Elizabeth Crawford

Elizabeth Eliza Crawford Born: Elizabeth Mako Perez is The Russian Joe's daughter. She and her four friends were the ones who helped Billy The Kid Escape In My sweet paulita. She is the main character in the book and the main narrator in the story. She is featured as being Paulita's best friend.

She murdered her father as revenge for many years of abuse of her mother, siblings and the people he mistreated. Since then, The Kid had been blamed for his murder ever since and gotten him killed (although The Kid killed eight people, he never killed Chris and in fact, He said that he didn't that he was the leader of the gang).

Early Life
Elizabeth (nicknamed “Mako”) Perez Neisen was born in San Patricio, New Mexico on January 25, 1865 as Chris's first surviving child before Arabella Neisen was born. She is of Mexican, Dutch, Russian and Japanese descent. Elizabeth was quite fluent in Spanish and knew few Dutch and Russian words. Her deceased mother Juanita was a pure native of New Mexico and her family lived in Las Vegas for many generations. She was also the last living friend of Paulita Maxwell.

Her mother, Maria Juanita de la Trinidad Perez, was the daughter of one of the most prominent New Mexican families in San Miguel County. Juanita's brother Juan Juanito De la Trinidad Perez was killed by Elizabeth's father Chris Neisen aka The Russian Joe. Chris married Juanito's teenage sister after he killed him. Juanita had a miscarriage of her twin sons, Jose and Ivan and because of this, Three years later, She gave birth to Elizabeth. Chris originally told Juanita to kill her but she refused and took care of Elizabeth. Two years later, Juanita became pregnant again and had a daughter named Arabella Neisen who was born having severe illnesses.

She refused to make a decent connection with her father So she went by “Perez” instead of “Neisen” to not involve him in her life. Chris, on the other hand, forgot she existed so whenever Eliza went out and didn’t come back he never paid attention to see if she was gone or not. She was simply disgusted by his vile behavior and how he treated others.

Relationship with Antonio de la Cruz, Elizabeth's potential husband.
Antonio Jaramillo de la Cruz was born on December 13th, 1862 in Los Lunas, New Mexico. (The same birthplace as Felix Jaramillo.) A Cousin from the Jaramillo family. He was the love partner and fiancé of Elizabeth Crawford for a short while. They met when the two were working at a farm. Antonio and Elizabeth had been planning on getting married for a while, The De la Cruz family accepted their proposal, until Antonio was tragically died from "food poising". The truth is. Antonio was killed by Pete (who thought Paulita was dating.) When Antonio died that night, Elizabeth was heart broken, Felix was also just as sad.

The death of her father and "Myth"
While the death of Chris Neisen was considered "Questionable". Billy Bonney wasn't responsible for Chris's death (Which later on received consequenses) Elizabeth actually killed Chris. Chris accidently dropped his shotgun, and while doing so, Elizabeth got his gun and shot him in the face (Point blank) while Chris kept calm, Elizabeth replied in Spanish "Maldeto viejo" (Damned old man) as revenge for killing and abusing her family. and shot him in the head two times. While Elizabeth was done, She picked the gun up and ran Far Far away. When it was confirmed that Chris was dead and the Lincoln County war was prononounced over. Pete Maxwell and Pat Garrett (Who were part of the gang and weren't killed) witnessed his death and became very angry and knew Billy the Kid had done it and they planned to kill him but they never found him. Elizabeth got away with his murder for two years. She didn't know how he would later be found Guilty for his crimes.

When Billy was shot, Elizabeth felt guilty for his murder that she even told Jim East (Pat Garrett's collegue) that she was guilty and she was the one who shot him and pled that she would be arrested. He didn't believe her at first, because of her age and finding her uncapable of doing such crime, He ignored her and requested that she'd leave and leave the case alone. However a year later, Authorities found footprints and blood tracing back to Elizabeth's and immediately arrested her. But they still didn't know that she was capable of his death. She was sent to prison for life and set for trial in one week. But while she was in Prison, She met William Crawford (a rancher from Indiana who was arrested for stealing) Elizabeth told the backstory of why she did it and William believed her, So much so that when he was set free, He went to Elizabeth's trial and told officials why she did it, He explained that her arrest was unfair and that Chris abused her and her family and many others, He also murdered countless people and Billy's was not guilty and didn't deserve his death. The court apealed her case and she was found not guilty and was set free.

After the two of them were released from prison, Elizabeth thanked William and they were married three years later. Elizabeth still felt guilty for her crimes that she still felt that she would've been the one who would've been murdered not him.

Later life
Eliza met William Crawford who was a native of Indiana. They got married in 1885 and moved to his hometown where they had two kids, Johnathan (Nicknamed "Johnny") William and Alice. Her son William got married to the daughter of John Tunstall's son and had a daughter named Mary Ann Crawford who sadly died at 15 after succumbing to a severe allergic reaction. And a Grandson named Wyatt Arthur Crawford (Which was not listed as one of her grandchildren, It could be possible that Wyatt is her half grandchild but no one knows for sure.)

Elizabeth died in 1955 in her sleep and her husband died two years later. William Jr's wife Edith, Wrote a speech about Eliza (taken from a diary that William wrote before his last breath) in 1987.

Edith requested the governor of De Baca and Vanderburgh County to move her mother-in-law and her family's grave's to Fort Sumner. They are currently Located in a section outside called "The Neisen Family grave".

Edith died a year later in 1988 and her grave was put in the Neisen family grave. The grave they are currently buried in has no tombstone but is covered in dirt and located near the Maxwell Family grave.