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 ...
- March 6, 1853, Hackney, London
- First man killed in the Lincoln County War
- February 18, 1878 (aged 24), Lincoln County, New Mexico
- Rancher and merchant
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.
Jun 17, 2022 · For long years, no monument marked the spot where Lincoln County rancher John Tunstall was slain in 1878. by David G. Thomas 6/17/2022. 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)
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Young Tunstall started a general store in the town of Lincoln and he also bought a cattle ranch on the Rio Feliz River. One of John Henry’s cowboys was a young man named William Henry McCarty. Lincoln County was filled with Texas ranchers, outlaws and ex-soldiers from both sides of the Civil War and all were well accustomed to violence.
