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James Thomas Chisum

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James Thomas Chisum

Birth
Hardeman County, Tennessee, USA
Death
17 Mar 1908 (aged 80)
Artesia, Eddy County, New Mexico, USA
Burial
Artesia, Eddy County, New Mexico, USA
Plot
6.4.1
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James Thomas Chisum was the brother of Pioneer Cattleman, John Simpson Chisum. He and his daughter, Sallie Lucy Chisum Robert, lived with John Chisum on his South Spring Ranch, headquarters of a cattle ranching empire that extended for 150 miles of land along the Pecos River. Around the beginning of the Lincoln County War, Sallie Chisum befriended one of the Regulators, William Bonney, a/k/a Billy the Kid, who visited at the ranch. John Chisum left his estate to his brothers James Thomas and Pitser Miller Chisum.

Maintained by: barbara
Originally Created by: Delma Ingram
Record added: Jun 22, 2007
Find A Grave Memorial# 20035678
James Thomas Chisum was the brother of Pioneer Cattleman, John Simpson Chisum. He and his daughter, Sallie Lucy Chisum Robert, lived with John Chisum on his South Spring Ranch, headquarters of a cattle ranching empire that extended for 150 miles of land along the Pecos River. Around the beginning of the Lincoln County War, Sallie Chisum befriended one of the Regulators, William Bonney, a/k/a Billy the Kid, who visited at the ranch. John Chisum left his estate to his brothers James Thomas and Pitser Miller Chisum.

Maintained by: barbara
Originally Created by: Delma Ingram
Record added: Jun 22, 2007
Find A Grave Memorial# 20035678

Bio by: Bobby Wayne Smith

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