Paula Maxwell

Paula (Paulita) Pablita Maxwell Jaramillo (1864-1927) was the younger sister of Pete Maxwell and one of the daughters of Lucien Maxwell. She is Eliza Crawford’s best friend who frequently talked about her in her famous books. She is believed to have been Billy The Kid’s supposed girlfriend. She is the main character in the story My sweet Paulita.

Biography


Paula "Paulita" Pablita (In other stories) Maxwell was born in May 17, 1864. She was the fourth child of Maria De la Luz Beaubien and Louis Beaubien (Lucien Maxwell). She is of Mexican, English and French-Canadian descent.

Paulita has four siblings, Her older brother Pete Maxwell (1848-1896) Virginia Maxwell (1850-1916) Vernisa Maxwell who only lived four years (1860-1864) and Odila Maxwell (Her youngest sister). [sic]

Paulita was born of a wealthy family in New Mexico, Her father worked with and Kit Carson on their expeditions of the American frontier, He became a wealthy rancher and owned 1,700,000 acres of land in the Colorado and New Mexican territory, He met her mother Ana when she was only 16 and established the Maxwell Land Grant. After his death in 1875, His spouse inherited the fortune and left their oldest son Pete in charge of the household.

Her Relationship with her brother, Pete Maxwell
Peter "Pete" Pablo Maxwell was born in Taos, New Mexico in 1848 (1860 in My sweet Paulita). The oldest son of Louis and Maria de la Luz Beaubien. After his father's death, He inherited the Maxwell Land Grant. Known for being Paulita's "evil" older brother. He was known to be verbally and physically abusive to Paulita, Breaking her toys or breaking her precious items when she was a child. They grew up hating each other and they argued and fought constantly. He was part of the El Pelegroso gang and one of it's few surviving members. It was even rumored that The Russian Joe convinced Peter to kill his father so he can inherit the money for the two of them if the gang could lived together if they get old. It was also rumored that Peter and Chris had a romantic relationship but they kept it in private so they don't have a bad reputation with his business and their gang.

Paulita and the impact of his death
After The Russian joe was supposedly killed by Billy the Kid he and Pat Garrett (allies in the Pelegroso gang) hunted down for him as revenge for killing their leader. After finding The Kid in Paulita's bedroom where he was sleeping at and heard a noise. (that is where he yelled Quien es in spanish meaning Who is it?) Pete and Garrett impersonated Paulita and the girl’s voice as a planned ambush. The kid rushed in to rescue them, But It only turned out that it was Pete and Garrett impersonating them and ambushed him, This didn't stop as he threatened to shoot the two. Instead Pete got up and shot him four times in the chest, When it turned out that he was still alive, Garrett barrowed the gun that Pete had and shot him one last time until he actually died.

Meanwhile after he died hours later, Paulita and her friends discovered him lying on the floor, dead. (In a Dramatic way) Paulita became hysterical and cried for hours, The girls cried with her as well. (Elizabeth called that moment such a heartbreaking and tragic moment for us for us and our greatest friend, I will never forget that moment of watching him die like that. )

Paulita was severly depressed watching him die like that, It was even said that five months after his death, She ran away from home and married Felix Jaramillo.

The truth is, Billy wasn’t responsible for killing The Russian Joe and Elizabeth was the one that actually killed The Russian Joe herself as revenge for abusing her mother and siblings for years. She got away with his murder for three years and was able to get Billy killed instead of her. After his death, Elizabeth felt extreme guilt herself, for letting somebody else kill somebody for a crime they didn’t do (although The Kid did actually kill eight people prior to The Russian Joe’s death).

She turned herself in but the Sheriff’s didn’t believe her until two months later when she was arrested for her crime and sent to prison for life. (When she was caught guilty, The Four of her friends disowned her and refused to talk to her as soon as she was caught guilty, Including Paulita who was very furious for what she has done).

She was sent to court where she was found not guilty (after hearing her story). Her future partner William (who was also incarcerated). Pled that she was not guilty because of her story that she was immediately set free, where she ended up marrying him two years later.

The three on the other hand, refused to forgive her and befriended her after what she had done. (They had still unforgiven Ever since).

1878; Meeting Eliza and the gang
Paula met Eliza Perez and Ella Wattson in 1878 in the same Dance-Hall The Perez family owned during the mid-1860s. Paula was a bit older than Eliza and Ella and at first, they were uncomfortable with introducing each other since Paula was 18 at that time (an adult) while Eliza and Ella were still in the Early Teens.

When they befriended each other, they teamed up in a gang and called themselves “Corazon de Fe (Heart of Faith)” to hunt and stop The El Corazon Pelegroso gang from causing chaos to Fort Sumner.

Then, a rumor was going around town how a Wanted Outlaw by the name of Billy The Kid needed to be apprehended and whoever won his bond will earn $30,000. The El Corazon Pelegroso gang were thrilled that they could finally get their chance to earn thousands for themselves and they planned a perfect way to murder him without their crimes being known to the public.

The four didn’t think of it as a big deal at first since he was just an “ordinary Outlaw” and that he was supposed to be killed either way.

Later Life
After Billy’s death. Jaramillo confessed his love to Paulita, proving he’d be a better man. Paulita accepted him and they were married in 1883 (two years later). Paulita left her family to live with Jaramillo. However, their family still wouldn’t leave her and both The Maxwell and Jaramillo family attended their wedding in a Catholic Ceremony (In the My Sweet Paulita story, Elizabeth and her friends attended their wedding). The Couple later had a Sheep ranch owned by Felix’s brother, Telesfor and his wife Sophia (another cousin of The Maxwell family).

She and Jaramillo had three children Telesfor, Adela and Luz. (Telesfor [named after Felix’s brother who died in 1891]). was the “speculated love child of both Paulita and Billy, And they even implied that in the story, but in reality, nobody knows otherwise). However it could be implied Adela was Billy’s daughter because she was born in 1884, but their child remains unknown.

Paulita died of Pancreatic disease and died in December 17, 1927 at 65 years old.