_Hugh KELSO _______________+
| (1760 - 1829) m 1816
_Hugh Calloway KELSO _|
| (1821 - 1880) |
| |_Sarah Bradley MCCLANAHAN _+
| (1785 - 1833) m 1816
|
|--Rose KELSO
| (1879 - 1880)
| ___________________________
| |
|_Mary BUCK ___________|
(1843 - 1880) |
|___________________________
_Samuel Wesley KETCHUM _+
| (1854 - 1899) m 1875
_William Berry KETCHUM _|
| (1876 - 1951) m 1905 |
| |_Louisa GREENLEE _______
| (1859 - 1943) m 1875
|
|--Nellie KETCHUM
| (1911 - 1933)
| ________________________
| |
|_Mattie Louise HINES ___|
(1886 - 1961) m 1905 |
|________________________
_Peter Reasor KETCHUM _+
| (1797 - 1868) m 1825
_Green Berry KETCHUM _________|
| (1820 - 1868) m 1842 |
| |_Ann BURRELL __________
| (1797 - ....) m 1825
|
|--Samuel Wesley KETCHUM
| (1854 - 1899)
| _Samuel WYDICK ________
| |
|_Temperance Katherine WYDICK _|
(1824 - 1873) m 1842 |
|_______________________
[265] Died of blood poisoning from gunshot wound in the New Mexico Territorial prison.
[266]
Died in the New Mexico Territorial Prison at age 45, about 2 weeks after being shot and captured during a gun battle with a sheriff's posse which was chasing them after they robbed a Colorado and Southern passenger train at Folsom, New
Mexico. Once before at Twin Mountain near Des Moines, NM the southbound Denver-Fort Worth Express of the Colorado & Southern railroad had been robbed by 'Black Jack' and his gang of William Ellsworth Lay alias William McGuinnes, William Carver
alias G.W. Franks, William "Broncho Bill" Walters and Tom's brother Sam Ketchum. Some historians say it was Kid Curry rather than Bronco Bill on the robbery. (William R. Carver was born in Wilson County, Texas, to George Alfred and Martha Jane
(Rigsby) Carver. Will’s older sister was Frances Emeline Carver, born in Comanche County, Texas, on January 9, 1866. Will worked for the Sixes Ranch, also known as the T Half Circle, near the town of Sonora, Sutton County, Texas. George and Ben
Kilpatrick, Tom and Sam Ketchum, and members of the Byler family from Tom Green County, Texas also worked there. On February 9, 1892 Will Carver married 17-year-old Viana Byler in San Angelo, Texas. She died of pregnancy complications on July
22, 1892, and is buried in the family cemetery plot at Dove Creek, Texas. Kid Curry was born Harvey Alexander Logan in Iowa in 1867. When his mother died in 1876, Harvey went to live with his Aunt Lee in Dodson, Missouri. Until at least 1883,
Harvey was making an honest living breaking horses for the Cross L outfit near Big Spring, Texas.)
[268]
The second holdup attempt was made July 16,1899 without 'Black Jack' in attendance for some reason. After the robbery, Sam and the others (Will Carver and William Ellsworth "Elzy" Lay) headed for the mountains southwest of Raton, NM. The
next day a posse consisting of Sheriff Ed Farr of Huerfano Co., Colorado, special Agent W.H. Reno of the Colorado & Southern RR, and five deputies found their trail and tracked them into Turkey Creek Canyon where Sam was wounded, along with two
of the deputies. Deputys W.H. Love and Tom Smith were killed and Sheriff Farr was also killed. Sam made his escape, but was found a few days later by Reno at the home of a rancher, where he was arrested. He was taken to Santa Fe Territorial
Prison where he died. He was buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, now the Fairview Cemetery on Cerritos Rd. in Santa Fe. "Elzy" or "Elza" (William Ellsworth) Lay was born November 25th 1868, Mt Pleasant, Ohio. Elzy had come out west to Denver,
and became an outlaw after mistakenly believing he had killed a man. Jailed for life after the killing of Sheriff Farr after the Folsom robbery, he was released in 1906. He returned to Alma, NM and lived there for two years. He stayed with
Louis and Walter Jones, who in 1904 had built a large merchandise store at Alma. Elzy died aged 65 in Los Angeles, November 10th 1934.
[270]
I spoke with a lady who was about 75 years of age in 1969 and who was from San Saba and a distant cousin of the Ketchum family. She said that her people always said that Sam Ketchum was a 'good man' who left San Saba a short time before his
death to find his brother and got caught up by the "easy money" stories of the gang, Another source said that, to the best of her recollection, she had heard that Sam was never a crook or outlaw before going to find his brother, but that he was
always away from home working on ranches in New Mexico and the Panhandle area of Texas, and Louisa was left alone with the two children. It was during the time of much unrest and many depredations and raids by the Indians in San Saba and along
many other frontier Texas locations, and she was afraid and without protection too often, so she left Sam about 1880. Ironically Sam was a member of the Minutemen branch of the Texas Rangers, from September 13, 1872 until November 15, 1872 to
protect the San Saba citizens against outbreaks of indian raids.
[272]
Thomas Green Chaney, San Angelo, Texas, interviewed, January 20, 1938 (written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940). The
Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. See http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/exhome.html Below is a transcription of part of the interview with Mr. Chaney.
[274] "Outlaws and gun men, I guess I knew 'em about as well as anyone to not have been one myself----Sam Ketchum, Tom Ketchum, Will Carver, Kilpatrick and my own brother W. H. Chaney and his brother-in-law Frank Stedham.
[276]
"My brother W. H. Chaney lived in Schleicher County near the county line, between Eldorado and Christoval. His home was a hideout for all the boys. I lived about a quarter of a mile from him but never got mixed up in the bunch. I had a
family and we never suspected the outlaws being harbored so near us. "I know the Ketchum boys in the San Saba county, and later in the Christoval section. Sam Ketchum was a mighty good man to die an outlaw. He was a very good friend of mine. He
never would have been in to anything but got into trouble trying to save Tom."
[278]
Thomas Green Chaney was born in Hunt County in 1864. His family drifted from one section to another farming a year here and there until they settled in Comanche County. Here he met Miss [Donyanna?] Poynor and later married her. She was the
daughter of W.J. (Bill) Poynor, an old Indian fighter. In later years he moved to the Concho County and has lived here since. Author - Ruby Mosley - San Angelo, Texas--from B. Spradley
_________________________
|
_Robert TINNEY ________|
| m 1905 |
| |_________________________
|
|
|--Elmer TINNEY
|
| _James Marion KETCHUM ___+
| | (1858 - 1933)
|_Martha Ellen KETCHUM _|
(1888 - ....) m 1905 |
|_Sarah Elizabeth CHANEY _