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Post by mckinley412 on Mar 21, 2019 9:13:14 GMT -5
Sorry I don't have an answer for you. But that is one thing I never found strange because stuff like that happens all the time. But it is an interesting question. (in my own personal spiritual beliefs I believe these things happen not by accident but that there is some kind of formula to all the chaos that we see as random events, something we don't understand, but I don't believe everything happens for a reason or in pre-destiny and maybe it is just a small world AFTER ALL) I'd be interested in hearing more about it but I don't know that it would have any insignificance one way or another. I know I don't trust family trees much because amateurs build them incorrectly a lot of times and in Missouri every single person you meet says they were related to Jesse James. And that's not much exaggeration either. Hence if he had family in New Mexico maybe they claimed they were related to a famous person too. Just something to think about. He was probably related though and if he wasn't I believe the conversation got brought up that way, the way he said it did. A lot of good researchers on here though that could probably find out if they wanted to.
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Post by Texas Truth Teller on Mar 21, 2019 11:14:58 GMT -5
I have read that Morrison was a descendant of Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell, whose son Pete Maxwell owned Maxwell's Fort Sumner home where Garrett killed Billy the Kid in 1881. Is there any truth to this claim? I would find it amazing if the man who was seeking a pardon for the man who claimed to be Billy the Kid, was in fact related to one of the men who was said to be a witness to Billy's alleged death. Small World sometimes!  I believe you are referring to p.14, "Alias Billy the Kid".
"Morrison himself was a direct descendant of Ferdinand Maxwell, brother of the famous Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell."
Maxwell and Morrison families lived in Randolph County, Illinois, in 1830.
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Post by Texas Truth Teller on Mar 21, 2019 23:09:27 GMT -5
I have read that Morrison was a descendant of Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell, whose son Pete Maxwell owned Maxwell's Fort Sumner home where Garrett killed Billy the Kid in 1881. Is there any truth to this claim? I would find it amazing if the man who was seeking a pardon for the man who claimed to be Billy the Kid, was in fact related to one of the men who was said to be a witness to Billy's alleged death. Small World sometimes! Sam, This is William Vincent Morrison's connection to Ferdinand Maxwell, based on census, death, and cemetery records.
William Vincent Morrison, born 26 Nov 1906, died 30 Aug 1977, El Paso, El Paso, Texas
Parents:
Jarrett Joseph Morrison, born 25 April 1886, died 30 Aug 1970
Afra Bertha Link, born 30 Sep 1887, died 2 May 1970
Paternal grandparents:
William Matthew Morrison, born 6 Dec 1859, died 7 May 1939
Sophia Hartman, born 8 July 1866, died 30 July 1953
Great grandparents: (married 6 Jan 1859 in Randolph County, Illinois)
William M Morrison, born ca. 1839 in Illinois
Eveline H Maxwell, born 17 Mar 1839 in Randolph County, Illinois; died 15 Nov 1883, Randolph County, Illinois
Great-great-grandfather
Ferdinand Maxwell, born ca. 1811 in Illinois
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