Family tree of Billy CLANTON
Bandit, burglar, crook, privateer
Born William Harrison CLANTON
American outlaw
Born on 1862 in Hamilton County, Texas, USA , United States
Died on October 26, 1881 in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, USA
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Billy moved with his family in 1873 to Pima County, Arizona Territory and then to Charleston. His father started the "Clanton Ranch" in 1877. In the same year prospector Ed Schieffelin discovered silver in the hills east of the San Pedro River on a plateau known as Goose Flats, less than 15 miles (24 km) from the Clanton ranch. The boom town of Tombstone grew within two years from less than 100 to more than 7000 residents.
... Born William Harrison Clanton, in Hamilton County, Texas, he was the second to last born of five brothers, the other four being John, Phin, Ike Clanton, and Alonzo. He also had two sisters, Mary and Ester. His father, Old Man Clanton, moved his wife Mariah and their six children to California after the end of the Civil War, where they moved several times over the next decade.
Billy moved with his family in 1873 to Pima County, Arizona Territory and then to Charleston. His father started the "Clanton Ranch" in 1877. In the same year prospector Ed Schieffelin discovered silver in the hills east of the San Pedro River on a plateau known as Goose Flats, less than 15 miles (24 km) from the Clanton ranch. The boom town of Tombstone grew within two years from less than 100 to more than 7000 residents.
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