Interesting People

Interesting People. Settled 1852. , Patrick (Pat) Garrett came to Lancaster from Claiborne Alabama in 1869. Residents remember him as a typical young man of his time. He left here in 1876, despondent that his suit for the hand of a young lady had been denied by her father. His close friends here were M.M. (Mote) Miller and the sons of James Lowrey. In 1881 he became famous as the sheriff who killed Billy the Kid. Once on a visit to Lancaster before his death in 1908, Garrett recalled our town as "a wild and wooly place where everyone wore a gun unless he had two" and "there was a killing almost every week.", James A. Boyd (1851-1939) was the model used by John Knott, the political cartoonist for the Dallas Morning News, for his famous character, "Old Man Texas." Uncle Jimmy, Lancaster postmaster during Cleveland's second term, looked like Knott's cartoon of him. Boyd is remembered locally for the 1910 Model-T Ford he drove until his death., Cole Younger, the Civil War guerilla and post-war outlaw, often traded cattle in Lancaster and visited his sister Henrietta, who had married a local resident., In 1933 Clyde Barrow, Raymond Hamilton and another man, robbed the R.P. Henry and Son bank in Lancaster. Making a get away in a new but stolen car, they were met in another stolen automobile on Malloy Bridge Road by Bonnie Parker to transfer the loot and make a clean escape.