The death of Robert Montgomery:
"On his wife's 32nd birthday, March 4, 1871, Robert was murdered at the front gate to his home near Carter by a man who he thought stole the beautiful black horse he had recently purchased from General John Magruder. A large reward was offered, and in 1877 Texas Rangers John Armstrong and Diggs killed the man when he resisted arrest in Wilson County, Texas. Robert is buried in the Canafax Cemetery in Carter with Newton Canafax and son, John."
The above is an excerpt from a biography transcribed 2016 from images of newspaper clippings posted on Ancestry.com by various people. The article was obviously written many years after the death of Robert Montgomery. Some of this story has gotten twisted around and in some versions even have Robert Montgomery as the horse thief and the person who was killed by Texas Rangers. However, except for the year the real murderer was killed it is true.
Research has found two sources which back up the story. The book, "200 Texas Outlaws and Lawmen 1835-1935" by Laurence Yadon, Dan Anderson, and Robert Smith, 2008, Page # 41 has the following: "John Lewis Mayfield was convicted of murdering Robert Montgomery in Parker County, then escaped from jail while waiting to be hanged. Texas Rangers John Armstrong and T. W. Deggs confronted Mayfield at his home in Graytown, then killed the murderer when he resisted arrest." This happened December 7, 1876 in Wilson County not 1877.
The other source is from an article in the "Galveston Daily News, Tuesday December 12, 1876, Page # 2, the article has from the "Herald" of Wednesday: "This morning, about daylight, Sergeant Armstrong and Private Deggs, of McNelly's Company killed John Lewis Mayfield while resisting arrest. Mayfield was a convicted murder from Parker county, where he escaped from jail. The name of the man he killed is Robert Montgomery. On being told he was a prisoner he said he would be damned if was, and drew his pistol and fired three shots before he was killed. He received two wounds, either of which would have caused his death, which was almost instantaneous."
With much thanks to Find A Grave Contributor: Robert (#48071829)
"On his wife's 32nd birthday, March 4, 1871, Robert was murdered at the front gate to his home near Carter by a man who he thought stole the beautiful black horse he had recently purchased from General John Magruder. A large reward was offered, and in 1877 Texas Rangers John Armstrong and Diggs killed the man when he resisted arrest in Wilson County, Texas. Robert is buried in the Canafax Cemetery in Carter with Newton Canafax and son, John."
The above is an excerpt from a biography transcribed 2016 from images of newspaper clippings posted on Ancestry.com by various people. The article was obviously written many years after the death of Robert Montgomery. Some of this story has gotten twisted around and in some versions even have Robert Montgomery as the horse thief and the person who was killed by Texas Rangers. However, except for the year the real murderer was killed it is true.
Research has found two sources which back up the story. The book, "200 Texas Outlaws and Lawmen 1835-1935" by Laurence Yadon, Dan Anderson, and Robert Smith, 2008, Page # 41 has the following: "John Lewis Mayfield was convicted of murdering Robert Montgomery in Parker County, then escaped from jail while waiting to be hanged. Texas Rangers John Armstrong and T. W. Deggs confronted Mayfield at his home in Graytown, then killed the murderer when he resisted arrest." This happened December 7, 1876 in Wilson County not 1877.
The other source is from an article in the "Galveston Daily News, Tuesday December 12, 1876, Page # 2, the article has from the "Herald" of Wednesday: "This morning, about daylight, Sergeant Armstrong and Private Deggs, of McNelly's Company killed John Lewis Mayfield while resisting arrest. Mayfield was a convicted murder from Parker county, where he escaped from jail. The name of the man he killed is Robert Montgomery. On being told he was a prisoner he said he would be damned if was, and drew his pistol and fired three shots before he was killed. He received two wounds, either of which would have caused his death, which was almost instantaneous."
With much thanks to Find A Grave Contributor: Robert (#48071829)
The death of Robert Montgomery:
"On his wife's 32nd birthday, March 4, 1871, Robert was murdered at the front gate to his home near Carter by a man who he thought stole the beautiful black horse he had recently purchased from General John Magruder. A large reward was offered, and in 1877 Texas Rangers John Armstrong and Diggs killed the man when he resisted arrest in Wilson County, Texas. Robert is buried in the Canafax Cemetery in Carter with Newton Canafax and son, John."
The above is an excerpt from a biography transcribed 2016 from images of newspaper clippings posted on Ancestry.com by various people. The article was obviously written many years after the death of Robert Montgomery. Some of this story has gotten twisted around and in some versions even have Robert Montgomery as the horse thief and the person who was killed by Texas Rangers. However, except for the year the real murderer was killed it is true.
Research has found two sources which back up the story. The book, "200 Texas Outlaws and Lawmen 1835-1935" by Laurence Yadon, Dan Anderson, and Robert Smith, 2008, Page # 41 has the following: "John Lewis Mayfield was convicted of murdering Robert Montgomery in Parker County, then escaped from jail while waiting to be hanged. Texas Rangers John Armstrong and T. W. Deggs confronted Mayfield at his home in Graytown, then killed the murderer when he resisted arrest." This happened December 7, 1876 in Wilson County not 1877.
The other source is from an article in the "Galveston Daily News, Tuesday December 12, 1876, Page # 2, the article has from the "Herald" of Wednesday: "This morning, about daylight, Sergeant Armstrong and Private Deggs, of McNelly's Company killed John Lewis Mayfield while resisting arrest. Mayfield was a convicted murder from Parker county, where he escaped from jail. The name of the man he killed is Robert Montgomery. On being told he was a prisoner he said he would be damned if was, and drew his pistol and fired three shots before he was killed. He received two wounds, either of which would have caused his death, which was almost instantaneous."
With much thanks to Find A Grave Contributor: Robert (#48071829)
"On his wife's 32nd birthday, March 4, 1871, Robert was murdered at the front gate to his home near Carter by a man who he thought stole the beautiful black horse he had recently purchased from General John Magruder. A large reward was offered, and in 1877 Texas Rangers John Armstrong and Diggs killed the man when he resisted arrest in Wilson County, Texas. Robert is buried in the Canafax Cemetery in Carter with Newton Canafax and son, John."
The above is an excerpt from a biography transcribed 2016 from images of newspaper clippings posted on Ancestry.com by various people. The article was obviously written many years after the death of Robert Montgomery. Some of this story has gotten twisted around and in some versions even have Robert Montgomery as the horse thief and the person who was killed by Texas Rangers. However, except for the year the real murderer was killed it is true.
Research has found two sources which back up the story. The book, "200 Texas Outlaws and Lawmen 1835-1935" by Laurence Yadon, Dan Anderson, and Robert Smith, 2008, Page # 41 has the following: "John Lewis Mayfield was convicted of murdering Robert Montgomery in Parker County, then escaped from jail while waiting to be hanged. Texas Rangers John Armstrong and T. W. Deggs confronted Mayfield at his home in Graytown, then killed the murderer when he resisted arrest." This happened December 7, 1876 in Wilson County not 1877.
The other source is from an article in the "Galveston Daily News, Tuesday December 12, 1876, Page # 2, the article has from the "Herald" of Wednesday: "This morning, about daylight, Sergeant Armstrong and Private Deggs, of McNelly's Company killed John Lewis Mayfield while resisting arrest. Mayfield was a convicted murder from Parker county, where he escaped from jail. The name of the man he killed is Robert Montgomery. On being told he was a prisoner he said he would be damned if was, and drew his pistol and fired three shots before he was killed. He received two wounds, either of which would have caused his death, which was almost instantaneous."
With much thanks to Find A Grave Contributor: Robert (#48071829)
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