Pat Garrett

Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (1850-1909) was the well-known Sheriff who killed Billy The Kid and Paula Maxwell during the Lincoln Country War.

After Eliza’s fictionalized story was published, She met Pat Garrett personally and his colleague, James McCoy and Jim East in 1892 (11-years after his murder).

Garrett was eventually shot and murdered in 1908 at the age of 58.

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Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett was born and raised in Chambers County, Alabama with an Irish descent father John Lumpkin Garett and a German descent Mother named “Elizabeth Ann “Anna” née Sternberg Garrett”.

Garrett’s Father John Garett married Anna Sternberg in her hometown of New York. (Anna took the name “Elizabeth Ann Garrett”) and got married and gave birth to four kids, Margaret, Elizabeth, John, and Alfred (It is unknown whenever Garrett was the oldest or youngest.)

Garrett’s father bought a property in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, but lost finances due to the civil war. A couple of years down the line, John and Anna Garrett died during the Civil war, leaving behind Garrett and his siblings alone until they were adopted by their relatives.

When Garrett resided in the New Mexico Territory in the 1870s, He fell in love with Apolinaria Gutierrez and gave birth to eight children, “Lda Dudley, Elizabeth, Annie, Patrick, Pauline, Oscar, and Jarvis Garrett.

In 1880, Pat Garrett became a rookie Deputy Sherrif in Lincoln County where he perused the fellow Outlaw Billy The Kid He and his “Conpaneros” (Team) tried to find him and only succeeding capturing another outlaw that was also charged with murder and turned him over (Considering that he was a rookie and couldn’t make an arrest right away) Garrett intimidated another Sheriff by picking a fight, determining which will win or lose, Garrett won and Shot the Sheriff in the shoulder. This caused Garrett to have a strong sense of intimidation throughout the rest of his career and threatens anyone who gets in his way, and a negative change in personality where he makes himself superior and will murder anyone just for proving so, However, He was never able to catch the kid until a year later.

After a year of unsuccessfully catching Billy The Kid, In 1881, Garrett was promoted as a Bounty Hunter. He caught and arrested other fugitives, but he was never able to catch The Kid yet until July of 1881 where he went to Fort Sumner and found where Billy The Kid was sleeping and woke him up by knocking down the door, scaring him, The Kid yelled “Quien es?” in Spanish and was shot in the chest instantly. He won over a Thousand just for killing him and was now considered a “Dangerous and Cruel Bounty Hunter”.