Top 10 blogs in 2020 for remote teaching and learning; Dec. Virtual holiday party ideas + new holiday templates; Dec. A portrait of Thomas Edward Ketchum, 1863-1901, who was also known as 'Black Jack' Ketchum. Ketchum pursued a life of train robbery and murder in the southwest as one of many outlaws based in the Hole-in-the-Wall Pass in Johnson County, Wyoming. Natixis groupe casino. Tom Edward Ketchum (October 31, 1863 – April 26, 1901), known as Black Jack, was a cowboy who later turned to a life of crime. He was executed in 1901 for attempted train robbery. 4/26/1901 - The short and suicidal criminal career of 37-year-old Texas outlaw, Thomas Edward 'Black Jack' Ketchum ends in Union County, New Mexico, at the town of Clayton, with one of the most horrific executions in the history of the Old West.
Thomas Edward Black Jack Ketchum Jr
Tom Ketchum and His Gang
Texas cowhands-turned-outlaws Tom and Sam Ketchum, along with range pals like David Atkins and Will Carver, robbed trains and became notorious in the Southwest.
By Jeffrey Burton
At almost 1:15 on the afternoon of Friday, April 26, 1901, a one-armed man in a black suit hurried up the 13 steps of the gallows at Clayton, Union County, New Mexico Territory. Tom Ketchum, an attested but unconvicted killer and the most notorious outlaw in the Southwest, was soon to become the first person to suffer public judicial execution for merely attempting to rob a railroad train. A bad life was about to end for a bad reason. And the ending would be worse, for he would not die in the officially approved fashion-from breakage of the neck vertebrae-but from decapitation at the rope's end.
At 17 minutes past the hour, and at the second attempt, Sheriff Salome Garcia's hatchet sliced through the control rope, the trap was sprung, and in a moment or two Tom Ketchum had made history-twice. The clicking cameras mounted beside the stockade snapped again and the ghastly scene was captured for all time: There, held on its side by a doctor and a deputy sheriff, was the body of Thomas Ketchum, and there, in the bloodied black hood held in place by horse-blanket pins, was Ketchum's severed head.
'Nothing out of the ordinary happened,' Sheriff Garcia declared. 'No bungling whatever. Everything worked nicely and in perfect order.' Like many of the others present, the sheriff probably was not lastingly discomforted by the horrifying spectacle of butchery that had been enacted before his eyes. It was a bad and hard way to die, but Ketchum, manifestly, had been a bad and hard man.
Texas cowhands-turned-outlaws Tom and Sam Ketchum, along with range pals like David Atkins and Will Carver, robbed trains and became notorious in the Southwest.
By Jeffrey Burton
At almost 1:15 on the afternoon of Friday, April 26, 1901, a one-armed man in a black suit hurried up the 13 steps of the gallows at Clayton, Union County, New Mexico Territory. Tom Ketchum, an attested but unconvicted killer and the most notorious outlaw in the Southwest, was soon to become the first person to suffer public judicial execution for merely attempting to rob a railroad train. A bad life was about to end for a bad reason. And the ending would be worse, for he would not die in the officially approved fashion-from breakage of the neck vertebrae-but from decapitation at the rope's end.
At 17 minutes past the hour, and at the second attempt, Sheriff Salome Garcia's hatchet sliced through the control rope, the trap was sprung, and in a moment or two Tom Ketchum had made history-twice. The clicking cameras mounted beside the stockade snapped again and the ghastly scene was captured for all time: There, held on its side by a doctor and a deputy sheriff, was the body of Thomas Ketchum, and there, in the bloodied black hood held in place by horse-blanket pins, was Ketchum's severed head.
'Nothing out of the ordinary happened,' Sheriff Garcia declared. 'No bungling whatever. Everything worked nicely and in perfect order.' Like many of the others present, the sheriff probably was not lastingly discomforted by the horrifying spectacle of butchery that had been enacted before his eyes. It was a bad and hard way to die, but Ketchum, manifestly, had been a bad and hard man.
Thomas Edward Black Jack Ketchum
a. | Note: y, from Alabama about 1825. At the apparent age of 16 he acquired title to two pieces of land in Sangamon County, Illinois in January of 1836. First was 79 acres being located as the W/2NW4 in Section 3 of Township 13 North, Range 1 West, and the second was 40 acres being located as the NE4/NE4 in Section 3 of Township 13 North, Range 1 West, both recorded in the same deed, filed in county records at Volume 145, page 60. Two years later his father Peter bought the E2/SE4 in the same section. UNKNOWN AUTHOR This family moved to Texas about 1848 from Christian Co., IL (formed in 1839 out of Sangamon County), with his father & two brothers and their families. Brother James arrived in Texas in 1846 and uncle Jacob earlier, fighting in the Texas War of Independence from Mexico. Green Berry Ketchum was the County Coroner in Christian County, Illinois before leaving for Texas, having been elected Coroner of the County in 1844. He married Temperance Katherine Wydick (Widick) in Macon County, Illinois (which later became a part of Christian County, which was originally a part of Sangamon County). The family went first to Limestone County, Texas for a short stay, then to Caldwell County, Texas where some remained, and then to San Saba County about 1855, settling on the San Saba River on the place known later as the Rainey place in China Creek Community. They are buried there in China Creek Cemetery, Find A Grave Memorial# 27702015 After moving to Texas it seems that Green Berry Ketcham acquired two 50 acre tracts of land (or one tract filed twice) in Tennessee, Grant #11031 on 1 Sept 1852 in Middle Tennessee District, Franklin County , filed in book X, pg 99 and book X, pg 186. (Purchase or inheritance, gift?) LAND GRANTS AND DEEDS ARCHIVES - NASHVILLE, TN 1860 Census - Place: San Saba County, Texas Name Age Green B Ketcham 38 Temperance Ketcham 34 Elizabeth Ketcham 11 Green B Ketcham 8 Samuel W Ketcham 5 Nancy B Ketcham 6mo SAN SABA COUNTY HISTORY, 1856 - 1983 'KETCHUM, Green Berry, of Tennessee, and Temperance Ketchum were early pioneers of San Saba County. They were living in the County in the mid-1850’s. According to the minutes of the Cumberland Presbyterian Minute Book, G. B. Ketchum and wife, placed their membership with the Church in 1850. He was born November 10, 1820, and died October 28, 1868. He and his wife were first buried in the Old San Saba Cemetery where Rogan Field is now located. B. C. Smith, a grandson, had the remains exhumed and reburied at China Creek Cemetery. Their children were: James, Joseph (died in infancy), Elizabeth who married John Wesley Smith, Berry married Ola Shields, Sam (bachelor), Abner (died in infancy), Nancy married Abijah Duncan, Tom (bachelor). CORRECTION: Sam was not a bachelor. He married Louisa Greenlee 2 Feb 1875 in San Saba several years before joining his brother Tom in their outlaw career. James (Jim) Ketchum, a pioneer and brother of Green Berry Ketchum was killed, presumably by Indians while on a cattle drive. CORRECTION: He was in fact killed by indians. His children were Sarah who married John N. Gauny, Marion married Elizabeth Chaney, Tom, Vann, and Pete. Many descendants of each of these pioneers are now living in the County. They eventually settled 5 miles west of San Saba, TX, where Richland Creek meets the San Saba River and 'a few miles above the mouth of the creek'. END THE CALL OF THE SAN SABA by Alma Ward Hamrick On August 23, 1857 the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at San Saba was organized with nine members. On the fourth meeting of this body on June 19, 1859, Rev. S. M. Lewis was named to head the church. At that time G. B. Ketchum, Mrs. Ketchum, and eight others were received into the church. Mr. and Mrs. Ketchum and an infant son, most likely Abner, are buried at China Creek Cemetery located 2.7 miles north of Harkeyville,Tx. at County Road 202 and County road 208, in San Saba County. Harkeyville is 3 miles west (on Hwy 395) of the city of San Saba, TX. At the time of the 1860 census the family consisted of Green B. and Temperance and Elizabeth, Green B Jr., Samuel and Nancy . Green B. was listed as born in Alabama, a stock raiser, with a personal estate valued at $4,534. Three children had died young before the census. One was Abner b. 2 Feb 1856 and born in Texas. The other two were Joseph b. 10 Nov 1845 and James born 5 Dec 1842. The dates indicate that these two were born in Illinois before their sister Elizabeth who was also born in Illinois on 20 March 1848 just before the family left for Texas. SPRADLEY RESEARCH In 1933 the city of San Saba decided to build a new football field. The land at that time was a cemetery, including graves of Benjamin Franklin Smith, his wife, John Wesley Smith and his wife Elizbeth Ketchum Smith, and Green Berry Ketchum and Temperance and infant. Barbara Smith's grandfather Edgar (Buddy) Smith, descendant of Elizabeth Ketchum Smith, moved the caskets from the land for the football field out to the China Creek Cemetery, about 6 miles out of San Saba to the NW on a Dirt road. Green Berry's grave has an old unreadable stone with writing on it and Temperance has one that is barely readable. Next to them is a third stone marker for a Ketchum infant, and next to this is a stone marking the grave of B. F. 'Banner' Smith. SPRADLEY RESEARCH 'Mr. and Mrs. Ketchum had a family of 8 children: James Ketchum, born December 5, 1842; Joseph Ketchum, born November 10, 1845; Elizabeth Ketchum, born March 20, 1848, died June 26, 1933; Green Berry Ketchum, Jr, born October 24, 1850 and died March 31, 1914; Samuel Wesley Ketchum, born January 4, 1854 and died July 24 1899; Abner Ketchum, born February 2, 1856 and died before 1860; Nancy B. Ketchum, born January 6, 1860 and died January 9, 1937; Thomas Edward 'Black Jack' Ketchum, born October 31, 1863 in San Saba County, Texas and died April 26, 1901 in Clayton, Union County, New Mexico.' - VARIOUS SOURCES There was a Dr. Nicholas Ketchum who lived in San Saba, Texas who many people have supposed was kin to the other Ketchums in San Saba. More than one dime novel writer has said that Tom and Sam Ketchum's father was a doctor. Although it seems that there might have been a kinship, I have researched Dr. Ketchums genealogy back 5 generations and found no blood connection between him and my San Saba Ketchums in many years of research. SPRADLEY RESEARCH Note: Green B Ketcham relocated with his family to Sangamon County, Illinois, later Christian Count |