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William Henry Harrison Antrim
Facts and Events
| Name[1][4] |
William Henry Harrison Antrim |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[3] |
1 Dec 1842 |
Huntsville, Madison, Indiana, United States |
| Military[4] |
Jun 1862 |
Madison, Indiana, United StatesEnlisted, Private 54th Indiana Infantry (Civil War)/Company I |
| Marriage |
1 Mar 1873 |
Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United StatesFirst Presbyterian Church
to Catherine McCarty |
| Death[2] |
10 Dec 1922 |
Adelaida, San Luis Obispo, California, United StatesAge 80 |
Research Notes
References
- ↑ William Antrim, in Bad Hombres
2007.
"One account of the family is that Billy's mother, Catherine, moved west with her two boys Henry (Billy) and Joseph and William Antrim, settling in Wichita, KS. in 1870. There Catherine ran a laundry business and invested in real estate. After Wichita, the family moved to Coffeyville, KS. for a short time which is where Billy got into his first trouble with the law, arrested for stealing items from a local store. Catherine then decided to move to the southwest with William Antrim and her boys, supposedly because she had tuberculosis and needed the drier climate. She married William Antrim in Santa Fe, NM March 1, 1873, with her two boys present. The family then moved to Silver City, NM where Antrim worked as a miner and Catherine ran a boarding house. Catherine had many health problems and on September 16, 1874 she died, leaving her two sons to live with their stepfather, William Antrim. At the time Billy was 15 and had gotten into trouble in Silver City with the law, nothing major, petty theft and whatnot, but he and his stepfather never got along, Antrim thinking Billy was a troublemaker. Billy did attend school and worked at odd jobs. Billy and a friend, George "Sombrero Jack" Shaffer, as a prank, stole some clothes from a local laundry and were arrested. Billy, not wanting to face his stern stepfather for this offense, left town and ventured to the Arizona territory and worked at odd jobs on ranches and in towns."
- ↑ William Henry Harrison Antrim, in About Billy the Kid: The Antrim Family.
"He moved in with his niece in Adelaida until his death on December 10, 1922 at the age of eighty."
William Antrim 
- ↑ William Henry Harrison Antrim, in About Billy the Kid: The Antrim Family.
"Antrim was born in Huntsville, Indiana on December 1, 1842."
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 William Henry Harrison Antrim, in Wallis, Michael. Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride.
... William Henry Harrison Antrim was born in 1842 at Huntsville, Indiana, ... His father, Levi Antrim, was a merchant and the proprietor of the Railroad House, a hotel in nearby Anderson, the seat of Madison County. While attending school, Billy Antrim and his siblings washed dishes, hauled wood, and waited tables at the hotel.
In June 1862 twenty-year old William Antrim enlisted for a three-month hitch in the Union army. He mustered in as a private with the Fifty-fourth Regiment of the Indiana Volunteer Infantry and was assigned to I Company, commanded by Captain John V. Bowman. ... At the end of the three months of guard duty, men of the Fifty-fourth mustered out of service in October 1862. ... Honorably discharged from service in Indianapolis after his short and undistinguished tour of duty, Antrim remained in the city and readjusted to civilian live. He took up residence at 58 Cherry Street and found employment as a driver and clerk at the Merchants Union Express Company, located within a few blocks of the McCarty's residence on North East Street.
Exactly how Antrim made the acquaintance of Catherine McCarty is unknown. In a sworn statement he signed in Kansas in 1871, he simply stated, "I have known Catherine Antrim for 6 years last past," confirming that the two first met in Indianapolis in 1865. Fifty years later in El Paso, Texas, when he was an old man, Antrim applied to the U.S. Bureau of Pensions for an annuity based on his brief service in the Civil War. At the time, although he said he knew very little about Catherine's life before they met in Indianapolis, Antrim claimed that she had been married to a man named McCarty who had died in New York and had no military service.
Some people believe the initial meeting between Antrim and Catherine might have taken place when Antrim delivered an express parcel to the widow McCarty's residence. Whatever the circumstances of their first encounter and despite the fact that Catherine was twelve years Antrim's senior, the couple soon started a lengthy courtship, but not one limited to Indiana. ...
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